For me, speed of startup is a key advantage of Treesheets about half a second – how fast is it to load OneNote / Canvas?

Vic

Have you checked out “Canvas for OneNote” – http://officelabs.com/projects/canvasforonenote/ ?

As far as I understood, it conceptually does the same thing and I really like how it works.

Everyone I’ve seen write about TreeSheets likes it! Glad you did as well.

On Xmind, I’d have used it myself if I was starting now, but I paid for other mind mapping software years ago before there were so many free ones

Get in touch with the Topicscape people, they’re usually very helpful in finding the right graphics support software. I believe it uses games drivers (opengl) for 3D. Googleearth is most likely using directx on your PC though it can use opengl instead.

Thanks for following the blog.

Vic

I am loving treesheets. It’s very addictive. My work is coming on well thanks to using it. Amazing how much info you can get on a screen with this. So thanks for recommending it, it was your approval on it that made me give it a good go.

I’ve been using XMIND for an overview of my projects which is great. I would love to try Topicscape seems too slow on my machine, it may not be using the graphics card, but it’s a pretty old machine. Still, googleearth does well on it.

I find evernote useful for getting down ideas. When an idea comes I need to capture it in words before it goes. I can then quickly tag it / rank it, and return to what I was doing. It is quick to respond as long as it is up and running. Does not seem to take up much memory I believe. And searching is very rapid / easy. I can also record web clippings, and images, it’s really quick and easy at that too. For me it would take too long to try and work out where to put the idea in XMIND. I leave that until later.

Thanks again for recommending treesheets. Love the blog.

Andrew.

Thanks, yes, I did try Evernote, and I don’t find that its long thin strip presentation matched the way I think. And it’s overkill just for quick notes.

As I wrote in my post, I use Topicscape for organizing very large globs of information and only used Notepad++ for capturing quick thoughts as they pop into the mind. Speed of opening is of the essence of such a tool, and Notepad takes about half a second to open.

But for instant-on, quick notes, I now use TreeSheets, not Notepad++.

Vic