My automated mind-mapping tool (Tangential) is now mostly usable (caveats below).
Please have a play and tell me what you think, just click here (note be patient with it, I have yet to optimize the server side code).
- You click a text box to fire off a new association (the word changes colour until mapping is complete)
- Words presented are drawn randomly from a large set of possible words, so run it again and other results will appear. This is the one area I need to play with, suspect showing all available words might be better – Feedback appreciated on this aspect.
- The graphical presentation of words is poor (they sometimes overlap and can be hard to read – Although I have made improvements in this area)
- It’s likely to blow-up – This is not guaranteed to be stable!
Again feedback appreciated.
Cool – just had a go with a few words of my own.
Thought you might be interested in this link http://www.iterature.com/dadameter/rrengine.php
might give you a few ideas.
Looks interesting, just briefly skimmed it, I will look into the precise detail over the next few days.
If they kept the tree it would be close to what I’m attempting, although I’m not sure it traces out closely related content and sentences with related words. That said my current implementation could easily be improved on – parsing languages etc. is not something I have much experience of.
hi matthew,
would it be possible to throw a bunch of words on screen and then build your mid-map by connecting them?
cheers,
stefan
Hi Stefan,
Interesting, I hadn’t considered building a mind map this way. Essentially finding routes from each word to the others in the set? Is this what you mean?
Apart from typing in the initial set of words, would you want to interact with the tool in any-way – To help it navigate the paths, for instance?
- Matthew