XMind on Bits du Jour next week

Posted by quant
Jan 22, 2008 at 03:53 PM

>Did Argey convince you in
>any way of T’scape’s superiority to the Brain.

not even slightly, but I didn’t want to take it further, ... I think this 3D view and flying over is actually quite limiting, I downloaded it and gave it a short test. The fact the the items are one after another (hard to explain with words) limits the number of shown topics, even when you choose to display all the topics (this would not happen in the classic tree layout).

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>The Brain I find crazy making because
>of stuff moving all over the screen.

It might be confusing at time, I agree. The main point of the The brain is that every item is on the map only once and the relationship is displayed with links. In the traditional tree that allows items to have more than one parent the item is on the several places in the tree with all the children copied ... If you have several of these, the tree becomes huge and very unclear. With The brain there would be just two or three more links displaying the same data structure.

>I am traditional. I like trees.

Then take any tree outliner, UR, MyInfo, InfoSelect, MyBase ... they all display the same structure that all those $100s mind managers.

> But I like tagging and columns

UR, MyInfo, ...

I like The Brain, and would really like to do some powerful mind mapping ... but the fact that I can have data at one place is more important ... and so I do all my mindmaps directly in UR ... I hoist the item and that’s it ... who cares that this item is not in the middle and its children are not around but below it?