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OctopusNote – Write documents, save articles and refrence text in the mindmap

5 points by marb 10y ago

marb 10y ago
OctopusNote developer here. I am trying to spark some innovation in the information organization field. Most organizational tools are only ok when working with little information. When your notes database grows up, more and more problems emerge: difficult to navigate and efficiently use that much information. One thing that could help when working with many documents (or notes) is a text referencing in a mindmap. At OctopusNote I am experimenting with various techniques to find the right mix of features that could improve human's information processing capabilities. OctopusNote now has a strong technical base and can be easily transformed to various note taking or mindmapping tools based on modern web technologies. For example: has a reliable almost-real-time conflict-free sync has a high performance mind-map engine that can render and navigate tens of thousands of branches without any lag has a full text search that can search in parent > child relations (for the mindmap part) has a really convenient document search with tag filter, full text search and instant search can extract web articles etc. There is a possibility I will open source it, if I will find a sustainable business model. Now imagine what would be a perfect information organization tool that would let you keep, navigate and most importantly use that information efficiently? Just one condition: the tool must be efficient with thousands of notes.
- brudgers 10y ago
  For me, the thing that keeps me from using mind maps is not laggy software. What keeps me from using them is that I don't use them. This suggests that marketing for a mind-map app might be more about education than features...a lot of technical sales are that way...the competition is not other products it's non-use. Good luck.
  - marb 10y ago
    You are right, educating people about the mindmapping concept is important. Lots of people don't know what it is. But this is Hacker News and technical language here is more common than sales language. I am speaking kindly here, like a developer to developers.
    - brudgers 10y ago
      A very good point.

5 points by marb 10y ago

marb 10y ago

OctopusNote developer here. I am trying to spark some innovation in the information organization field. Most organizational tools are only ok when working with little information. When your notes database grows up, more and more problems emerge: difficult to navigate and efficiently use that much information. One thing that could help when working with many documents (or notes) is a text referencing in a mindmap. At OctopusNote I am experimenting with various techniques to find the right mix of features that could improve human's information processing capabilities. OctopusNote now has a strong technical base and can be easily transformed to various note taking or mindmapping tools based on modern web technologies. For example: has a reliable almost-real-time conflict-free sync has a high performance mind-map engine that can render and navigate tens of thousands of branches without any lag has a full text search that can search in parent > child relations (for the mindmap part) has a really convenient document search with tag filter, full text search and instant search can extract web articles etc. There is a possibility I will open source it, if I will find a sustainable business model. Now imagine what would be a perfect information organization tool that would let you keep, navigate and most importantly use that information efficiently? Just one condition: the tool must be efficient with thousands of notes.

brudgers 10y ago
For me, the thing that keeps me from using mind maps is not laggy software. What keeps me from using them is that I don't use them. This suggests that marketing for a mind-map app might be more about education than features...a lot of technical sales are that way...the competition is not other products it's non-use. Good luck.
- marb 10y ago
  You are right, educating people about the mindmapping concept is important. Lots of people don't know what it is. But this is Hacker News and technical language here is more common than sales language. I am speaking kindly here, like a developer to developers.
  - brudgers 10y ago
    A very good point.