Data should be visual. A good infographic is a beautiful piece of work, a true marriage of the atheistic and the practical. When data is visual, it comes to life, it means something; we can begin to comprehend it and draw conclusions from it.
Data should be interactive. Your lists should be sortable. Your notes should be searchable. Your dry erase board should allow for drag-and-drop reorganization and never run out of room. Your infographics should let you focus on different aspects and explore various details of the bigger picture.
Data should be easily editable. Infographics should not just be a rendering of some data, they should be the interface of the data, and that interface should be as simple and easy to grasp as the infographic itself. Data should not just be visual at an end point, but it should be visual form the very beginning, from the point of entry to the final presentation.
There are many tools out there for mind mapping, but none so far that I know live up to my atheistic or technical standards. There are many tools for creating data visualizations, but none that I know that serve as a visual interface to data. They often have complex API's and require an abundance of technical knowledge. These kinds of technical tools certainly have there place, but I want a tool to create and edit beautiful interactive visual data and ideas that is accessible to everyone.
That is the vision of Thinker.
Existing dataviz / infographic tools
Existing mind mapping tools
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