MindRaider Organises And Visualises Any Note Style
Windows/Mac/Linux: MindRaider wants to be the place you stash all your sudden thoughts, organizational notes, and inter-connected ideas. That’s because it offers links, visualisations, and other tools to help you make sense of it all.
From the outset, MindRaider, a Java app that can run on any system that supports Java, looks like a kind of multi-window outlining program. And it is, in a way, but the idea is to use it as an uber-outline. You can attach files to notes, or create symbolic links to local files. You can inter-link notes, documents, and outlines, use contextual tagging for an extra layer of finding something later, and use any of the pre-defined categories to segment out your ideas into broad containers. It supports a huge range of note formats, from simple text file to TWiki exports, and has a number of visualisations that help you kinetically wheel your thoughts around and pick what to fill out next.
Honestly? It’s an application that would take more than just a glance and quick twiddle with to get comfortable and productive in. That sounds like a deal-breaker to most idealistic productivity minds, of course, but it looks like MindRaider can be pretty powerful, once you get your system rolling with it. If you do, offer up some help to your fellow readers (and at least one editor here) in the comments.
MindRaider is a free download, works wherever Java does.
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I'd be interested to try this out and see if its any better to mind mapping software.
Raymund Sucgang
Linking specific files to notes. I like this idea because I have a ton of recorded music on my computer. This way I could easily write up lyrics, chord progressions, or any other information associated with a recording that I forget when I get back to it months later.
This may be what I was looking for to organize my own music ideas.
Paul Szymiczek
OneNote works for me... and it's fully integrated into Outlook and the rest of Office. You can embed files or link to ones on your hard disk (or the web).
cavalierex
I have been using this on and off for some years. The only problem is that it does not get updated frequently and needs improvement.
kartal
@cavalierex: I agree, but if I didn't get OneNote through the company, I probably never would have bought it.
TheOtherHalf
Sounds intriguing. Ubernote's lack of support for linking was why I abandoned it for my own personal use MediaWiki install: [robertstackhouse.com]
@Raymund Sucgang:
I thought the same thing but like "the Brain"it has more of a floaty flash interface feel that I can not get used to pity because as noted I think this could be very powerful and unlike the brain the price is right.
@Paul Szymiczek:
Nice idea. That might work for me too... apart from the lyrics part. I'm no poet, and the less we say about my singing voice the better.
el_Paraguayo
@TheOtherHalf: I've tried OneNote, got a free copy from Microsoft for attending a multi-day architect event and loved it except:
a) MS-Windows only
b) Slows my machine more than Outlook (which is also unacceptable)
Software that "feels heavy" and doesn't perform MANDATORY FUNCTIONS isn't used in our company.
This machine is not slow. Vista-64, 4GB RAM, core 2 duo CPU. Ok, Vista-64 is probably the issue. A prior machine was also slow with OneNote and Outlook.
TheFu
Just downloaded this and it contains the trojan DNSchanger V
Joseph Lerro
For lightweight size and ease of use, you can't beat ShirusuPad for on the fly note-taking. I have it installed on every PC I use and can't live without it. http://hem.bredband.net/danielc/
DoraAutolycus
@TheFu: Wow, I didn't have any of those problems at all. OneNote is might lighter on my machines than Outlook. 6M memory to Outlook's 196M
O_o
I do agree that 64 might be the issue. I've heard scores of complaints about Office and 64.
TheOtherHalf
Am I the only one still using Keynote?
stainlessrat
@[cintanotes.com]
It's definitely simpler and better for text-clipping, but it lacks alarms.
@cavalierex: I just discovered that you can direct link to sections and pages within the notebooks also. Great if you have a keyboard launcher and want to open to a specific section/tab.
Be cool if it were portable, but I guess Java kills that.
tgrantt
@stainlessrat: Did you know that KeyNote development was revived?
[code.google.com]
@[sourceforge.net]
If you're still worried, you can try the zip version - AVG shouldn't have a problem with it.
@Joseph Lerro: Same got the same virus here... bad lifehacker, bad!... go to your room and think about what you've done.
MoiraCorcyra
I too just downloaded it and AVG reports that the executable is infected with the trojan DNSchanger.V. Anyone know if this is so, or is a false positive?
RitaStheno
@Joseph Lerro: Saw the same thing
SuvarnarekhaAegialeus
I am also getting a virus warning for the Windows version.
BoothStitch
@joelena:
No! Great to know! It's so close to being the perfect tool for me...or at least I'm so used to it and have 3 years of notes in it, changing to something else has been difficult.
stainlessrat
@RitaStheno: It's a false positive. The main page says that the .exe installer reports a virus in AVG and recommends using the .zip version.
NefariSC
@joelena: This is an excellent tool for collecting Tangents Log. Thanks a lot!
piotr_b
@stainlessrat: I use it. Too bad the original developer just upped and left it hanging years ago.
@Joseph Lerro: What does VirusTotal have to say about it?
[www.virustotal.com]
Sent to AVG Labs and confirmed as a trojan!?!
SwatiBabcha
Ouch! "Take more than just a glance and quick twiddle with to get comfortable and productive in" - lifehacker's euphemism generator needs to be turned down a couple of notches. Mindraider was created before the word intuitive was: its power is wasted, largely because the designer doesn't seem to have had other users in mind.
BringaYelve
It's open source code licensed under the GPL so I don't see why it should be a virus/trojan issue, but I'm using the Linux version. This should make it a good candidate for updating, too, as long as you can code.
AlessandraAlcestis
FOLKS - MindRaider is CLEAN!! I have scanned all of the executables in the ZIP distribution and there are no viruses or trojans. The installer gives a false positive for a trojan.
PatriciaLorton
@stainlessrat: KeyNote is alsol my tool of choice. Even though it hasn't been improved or updated, it is still a great tool. I use it for most everything.
MonaNarea