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Mohio - mindmap your Evernote
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Posted by jaslar
Nov 30, 2013 at 05:44 PM
I stumbled across this one today, and wondered if anyone has fiddled with it.
https://www.moh.io/mohiomap/welcome.php
The idea is that by creating a visual representation of your Evernote files, you can better manage, search, and discover new relationships among your notes.
I suspect this adds a layer of complexity to an already overwrought experience (I’ve just moved from Evernote to SimpleNote, and it’s been a breath of fresh air), but I suspect that some of you CRIMPERS out there will find this one fascinating. I’ll be eager to see what you make of it.
Posted by MadaboutDana
Nov 30, 2013 at 08:44 PM
Oh dear. I’m almost embarrassed to say this, but I’m pretty much… CRIMPed out… How come? Well, I’ve just been playing with Windows 8.1.
Let me explain: I run Windows 7 on my main machine (and am, on the whole, perfectly pleased with it). I’ve got lots of entertaining playthings - hem! I mean, of course, seriously useful applications - on my Windows 7 laptop, and I even use quite a lot of them. And when I get bored of those - hem! I mean, when I have to leverage my other productivity tools as appropriate - I turn to my iPad, which has a plethora of other pretties…
But recently I had to replace an aging server with a new machine. Now, because we’re small, we generally use small, single-function PCs running desktop OSes as our server devices. This works very well, and saves us a lot of money (think Mac Mini, but using Windows or Linux). So I ordered a nice little Lenovo Q190 (thoroughly recommended - absolutely tiny, minute wattage, but actually quite powerful) and started to play - hem! I mean, configure it to meet our strategic imperatives.
Of course it came with Windows 8. So I promptly upgraded it to Windows 8.1. And then added my favorite open-source Start menu replacement, Classic Start Menu (I use it on Windows 7, too, because I regard all Windows Start menus since Vista as being worse than useless).
And behold! I found - to my considerable astonishment - that Windows 8.1 is really rather good. It’s fast; if you’re using Classic Start Menu you don’t even have to look at the stupid Metro Tiles array; and best of all - especially for a machine that’s going to be used as a server - it comes with the astonishing better-than-RAID solution “Storage Spaces”, which allows you to turn more or less any storage device whatsoever into an element in your “storage pool”, pretty much effortlessly. So I promptly added a four-disk USB3/eSATA hard-drive array (an excellent buy from Amazon for about £90 / $115) and found myself crooning corny Christmas specials…
What has this to do with being CRIMPed out, my impatient readers will no doubt be asking?
Well, of course I had to go and sniff at the apps in the Windows Store, didn’t I? And though there’s not a great deal in there, there’s a very nice selection of outliners and note-takers, based on all kinds of models. I dribbled, and drooled, and prevented myself from downloading and playing with a few (server, remember?); and then found myself feeling unaccountably depressed. I twitched my mouse desultorily over a few of my favorite desktop apps. I looked blearily through some of the latest iOS updates. And found… well, found that I didn’t want to play any more… like the cat lounging on the MacBook keyboard, I was suffering from IT indigestion.
Still, by tomorrow I’ll probably have perked up again! Because I’ll be plotting ways of upgrading my Windows 7 laptop to Windows 8.1, that’s why!
Ahem - for the best of strategy-driven, performance-optimizing reasons, of course!
Merry Hanukkah!
Bill
Posted by Dr Andus
Nov 30, 2013 at 10:09 PM
MadaboutDana wrote:
> I’ll be
>plotting ways of upgrading my Windows 7 laptop to Windows 8.1
>Well, of course I had to go and sniff at the apps in the Windows Store,
>didn’t I? And though there’s not a great deal in there, there’s a very
>nice selection of outliners and note-takers, based on all kinds of
>models.
Intriguing… Please let us know whether you find anything innovative there. So far I haven’t had a compelling reason to try Win8 out, but I’m curious about these Windows Store only apps…
Posted by Franz Grieser
Nov 30, 2013 at 10:23 PM
Back to the topic:
Mohio seems to solve one problem I have with Evernote: EN is great for stuffing in web clippings and for having all that stuff on my work PC, on the notebook, and on my iPad. But it’s a PITA when it comes to making sense of all that stuff, when it comes to making connections.
Mohio could be a solution to that. It looks interesting, reminds me of TheBrain (visually). When I am finished with the current project, I will give Mohio a try.
What bugs me, however: It’s a web-only app. And I usually don’t use these for work. Web apps are always a problem when I am not in my office (on a train or in a house in the mountains where I go to for working without Internet and without interruptions).
Well we’ll see…
Thanks to Jaslar for bringing Mohio to our attention.
Posted by Franz Grieser
Dec 5, 2013 at 07:06 PM
I just spent an hour trying to make sense of about 40 notes in a notebook and of 130 notes in another.
Well, what Mohiomap does: It takes the notes titles in a notebook and groups them in star shape around the notebook title. If you have several notebooks, one notebook is open and the other notebook titles are grouped in star shape around a central circle. You can move the notebooks around, also the notes. And: To keep the graph to continually move around, you can pin notebooks and/or notes so they stay still.
It took me a few minutes to figure out how to move the entire formation around on the screen (hold left mouse key pressed while moving the mouse) as there are no scrollbars on screen; the mousewheel is used for zooming in and out.
What I found distracting: Some of the notes branches keep moving around on the screen (just a few millimeters to the left and right), it looks like the branches are wobbling. Still don’t know why that is. The online help is very, very short (I didn’t even find the “move the formation around” mouse trick).
The map only displays notes titles; though you can open one note in a tiny window. However, many notes titles were not completely visible. Mohiomap shortened more than a third of my notes titles. So I had to keep the Evernote window open on my second monitor to check a) the complete titles and b) the note’s content.
2 nice features: The Search is fast. And there is a filter through which you can filter out older notes.
What I miss is a way to link to notes through an arrow or line.
At the moment, I do not see why I should use Mohiomap. Having the titles of the notes in a notebook grouped in a circle around the notebook title is not really an improvement over the list display in Evernote. In particular, as I can see the entire notes titles in Evernote but not in Mohiomap.
I’ll check back on M. in a few months. Right now: No, thanks