3D Topicscape Pro is the full-out information organizer. . .
. . . that gives you more flexibility in how you organize your information by introducing loose associations. As the same piece of information can appear in several places (without dangerous duplication) you can find things more quickly. It lets you make full 2D or 3D concept maps by describing associations. Importantly, for version control, it helps you spot duplicates before importing with the duplicate-check tray.

Quickly and continuously improve your information organization as you go - see new relationships, merge topics together and merge folders into topics. Add rich text descriptions (color, fonts, images) to topics and occurrences.  Make your Topicscapes portable - Pro supports thumb drives.

Tasks
Open items stored in Topicscape directly in other software such as Outlook tasks or calendar items (live links, not copies), connect Topicscapes together with precision links to a specific topic in another Topicscape.  From your 3D landscape, open a daily-check website or a record-keeping spreadsheet with just a click. This is a real time saver and, with its promoted icon, an excellent memory tickler.

Finding stuff
Search using Google Desktop or Windows Desktop Search if installed. Do rapid local searches as well as Topicscape-wide searches. Save time by previewing files in the Topic Center (choose from three preview sizes), flagging topics and occurrences as favorites or even seeing a topic's contents from the landscape view, without going to the Topic Center. Highlight key information and spot it quickly by flagging important topics, color-coding your occurrences (files and notes) and get older material out of the way by flagging files as 'finished with' for convenient grouping and retention.

Extensive import and export capability
Bring existing work straight from other software into Topicscape with the extended import capability of Pro. Mindmanager 5, 6, 7, Personal Brain 4 and FreeMind (0.9.0 and later) files can all be imported. You can even export back to FreeMind. Use the work you do in Topicscape in other contexts by exporting to OPML, and HTML (with hyperlinks to occurrence files) and plain text (with paths to occurrence files).

Operational
Pro has three modes to provide a staged introduction to its powerful features. Like all versions it has an extensive self-running demo which you can control.  Customize Pro to your needs: Includes 15 skins to provide an appearance to suit different circumstances and tastes. Further choices can be made from color schemes, textures and shapes.

Detailed comparison of features (updated for Topicscape Pro 2):

		Personal Edition		Student Edition
		Topicscape Pro	Topicscape Lite
	3D interface giving flight with seven degrees of freedom (note 1)
	Google Earth controls option
	Classic Topicscape controls
	2D interface giving swinging and floating, like Cooliris
	Choose your own image as a background for 2D Maps
	Flexible structure: Topics may have many children and many parents ('cloned' topics supported without copying)
	Re-orient your view around any topic
	Loose Associations (tunnels): outside-the-hierarchy topics
	Definable Association types (for preparing 3D concept maps) (note 2)
	File-types that can be stored in Topicscape, viewed and exported	All filetypes, and shortcuts to files and folders		MHT, TXT, HTML & Internet shortcuts
	Files introduced to Topicscape may be moved to it, copied to it or just pointed to, in their original location outside Topicscape.			copied only
	Occurrences may appear in many places and all refer to a single file ('cloned' occurrences)
	Topics and occurrences may have descriptions added, occurrences may have source, author, etc. added allowing much better notes to be retained about stored files.
	Extensive implementation of drag and drop for supported file types on the same PC
	Paste special functions (OLE) with wrapper file made automatically
	Halo menu on topics (with dynamic help) for immediate and visible action
	Swinging panels for highly visible control that gets out of your way when you don't need it (adjust appearance of landscape easily)
	Can make live links to Outlook 2000 - 2007 items with drag and drop
	Fix changes MS made to Outlook 2007 live links (URIs)
	Can make live links to MyInfo items with copy and paste
	Fileless occurrences for quick notes
	Built-in, robust relational database (Firebird) to hold all information management data that you add
	A Topicscape can be an occurrence in a Topicscape allowing webs of Topicscapes
	Shortcut or occurrence can open another Topicscape at a specific topic
	Quickzoom to inspect any part of the landscape quickly. Easily zoom back, or stay
	Back up along past flight-path and go back to past Current Topics
	Reverse that - go forward again
	Built-in demonstrations of 3D flying and basic Topicscape operations
	Limited and Expert modes available (for first contact), as well as a fully customizable mode
Rich appearance options
	Skins	21 skins	1 business-like skin	1 colorful skin
	Customize your own Topicscape skins
	Choose among three color schemes: individual; by level; or by group.
	Customize colors for each component of the color scheme individually
	Choose the texture and color of the field
	Topic footprints for greater clarity of topic grouping
	Choose of black or white text for topic names
	Customize Home view position to your own taste
	Cycling color-glow behind Current Topic (can be made static)
The Details Panel
	Optional rich text (rtf) topic description (Description+)
	2000-character topic and occurrences descriptions
	256-character topic and occurrences descriptions	-		-
	Moveable details panel in topic center
	Details Panel acts as a dashboard to a topic's content
	Third item on Details Panel (free text area)	"Authority"	"Authority"	"Date notes"
	Large text edit panel for longer text items
Information management features
	Intelligent (weighted) word check of new topic names to help reduce duplication
	Use tags, tag cloud and tag filtering for added control
	Option to report duplicate files before importing, including detecting changes
	Automated offer to merge new folder to topic
	Merge two topics - their occurrences and all their associations
	Flag your important topics			(1 format)
	Occurrences may be colored for grouping and easy recognition of important groups
	Color shows in Topic Center and in Hit and History Lists;
	Occurrences may be marked "Finished with" and they will be partly suppressed
	One occurrence per topic can be shown above the topic cone and opened directly from the 'Scape
	Preview pane in Topic Center for occurrences (re-sizable - small-medium-large)
	Preview pane in 3D landscape or 2D Map for occurrences
	See contents of a topic directly from an entry in the right-click menu
	Favorites menu shows recent Topics made current and Occurrences opened.
	Dragging in folders to make group of topics with the same structure
	Group deletes (topic and all its descendants unless shared with another topic)
	Precision deletes (a single topic in a structure)
	Supports marking of topics and occurrences as Favorites, and finding them easily
	'Past activity' items stored in the History List.	Up to 300	35	35
	'Remove from History list' function.
	Sorting topics in the Scape
	Topicscape Islands for detached topics (topics not associated with the main body)
	Topicscape Orphans (for defunct topics and files, to be kept for historical reasons)
Web research support
	MHT-making capability that is often better than Internet Explorer, with queuing capability	-
	MaxMHT (note 3)included (advanced MHT-making capability that far exceeds that of IE), with queuing capability to allow surfing to resume immediately an archive file has been queued.
	Mass conversion option to change all URLs to MHT archive files for content searching
	Drop a web Favicon on the field and a topic will be made automatically to contain it
Searching
	Scape search
	Topic Center Search
	Sorting the Hit List (results of a search)	Full	Some	Some
	Autopilot flight from results in the Hit list to a hit in the 'Scape
	Advanced Search Panel carries a drop-down history of past search phrases
	Filter topic and occurrence results by date modified
	Filter topic and occurrence results by date created and opened
	Search occurrences by color of their flagging
	Include / exclude "Finished with" items in search results
	Direct hit: Searches having only one hit will make the topic current or open the occurrence
	Search string history in drop down box (also clear history or clear one item)
	Optionally uses Google Desktop for faster file-content searching, if installed
	Search by colors, flags and include or exclude 'Finished with' items from the search
	Noisewords (stopwords) list to avoid excessive search hits
	Noisewords user-maintainable
Import / Export / Compatibility with other products
	Import MindManager(R) files to make Topicscapes via outlined-numbered text files
	Turn MindManager 5, 6 and 7 .mmap files directly to 3D information landscapes.
	Import Personal Brain(R) 3 files to make Topicscapes from a Brain-exported .pba file
	Import Personal Brain(R) 4 files to make Topicscapes from a Brain-exported .pba file
	Import from OML files (XML outliner format)
	Import functions using XML or folders to make a new Topicscape
	Import FreeMind files to make Topicscapes directly from a .mm file
	Export a Topicscape to make a Freemind 2D mindmap (re-importable to Topicscape)
	Export a Topicscape structure to a text file indented for reading
	Export a Topicscape structure to a text file for editing and re-importing
	Out Tray for quick topic / occurrence exporting and various types of delete
	Export a Topicscape structure to HTML
	Exchange of Topicscape files (.3DT) between SE and PE Pro or PE Lite (note 4)
Robust
	Extensive data checks and fixes with a full Data Repair Wizard
	Check for stray files		(do Data Repair)	(do Data Repair)
	List any missing occurrences files		(do Data Repair)	(do Data Repair)
Scope
	Support for cross-network Topicscape databases or occurrence files
	Thumb drives supported for Topicscapes and occurrence files
	Topicscape Box included for quickly saving items for later inclusion in Topicscape		(Lite version)
note 1.Degrees of freedom when flying in the landscape: Slide up and down; Slide left and right; Fly forward and backward; pitch up and down; Swivel left and right; Zoom to and from a topic; Zoom to the center of the view.
note 2.In Topicscape, we might have a topic "France" and another "Paris". Paris would be the child topic of France. The PE feature allows specific phrases such as Paris "is the capital of" France.
note 3.MaxMHT can save most web pages in full and with the original format as they appeared when you viewed them on line.It can save most Flash sites, sites that use off-server CSS, and even Javascript (client-side, i.e. in your browser). This now includes many sites requiring log-in, and RSS feeds.
note 4.3DT files interchangeable between SE and PE, but only occurrences with the permitted filetypes will be visible. If a Data Repair of a PE database is done by the SE Data Repair, it will delete the filetypes that not are supported in SE.