White board software

Posted by Dr Andus
Dec 17, 2012 at 05:17 PM

Graham Rhind wrote:
@Bill There’s something similar on my Samsung Note but what I’m trying
>to visualise is horrendously complex - I had about 100 nodes and 500
>links in the VUE graphic I attempted before despair set in, so I’ll need
>something that’ll work on a larger screen. Or I’ll have to wallpaper my
>house with cork and do it that way ...

It sounds like you’ve got two distinct issues: 1) to create nodes with your particular input device quickly, and 2) deal with the complexity of an ever-growing massive concept map. So you could use two different solutions to deal with that. For 1) a software that can capture your drawings in a concept map and save them as a particular file (e.g. image file), and 2) a software to organise and analyse the data to reduce complexity.

One way to deal with that could be to modularise your data: save manageable chunks of the VUE concept map as separate image files, and then use a PIM or wiki to organise them.

Or use a mind mapper to attach the image files to mind map nodes, which can then be reorganised and collapsed to reduce complexity.

But if you really need to see the whole thing in one view, then printing out might be the way to go. A cheap display solution is to hang up some bedsheets on the wall and use dressmaker pins to pin up the printouts.