ThinkPost is an Interactive split-screen diagramming, draggable block-based, markdown-supported note-taking, and brainstorming tool.
A single, focused page for note taking or brainstorming in the technical world (in the wikis of your garden-variety project management tools like JIRA, Clickup and Notion and other what-nots) accomplishes something great — refines your ideas and thoughts to it’s essence, dusting off the crumbs and tangents. Since many note taking applications are built under that central principle, you have to do some work in your head before you note them. The proliferation of singular, focused note taking idea may be originating from the historical and cultural productivity tenant that says to ”be focused on just one thing”. It did not seem working out well in getting out all my ideas into the notes.
While I was working on new idea or a feature, or even refining a new thought, something struck me again and again, Instead of just one focused thought, I found I had many streams of them trickling down in their own channels down in to their worlds. An Idea can have many dimensions. Often times, the effort to tie in to that central tenant failed miserably, the channels were not in the same bases, rendering the single and focused page of note taking completely useless. What if we let them all stream parallel in to a digital space, instead of forcing our minds?
In ThinkPost, you can pop-open panels from different sides as your different thinking streams starts buffering in your mind. Thinking about logical drawings while you list down your feature requirements? and when you are in to the logical drawings, your thoughts ventured and identified a new security risk? Don’t hold them back, let them stream.
When you are forming an idea, or getting out what’s in your head, for technical or non technical work, your mind shouldn’t be coerced into refine at the origin itself. You can let all your chips of intellect fall wherever it may and then take it from there. And they may be in different forms like diagrams or even code. They can even complement each other, i.e the comparative notes side-by-side with text or diagrams helps the symphony of the ideas. Think of a meeting agenda with the previous meeting notes in the same screen? There will be more perspective and a code snippet with quick explanation on what code does, just next to it? there’s more understanding.
The comparative analysis is deeper, more incisive and descriptive, and in ThinkPost pop-open panels, you will find it easily comfortable. And that informs something new as well, ideas aren’t just textual, just the effort of going into working on different forms of them brings more clarity and depth. In ThinkPost, you get these via different modes of Panels that you can change to — Text Editor, Diagram Editor, Code Editor and Maths Editor.
Exploring ideas in digital spaces works better with more real estate, hence the infinite grid and canvases in the tools found around the web. More bigger the canvas, more space we feel to explore. ThinkPost is a primarily a desktop focused brainstorming app.
When there’s more real estate, you should be able to use it effectively — ThinkPost even has a cross panel drag and drop blocks functionality, if you want to move an idea into another stream, you’ll be at home.
For this parallel streaming mind, I believe mobile experience isn’t the primary thing. But it doesn’t mean there’s no space for mobile experiences in refining our ideas, it’s a great tool to continue on something you started with a powerful ignition on desktop. App will have a scaled-down support for continuing your ideas wherever you are.
When it comes to brainstorming, Presentation is also a key aspect in showing your findings to stakeholders, You will find information shared in the symphony of split-panels are incisive and clear. ThinkPost can also work as a designated landing page for your random meetings instead of a random tool — Just open a new tab and have a checklist!.
ThinkPost would be an app that sits between your mind and an information repository. It would be something you brainstorm with your mind, share your screen to note things down and discuss an idea with your team, before you refine them for the developer specs or the wiki of your project management tool.
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