• Dragging folders into 3D Topicscape
• Turning Limited Mode off, and
• Topicscape WebView Demo

We already have a mind map of some topics we’re going to cover, but knowing what our users want will be really helpful for us and, we hope, for you.

Please add comments here, or use the form at the foot of this page to send a message.

Argey

I would like to have feedback on the video and where it needs improving. 

And you can try a couple of these yourself, once you’ve watched the video:

• A large research source (based on Peter Jones’ links for health careers developed from Hodges’ Model.)
• Dorai Thodla’s “Information on Information” reloaded in Topicscape with some additional categorisation layers.
• WikIT on Information Mapping is a visual guide the the mind mapping wiki.

Roy

WebView Help
What is WebView?
Troubleshooting WebView
3D Topicsight introduction: WebBuild, WebLoad and WebView

• Sign up to the Topicscape Google Group for brief Hints and Announcement about Topicscape.
• Follow @roygrubb on Twitter for mind mapping tips.

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.

Here is the mind mapping wiki in 3D

Hover over a topic, and if it has a link, you’ll see an ‘open link’ button.  Click that to open the appropriate article in WikIT.

This is Topicscape WebView and it’s getting better all the time with user feedback, like the request to open web pages more easily.

You can fly, zoom, search and re-center the landscape on a different topic, just as with Topicscape itself.

There’s WebView Help here: http://www.topicscape.com/topicscape-wiki/index.php?title=WebView_Help but for an even shorter version try these:

• To search: Just type.
• 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.

Roy

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.

Roy

Roy

Give it time to load the Topicscape software first time.  Subsequent visits will be much quicker. 

For you to fly around and explore this you will need a PC with 3D graphics hardware with an up-to-date graphics driver (requirements here).

There’s a wiki page with some helpful pictures that explain the few things you need to know to get you flying and zooming with the best of them.

If you need any help, email me at r dot g at topicscape dot com.

Roy

If this most important discipline is making heavy use of mind maps, both in study and after graduation, perhaps there’s hope yet for those of us who believe that one day, mind mapping will go mainstream.

• The main article
• AllergyCases [NEW]
• a team of Australian physicians 
• University of Dundee
• Kathleen Sundmark [NEW]
• Medic’All Maps 
• Madhero88
• Rowena Birch [NEW]
• Vanumu [NEW]
• Visual Medical Dictionary

I expect to be expanding on this.  [UPDATED Jan 23 '10]

Roy

• Intrapersonal
• Politics
• Science and
• Sociology

Recently Peter left a comment on a post at another of my blogs, and that reminded me of his interesting collection.  I started looking at how it might fit into a Topicscape.

Here are some screenshots showing the top level, a focus on one of the four domains (Sociology) and a deeper focus on one of the topics under that domain (Patients, Carers and Self-care):

      Larger image              Larger image              Larger image

Each topic cone has a link to the relevant page.  This renders four enormous pages of links as a 3D landscape organized under multiple topics and sub-topics.  You can zoom and fly around this, as well as center the landscape on different topics at will. 

I’m hoping to be able to publish this as an on-line Topicscape soon so that you can try for yourself, but I need to make sure that’s OK with Peter Jones first.

Watch this space!

Roy

• Halo menu and associated dynamic help
• Innovative swinging panels
• Topic footprints
• More Association line choices
• Hotkeys on menus
• Neighborhood views
• Customize the Home view position
• ‘Meaning of structure’ button
• New demo covering multi-parent topics
• Verified on Windows 7 

Here are the What’s New page and the main page of Topicscape SE information where you can download it. 

Topicscape SE is aimed at students wanting an easy and attractive way to record their web research and revision notes, and prepare homework and term papers.  It can import from FreeMind and export back to FreeMind.

It may not have the 2D/3D, tagging, import/export juicyness of Topicscape Pro 2.5, but it’s a useful tool for study . . . and it’s fun.

Oh, and did I mention it’s free?  . . .  and always will be.

Roy