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Recently I discovered a semantic application based on brainstorming, and natural thought processes.  It is called IMINDI. They are now accepting Beta accounts, and it seems well worth your time.

According to the developer’s Website:

“IMINDI is a brainstorming, memory and collective intelligence tool. It will help you collect your thoughts and expand your mind in new and exciting directions by exploring and connecting with the thoughts of other Like Minds. Then, IMINDI gives you useful tools to share this information with others in notes, blogs, and embedded Mind Maps.

Two things make IMINDI unique. First, many of the functions in IMINDI exist elsewhere alone, but IMINDI is the first place to bring them all together: Mind Maps, social networking, semantic tagging, recommendations, and a database underneath them all. Secondly, that database is novel: a subjective yet concise encoding of how humans think. The Mindex is finally taking shape outside of our minds in a digital representation. Just imagine how useful this will be interfacing with all the other information on the internet.

At its core IMINDI is a “Thought Engine” that can augment the way we think of new ideas, concepts and questions, as opposed to a search engine which only helps you find information or answers to questions already formed in your mind.

The IMINDI Thought Engine enables you to add your thoughts and the connections between them in a naturally radiant fashion with one thought radiating outward to one or many associated thoughts; which themselves branch outwards or back towards others in an endless network. The interface is essentially a visual map of your mind that we call a “Journey.” Each Journey has its own theme, and once you have chosen a starting thought you can travel to wherever your mind takes you. You can also explore the thoughts and Journeys of other people using IMINDI if they have shared them with you or made them public. If you find that you like them you can connect your Journey to theirs; an act that quite literally expands your thoughts and takes them in directions that you might not have taken on your own.

Meanwhile, IMINDI keeps track of everyone’s Journeys, and those that are public are all put together and interconnected in a giant database we call the Global Mindex: literally the index of the human mind. IMINDI is new because it will allow everyone’s thoughts to be collected together, and because it will define more richly how those thoughts are linked together: not just that two thoughts are linked, but how they are linked, with categories like who, what, where, when, why, and how. Unlike sterile semantic tables and ontologies, IMINDI creates a new kind of database that describes the human mind in depth.

Reference
IMINDI.com (2008). What is IMINDI? Retrieved May 28, 2008, from http://www.imindi.com/help/04What.htm.