I originally posted this as a reply to my other hunch 'what are the possibilities that may result from creating a framework of hunches?' but felt that it may be a big enough (or disconnected enough? :) idea to deserve status as it's own hunch. An additional benefit to being able to link hunches would be in the case of someone who has numerous ideas floating around in their head that they feel are related but can't exactly figure out how to bring them all together into one coherent whole, and so they could instead present them as a cluster of (proto?)hunches. I actually find myself in this exact position right now... I've been pondering what exactly a hunch is, in terms of size, complexity, scope, etc. as a result of reading the hunch called 'Taking Your Hunch to the Next Stage' which asks when do we a know a hunch is ready to be hatched. I originally found myself pondering if it would be possible for hunches to naturally and obviously come to that stage. This in turn led me to thinking about the evolution of hunches, and noticing that I find the current layout too static. People are presenting hunches, and people are commenting and hunches could maybe be said to be growing, but the original hunches don't seem to be evolving in any core way. This made me in turn think a setup like google wave or something might be good for text based hunches, but I was also strongly brought back to the idea of connecting hunches together visually, and over time naturally bringing numerous smaller hunches (proto hunches?) together into one coherent whole. Which in turn made me ponder if there may be a certain hunch size (size... literal size? size of the idea, the complexity of the idea?) that would be best for such a setup. And on and on... As you can see, there are numerous ideas in this train of thought that may actually fit coherently together in someway, in addition to my previous post and the post that set off that chain of thought, but I have no idea how, and it would be exceptionally nice if I had the power of the crowd to help me out.
I agree the current layout is too "static". Seems like the hunches need to "go" somewhere. We need grouping, categories, phases. Once a hunch reaches a certain "level", it goes to a new place. And I think it's okay to have some hunches stay in the germination phase. Here are some related hunches to get you thinking: http://slowhunch.com/hunches/21-Implemented-or-Completed-or-Accomplished-tick-attribute http://nodebox.net/code/data/media/perception_comparisons3.jpg http://37signals.com/svn/posts/2659-iterations-a-new-internal-app-for-managing-what-we-work-on-next
If you are visual like me, this is like a mind map but you don't necessarily have a central idea (why) to start from. www.bubbl.us allows you to build a relationship diagram for “brainstorming”, which is cool. There used to be another site http://www.triptico.co.uk/ for brainstorming but I guess the traffic got too big on the site for their server to handle. Chris – might there be code in there that you could assimilate or the original author could create a plug in for SlowHunch? I have used this type of “bubbles-relationship” tool to build a “Sales Map” to help plan out strategy and tactics to capture a specific piece of business. All stake holders are pictured with a list of the things that they want/are important to them. The relative importance (influence) of them getting what they want as it relates to our success is shown as the size of the bubble. Once all the players are on the board influence lines are drawn between the players, heavier lines = more influence. Now you have the big picture of and you can plan your action. With this ClusterHunch it seems to me that there are several parts of an interesting solution afoot (hunches) but the “WHY” statement or “Problem” statement hasn’t been fully formed yet. http://www.ted.com/talks/simon_sinek_how_great_leaders_inspire_action.html It might be helpful to graphically put all the hunches on the board, Tie then together in different ways and see what you get. Is that where you were going?
So if you click on a "tag" button on the right side of SlowHunch - all of the hunches with that tag are pulled up as a cluster. Is there a way to tie these hunches together in a brainstorming mind map? Looks like the place to start? Also - Is there an implicit "Why" in each of the tags? Should there be a description that is a roll over pop-up that tells what the "tag" is all about that can be edited by the hunchesphere?
I really like the idea of a bubbl.us style. I am a visual person too...and I really like the idea of this post.
I wonder how Chalk would work for the iPad. Has anybody tried it? http://37signals.com/svn/posts/2637-introducing-chalk-a-fun-little-browser-based-app-for-ipad-inspired-by-our-new-office
That would be nice to have on a PC for those who don't have an IPad...
Chalk is amazkng.
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