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Posted by Franz Grieser
Aug 23, 2014 at 11:29 AM
Thanks for the hint to foolness - and for the review to Stephen.
For those of us in Germany: Mindscope starts in German when you have set your iPad to German.
What I miss most is copy&paste (apart from viewing nested notes and searching). But at least copy&paste is on the “we’re working on it” list.
I also threw in my $3 to support further development.
Posted by Alexander Deliyannis
Aug 24, 2014 at 10:17 AM
Mindscope seems truly brilliant and is the second application making me wish I had an iPad (the other is Editorial). That said, I have become rather disenchanted with tablets in general and attracted back to ‘classic’ low (physical and carbon) footprint computers.
I personally think a visual Brainstorm for Windows, as suggested by Steve Z., better represents the Mindscope paradigm. One starts with a blank page and creates entities which cab be ordered/arranged and be themselves—as a whole, not partially as in a wiki—links to other pages. In this respect, I can think of two visually oriented programmes similar to Mindscope on Windows:
- SilverNote http://www.silver-note.com/features (the easiest, but powerful enough)
- Aibase http://aibase-cs.com/features.html (very steep learning curve, full of proprietary terms, but incredibly powerful; now includes scripting capabilities)
I have refrained from using either in the past, as I have been trying to rely on multiplatform tools, but after seeing the Mindscope demo I am somehow reconsidering.
Posted by Charlie
Aug 24, 2014 at 08:20 PM
Alexander Deliyannis wrote:
Mindscope seems truly brilliant and is the second application making me
>wish I had an iPad (the other is Editorial). That said, I have become
>rather disenchanted with tablets in general and attracted back to
>‘classic’ low (physical and carbon) footprint computers.
>
. In this respect, I can think of two visually oriented programmes
>similar to Mindscope on Windows:
>
>- SilverNote http://www.silver-note.com/features (the easiest, but
>powerful enough)
>- Aibase http://aibase-cs.com/features.html (very steep learning curve,
>full of proprietary terms, but incredibly powerful; now includes
>scripting capabilities)
>
Hi Alex,
Thank you for introducing the the Aibase, my first time to know it, another German cool. By a quick browsing, I like it.
I am seeking a one pane outlining tool. I need to add tables,equations,and short analysis under each bullet most often and at last make it a content outline for my thesis writing.
Have you played with the Aibase ? If so, do you think it fit my need ?
Thanks,
Charlie
Posted by MadaboutDana
Mar 9, 2015 at 10:29 AM
I’ve been playing with Mindscope again. I had a look at the first version and while impressed, wasn’t blown away.
This time, I’m blown away! The couple of extra features (notably a much better editing bar and the lovely ‘links’ [= aliases] concept) plus the new search function turn it into a completely different animal. The roadmap is very promising, too. And John tells me a universal version (i.e. for iPhone as well) will soon be out, plus Dropbox-based syncing (sensible choice; I’m still finding iCloud distinctly iffy on the reliable synchronisation front, although certain apps seem to do better than others).
The search function makes all the difference: in my view, you simply can’t have a complex, multilayered mindmap without some kind of fast search function. Tagging would be the ultimate bees’ knees, but tagging can also become irritating. I’ve given up using tags in my various task management apps (even though The Hit List, my most recent experiment, handles tags quite well).
Posted by steveylang
Mar 9, 2015 at 07:28 PM
I tried it out for the first time the other day, and purchased the full version a couple of hours later. I really love the app, the core idea of nested mindmaps/diagrams is great!
I asked the developer if he could implement import of OPML files, and some sort of ‘hot list’ function so I could quickly bring up a list of tagged items for quick access. He said both have been requested and he would like to implement them.