Q&A: What is 3D Topicscape?

3D Topicscape is personal software designed to help you manage information. It grew out of the mindmapping way of thinking but now makes information organizing a 2D or 3D activity available to everyone. Even if you've never heard of mindmapping you'll quickly understand what its 2D maps and 3D landscapes are about and see how it helps you save time and find information quickly.

It's not just about organizing information more efficiently, though. Once you've used this, you'll never want to go back to plain mind maps for organizing information and computer files:

• You will see exciting new relationships between elements of your information that were there, but simply haven't shown up before;
• you will spot what you're looking for by recognizing where you are for with the 'sense of place' that we all use every day in our 3D world;
• you can identify items more precisely from descriptions that you add yourself to files and topic. Searching can include these descriptions;
• you can go inside the 2D rectangle or 3D cone of a topic and find the items relating to that topic (occurrences) that you've put there;
• you can place the same item in several places, without the need to make copies or shortcuts and therefore find them more easily. How often have you puzzled where to put a document - being torn between two or more places where it seems to fit logically? Here now, is the answer.

There is a brief learning curve - navigating in 3D in the computer screen isn't something most of us do every day. But it's made especially easy in Topicscape, because you can view the same scene in 2D or 3D. Review the built-in demonstrations and then really take charge of your information. There are obvious business and personal benefits in controlling your tasks even when you have many conflicting priorities. And you'll find you're ahead of others with answers when it's a case of finding a needed reference, as well as being able to research on the web with rare efficiency.