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How Scrintal accelerates and improves the output of writers

Chuck Frey
6 min readApr 6, 2023

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Here’s how it can help you research, organize, distill and share your stories — faster

Today, writers have access to a dizzying array of tools to help them capture, shape and publish their ideas in writing. One of the newest and most exciting categories is visual note-taking tools. They enable writers to capture, organize and connect their ideas using digital notecards on an infinite canvas.

One of the most promising tools within this new category is Scrintal. It combines mind mapping and note-taking in a simple, elegant interface that gives you the ability to work with your ideas in ways that text-based note-taking and dedicated writing tools cannot.

Let’s take a look at a typical writing workflow, and how this simple, well-designed visual tool supports it.

Brainstorming ideas for your writing

In Scrintal’s parlance, a board is a workspace, a blank canvas where you can add new cards, populate them with a variety of content and arrange them in ways that make the most sense to you. Cards can be arranged and connected in sequences and hierarchies, or arranged in rows and columns like a table. To the right of the workspace is a searchable repository of past notes…

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Chuck Frey
Chuck Frey

Written by Chuck Frey

Thought leader in mind mapping, visual thinking and creativity for 15+ years. Relentless explorer, learner and dot-collector. I help you elevate your thinking.

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