I really want to ditch Freemind, but couldn't find mindmapping software
that did focus on actual contents like Freemind does, instead of focusing
on positioning/fancy colors/gimmicks.
Freemind's user interface is HORRIBLE, but, they got something nailed down
real good:
1- you don't have to worry/think about placement of thoughts, visual
layouting, and generally wasting time moving things around ending up with a
messy mindmap
2- their entire app can be used with the keyboard only
So I would like a mode for chartr to create thoughts and they get
automatically positionned -- the user, in this mode, cannot change the
placement of thoughts (for technical reasons I would think).
This leads to much quicker and cleaner creation of mindmaps, with the only
drawback being that it somewhat limits freedom of designing the mindmap
(but I have not missed that part). I can create in a few minutes a mindmap
that would take me hours in chartr.
We could even change the way the user interacts with the gui completely in
this case. It could be designed like this:
- a sidebar on the left allows entering thoughts in hierarchical order,
maybe using a gtk treeview or sourceview
- a pane at the bottom allows editing the details of a particular thought
- a "preview" area on the right shows the result as a mind map in real-time
So, it could look like this:
_______________________________
| | |
| | mindmap area |
| | |
| | |
| | |
| | |
|------------------------------|
| comments on a thought |
| |
°°°°°°°°°°°°°°°°°°°°°°°°°°°°°°°°
Where the user only interacts with the left and bottom panes, and then he
can export the mind map afterwards.
Original issue reported on code.google.com by nekoh...@gmail.com on 23 Nov 2008 at 6:42
Original issue reported on code.google.com by
nekoh...@gmail.comon 23 Nov 2008 at 6:42