Thinktool

Posted by Jonas Hvid
May 3, 2020 at 03:36 PM

Thank you for checking it out and giving feedback, Dr. Andus! I’ll try to answer
your question.

Thinktool is mainly designed for people who do some kind of research or
learning, and use that in their creative outputs or just for personal growth. So
the core audience are students, bloggers, academics, writers, etc.

It is essentially a note-taking app, just like Workflowy or Evernote, but
Thinktool really shines when you have lots of notes that are linked to each
other, and you also need to add some kind of structure to them.

So for example, while I’m building Thinktool, I want to learn more about
note-taking approaches and other applications. In my Thinktool database, I have
a list of different note-taking tools, sorted by category (i.e. outliners,
personal wikis, etc.):

https://johv.dk/public/2020-05-03-170835.png

I don’t have to put any item in just one category; for example Thinktool is
listed both under “Outliners” and “Graph-based knowledge management tools”:

https://johv.dk/public/2020-05-03-171155.png

If I open “Outliners”, I can see that this item is mentioned somewhere else:

https://johv.dk/public/2020-05-03-171726.png

I can then follow that reference to see where it comes from - in this case a
comparison between Roam and Thinktool:

https://johv.dk/public/2020-05-03-171910.png

This item itself has links to a bunch of other items which I can open, and then
I can continue to explore from there.

Not sure if that explanation made sense. It can be surprisingly hard to explain
to other people why Thinktool is useful, perhaps because it seems so obvious to
me :) I’ll have to see if I can improve the homepage to make it more clear what
Thinktool is about.