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I like the distinction of more "visual" or more "tactile" minded people. I'm more a visual guy and the long lists in most todo solutions always felt overwhelming. So I went and wrote my own iPad app to help me keep a simple & fast personal Kanban, as well as for visual thinking & organizing. Turns out other people like it as well...

https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/mindscope-mind-mapping-outli...

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This looks like a good balance of usability and functionality. The minimalist tutorial videos were helpful.

I have used inShort, iThoughts and MagicalPad for mindmap-like issue tracking on iOS. Glad to see that arbitrary cross-branch links are possible, to supplement the tree hierarchy.

Do you plan to support iOS9 multi-tasking, web hyperlinks and iOS deep-linking into other apps and their extensions?

Thanks! Definitely plan on all of those at some point, but development has been slow since this is a weekends and evenings project and I'm currently swamped with the final stages of a house building project gone sideways... can't wait to get back to tinkering with it, especially since I've gotten tons of people telling me how useful it's become for them.

Looking forward to enhancements as your time permits. Four requests for your list:

- An App Setting to disable animation (it can be disorienting)

- After navigating a cross-link, provide either a back button, or multiple breadcrumb trails in the navbar, when there are multiple "parents" or inbound paths. On Android, NoteLynX Pro supports cross-references / multiple parents, http://astrodean.blogspot.com. This is a valuable feature that few apps attempt, so thanks for including internal cross-ref links. With the new "Back to App" feature in iOS9, cross-app hyperlink support would enable use of Mindscope as a contextual launcher.

- Keyboard support, e.g. Delete to go back (cross-link) or up one level in the navigation hierarchy, hotkeys (e.g. Cmd-H for home, Cmd-W to "close" a sub-task and go up one level in the navigation hierarchy), Cmd-N to create a new entry centered in available whitespace. Mobile Safari supports similar key combos. Especially useful on iPad Pro.

- For sync, please consider open-standard CalDav