ContextMinds
News Release
ContextMinds: the world’s first visual idea generator
for writers and content creators
Mind mapping and concept mapping software are powerful tools for capturing and organizing ideas. But ContextMinds is the first visual mapping tool that also enables content creators and writers to generate new ideas and insights on demand. Its toolset also enables them to streamline research – without leaving the application.
It does this in a unique way: As writers add words and concepts to their visual diagram, it automatically presents them with a panel of closely related concepts and ideas generated by a powerful AI database. They can easily be dragged and dropped into the application's workspace and added to diagrams.
These suggestions come from one of four sources:
- Diagrams each user has previously created in ContextMinds
- All publicly published diagrams from the global ContextMinds community
- All of the words and concepts contained in Wikipedia
- Keywords from search engines
Other mind mapping and concept mapping tools are primarily designed to help their users capture their thoughts. ContextMinds also helps its users to think better.
"The words and concepts that ContextMinds suggests are creative catalysts or stimuli that can help content creators and writers discover new ideas and insights and explore new paths of thinking," explains Marek Dudáš, its developer. "It's a visual idea generator."
ContextMinds’ AI engine is a powerful antidote to writer’s block. It’s also a gateway to ideas that can help your content to stand out in a growing sea of information that’s fighting for your audience’s attention.
Getting started with ContextMinds is easy
ContextMinds' intuitive, easy-to-use interface enables you to quickly get started capturing your ideas, plans and projects. As you build out your diagram, you can add a variety of data to any node of your diagram, including definitions, tags, URLs and links to files and images.
A vertical panel on the right side of the workspace is used to capture all of this supporting data. It can also be used to drill down into additional search results, keyword rankings and more. Information of value can easily be saved for future reference.
New ideas can be added to your concept map as floating objects, without regard to how they're initially arranged. This makes ContextMinds ideal for individual or group brainstorming, where you need to be able to capture many ideas quickly.
As you start to see patterns in your map topics, you can move them and connect them with complete freedom. Any topic can have multiple parents and relationships, which can be described using labels embedded in their connection lines.
Writers and content creators can easily organize their research and ideas into hierarchical outlines by dragging and dropping topics on top of each other.
AI-powered keyword suggestions
The "suggestion engine" behind ContextMinds is a large AI-powered database called a knowledge graph. It analyzes the tens of thousands of topics and relationships contained within public concept maps that have been published by all members of the ContextMinds community.
Not only does this knowledge graph capture the words and concepts in users' diagrams, it also analyzes the connections and relationships between them. This enables it to also suggest relationships between topics that you can add to your concept maps.
The more concept maps and connections the knowledge graph contains, the smarter it becomes:
“It's a virtuous cycle. As the number of users and the number of maps they create continue to grow, the knowledge graph gets even better at discerning words and relationships between them,“ Dudáš emphasizes.
Researching topics with one click
For any topic within a map, related articles can be retrieved from the web with just one click. This works whether a topic was manually added to the map or if it came from a keyword suggested by ContextMinds’ AI engine. Links can also be pinned to any topic with a single click. This makes it easy to assemble organized lists of resources for further reading or reference.
In addition to recent web articles, ContextMinds’ intelligent research results include paragraphs written by AI about the selected topic. They can become the seeds for a new piece of content or a source of inspiration for a future writing project.
Writers and creators, rejoice
ContextMinds includes several capabilities that make it especially useful to writers and anyone else who relies on ideas to make a living. They include:
- Fast, unstructured idea capture for efficient brainstorming. ContextMinds makes it easy to quickly capture many ideas.
- Word and topic suggestions, which prevent writer’s block and can jump-start users’ ideation and writing in fresh directions. By providing a constantly changing source of stimuli, it speeds the writing process.
- Content creators can use ContextMinds to conduct keyword research for SEO.
- Marketers developing content strategies and preparing content briefs can use it to brainstorm and plan their marketing strategies and tactics.
- By automatically searching for related ideas in the content from their previously-created maps, ContextMinds acts like a personal “swipe file.”
“Content creators and writers need to develop a constant stream of valuable and creative content ideas. Ideas are the lifeblood of what they do. ContextMinds can help them generate and cultivate higher-value, more imaginative ideas," Dudáš emphasizes.
ContextMinds is a web-based tool that's built to HTML5 standards, which means it's accessible via a web browser on any internet-connected device. Its “mobile-first” design makes it usable even on smartphones, tablets and other touch-screen devices.
You can learn more about ContextMinds on the application's website.
ContextMinds mission is not only to provide an AI-powered tool, but also to provide training to the users through a growing set of e-courses available at learn.contextminds.com.
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FOR MORE INFORMATION OR INTERVIEW OPPORTUNITIES, CONTACT:
Marek Dudáš
Developer
ContextMinds s.r.o
Blanická 25, Prague, Czechia
+420 607 881 942