Mindscope

I wrote Mindscope mainly for myself - I was envisioning an app which would be a mix between mind-mapping like Scapple and focused "drilling-down" into sub-boards like Workflowy.

You can add text entries to a board, move them around with your finger, aligning them, setting font sizes, etc. The "killer feature" is then being able to tap any of the entries and a whole new sub-space opens up where you can add additional entries.

This simple system enables a perfect mix of quick thought capture and hierarchical organization. The simplicity of text makes something like Kanban or a simple brainstorm totally easy to do, but being able to move entries into their own categories also makes a GTD system really doable.

Here's what one of my first users had to say:

"I love outliners as that's how my brain works but they're only somewhat visual. Every item has the same appearance even though two items may have the same parent child relationship but have a dramatic difference in importance to me. This creates noise that's not easy to filter out unless I curate what's in the outline (but I need to collect all types of information regardless of importance). The differences in context/importance creates a need for a way to visually 'draw' out thoughts on a canvas without losing the hierarchy and ability to drill down into sub-levels. You've done this - brilliantly!"