3D Topicscape: Introduction

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Do you ever feel that your computer is getting out of hand? Have you ever wanted to find a web page, a reference document, an email, a picture that you know you once had but can't track down?

3D Topicscape is computer software that can help you organize your work and find information held in computer files. It lets you organize your work, your reference information, your day-to-day working documents, your images, emails and web pages in a very new way: in 3D. You choose the topic names and organization and you can easily re-organize as new information comes to hand or new ideas develop.

You drag files and information onto topics, and connect topics yourself, so they will reflect your own way of thinking when you go back later to find them. Even if you cannot remember words or phrases that might help you find a document by the keyword search that 3D Topicscape provides, you can fly around the 3D scene, tracking an item down by topic. Topics may represent concepts, subjects, categories, or classifications.

With its unique choice of 2D maps or 3D landscapes it gives you the right tool for the job: Map out your ideas in 2D; reduce large collections of complex information to a simple familiar landscape in 3D; sort out your thoughts and approach on a new project even before you have collected any files or information; research on the Web; gather notes, files and web pages as you study.