What would a note taking app for visual learners look like?

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I've recently been thinking about the way we note take in general, reflecting on my experiences with Notion, OneNote and many more. Even though these products are fantastic at what they do, as a highly visual learner it seems to be missing features such as mindmaps, intra-diagram highlighting and annotating, and many other potential features.Anyone else has had this thought before? Comment down below what you think a the perfect note taking app for visual learners should look like!

themodelplumber · Accepted Answer

Good stuff. I've been developing a concept called the Capture Map, which is like a meta-model in which things like mind maps can live. It's very visual, but also organizational and modular. You can start such a map with a journaling node, then add separate lists. Connections are a separate topic and run in types, as opposed to having specific mandatory visual qualities like shape gradations.
So far, in my experience, the top two app-types that work well are 1) vector drawing apps like Inkscape and 2) spreadsheet apps like Calc. The latter because even though "it's a spreadsheet (which is a pretty big deal)," "it's also a drawing app supporting layers, etc."
Living document of reference, very alpha: https://www.friendlyskies.net/intj/the-capture-map-a-new-con...

troydavis · Answer

Something like Miro. I&rsquo;m a user myself and it has good or great implementations of all of these things. Here&rsquo;s a few examples: https://miro.com/innovation-software/, https://miro.com/mind-map-software/, https://miro.com/workshops/

jriley12 · Answer

Ugh, I'm not sure. I feel like Drawing programs like Libreoffice kinda work. But at the end drawing and be able to erase with a real pencil and paper is the best for me until you have a good idea ahead of time of what you want to draw.