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 lightbulb icon at the bottom right of the window. If it is not showing there, you can download and install it from the NovaMind downloads page on the website.

Click the lightbulb to show the Suggesterator™.

You can either select a branch, or type a word to look up the suggestions for. In the list below are the suggestions that the Suggesterator came up with. If you don't see any you like, click the Give me more! button for another set of suggestions.

You can select multiple words by holding down the Control key as you click on the different items to select them. If you want the definitions of the words included, check the Include definitions checkbox before you click the Add branches option.