The Minciu Sodas laboratory

Implementation & Benefit Timeline

of an Import/Export Standard for Aggregates of Thoughts

Principle Benefit: Thinking about one's own thinking.

Preliminary standard will be faithful to the ways existing software and standards allow us to arrange our thoughts.
Final standard will be faithful to the ways the our minds allow us to arrange our thoughts.

The table below shows how various sectors of the industry are affected by the preliminary standard and the final standard.

Benefits Beneficiaries Implementation

Preliminary Standard

Accumulate your thoughts and reflect on them, knowing they won't get trapped in your tool. Corporate users, Knowledge management, Individual users, Thinking management, Toolmakers Develop an import/export standard.

Choose tools with the features you need or prefer. All of the above, and:
Networks of devices, including IrDA. Design converters to transfer notes between our standard and file formats of various software tools.

Edit your thoughts and their relationships within streamlined environments. All of the above, and:
Document management. Design editors for work directly on our standard.

Make your book of thoughts available to several authors and tools simultaneously. All of the above, and:
Synchronizers Design synchronizers that make use of our standard.

Access your book of thoughts through a variety of access devices supporting a variety of software tools. All of the above, and:
Storage & retrieval Store information on the web or anywhere using our standard.

Final Standard

Switch between tools seamlessly, each of which has a clearly focused function. All of the above, and:
Tool integrators Integrate suites of software tools based on our standard.

Organize thoughts instead of documents. All of the above, and:
User interfaces Develop new user interface paradigms based on our standard.

Document decisions made and actions taken by executives, systems developers, business rule experts and object programmers. All of the above, and:
Systems integrators Apply multiple user interfaces and access devices to implement a policy of communicative documentation.

Exchange experience packages consisting of photos, voice, cash, etc. organized by a structural poetry - haiku, reflecting your personal style. All of the above, and:
Hardware platforms, "Irdakissers" Clarify the social act of exchanging experience packages.

Some Notes

Benefits: Corporate users, Knowledge management, Individual users, Thinking management, Toolmakers

Software for organizing thoughts can be used for serious ongoing projects.
Knowledge workers can be encouraged to write down their thoughts from their own point of view, and for their own benefit, so they can reflect on their own thinking.
Fellow workers can understand their point of view more quickly by exploring their notebooks.
Knowledge stays within the company.

Implementation: An import/export standard is under development. Therefore, notes will not get trapped in a software tool if it gets discontinued.

Benefits: Networks of devices, including IrDA. Also, all of the above.

Knowledge workers can use the tools with the features they need or prefer.
Corporate sales can be based on providing people with a mix of tools reflecting what they need and prefer.

Implementation: Converters are designed to transfer notes between the standard and file formats of various software tools.

Benefits: Document management. Also, all of the above.

Thinkers have streamlined environments for editing thoughts and their relationships.
Thinkers see data in a normalized view, understand how various software tools structure information.
Thinkers see what information is specific to one product and will not transfer to others.
Thinkers have more kinds of relationships for structuring their thoughts.

Implementation: Editors are built directly on standard.

Benefits	Beneficiaries	Implementation
		Preliminary Standard
Accumulate your thoughts and reflect on them, knowing they won't get trapped in your tool.	Corporate users, Knowledge management, Individual users, Thinking management, Toolmakers	Develop an import/export standard.
Choose tools with the features you need or prefer.	All of the above, and: Networks of devices, including IrDA.	Design converters to transfer notes between our standard and file formats of various software tools.
Edit your thoughts and their relationships within streamlined environments.	All of the above, and: Document management.	Design editors for work directly on our standard.
Make your book of thoughts available to several authors and tools simultaneously.	All of the above, and: Synchronizers	Design synchronizers that make use of our standard.
Access your book of thoughts through a variety of access devices supporting a variety of software tools.	All of the above, and: Storage & retrieval	Store information on the web or anywhere using our standard.
		Final Standard
Switch between tools seamlessly, each of which has a clearly focused function.	All of the above, and: Tool integrators	Integrate suites of software tools based on our standard.
Organize thoughts instead of documents.	All of the above, and: User interfaces	Develop new user interface paradigms based on our standard.
Document decisions made and actions taken by executives, systems developers, business rule experts and object programmers.	All of the above, and: Systems integrators	Apply multiple user interfaces and access devices to implement a policy of communicative documentation.
Exchange experience packages consisting of photos, voice, cash, etc. organized by a structural poetry - haiku, reflecting your personal style.	All of the above, and: Hardware platforms, "Irdakissers"	Clarify the social act of exchanging experience packages.