Thanks, I’ll keep digging. You’ve already helped just by suggesting better search terms (e.g. “mind-mapping software”).
That said, I’d still be surprised if someone hasn’t already built something close to this.
Slight tangent: About 15 years ago, I had what I thought was a novel app idea: an audio recorder that constantly buffers the last 60 seconds of sound, so if someone said something important, you could hit a button and retroactively capture it. I looked it up, and sure enough, it existed: fully developed but mostly abandoned. Same thing happened when I imagined vending machines at public tennis courts that dispense fresh tennis balls. Already patented, blueprint and all. I decided we’d reached the IP singularity (15 years ago!): naming is almost equivalent to invoking.
So unless my idea is downright incoherent or useless, I have to assume it’s already out there somewhere buried under the right search terms.
Thanks, I’ll keep digging. You’ve already helped just by suggesting better search terms (e.g. “mind-mapping software”).
That said, I’d still be surprised if someone hasn’t already built something close to this.
Slight tangent: About 15 years ago, I had what I thought was a novel app idea: an audio recorder that constantly buffers the last 60 seconds of sound, so if someone said something important, you could hit a button and retroactively capture it. I looked it up, and sure enough, it existed: fully developed but mostly abandoned. Same thing happened when I imagined vending machines at public tennis courts that dispense fresh tennis balls. Already patented, blueprint and all. I decided we’d reached the IP singularity (15 years ago!): naming is almost equivalent to invoking.
So unless my idea is downright incoherent or useless, I have to assume it’s already out there somewhere buried under the right search terms.