We're up and running with Topicscape Pro 2.5 - Beta ended

Go to the main download to grab the 3D Topicscape Pro 2.5 live installer

The illustrated “What’s New” page has details of a couple of additional capabilities that weren’t mentioned in the Beta What’s new.

For Pro 2.0 users, this is a free upgrade. Pro 1.0 users can upgrade to all this goodness for a modest US$29.99. If you accidentally load a Pro 1 license into Pro 2, Topicscape will fail to load some components and won’t run.

With the release of 2.5, we have decided to simplify the Help system. Topicscape Pro itself now contains a 20-page Help, but the main help is part-way through being uploaded to the Topicscape Wiki – a few more days and it'll be done. Now we can update the help without having to release a new installer. If you still want the Help on your PC for offline reference, you can download the PDF.

Finally, have a look at a great movie by one of our users, David Esko.

Argey

3D Topicscape: New Beta for download

If you're a Topicscape Pro Beta user, you can download a new installer with various fixes now. Please first login then download.

You can go here for more information.

Argey

The 2D - 3D switch for Topicscape mind maps : Now in Beta

After months of quietly beavering away, 3D-Scape has announced the availability of a Beta version of Topicscape Pro that adds a 2D option to Topicscape for users new to 3D or for organizing smaller, simpler bodies of information.

Now Topicscape is even further ahead of the pack of software for mastering information overload visually.

You can apply to be a Beta User to try out this new approach to organizing information. If you have no login information, please give us some information about your PC via the application for Beta User form (to help us support you better), and if your computer looks as if it will run Topicscape we will issue you a login account.

Fly as in Cooliris (2D) or Google Earth (3D). View the contents of topics and file previews from the Map or Landscape. More details on the Topicscape Wiki.

The new 3D Topicscape Pro 2 goes live

A major upgrade to Topicscape Pro, the 3D information organizer and mind map software, has just gone live.

Pro 2 lets you add tags to any item, filter according to your tags, grasp visually and even more quickly the way your information is organized, find controls more easily, and personalize each of your Topicscapes. There's a lot more. For all the details, see the “What’s new”.

1. Did you buy Topicscape Pro in the last six months?

If you bought Topicscape Pro after October 1st 2008, please email us from the address used for the purchase and we will send you a Topicscape Pro 2 license free.

2. Did you acquire a Topicscape Pro license more than six months ago?

Get all the benefits of Pro 2 at an upgrade price of just US$29.99. If you install Topicscape Pro 2, it won’t overwrite your Pro 1 installation. Convert your Topicscapes to Pro 2 with confidence, you will still be able to use them with Pro 1.

Buy Topicscape Pro 2

3. Did you trial Topicscape Pro sometime in the past?

Topicscape Pro 2 will work in trial mode for 30 days, even if a previous trial has expired.

Download Topicscape Pro 2 and the new skins installer.


Argey

Topicscape update and soon-to-be upgrade

1. Topicscape Pro - a new release 1.64 - is on line,
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2. The 'final beta' of Topicscape Pro 2.0 is also waiting for Beta testers to grab.

We're hoping to have the upgrade to 3D Topicscape Pro go live very soon.

The Topicscape Pro 2.0 final Beta now lets you choose a skin for each Topicscape, so you can see which Topicscape you’re working on immediately. There are 21 skins, each of which can be adjusted to taste. Oh, and there's a new skin, to make it 21 now.

A few other things too. Check out the pdf file that has been updated since the previous beta release: http://www.topicscape.com/download/Topicscape-Beta-2.0-whats-new-for-you.pdf

Roy

A new Beta of 3D Topicscape has just come out, and there's an opportunity for keen mind mappers to sign up as Beta testers. In case you don't know, Topicscape is an information organizer that uses a mind mapping approach to let you build a 3D information landscape.

If you're interested in giving it a try, Please go to the Beta application form and choose a user name and password … http://www.topicscape.com/applybeta.php

Full details of Beta 2.0 are in a picture-rich document here:-
http://www.topicscape.com/download/Topicscape-Beta-2.0-what's-new-for-you.pdf

Argey

A wiki, all about mind mapping

A new wiki about mind mapping, concept mapping and associated topics has just been launched. Although it has been built up with very extensive content before launch, you can add to it yourself. All contributions that follow its policies of being written in a way that is clear, factual and without hype are welcome.

Its writers bring decades of experience of mind and concept mapping to this wiki, and are continually adding to it. Use it to learn from, or use it to bring your own experience to this comprehensive resource for the benefit of others.

Argey

Do you edit Wikipedia?

If you'd like a summary of the useful things to know when editing Wikipedia, and you'd like it in a useful quick reference mindmap format, just click this image:



This will take you to the InformationTamers' site. There are mindmaps in various active formats there, as well as a full detail, passive image.

Argey

Information systems, technology and the human factor

Here's a piece, with a detailed mind map, on some new thinking on information systems
http://www.informationtamers.com/VPECT/VPECT-and-business-information-systems.html

Argey

Hand-drawn mind mappers

There's a fun survey over at the topicscape blog: Pick your favorite out of five hand-drawn mind-mappers - or nominate others.

http://www.topicscape.com/blog/2008/09/22/the-great-hand-drawn-mind-mappers-face-off/

Argey

The free 3D mind mapping software - it's been updated

There's a new version of 3D Topicscape Student Edition (the free one) out now.

It plays nicely with Vista Aero theme, runs faster and more smoothly, and has some user interface improvements.

Download this free mind mapping software from the link.

Argey

Made to Stick

I'm all of a buzz with a book I just finished: Made to Stick.

There's a review and a full mind map of it over at InformationTamers:
http://www.informationtamers.com/How-to-present-information-so-that-people-remember-and-act-on-it.html

This is a book full of insight that cannot fail to convince.

Argey

Organizing information graphically for faster comprehension

The story of a search for a better way to organize information has now been told at the InformationTamers site.


http://www.informationtamers.com/Personal-journey-in-information-mangement.html










Read the full story now!

Roy

3D Topicscape Pro update

3D Topicscape Pro version 1.59 is out now. For details of what it does that's new, please visit the What's New page, but in summary:

1. Four, five or six columns of children of the Current Topic - a wider landscape scene in other words;
   

   



2. Extended import from PersonalBrain;


3. Auto-minimize option;


4. Faster Make Current operation for really large Topicscapes.

Argey

New information organizers site

There's a new site on information organizers and it approaches from a new angle - in 3D.

Argey

3D Topicscape Lite new version

We have just uploaded a new version of 3D Topicscape Lite. It is available from the usual place: http://www.topicscape.com/download5.php

and is free to all who have a license. If you are using 3D Topicscape Lite in the 30-day trial period, you can switch to this version now, as well.

This version has a significantly-improved start-up speed and some bugs have been fixed. Enjoy!

Argey

Mindmaps Directory update

Topicscape.com has long had a remarkable mindmaps directory and it has just been updated. There are now more than 700 mind maps from all over the Web.

This is the only library of mind maps that allows you to browse freely, filter according to the type of map (there are concept maps, pure mind maps, bubble diagrams, spidergrams, and others), select by subject in the tag cloud or search by keyword.

Each map thumbnail has a link to its original Web page.

This is an outstanding resource for the business mapper, the student and the creative person looking for fresh ideas and a new approach.

Argey

Free mindmapping software and concept mapping software for students

3D Topicscape Student Edition is design to help students with their homework, essays and acquiring the skills of using an information organizer. Thinking & organizing indeed.

It presents information with the usual Topicscape approach - a 3D landscape - but has a colorful, playful feel with stars in the sky, making it even more fun to use than the other Topicscape editions.

And it is free now, and will remain free.

I'm looking for comments on how well it works for you, so get stuck in and try it. Download 3D Topicscape Student Edition from this page.

Argey

New 3D Topicscape version

Last night a new version of 3D Topicscape Pro went live - it's version 1.55 and has some small bug fixes from the major release of last month.

Click here for the description of new features and here to download.

Argey

Mindmapping styles

Here's a view of styles of "mind maps across the ages".

http://www.topicscape.com/mindmapping/mindmapping-styles.html