AYOA - Mind Mapping

An excellent app I’d recommend for any team Tim

Such a good idea but what terrible execution. It’s easy enough to understand (although unlike any program yoga used before) but another entirely thing to use... and I assume, like me, you’ll be trying your best to make it work for a few days (as I said, good concept) and then struggle to cancel and delete your profile data for a few weeks after that. Take all the things you know about normal everyday computing and completely forget about them if your goal is to use this software. Simple functions - like CtrlZ to undo - don’t work as they would on the other 99%of your computer apps and programs. Simple moves, changes to timelines, copy pasting are so difficult that there is no way that you could make an efficient workflow out of it (like you could with other mindmap apps or even just on standard spreadsheets). Be prepared to lose mass amounts of data when you make simple typo’s in mind maps and make sure you have a great memory because once they’re gone, there is no way to recover ideas. Completely making the mind map function irrelevant - it’s supposed to be a medium where quick, fluid ideas are jotted down efficiently to return to later so you don’t forget them. And make sure you get everything down perfectly the first time because to change something across all the platforms after you’ve finished writing it down is neigh impossible. Of the 10+ emails I sent regarding sideways functionality of this app and the 30+ questions I had relating to “why the most basic computing functions and keystrokes of contemporary computing had been changed or just completely forgotten about”, I received only a few generic answers with absolutely no attempt from the developers to take them seriously. Hopefully shortly, or even within in a few years they will have figured that these are detrimental flaws to any app OR someone else will perfect the concept before then, because I do need this app.

Don’t go by the color and bubbles. 🙂 It doesn’t work as task management tool and there are great full suite task management tools out there. And they are not with bubbles as you can imagine. Recently these guys tried to copy the Trello like interface as an add on, but it doesn’t even reach 2% of what Trello can do. If you are excited with bubbles and if you are gullible then go for it for sure. And that it will cost with subscription. How stupid. If they were able to catchup with Trello or Asana or similar full stake complete server grade application then subscription can be justified. But as long as gullible people like inefficient bubbles they will survive. Be prepared that if they don’t survive you will have to migrate to some better platform.

No integration with iCal

Can’t do without it 👍

It would be awesome if the progress bar moved automatically with the completion of the task list

Simple and effective!

Novel idea. Tags are the best feature for me. Would be great if you could re-order manually the linear list. Also, any chance of creating squares option instead of circles and being able to move the squares into position? Gives a semi-sense of linearity then for the odd times I need it..

The iOS Ayoa application is not ready primetime use. No clear way to clean up a Map. Navigation with the Apple Pencil is poor. Most of the menu options available in the web application are not available. Looks and feels a lot like an Alpha version.

This app got little love since before Ayoa took over, now it gets less. The features for desktop (actually the web version) are not available here. Seems like the focus now is corporations. I find little reason to justify the high cost of subscription, and annual subscription at that.