Insight Visualised
This was originally published here…
So what is InsightNG? One way to say what we’re doing is that we are visualising insight. An InsightNG ‘Thought Canvas’ is an interactive map of its creator’s learning process for a particular complex problem or topic. Where a simple search presents you with results without context, we constantly relate everything to the wider scope of your thinking, associating things and building relations between websites, articles, pictures and videos (any sort of web resource), but also more abstract/’real world’ things such as concepts, tasks, events, people, etc. Real human Insight is gained, not by getting individual search results, but by seeing all the little puzzle pieces in this broader context. When it “clicks”, when you go “Aha, I get it!”, you have gained insight.