3D Topicscape Pro is our original Topicscape on steroids, thanks to the ideas put forward by Extenders. The immediate difference is in the appearance, as Topicscape Pro introduced 21 'skins'.
So what's the benefit, other than looking pretty? You can choose a Topicscape appearance to match your surroundings - a cool, understated one for the office (we like Smoky Plastic) or a brightly colored one for the kid's homework projects at home (Jewel perhaps). You can even choose different skins for different Topicscapes. The colors can show the structure, or you can choose a scheme where topics can be recognized by color.
But it's not just the appearance that has changed in Pro. Topicscape Pro adds the ability to work with other software so that your investment in, say, 2D mind maps for planning or Microsoft Outlook to organize all your work, does not have to be given up when you start using Topicscape. Topicscape Pro uses the increasingly popular URI connection to some piece of information held in another piece of software - we call it a LiveLink.
The easiEST kind of LiveLink to explain would be a link to the record of one of your contacts in MS Outlook; a specific Outlook Task; or a meeting note in your Outlook calendar. The MS Outlook versions supported are Outlook 2000 - 2007.
The same kind of link can be made with items in many other types of software, as this type of link is increasingly popular and is being added to more and more software packages. Some examples are MyInfo, Whizfolders, UltraRecall, EverNote and ConnectedText.
Why would you want to do that? If you have a lot of information in other information-management products, you can switch to Topicscape gently, by bringing items in with a copy and paste to make a LiveLink. Double-click on a LiveLink and it will open the other application and then go straight to the item you copied in.
A particularly import new link type is the precision Topicscape link.
