Re: [Gzz] Re: [Gzz-commits] gzz/Documentation/misc/mindmap tech.rst .cvsignore

[Tuomas Lukka]

On Fri, Jan 03, 2003 at 11:38:14PM +0200, Asko Soukka wrote:
> Fri, 3 Jan 2003, Benja Fallenstein wrote:
> > > +- since A4 the most popular paper size for writing notes and also for
> > > +  drawing mind maps (AFAIK), it could be recommendes size also for
> > > +  mindmap tool (although, this depends a lot of different needs of
> > > +  different user, a small PDA with soft drawing-tablet-case could also
> > > +  good)
> > Can you explain more (maybe with examples) what you want mind map
> > drawing to be like and what the end results should be?
> 
> I will, when I know them myself.
> 
> I do want some kind of spatial model, because I can't deny that spatial
> ordering of things is quite an important aspect in mind maps. But how to
> avoid the problem of an euclidean area and positioning things with
> absolute coordinates you mentioned? I have thinked about applitude
> specific metadata for placing cells relatively to their neighbours.
> Of course the mind map structure could also be shown "normally"
> mathematically ordered like wheel views (which were meant to be my first
> steps to build mind maps on GZZ). Though, hard to say currently,
> how would this it exactly work. It will be a challange to find a good
> compromiss between traditional pen+paper mindmap interface and this
> GZZ applitude :)

How about buoys? Something like PP, but with a more pen-like interface?

        Tuomas