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Iris — Visual collaboration mind mapping tool for your ideas
Iris is a combination of task manager and mind-map for more flexible and convenient achievement of your goals. It allows you to constantly visualize the whole picture of your goals, tasks, and ideas.
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Christopher G
Based on the video, which has no actual content, I'll pass
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I'm super curious, but I honestly feel like I didn't learn anything I'd really like to know from the explainer video.
@nikkielizdemere Thanks for your interest ☺️It's more of a concept video..what you would like to see in the explainer?
@fariza_ I'd love to see the visual collaboration mind mapping process.
@nikkielizdemere oh you mean like some sort of mini tutorial with the actual screens of website? :)
My thoughts too @nikkielizdemere. This type of application are fantastic when they tick all the boxes. The video, I agree, should have a simple user process and a little less fluff.
This project does seem like a lovely tool to use, and am looking forward to diving in a bit further
@ashwinkumar_k @jerrebm we need to steadily get on our feet first, but then yeah, we are going to offer premium and business account for additional payment.
Really interesting. I do something like this in career development and with organizations, but it's always been a few digital products cobbled together (simplemind + trello) or completely analog (whiteboards + sticky notes). I think there is something to be said about breaking down tasks into manageable chunks that we can all benefit from: https://medium.com/@davidjbland/...
Good luck with the product!
The concept looks promising (task sharing), but I am afraid the realisation in term of collaborative Mind mapping seems quite far behind Coggle got us used to ( https://www.producthunt.com/post... )
Looks like a good mix between mind mapping and task management, like the simple UI and that it's free 😉 mobile app would be cool though or make the web site more responsive 😉
Thanks for sharing, @mtimofiiv. Soon there will be an update with all bugs fixed. Stay tuned.
Hey @fariza_ interesting approach. I signed up to the web version, but honestly it just seems a bit feature-light at the moment.
Main challenges:
- I would struggle to use this for any real form of project management, as the logic you use for a 'goal' to be completed doesn't work for me. So, for example I create a central goal of 'improving environmental outcomes' for a project I'm working with. I then create 3 branches, which are prototypes to respond to 3 discreet sets of challenges I've observed working with them. I then create a set of tasks for each of these 3 prototypes. When I tick off a task, the central goal gets completed by X% which is 1/XX tasks. That's actually not a true reflection of the work that has been completed, unless each bubble = 1 unit. But in reality in a project, each task has a different quantity assigned to it - whether that's hours, difficulty, value or something else.
- I can't make any notes about those tasks. I would still need to run an actual task list tool, like Trello, in parallel.
- The history panel doesn't log any activity.
- The comments icon doesn't seem to do anything.
- I don't understand what value the 'Mantra' box provides?
It did set me on a path of looking for other visual overview task management tools are out there though, as I tend to default to the 'list view' tools like Trello. I found an interesting one called DropTask (https://www.producthunt.com/post...) - I think the level of task integration and project management they've included is really useful, but I actually prefer the mindmap / system map approach where interdependencies are visualised. They also have a neat ability to flick between 'views' so you can also move tasks along a kanban board, or view in a list.Their UI is also very cluttered and has quite a high overhead of learning - I think you've got an opportunity to do something slicker - Todoist meets Iris?
@samrye_enspiral Thanks you've mentioned very good and important points. There's a lot to think about, we still working on some parts and features of our website, that's why it can seem a little inconsistent. 😅
As for Mantra box, we thought that adding mantra to your goal, would help set an intention and reasons on why you are doing it. To stay motivated and maintain a connection to the certain goal you wish to achieve. Right now, we're thinking through this process to make it more useful.
We want Iris to help you circle back to the simplistic approach of achieving your goals. That's why we don't want to clutter it with overwhelming functionality, but you're right we do need to add something unique and make our product more flexible. We want to achieve that perfect combination of simple and functional. Thanks a lot again for a valuable feedback, we greatly appreciate it ☺️🤗
Love this Product! Help me mind mapping all my projects! I think need some updates, visual updates... Where can I change visual stuff? Thanks and keep the good work!
Hi @ruiparada ☺️thanks for the feedback! Changing visual stuff, colors will be available very soon.
Please change "How It Works" video button to "Watch Video" until you guys make a video that actually shows how it works. 😉
Hi Everyone! ☺️
Remember us?
Two month ago we were here on Product Hunt with our iOS app - Iris. (http://bit.ly/2sOQPZw)
We've been humbled by the community feedback, we’ve got around 500 upvotes and got featured in Top Hunts Daily.
A lot of you were interested in web version of Iris and now we are happy to present it to you.
The web version of Iris has a completely new interface in the node-system. It allows you to constantly visualize the whole picture of your goals, tasks and ideas. The new look is a combination of task manager and mind map principles for more flexible and convenient achievement of your goals.
So, how can you start? The steps are very simple.
Here’s what you can do with Iris:
Set a big Goal
• Set all your ideas and thoughts into one big Goal.
• Break it down into to a smaller tasks and make it simple.
• Add mantra to stay motivated
Manage your tasks
• Interact with nodes
• Rebuild them as you like
• Mark them as done
Track your progress
• Each completed task will be added to the whole percentage of your goal
Make effective collaboration
• Iris can be used for achieving personal as well as team goals
• Invite your friends, family, teammates or co-workers
• Share notes and comments for more productive work
We are working on our product every day and always glad to hear any feedback. The web version is still fresh, so any of your thoughts are very valuable for us.
Looks promising, but there seems to be a fair amount of bugs. Also, it would be nice to have a setting to disable the goal tracking, so it can be used for mind-mapping without the goal indicator.
@erickbarron86 Although there are hundreds of tools, only few of them are actually good.. Comparing to those guys we're not here yet, but we will put all the effort to beat them and find our users by meeting their needs.
There's a lot which needs doing and tbh I'm not sure if I would even switch to using a web based mindmap instead of a mac app. I personally don't like the font that has been used overall. On the upside the fundamentals are there now it's about improving and having other features that no other tool has.
