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

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Made a tool to organize thoughts. Actually it is a mind tree, but in a more web-friendly form.

It has pivoted from what I originally started building at evryca.com.

Some years ago I got the idea of fractal conversation, instead of old-school tree/ladder-like comments. I wanted to see only comments related to the current level.

I started making "something" with fractal comments. This "something" was a project discussion platform. But it turned out that even I myself don't use it, and the idea of fractal comments stuck there unused.

And recently it dawned on me that it may be a conversation with yourself — thinking, brainstorming, taking notes, writing. So made this kind of cork/whiteboard, where one can dive into the subject and, being in the flow, write and see only related notes and rearrange them later.

I'm trying to make it flawless and add keyboard shortcuts where it's possible (Ctr+Enter to submit idea, drag-and-drop to rearrange, Esc to jump level up).

So finally I've made a tool that I use myself and will update it gradually (sorting, touch devices, ex/import (json, text), boards, more navigation with keyboard and other stuff, and login).

Show HN: Evryca – fractal thinking tool to brainstorm and organize thoughts
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So basically, poor man's Nototo?

Ha. Nice. Thank you. Never seen this one, but seen some other visual fractal notebook/s. Some, for sure, may find it (zooming map) more convenient and fun than navigating text. I, personally, don't feel it's web/screen friendly. Maybe for some VR it could work much better. Would be cool to try.

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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?

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post #8

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?

It doesn't show if a card is stacked or not.

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post #8

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?

> Does "levels" mean "depth"? To give the feel how deep in the subject you are?

Yes! Level means depth.

> Don't stacked "parents" give that feel?

No! The stack doesn't give me that feel, because visually, it doesn't look like a stack. My brain perceives a series of plain text lines as a block of information. There's a reason we add symbols (numbers, discs) to checklists. We want them differentiated from normal text blocks. Of course you don't necessarily need to use symbols, you could also make use of relative positioning (between levels) or color (varying the intensity of the same color as you move up and down the levels, or use a color theme), etc.

Regards!

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