Using the Suggesterator

The Suggesterator is an optional download to accompany the NovaMind system and when installed, integrates with NovaMind to propose words to help you build your Mind Map.The suggestions at the top of the list are closely related to the topic you selected on the Map, and as you go further down the list, they get further and further "off the wall".

The Suggesterator was designed to help you look for words that are either similar in meaning, opposite or have some conceptual relationship to the word/s on your selected branch. This can be used to identify other categories and subjects for inclusion in your Mind Map that you may not have thought of, keeping momentum and movement in your Mind Map creation, and taking your thinking to new places. This increases the potential for creating a Mind Map that is more thorough, provides more options and more considerations depending on your subject. Besides this, it's fun!

For those of you who are more linguistically minded, NovaMind uses random selection from synonyms and antonyms, chaining through sub-trees of ancestor chains through hypernyms, hyponyms and meronyms to obtain more semantically obscure suggestions, choosing more closely related items for further up the list, and items further away to populate the end of the list.

The Suggesterator is only available in English at this time.

If you have the Suggesterator installed on your system, you will see a panel like this:

Suggesterator

If you don't see this panel, it is because this component has not been installed on your system - this is distributed as a separate free download from the NovaMind downloads page on the website.

The file size is approximately 8 mb and upon completion of the download will launch the Mac OS X Installer window automatically. If the Installation window does not launch, double click on the "Suggesterator.pkg" icon on your desktop. By following the installation prompts the Suggesterator will be installed under your /Library/Application Support/NovaMind folder. This way the Suggesterator will not need to be re-loaded when you upgrade NovaMind and is available to different login accounts on the one machine.

The Suggesterator includes all words 3 letters long or more on the branch in its search. If you don't see options that interest you, you can deselect the branch, and select it again, and the Suggesterator will come up with a new set of suggestions.