mindOrganizer

mindOrganizer is a web application (mindorganizer.net) that can be used to:

  • collect information (texts and images) for any purpose: administrative, self-educational, psychotherapeutic, recreational, etc. (e.g., to create memoranda, diaries, address books, lists, notes, mind maps, etc.);
  • stimulate your mind to neutralize unwanted conditioned reflexes (cognitive and emotional) and increase your creativity;

mindOrganizer allows you to organize the collected information into a hierarchical and/or networked structure based on topics and cards interconnected through hyperlinks.

A topic is a title used to evoke a subject, concept, object of knowledge, issue, fact, event, etc. Each topicis associated with one or more cards that constitute its analysis.

A card is a piece of information (related to a specific topic) that must have a title and may optionally include:

  • an image
  • a link to an external website or another topic
  • a note, which can contain texts in various formats and colors, photos, and links to the internet.

Since a card can contain one or more links to topics other than its own or to external websites, you can create unlimited information structures, both hierarchical and networked.

Using mindOrganizer for Psychotherapy, Self-Improvement, and Self-Governance

With mindOrganizer, you can create equivalents of the Interconnector, Analyzer, Configurator, and Echolocator, where a topiuccorresponds to one or more forms, and each card corresponds to a specific mental entity. The Interconnector, Analyzer, Configurator, and Echolocator created with mindOrganizer offer the following advantages over paper versions:

  • information is password-protected against unauthorized access;
  • you can avoid keeping a folder of paper forms with confidential content at home;
  • in case of psychotherapy with a psychotherapist, the latter can monitor the contents of the Interconnector remotely if the patient allows it;
  • there are no limits to the number of mental entities assignable to a topic(the paper model of the Interconnector has only 22 slots, and the Analyzer has 24);
  • mental entities registered in mindOrganizer can be displayed not only in a form similar to that of the corresponding paper tools but also in various other psycho-stimulating forms (including animated and audible formats, thanks to speech synthesis), as explained below;
  • the contents of the digital tools can be easily modified in seconds;
  • the order in which mental entities appear can be randomly shuffled automatically to avoid repetitive perception.

Besides its use as an Interconnector, Analyzer, Configurator, and Echolocator, mindOrganizer can generally be used as an extension or model of the user’s mind for any information of interest, facilitating the management, reorganization, and integration of that information. The user is free to create and analyze any topic of interest (psychological, practical, recreational, etc.) and organize it into a hierarchical and/or networked structure as desired.

mindOrganizer Accessibility

mindOrganizer is available online at http://it.mindorganizer.net.

Anyone can use it by registering online for free.

For each topic and card, the user can define access rights:

  • Private: only the owner (identified by username and password) can access the topic
  • Public: everyone can view the topic, but only the owner can modify it

Topic Visualization

Cards of a topic can be displayed in the following formats:

  • basic: tags with title and/or image and optional note view;
  • interconnector: random arrangement of tags in the slots of a form similar to the paper Interconnector;
  • analyzer: random arrangement of tags around the topic’s title, similar to the paper Analyzer;
  • echolocator: random placement of mental entities in the “Y” space of a diagram similar to the paper Echolocator;
  • floating: tags with only the title or a thumbnail of the card’s image, floating freely on the screen like fish in an aquarium;
  • mosaic: tags positioned adjacent to each other like tiles in a mosaic;
  • slides: only one card is visible at a time, enlarged;
  • duo: two randomly chosen cards are displayed together;
  • trio: three randomly chosen cards are displayed together;
  • table: all cards in tabular format with three columns: image, title, and note;
  • list: all cards in a single-column list format: image, title, and note;
  • large images: all topic images in their original dimensions

Card Selection Modes

Cards in a topic can be selected in various ways:

  • Manual targeted: the user selects the desired card with a mouse click
  • Manual random: the user asks the system to select a random card
  • Automatic sequential: every 5 seconds, the system selects a card in the order they are placed in the topic
  • Automatic random: every 5 seconds, the system randomly selects a card

The selected card is highlighted with a distinctive border.

A specific function allows shuffling all cards randomly.

Cards can also be manually moved to a different position in their current topic or to another topic.

Functions Applicable to a Card

  • Edit card fields or delete it
  • Show/hide the “note” field
  • Invert the “title” and “note” fields
  • Move the card to a different position within the same topic or another topic
  • Copy the card to another topic
  • Follow the link (to another myMindLab topic or an external web page)
  • Create a sub-topic for the card and assign the related link to the card itself
  • Associate an image with the card
  • Open the associated image in zoom format
  • Create a dedicated web page for the card

topic Index and Search Functions

A topic index is available containing a list of topics sortable in various ways:

  • By priority assigned by the user to each topic.
  • Alphabetically, starting with the highest-level topics (those without a “parent” topic).
  • By date and time of last view.
  • By date and time of last modification.
  • By creation date and time.
  • Randomly.

The index shows the list of “parent topics” for each topic, which helps identify topics without parents—a useful feature if you want every topic to have a parent topic for better information organization.

The browser’s built-in text search allows you to find any character sequence in the index and on any other page.

A content search function is also available, applicable to the titles and notes of all cards.

Random Things

The following windows with random content are available:

  • Random cards: a specific type of window consisting of a certain number of randomly selected cards, both “text” and “image,” from different topics
  • Random images: like “random cards” but containing only “image” cards
  • Random topics: cards containing randomly selected topic titles.
  • Random words: cards containing words randomly extracted from a common dictionary.
  • Random quote (sourced from dixxit.info)

Topic Annex (or Introduction)

For each topic, a special collapsible panel can be created at the top of the basic view, which can contain any information (used as an annex or introduction to the topic), including texts in various formats and colors, images, and links to other topics or external websites.

You can also create topics without cards, featuring only the annex. This allows you to create web pages for any purpose in seconds without any technical web development knowledge.

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