There are several that can do this. I use Xmind most, but Freeplane and Freemind are both keyboard friendly, and all of these run on Windows or Mac so are relatively platform-neutral.

Argey

Argey

Making Topicscape reflect a folder structure in 3D is normal – if you drag a folder with multiple sub-folders, sub-sub-folders and so on into Topicscape it will build an equivalent structure in the Topicscape landscape. But reflecting later changes in the folders and files in them in Topicscape goes against the Topicscape philosophy, which is to free the way users want to organize their information from the physical way it is stored. There is a detailed explanation of why this is so in the Topicscape wiki here.

Another problem is that Topicscape is a personal product – it works on one computer – it is not a wiki. What you describe is web based, and though Topicscape can grab web pages and store links, it works at the browser level with pages as rendered, not accessing web server directory contents or individual files. It only does that on the users own PC.

Argey

Can Topicscape clone the file structure of a website, treating each folder as a node while keeping all the connections between parent and child folders then depict them in a mind map with the files in each each folder retaining the hyperlinks to the actual document?

This sort of goes to the wiki project, but is a bit more complex. When I downloaded the program I entered an explanation of the project there but in brief, I am trying to render the corpus juris (body of law) in an interrelated 3d mind map structure with the entire project interactive. I need users to be able to add files and folders to the structure without the webmaster having to hand implement each change.

If Topicscape could simply render the file structure in a mind map format then any changes to the file structure would propagate to the map each time it was opened.

Can it do this and if not, how difficult would it be to trick the system out to get it to do this?

Randy

It is a 2d map, but many other codes are implicated which are just as complex as this one in there own right. I would like this map as an electron, with a nucleus consisting of the constitution, surrounded by the statutes developed from the constitution, surrounded by the regulations created to implement the statutes, surrounded by the rules formulated to implement the regulations. Then the separate issues, criminal law, family law, traffic, foreclosure, and on and on as electrons rotating around the statutory core.

I hope this makes sense. It is giving me a headache.