COGNIFY is a "Visual Thinking Software"; providing a medium for all kinds of creative and systems thinking.  It enables ideas to be developed as a basis of planning, designing, authoring, organising, relating, mapping, scenario building and countless other activities. It enables you to easily structure ideas and print them out, communicate them, transfer them and relate them to other visual maps with links to ideas expressed in any Windows environment.

COGNIFY helps you capture large amounts of information and create knowledge maps either as ideas occur to you or as they are extracted from audits, meetings, lectures or texts. COGNIFY acts as an outliner to automatically develop clearly structured stories, essays and reports. By mapping inter-relationships you can greatly increase your capacity to understand complex issues. On a corporate network, COGNIFY comes to the fore as a medium for sharing and developing ideas.  'Ideas Pools' and other knowledge sharing files become the arena for ideas exchange, with links to source material in other Windows-base applications or on the internet.

COGNIFY will greatly enhance the structuring of your thoughts to write essays, to make speeches or write articles, for prioritising, for planning simple or complex tasks, for thinking through fuzzy issues, for communicating your thinking to others. 

COGNIFY is particularly valuable as a medium for involving others in sharing information and for thinking together.

COGNIFY helps access the full power of your mind, provoking the kind of thinking that is needed at a given time. It provides a way of making your thinking visible, utilising your computer’s power to map, model and structure your thought processes. It makes it possible for you to develop and explore your own mental world and its relationship to that of others. It helps develop systemic and holistic thinking.

What Cognify is not

COGNIFY is not a graphics package. COGNIFY is designed specifically as a Visual Thinking tool with dedicated features that support mapping and modelling of ideas and knowledge, problem solving, scenario building, process modelling and so on. It will produce clear printout and can be linked into graphics programmes. Although its output is graphically pleasing it should not be confused with dedicated graphics packages.

What Cognify can do for you

Whether you are at school or university and need help understanding your subjects or composing your essays; whether you run a family and want to resolve differences of priority, to schedule holidays or improvements; whether you are in an organisation for pleasure or for work - and need to manage complex situations, plan projects or develop people’s ability to contribute; COGNIFY can be used to access your knowledge and to enhance your thinking. It has applications at the personal level as a study tool, as a planning medium and to help in exploring and expressing ideas of all kinds. For groups and teams it is particularly valuable for helping share thought processes, aligning energies and giving shared ownership of resulting plans. At the organisational level it is invaluable for strategic thinking and as a means of developing and accessing corporate knowledge.

Cognify as a Visual Thinking Tool

COGNIFY is a medium for all kinds of creative and systems thinking. It enables ideas to be developed as a basis of planning, designing, authoring, organising, relating, mapping, scenario building and countless other activities. It enables you to easily structure ideas and print them out, communicate them, transfer them and relate them to other visual maps with links to ideas expressed in any Windows environment. It helps you capture large amounts of information and create knowledge maps either as ideas occur to you or as they are extracted from audits, meetings, lectures or texts. It acts as an outliner to automatically develop clearly structured stories, essays and reports. By mapping inter-relationships you can greatly increase your capacity to understand complex issues.

How to Work with Cognify

Use COGNIFY as a sounding board for your thinking. Make your own knowledge and thinking about different topics explicit. Explore what you know by ‘brain-dumping’ and modelling topics that interest you. Collect your models so that you develop your knowledge base. The useful thing about modelling is that you can constantly ‘change your mind’ as new thoughts arise or new information becomes available. It becomes intriguing to re-enter the thinking process you had last month or last year – almost like having a conversation with your previous self.

COGNIFY has powerful facilities to interface with other software