Anyone who follows the Mind Mapping Software Weblog (and more than twenty thousand readers do!) will need to move across to its new home, because Chuck Frey, a.k.a. electroman, has made a definitive move to MindMappingSoftwareBlog.com.

For all the latest on mindmapping techniques, software and industry news, it’s the place to be.  But I had just a tinge of nostalgia that “weblog” in the moniker had to come out.

Roy

A couple of weeks back, I gave a talk about how Topicscape began and how it became what it is now.  That was the spur to writing the article that I blogged about in the previous post.

Something that came out of the direct, on-the-spot feedback, was that it would be a good idea to encapsulate what Topicscape’s scenes mean, in one simple web page.  Even though we’re moving 2D mind maps into a 3D space, most users ‘get it’ pretty quickly, but it can’t do any harm to speed the process along.

You can see the result of this now.  Just click this link to open an illustrated page explaining the structure in another browser window.

Roy

 Updated: Link fixed (thanks Tom)

At our sister site InformationTamers.com, there’s the story of how Topicscape came to be built - the journey through various tools, ideas (even involving ‘programming’ in clay, would you believe?) and realization of the ideas.

Read the much-illustrated story, with its subplots about transparent yellow files, slanting shelves and roadmaps, here:
http://www.informationtamers.com/Personal-journey-in-information-management.html

If you hadn’t noticed on the download page, the InformationTamers.com server is the site from which most people download Topicscape.

Roy

PS, if you like you can skip straight to the bit that interests you:
Visual representation
Find the best visual form for information management
Be concrete - Go to 3D
3D information manager took shape
What must an information manager do
So we have organized the information now we need to use it
Information management for reference information
Information management for research
Information management for to do lists