Mind mapping, research, and writing
Image credit: [Unsplash]Nodlin provides a framework for organising thoughts and ideas. The ability to view graphs (as mind maps), and capabilities in organising throughts and ideas across multiple nodlins and perspectives provides a powerful tool for research and writing.
The basic organisational capabilities of nodlin to apply multiple tags to nodes and place nodlins in multiple folders also provides flexibility in organising thoughts and ideas.
Existing word processing tools do not provide much flexibility in organisation. The thumbnail views for navigation are a very basic enhancement. There are many good tools for recording and organising notes, references and research.
Nodlin overlaps with these features, but provides more flexibility in enhancing these capabilities (the unbounded application).
Utilising AI to help build a mind map
The standard openAI interface presents text based responses. The human visual system however is incredibly efficient and a fascinating area of study that intersects psychology and neuroscience. We process visuals incredibly fast and more impactful than text based representations.
Nodlin provides a graph (aka ‘mind map’ style) response to a request. Some examples:
As its a mind map style response, this external agent provides a list of images you can select pertinent to the topic:
This agent provides capabilities to expand on a node, so that AI can provide further expansion of the graph, or just supplement more detailed text in the node.
Nodlin therefore has potential uses in academia where you can build a framework for research or a paper. This information is also in a nodlin, therefore you can share and collaborate on the information and extend with your own notes.
Nodlin has the ability to view the information as a tree as well as a graph, however this is still being tested and therefore not available.
The feature allows for a top level node to be selected, and the types of node (e.g. AI detail nodes) to be included. This is the more traditional paper or text based view of the information. An essay or paper is essentially a tree but with order. A tree is a graph without cycles. You could use nodlin to visually arrange your sections, and then arrange an order and export as a paper.
This is far more extensive capability that the typical small page view provided in typical word processors and easier to collaborate.
The current examples are limited. However the potential to organise thoughts on a mind map, integrate AI into the process, maintain multiple perspectives (different nodlins) and notes presents a good framework for future development.
The ability to organise and arrange sections, and export to different document formats is required.
