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Congrats on the launch but personally can't see myself using a tool like this. What problem does it solve? Mind maps have been around for years and remain niche
by contingencies 4y ago
Congrats on the launch but personally can't see myself using a tool like this. What problem does it solve? Mind maps have been around for years and remain niche for a reason reminiscent of Lamport's take on UML: fuzzy pictures of boxes and arrows.
There is nothing worse than a sharp image of a fuzzy concept. - Ansel Adams
IMHO the best value tools in our company are clipboards with blank pages and three colors of pens on every desk, and an auto sheet-feed scanner to get the results in to git without fiddly photography. I love graphviz/mscgen as much as the next unixer, but for ideation paper wins hands down.
Don't use the computer to do things that can be done efficiently by hand. - Richard Hill, Hewlett-Packard
- pketh 4y agoKinopio isn't technically a mind mapping tool, it's a spatial thinking tool. The big distinction is you are not constrained to a single tree. You can write whatever you want wherever you want it and only connect what you want to connect – just like with paper and pens.
- contingencies 4y agoFair enough. I'm not really clear on what 'spatial thinking' is. We spend a lot of time doing mechanical design so have spatial problems aplenty, but they tend to be solved by segment-specific tooling with strong visualization CAD/CAM IDEs already.