As the grid is the most specific data structure of InfoQube - a top notch outliner with multiple parents and great keyboard shortcuts/filtering, maybe this is the area that needs to be the most polished for new "inexperienced" users.

 

Before InfoQube I was using MindManager and FreeMind - which are outliners masquerading as Mind Mapping tools. The downside of them wasn't apparent to me until I started using InfoQube -> inefficient use of space. I focused on arrangement - should this be on the left or on the right, or how far apart should these two nodes be? Which color? When you have choice and option -> this is what you are going to exercise.

 

Well in InfoQube you do not have these options in the Grid. You can focus on what really matters -> putting your thoughts down quickly in a format that enables **easy rearrangement**, so that you can assemble a coherent and connected whole much faster. Many times you are not sure when you are sketching things down what belongs where. With IQ you can start and incrementally build without the hassle which would be present in a wordprocessor for example (copying/pasting/cursor). There was an online tool for this as well that was quite popular a few years ago - workflowy. But one of its limitations was the same as the limitation of mindmappers -> ONE list. You cannot cross-reference items from different lists easily. This is the second big selling point for me at least - I can create easily and quickly a new context for a new problem based on research/items from old contexts.

 

And last but not least - it is a desktop app. My information is not on somebody's server. It's on my computer sitting in a file. No privacy issues whatsoever. And that's important in a program where you want to organize your PERSONAL information. Sure nobody is going to read my Evernote notes right? They are secured in the cloud...But I am not 100% sure and this hinders my use of the application.