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Re: Show HN: Evryca – fractal thinking tool to brainstorm and organize thoughts

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Post by efojs »

phailhaus wrote: post #17

I think fractal designs are the way to go! My favorite notetaking app is Workflowy which does this exact thing with nested lists, and it supports boards too! One thing I would suggest is that it needs to be possible to "peek" at lower levels; it's a bit jarring to drop a card on another card and have it completely disappear. It's not immediately obvious that the card actually went "inside" the right one.

Thank you, yes fractals rule the world (literally?). Seen Workflowy, didn't use it, but it looks rather easy to use. And final text is readable. It's important.

I plan to add view/export of board as a text, so it can be read as a whole.

Re: Show HN: Evryca – fractal thinking tool to brainstorm and organize thoughts

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Post by BLKNSLVR »

I currently use Noteself, a modification of tiddlywiki, for this kind of thing. I really like the concept you've created, but my paranoia / concern is that I can't save / copy / transport the thought-fractal I've created.

Noteself saves its status within the browsers local storage as well, but you can save it as an HTML file to make it transportable between browsers, computers, devices.

I'm constantly shifting between work and personal devices and need the seamless transition - which would imply either self-hosting or 'login required' model, which may not fit your roadmap (although you do mention 'login' above, and also you mention adding im/export). Understand it's in development, however, and respect for the stage you've gotten it to so far. Good work!

Re: Show HN: Evryca – fractal thinking tool to brainstorm and organize thoughts

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Post by pketh »

efojs wrote: post #6
barbs wrote: post #5

Looks cool. Seems a little similar to https://kinopio.club/

Hm. Interesting. Thank you. Will add to my collection of fractal apps.

Hi creator of kinopio here, I tried Evryca out and I like what you’re making, and I think your roadmap makes sense - keep up the great work :)

Re: Show HN: Evryca – fractal thinking tool to brainstorm and organize thoughts

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Post by Datagenerator »

efojs wrote: post #8
plainOldText wrote: post #7

I think it needs a better visual representation of the levels. I personally find the visual representation currently utilized to represent the fractal structure, incomprehensible.

Thank you. Please, help me understand you better. Does "levels" mean "depth"? To give the feel how deep in the subject you are? Don't stacked "parents" give that feel?

You might want to checkout the way 'Thebrain' 1) can show related thoughts using layers of transparency. Our brain reads these indirectly and helps providing contexts.

1) https://www.thebrain.com/

* not affiliated in any way

Re: Show HN: Evryca – fractal thinking tool to brainstorm and organize thoughts

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Post by efojs »

pketh wrote: post #24
efojs wrote: post #6

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Hm. Interesting. Thank you. Will add to my collection of fractal apps.

Hi creator of kinopio here, I tried Evryca out and I like what you’re making, and I think your roadmap makes sense - keep up the great work :)

) Hi! Thank you very much for support! And glad you like it.

Tried a bit kinopio and guess it can replace me Excalidraw in some cases (I use it as whiteboard). Just need to get used to UX a bit.

Looks like my approach does not replace yours visual whiteboard/map-like, they solve a bit different tasks.

Cool, I think) that it can coexist

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