ThinkPad
A visual space to break a complicated question into its parts.
ThinkPad is a mind-mapping canvas for breaking a complicated question down into a tree of smaller ones. Start with one question at the center, branch out as you think, and keep going until the pieces are small enough to actually work with.
Opens in a new tab, as its own standalone app.
Open ThinkPad ↗How it works
Start with a single question, add child ideas underneath it, and keep branching wherever a piece still feels tangled. Pan and zoom around the canvas as the tree grows. Your work saves automatically in your browser, and past questions are kept in a local history you can return to.
Why I built it
I built this because most 'complicated problems' are really several smaller, tangled ones - and a tree is often a better shape for spotting that than a linear document. It's the whiteboard I use myself to untangle a question before writing anything down.
Limitations
Everything is stored locally in your browser (no account, no server) - nothing is synced or backed up elsewhere, so clearing your browser's site data will clear your ThinkPad history too.