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Breakthrough collaborative problem solving, whenever and wherever it is needed most. … The world’s first collaborative 3D mind mapping software. … Install the Free Thortspace App on Windows, Mac, Android, iPad and Linux …
Colin Horner, our Thortspace guru who uses Thortspace constantly and every day, is standing by to assist new users and especially subscribers.
Please, please get in touch with Colin! Colin is particularly keen to collaborate with proficient users of Thortspace on their public spheres.
Colin is here: https://www.facebook.com/colin.horner.18
Get the Thortspace App
Getting started
(1) How to … start out in thortspace
(1a) Editing Path-types
(2) How to … use “Do” mode
(3) How to … Log in to Thortspace Online Services
(4) How to … apply Categories to thorts in Thortspace
(5) How to … customise your Thortspace spheres using the Themes tab
(6) How to … apply Pictures to thorts
(7) How to … use the Search tab in Thortspace to find and link related spheres
(8) How to … store the same set of thorts in multiple alternative Arrangements and switch effortlessly between them
Aside: How do you move from one Arrangement to another without the left-hand side panel showing?
(9) How to … use Explore mode
(10) How to … Present and Publish the thinking you’ve created in Thortspace (Part 1)
(11) How to … use the Share tab to Collaborate on Thortspace spheres
(12) How to … use the History tab
(13) How to … Link and Embed Thortspace spheres
(14) How to … take advantage of Drag-and-Drop into Thortspace
(15) How to … take advantage of Copy and Paste in Thortspace
Taxonomy — Glossary — Terminology — “Naming of parts”
Four modes of Thortspace
Where do I start? … A one-page Primer on the Significant aspects of Thortspace
The Thortspace QuickStart articles (together with a few extras) can how be downloaded as a single PDF file… See Free here:
Public Spheres and Journeys lists
2020
- Public Spheres and Journeys, July 2020 (New)
- Public Spheres and Journeys, June 2020
- Public Spheres and Journeys, May 2020
- Public Spheres and Journeys, April 2020
- Public Spheres and Journeys, March 2020
- Public Spheres and Journeys, February 2020
- Public Spheres and Journeys, January 2020
Thortspace delivers #Transformational_insights in response to #Intractable_problems.
Examples of using Thortspace
- Thortspace Live ! webinars NEW !
- Case studies: How people are using Thortspace
- More Examples of using Thortspace
- Ad-supported public spheres
- How to have a great Christmas
- How resolved are you?
- The evidence-based number #1 most effective parenting technique of all time
- S.W.O.T. analysis of humanity
- Jordan Peterson Resources — Personality and Its Transformations
- Rules and skills NEW !
- Heidegger’s “Being and Time” (Reader’s Guides) — shorter version
- What is is?
- Phonics Reading Systems
Upgrades and New Features
- Summary of New Features and Upgrades
- New in version 1.4.66 — new sync status messages and symbols NEW !
- New in version 1.4.56 — add public spheres to your own spheres and sphere networks
- Thortspace Public Spheres List now supports full-text search
- New in version 1.4.23 and upwards supports Russian and Greek text character entry
- How to … Open your current view of your current sphere in your web browser, and then share that on Facebook if you want to
- About Thortspace updates
- Thort.space web version now supports a description text for each sphere, and a YouTube ID to link to a related YouTube video from the search list
Background
- Iconised Introduction To Thortspace
- A Visual Introduction To Thortspace
- Thortspace Quick Start Summary
- FAQ — Frequently asked questions
- About Thortspace : 3D mind-mapping App for Team Collaboration and Publishing to the Web
- Thortspace: mind map or concept map, or something else entirely?
- What problem does Thortspace solve ?
- How to make difficult things easy
- More Examples of using Thortspace
- Democratic collaborative thinking is enabled by Thortspace
- Who uses Thortspace and Why do they use it? (Personas)
- Things to do in Thortspace when you’re 4
- You’ll never believe what happened next …
- “Thortspace is beautifully designed” says ListOfFreeware.com
- One possible source of effective action is thinking-in-the-world
- A phenomenology of effective problem-solving
- Success is not enough
- Taxonomy — Glossary — Terminology — “Naming of parts”
- Dear Thortspace … Is there a way to create a subgroup within a group?
- Four modes of Thortspace
- Social media explained
- A few of the background ideas driving the Thortspace ecosystem
- Case studies: How people are using Thortspace
- What people are saying about Thortspace
- The good thing about bad reviews
Thortspace makes #clever people even #cleverer. Go for it, Smarties !
Issues with Getting Started
- Where do I start? … A one-page Primer on the Significant aspects of Thortspace
- Taxonomy — Glossary — Terminology — “Naming of parts”
- Four modes of Thortspace
- Dear Thortspace … Is there a way to create a subgroup within a group?
- Dear Thortspace … What’s the difference between …
- Dear Thortspace … I have concerns about data privacy and security.
- Installing Thortspace on Linux Thortspace version 1.5.3 for Linux released on 4th March 2020
- Dear Thortspace… some of my tabs and modes are missing
- Dear Thortspace … I am not able to colour Thorts or use Present or Explore modes !
- How to … Skip the Skills videos in Thortspace
- How and Why to … Zoom in and out in Thortspace
- How to … check your Thortspace version number and get the latest update, if you need to
- How and why to … Update to Thortspace 1.5.x
- Dear Thortspace … How can I find out what version of the Thortspace App is available on Thortspace.com at the moment?
- List of hardware that is reported to not adequately run Thortspace
- Dear Thortspace … My Thortspace App has stopped working on my Windows machine that it used to work on (Deleting the “local cache”.)
- Dear Thortspace … My Thortspace App has stopped working on my Mac machine that it used to work on (Deleting the “local cache” on Mac.)
- Dear Thortspace … I have a bunch of questions …
- Dear Thortspace … Is it possible to do a word search on the content of all the Thortspace articles on Medium?
- Dear Thortspace … “it is not easy to locate information”
Article lists continue below!
Can’t find an answer to your question?
Book a Free 30 minute Online Q&A session via the Thortspace Facebook group: https://www.facebook.com/groups/thortspace/
See the graphic below on how to book your Free 30 minute Online Q&A session. Start by going https://www.facebook.com/groups/thortspace/ and clicking the “Book Now” button.
You can now book both Free and Paid online support sessions for Thortspace. The sessions will be conducted in English via Zoom or equivalent and will initially be hosted by Andrew Bindon (M.A. Cantab.)
Click the Book Now button to book your session.
Free Q&A sessions allow you to get any questions you have about using Thortspace answered.
“Breakthrough” sessions cost £50, run for 1 hour and promise to provide a breakthrough in a #project #question #puzzle #problem or #issue. Breakthrough sessions come with money back guarantee. If you don’t have a breakthrough within 2 weeks of the session we will refund your tuition. A 50% discount is available for participating in our marketing.
As a prerequisite of attending a Breakthrough session, you must be familiar with using Thortspace, or have attended one of the Free Q&A sessions.
Unfortunately, as I only speak English and a tiny bit of some other european languages, these sessions are currently only available in English.
[If there is anyone who speaks both English and another language and would like to take on doing some of these sessions in another language, it would be great to hear from you !!!]
Related Facebook conversation: https://www.facebook.com/groups/thortspace/permalink/2463762713671917/
Registration, Login, Subscribing, Cancelling, and Connecting Facebook
- Dear Thortspace … I don’t understand your business model. Please could you explain it?
- Dear Thortspace … is Thortspace FREE?
- Three ways to register a Thortspace Free Account (and three places that you can log into once you have one)
- Dear Thortspace … How do I log in to the “Web Version” ?
- How to … install the Thortspace App and/or register a Thortspace Free Account
- How to … Register a Free Thortspace account
- How to … Subscribe to Thortspace Premium Service — updated February 2021
- How to … Subscribe to Thortspace Premium Service
- Welcome to Thortspace Premium !
- How to … Connect your Facebook account to Thortspace (so you can add Facebook friends as collaborators on spheres)
- How to … Cancel my Subscription to Thortspace Premium Service
- How to … Subscribe to Thortspace Business
- Dear Thortspace … How do I add a sphere I have made to the list of spheres owned by my organisation?
- Dear Thortspace … how do I reset my password
- Dear Thortspace, I have some questions
- Dear Thortspace … I’m interested in the Academic discount available on subscriptions
- How to … Join the Thortspace Beta tracks
Using Thortspace in your Web Browser
- Dear Thortspace … please tell me about how to use Thortspace in my web browser?
- The entire public spheres list is full-text searchable via the search box at the top of the list
- How to … Edit Thortspace in your Web Browser (This article also demonstrates the use of Chinese, Thai, Yiddish, and many other language character sets in Thortspace. All major language character sets can be used in Thortspace — for names of spheres and groups and thort texts.)
- Thort.space web version now supports a description text for each sphere, and a YouTube ID to link to a related YouTube video from the search list
- How to … add your name and link to your website or home sphere to all your Thortspace public spheres
How to … Subscribe, Cancel, Update and Use a Thortspace Organisational Account (a.k.a. a Thortspace “Business” Account)
- How to … Subscribe to Thortspace Business
- How do I update my credit card information on my Thortspace Business/Enterprise account?
- Dear Thortspace … I’m a business user. How do I add a sphere I have made to my list of spheres owned by my organisation?
More information on Basic Functionality
- Desktop Command Keys in Thortspace — “Keyboard shortcuts”
- Dear Thortspace … Can Thortspace ToDo lists be printed? (“List all thorts in Browser”)
- Dear Thortspace … How do I disable sound in the Thortspace App ?
- Using Thortspace offline
- Dear Thortspace … Can I make a tetrahedron of spheres in Thortspace?
- Dear Thortspace … my App is stuck in Full Screen mode
Managing Thorts
- How to … change the order of Thorts on the Thorts list(s)
- Dear Thortspace… can you say how I put three web links into one thort?
- Dear Thortspace … How can I search for thorts I have hash tagged so I can then group them by hashtag?
- How and why to … use Category Sets in Thortspace
Linking spheres and Embedding Spheres
- (13) How to … Link and Embed Thortspace spheres (also listed in the Getting Started Series above)
- Dear Thortspace … What are the advantages/disadvantages of embedded versus linked spheres?
- Dear Thortspace … Can I make a tetrahedron of spheres in Thortspace? (also listed in the Basic Functionality section above)
- Embedding other people’s Public spheres into your own thinking (also listed in the New Features section above)
- How to … delete a link between two spheres (also listed in the “Deleting Things” section just below)
- (7) How to … use the Search tab in Thortspace to find and link related spheres
Deleting Things and Getting them Back
- Dear Thortspace… how do I close, delete and archive spheres?
- Dear Thortspace … How do I get into and out of the Archive?
- How to … delete a link between two spheres
Syncing between Devices and Computers
Sharing and collaboration
- (11) How to … use the Share tab to Collaborate on Thortspace spheres
- Crowd-thinking in Thortspace
- How to … share web links to specific Views, Thorts and Groups
- Dear Thortspace … How do I share multiple spheres at the same time?
- Dear Thortspace … questions about sharing permissions and publishing
- How to … Connect your Facebook account to Thortspace (so you can add Facebook friends as collaborators on spheres)
- Dear Thortspace … how do I reset my password
- Dear Thortspace … my app is stuck trying to sync to the cloud
- How to … Join a Zoom meeting with Combined WebCam and Thortspace
Demonstration of using realtime collaboration in Thortspace with two iPads. [You can view this video at resolutions up to 4K … obviously if your bandwidth can cope with it, then choosing a higher resolution will give you a better experience.]
Web links and URLs
- How to … share web links to specific Views, Thorts and Groups
- Dear Thortspace … Is it possible to create a weblink to a group of thorts on a Public Sphere?
- How to … Open your current view of your current sphere in your web browser, and then share that on Facebook if you want to
- Dear Thortspace … How do I embed a Thortspace viewer into an HTML page?
- How to … add web links (“URLs”) to Thorts in Thortspace
- How to … join a Thortspace sphere via a Join Link
- Pasting Sphere URLs into Medium articles and Facebook posts and comments
Presenting and Publishing
- How to … Publish Thortspace spheres to the web with one click (or thereabouts) (Present Mode)
- (10) How to … Present and Publish the thinking you’ve created in Thortspace (Part 1) (Present Mode)
- How to … Present and Publish the thinking you’ve created in Thortspace (Part 2) (Present Mode)
- How to … Present and Publish the thinking you’ve created in Thortspace (Part 3) (Present Mode)
- “Add view” vs. “Add Item” (Present Mode)
- How to … add a “lifted thort” viewpoint to Thortspace Journey (Present Mode)
- Dear Thortspace … How do I embed a Thortspace viewer into an HTML page?
- Thortspace web spheres can now be embedded in Medium articles
- How to … add embedded Thortspace content to your Facebook page
- Dear Thortspace … how do Import and Export work in Thortspace? (“List all thorts in Browser”)
- How to … Open your current view of your current sphere in your web browser, and then share that on Facebook if you want to
- How to … Join a Zoom meeting with Combined WebCam and Thortspace
- How to … view Public Journeys inside the Thortspace App
- How to … view the Public Spheres list from inside the Thortspace App
Trouble shooting
- When you contact Thortspace support … (particularly focussing on syncing issues)
- How to … zip up your Thortspace local cache directory and send it to us
- Dear Thortspace … My Thortspace App has stopped working on my Windows machine that it used to work on (Deleting the “local cache”.)
- Dear Thortspace … My Thortspace App has stopped working on my Mac machine that it used to work on (Deleting the “local cache” on Mac.)
- Dear Thortspace … I have a Windows 10 machine and Thortspace keeps crashing
- Dear Thortspace … My Thortspace App is behaving strangely (eg. low framerate or pictures missing).
- Several Anti-Virus products including Avast™, AVG™ and Comodo™ (and previously Kaspersky™) wrongly block thortspace™ installation and use — and how to fix it
- Dear Thortspace … Thortspace is draining my battery, what can I do?
- Thortspace info for techies
- How to … make sure the Thortspace App can access the Thortspace cloud service, and participate in Real-time Collaboration
- Dear Thortspace … All my spheres have disappeared
- Dear Thortspace … my app is stuck trying to sync to the cloud
User questions
- Dear Thortspace … auto sync to the cloud is awkward
- Dear Thortspace … a question about ranking / prioritization
- Can a group of thoughts belong to a linked a larger community bubble?
- Is it possible to select a Thort, and list all its connections via Paths?
- I want to help make Thortspace better … how can I help?
Prof. Dasaratha Rama, F.I.U.
- Managing Moments with Thortspace — I
- Using Thortspace: Rapid Journaling with Categories
- Clarifying goals and activities
- Narrating LIFE stories with Thortspace
- Seeing Success with a Sphere of Possibilities
- Learning by Publishing — Towards a Data-Driven Approach for Growing Systems of Success
- Weaving Nano-Projects Together
- Deciding on nano-projects
- Guide to User Engagement — I
- Organizing Learning with Thortspace — I
- Organizing Learning with GitHub and Thortspace — I
- Rapid Brainwriting with Thortspace
- The Grammar of Data Manipulation for Beginners
- Documenting Learning with Thortspace
- Transferring Knowledge Between Courses
- Mapping Learner Experience with a Sphere of Possibilities
- Mix and Match Building Blocks
- Creating To-Do Lists with Thortspace
- The GSS Getting it Done Workbook — I
- Writing the Getting it Done Workbook
- Integration: Developing the Workflow
- The GSS 7 Day Sphere in Thortspace
- An introduction to Thortspace (Wakelet)
- Dasaratha Rama & Tammy Lea Meyer : Growing Systems of Success
Dr. Jamie Schwandt (Ed.D.)
- Swarm Learning: Complex Adaptive Syllabus (CAS) — Spring 2020
- Swarm Thinking: Know — Think — Choose — Do
- 5 Proven Memorization Techniques to Make the Most of Your Memory
- Cynefin Framework: A Quick and Different Look
- What Is Four-Dimensional Questioning?
- Fingertip Feeling: A Synthesis of Ideas from Maneuver Warfare, 4GW, the OODA Loop, and Ender’s Game
Jane Tyson
