Sean West bought a Fujitsu ScanSnap* and found that it was easy to integrate with Topicscape.
He comments on Topicscape’s depth of features, robustness and, when allied with this scanner, finds it superior to “commercial document management systems costing in the hundreds and thousands of dollars, making Topicscape a bargain for its features, in my mind.”
A nice marriage of hardware and software, Sean! We’re pleased to hear that it gives you what you need without spending a bundle.
Roy
* I don’t know which model Sean is using - maybe not the one pictured here. The Fujitsu ScanSnap range runs from small, light portables to heavy-duty desktop models.
A new Topicscape Pro installer is now online here.
The Outlook connection to Topicscape Pro was not working in 64-bit versions of Windows. The symptom: Outlook objects in Topicscape, like Tasks, Contacts or Calendar events, were not opening in Outlook when double-clicked from inside Topicscape.
Fixing this required a change in Windows Registry handling and that change was made in the Topicscape installer. As Topicscape itself has not changed, its build number is the same.
You only need to download the latest version if you are using Outlook with Topicscape and you are running 64-bit Windows 7 or 64-bit Windows Vista.
During installation of the latest Topicscape Pro (v.2.6 that we just loaded up on line) you will see a new option. One of the panels asks if you want to install two buttons in your Browser toolbar (Internet Explorer or Firefox). Here they are:
Press the ‘S’ button: The Topicscape Box will open very briefly and close again. It will then contain a shortcut to the page you are viewing.
Press the ‘M’ button: The Topicscape Box will open and use Topicscape’s method to make an Internet Archive (.mht) file in the Box. As with Topicscape and Topicscape Box, you can carry on surfing, and build a queue of MHT requests, leaving the software to get on with its work.
The MHT file will include the panel that Topicscape adds to show the source of the page.
Topicscape Box does not need to be open for these buttons to work.
Roy
Please sign up to the Topicscape Google Group for brief Hints and Announcement about Topicscape.
Follow @roygrubb on Twitter for mind mapping tips.
To fly: Use keyboard cursor arrow keys (then add Shift, Alt or Ctrl).
Press the Home key to return to the starting position.
Slow zoom with + and - on the number pad.
Dramatic Quickzoom: Hold Shift, then click on topic cones.
Hover over topics to see …
details in the Details Panel,
an enter button, and
sometimes an “open link” button.
Click a topic cone to reorganize the landscape around it.
Don’t forget you need an up-to-date driver for your 3D graphics hardware for WebView to work (just like Topicscape). Here’s reference for Troubleshooting.
University of Dundee medical mind maps links in 3D information landscape on-line. The first time you visit, please give the program time to download.
These Dundee Uni mind maps cannot be linked to directly, or downloaded, but a read-only viewer for the software needed can be accessed from a link at the same site and this allows the mind maps to be explored dynamically. This Topicscape WebView shows what is available but you will have to go to the web site to view the maps themselves. The structure in the 3D WebView reflects the way the maps are organized at that site.
The medical mind maps source Allergy Cases has maps about allergies and immunology. Links to all the allergycases.org mind maps can now be found organized in an on-line 3D Topicscape.
