Cotoami - Piggydb developer's new project

Posted by Alexander Deliyannis
Oct 22, 2018 at 04:07 PM

Piggydb’s developer had made another attempt at a chat-to-knowledge service with Oinker https://oinkerme.wordpress.com/about/ which now seems to be defunct. I understand that both for Piggydb and Oinker, visual mapping was considered as an afterthought, following users’ requests. Apparently Cotoami is an attempt to integrate graph capabilities from the start, while maintaining the bottom-up logic.

While there is a social component, allowing one to share Cotos (note items) with others, the main application seems to be targeted to lone users. Knowledge is developed similarly to TheBrain, in the sense that one can enter unrelated items and consider possible connections along the way. Structure then emerges gradually, rather than being itself the top-down driver, as in a mind map or outline.

Compared to TheBrain, Cotoami is much simpler and text oriented at its core, similar to Brainstorm, Maxthink and Sense. The former two are no longer being developed, so for me Cotoami is of particular interest. I am hopeful that its developer will stick with it, and have opted to support him via Patreon in this direction.