![]() Scapple, the new sub fifteen-dollar Mac program released in April 2013, minimizes distractions. Anyone who’s ever tried leveraging Microsoft’s Visio program, an outstanding network diagramming tool, to map freeform ideas, for example, likely better understands the limitations users may soon become distracted by various menus, symbols, layout options, fonts, pointer settings, and other application facets. In other words, trying to record ideas interferes with the process of developing the ideas. The problem, similar to that which occurs with the Hawthorne Effect, is that the process of mapping, documenting, or otherwise recording those ideas, concepts, steps, processes and the relationships of those different elements, interferes with the actual process of brainstorming, developing or mapping those components. For professionals unfamiliar with the mind-mapping concept, the goal is essentially to capture or record ideas, including the relationship many of those ideas (or processes, steps or elements) have to one another. Literature and Latteĭeveloped and distributed by a small software company with the unusual name Literature and Latte, Scapple is an inexpensive and creative application designed to empower Mac users to simply and easily produce intuitive mind maps. And now Scapple, a program you’ve likely never heard of, owns that honor on my MacBook Pro. Microsoft Office proved a necessity on my PowerBook in the 00s. WordPerfect was indispensable on my 486 in the 90s. Enable earned the crown, on an old IBM 8088, in the 80s. Scapple is a newly-released app for Mac users that aims to simplify the way you take notes, capture ideas for brain-storming, and map processes.Īpproximately every decade a new software tool seemingly changes the way I work. Scapple proves powerful mind-mapping app for Mac users
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