ThoughtTrail Developer Blog

Very ThoughtTrail! Produced with Mozilla, Aurora is a set of nice mockups, illustrating the kinds of product designs AdaptivePath like, showing their vision of the future. I have to say, AdaptivePath and Mozilla’s vision for Aurora is *VERY* aligned to what we’re doing with ThoughtTrail. They’ve done a nice job.

I see problems with the fingerprint scanner feasibility, and the radial interface. But they show useful solutions to information overload, and information discovery, at the same time. Again, it’s very similar to what we’re working on at ThoughtTrail.

The best bit is not shown first, first they show a radial menu interface that requires too much clicking, they can do better than that, it seems a bit rushed.
The best bit, is the contextual goo here:

This is accurately showing how we will replace the outdated files and folder navigation methodology, and replace it with semantic aware technology.

AdaptivePath, will be releasing our next mockup soon

I can only apologise for the lack of updates. Well, not only. I can give you more updates too!

Since the last post, I’ve been to San Francisco and back, been on Techcrunch UK, released the Instopix Alpha, sneakily developed some of our own amazingly powerful semantic smarts for the ThoughtTrail Platform at the same time as figuring out a slight change of direction for ThoughtTrail.

Introducing, ThoughtTrail MiniBrowser! This is roughly what it will look like:

ThoughtTrail MiniBrowser automatically shows infomation related to Instant Messenger conversations, when we need it, straight away, rather than messing around with search engines.

It looks like this right now, since it’s not even in alpha yet:

The tab bit is fake but behind the scenes there is a lot of stuff going on to make it all happen. I’ll try and keep you all up to date!
In the mean time, if you want to try out our alpha, add your email address here and you will get notified when we do our first ThoughtTrail MiniBrowser alpha release.

Well, I said sit tight: We’re about ready to unveil our first program! Instopix is a program for Instant Messenger users providing rapid insight using Visual Language.

Instopix provides us with a very specific implementation to focus and develop with, while providing us with a continual revenue stream.

We aim to release a whole series of Contextual Search solutions based on the ThoughtTrail Platform.

Here are some screenshots for your enjoyment:

The internal alpha testing of ThoughtTrail has gone well! Now, though, Me (Luke) and Alex, your fellow code monkeys, have had some significant and exciting changes to reveal soon. Sit tight.

ThoughtTrail shows related information based on what you are looking at.

Here is a mockup that we are working to, shown with MSN Messenger:

We have a deadline! Next week: May 27th 2007, will see an alpha of ThoughtTrail working with Firefox on Windows, and if we’re lucky, we’ll have it working on Linux by then too!

What is ThoughtTrail?

I’m Luke Stanley, the guy responsible for ThoughtTrail. You can expect to find information on ThoughtTrail releases, rants about the semantic web, and company information, as well as details on how you can contribute your own software.

Wait, you never said: what is ThoughtTrail!?