Why MindForger?

This document describes driving principles and vision for MindForger.

Are you drowning in information, but starving for knowledge? Where do you keep your private remarks like ideas, personal plans, gift tips, how-tos, dreams, business vision, finance strategy, auto coaching notes? Loads of documents, sketches and remarks spread around the file system, cloud, web and Post-it notes? Are you afraid of your knowledge privacy? Are you able to find then once you create them? Do you know how are they mutually related when you read or write them? No?

MindForger is human mind inspired knowledge management tool which aims to connect the tradition of outline editors with emerging technologies. Its mission is to help you in organization of your knowledge and associated local, web and real world resources in a way that enables quick navigation, concise representation, automatic interconnections, associative completion and inferencing.

Unique

MindForger is human mind inspired personal knowledge management tool:

• Human mind
  • MindForger aims to mimic human mind - learning, recalling, recognition, associations, forgetting - in order to achieve synergy with your mind to make your searching, reading and writing more productive.
• Personal
  • MindForger enables you to own your personal data - it’s meant to store your personal ideas, remarks, notes and plans in a secure way while it respects your privacy.
  • MindForger does not compete with tools for sharing information like Wikis - its primary purpose is to maintain your private data.
• Knowledge
  • MindForger seeks knowledge hidden in your remarks to enable its mining and personal machine learning models creation.
• Management
  • MindForger starts where editors and search engines end. It thinks as you search, browse, read and write. Once you find a remark, MindForger brings its associations. As you browse notes and read them it looks up related relevant knowledge in your notebooks. If you edit a remark, MindForger brings associations as you write. It reminds you about existing content related to the text being written.
• Tool
  • MindForger is a desktop application which runs on Linux, macOS and Windows.

    Human mind inspiration

    MindForger is inspired by human mind. Check the following presentation for more details:

• MindForger - Thinking Notebook. Thinking?

  Open, free and fast

  MindForger features:

• Open
  • Any text editor - like Remarkable, Uncolored or Vim - can be used to edit outlines in MindForger repository as it uses (Markdown) format hosted DSL - which is well defined, documented and human friendly.
• Free
  • You don’t pay for downloading and using MindForger.
• Respects Privacy
  • MindForger stores your data locally on your machine. It does not upload any of your data to the internet (cloud, server, …). You may check it yourself as MindForger source code is available for free and thus it can be audited/verified by anybody.
• Secure
  • MindForger repository might be locally encrypted using any tool by user e.g. encfs.
  • If you want, your data (repository) can be transfered e.g. using SSH or Git@SSH to a remote private location (this action is not supported/performed by MindForger).
• Search and Navigation
  • MindForger does indexation on top of the data repository.
  • MindFoger index can be rebuilt at any time from a repository content.
• Analysis
  • Git repository with text based outlines can be easily analyzed with variety of tools SW for text analysis, mining and analytics.
• Instant Availability
  • If your prefer to use MindForger for a team work, then there are a number of options that differ in security, privacy and availability.
  • Offline via a secure cloud storage (like local Git repository) on Linux, Mac, Windows, Android and iOS.
  • Online via Git repository hosted by a service of your choice - like GitHub or BitBucket - allowing you to access repository (and even edit text and markdown files) using Linux/Windows/Mac machines and Android/iOS devices.
• Synchronization
  • Data can be synchronized among all your devices - workstations, laptops and mobiles/tablets - in a variety of way:
    • Linux: Git, Google Drive, Dropbox, …
    • Windows: Git, Google Drive, Dropbox, …
    • Android: MGit, AGit, …
• Performance
  • Even big Markdowns (like CPP Guidelines with ~2500 sections) are parsed and indexed quickly and can be edited and viewed w/o problems.
• Efficiency
  • Command line efficiency in GUI as well as CLI (O~S like CLI).
• Sharing
  • Whole repository as well as individual outline(s) can be shared just by sending particular file(s)/archive as they are stored in open format.
  • If you want to share just certain private date, then you can leverage a Git repository to share it with others via a remote (private) repository.
• Backup
  • MindForger can create compressed archive w/ your data that can be easily stored as backup.
  • If you are fine with using a remote (private) repository, you can use any CMS or cloud drive to push your data for backup (even to multiple locations).