This time round, we bring you a nice productivity application specially for Nokia 9500 and 9300 devices.
“People often have great ideas while sitting on the loo, according to a
new research carried out on 500 adults by coach operator National
Express in Britain.” which I stumbled upon at
http://www.metro.co.uk/news - UK’s online newspaper. I was not a bit
amazed by this news. I myself do quite a lot of thinking and
brainstorming on the throne.
The only problem is that most of my ideas
get buried the moment I flush the toilet. Now if only there is a simple
way to jot it down then and there; something small and personal enough
to be carried into the toilet without others casting a suspicious eye.
A smartphone is a great solution but the somewhat limited
alphanumerical input system together with some cumbersome software is a
major deterring factor.
But thanks to “MobileMind Alpha” I finally got that last hurdle solved.
All my great ideas will now have a chance to surface and materialise.
If you are a thinker like me, I would like to recommend MobileMind
developed by Twmdesign (a creativity company).
MobileMind is a jotter application and Freemind editor and viewer for
the Nokia 9500 and 9300 handsets. It’s built specifically for these
Symbian S80 devices. This application has been designed to facilitate
rapid entry and grouping of data for anything from shopping list to
planning a university essay.
Before digging deeper into MobileMind’s functionality, it would be
useful to introduce what FreeMind is all about. FreeMind is a premier
free mind-mapping software written in Java (Do look into
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mind_map to know more about mind mapping).
It is licensed under the GNU General Public License. Freemind provides
extensive export capabilities utilizing XHTML which allows a user to
create a mapped image with links to a folding outline. Basically, it is
a very useful application for building mind maps and putting ideas into
a visual layout.
Since Freemind is excellent for dragging items around, printing and
exporting to different format; great care has been put into the
development of MobileMind to ensure accurate round tripping. For
example, documents can be edited on both the mobile device and PC
without loss of data. Freemind features which are not supported by
MobileMind are preserved intact.
Since Soft Approach focuses on mobile software; I won’t elaborate
further on Freemind. But if you are really interested in it, do Google
it out; it is a great software!
So, back to MobileMind, There are two ways you can use it: 
1. As a mobile partner for Freemind.
2. A jotter replacement. Mobile mind is a great note taking
application, storing notes hierarchically for easy navigation and
categorization.
MobileMind saves data using XML based .MM format. The key advantage of
this is that data is still accessible on other platforms. The software
is still under intensive development (it’s only at Alpha stage) and
some of the features to come include icons and images; Mindmap view;
colour settings as currently colours set in Freemind are shown, but one
cannot change or set them in MobileMind; customization of font typeface
and size which is to be implemented in parallel with Mindmap view.
In that webpage, part of the introduction goes as follows: “Since most
ideas come to you away from a PC, perhaps on the toilet or the bus,
mobile mind mapper is ideal format for brainstorming and ad hoc note
taking on the move. The benefit of MobileMind is that you can simply
drag the document over to the PC when you are at home or work and
continue working on it on the large screen.” Now, that explains why
Twmdesign came up with such a freeware. It is to answer peoples’ needs
when great ideas come at the toilet! Well, thanks to them, I’m also one
of the beneficiaries.
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