App: Thortspace
Developer: Gooisoft Limited
Genres: Education, Productivity

3D visual thinking for creative brainstorming, problem solving, collaborative research and education. Beyond 3D mind mapping – reflecting how minds work.

Thortspace diverges from conventional mind-mapping and concept-mapping software in a number of ways:
* Maps are structured around the surfaces of one or more spheres which are presented to the user in 3D
* Map-nodes (called "thorts" in the product) can be associated in groups according to proximity, as well as connected by paths
* Paths can be made to connect thort to group, thort to thort, group to group, thort to sphere, group to sphere, sphere to sphere
* Multiple alternative arrangements of subsets of nodes can be stored and transitioned between
* The concept of "Journeys" allows a series of viewpoints of maps in the 3D space to be visited sequentially, so as to make something of the form of a presentation
* The product supports a rudimentary implementation of social networking and a newsfeed that allows users to track their own and others contributions across collaborative spheres

Some of Thortspace's notable features:
* Supports a consistent interface and data sharing across all major operating system platforms and devices.
* 3D associative and linking structures based on spheres
* Linking and association at multiple different levels of structure
* Real-time collaboration
* Sharing by email, social networking account, or by private link
* 1-click publishing to the web
* Thorts can contain images, URL links, and be colour coded in multiple alternative categorizations
* Thortspace is designed to support: 
(1) experimental multi-perspectival reflection and play, 
(2) the creation of chunks of thinking as building blocks that can be used to build thinking structures, 
(3) process-orientation - thortspace empowers the journey, not just the destination, 
(4) synthesis as well as analysis

Gooisoft’s Thortspace software is subject to international copyright law (c) 2008-2020 and also international patent law with Granted Patents in USA, UK, Canada and Hong Kong: GB2494520, US9684426, CA2847602, HK1183135.

Release notes:
Bug fixes and usability enhancements.