Re:H-m-m: Hackers mind map
by personjerry on Wednesday September 14, 2022 @02:41PM
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Not mine, I am not affiliated with this tool, but I thought along the same lines as you and found this tool, could you give it a try and let me know what you think?
Very interesting, and does capture some of the transparency of Inspiration, in the sense that using the tool doesn't interfere with the process. Thanks for sharing this!
That looks like it's worth trying out, also I like the pricing model, god damn am I sick of monthly subscription.
But it looks like it is monthly (or yearly with a two month discount).
I think a yearly price of $60 is reasonable for a tool like this.
a review of Inspiration: https://archive.org/details/TNM_Inspiration_30_visual_thinki...
Inspiration : the thought processor Authors: Donald Helfgott, Mona Helfgott, made by Ceres Software, Inc
History of the company: https://psychology.fandom.com/wiki/Inspiration_Software
The software is still around and old vintage software sites have the earlier versions that you can run in a MacOS8 emulator. I last played with version 6 I think about 4 years ago; at that time you could have both an outline view and a mind map and switch between them.
I will mangle the terminology since it's been so long, but the basic idea was that on an infinite canvas you would create nodes representing concepts; these nodes were just UI "bubble" objects, like the ovals you might find in slide deck software. Relationships could be added after the fact by linking these nodes, and there was a fast way to create linked "sub-nodes" from an existing node. Also, very strong UI for arranging the node diagram.
Maybe the big problem with mind mapping tools these days is feature creep. A complex UI with too many options will absolutely get in the way of the thought process it serves.