![]() After that, everything else is a minor annoyance in comparison. What aspiring authors need, first and foremost, is training on how to finish a manuacript. If you want to make an app for writers, don't make it around the writing process. Martin famously uses WordStar 4.0 on an MS-DOS system). They usually have an anachronistic approach that has nothing to do with productivity and everything to do with personal taste and comfort (George R. For the weirdos who finish and make significant sales, the app they used to write was never a significant problem for them. Of those that do finish, 90% of them won't make more than pocket change. 90% of people who say they are "working on a novel" will never finish it to ever even try to sell it. And novelists (who I was targeting) are poor and cheap. It wasn't general purpose enough to be usable by the general public. ![]() I tried building a similar project some 10 years ago, when "Zen writing tools" were all the rage. Yes, a word processing app like MS Word is technically more suitable for typesetting than it is for writing. But how do I get out of my information bubble? Hence the idea of an open mind-map to navigate through other peoples mind-maps out of my information bubble. I had this idea because I realised that I had mapped my information bubble in creating my mind-map. Taking this a step further, I thought about creating a global mind-map whereby everyone contributes their mind-maps into interconnected open mind-map. ![]() The document is just a concatenation of all the nodes visited along the way. Between any two points in the mind-map I can create a document with all the paths that link those two points. The end result is a chaotic mind-map which I call a writermap since the entire mind-map is executable. I've created custom nodes to provide a categorization for ideas, thoughts, observations, inspiration etc. I've started using Node-RED as a mind-map for my ideas and thoughts. I find Scapple more interesting since it comes close to what I'm playing around with.
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