The "neXpect" knowledge management tools are a family of products that are designed to improve the way you interact with the information in your computer. We believe that this family of products will define the category of Personal Knowledge Management by helping you to get control of all the "data" and "information" that is scattered througout your computer and will allow you to turn it into Knowledge that you can use.

Most existing applications and personal information managers present data and information on the computer's terms. Users are forced to use an "interface" to the computer. We want to change that and allow you to work with your thoughts and ideas in human terms. Realizing this goal will be an evolutionary process. Our first product versions take "baby steps" toward our goal. We continue to refer to our process and the design criteria for neXpect as "Beginners Mind".

"TranSender" idea window

The TranSender Idea Window is the first of the "neXpect" knowledge management tools. The goal of the "TranSender" Idea Window is to allow you to easily capture creative and subtle ideas without allowing the computer interface to disrupt your creative thinking. (more...)

"Mind Designer" personal knowledge manager

Are you a habitual outliner? Do you use "personal information managers" (like Microsoft Outlook)? Do you get frustrated by the "interface" that these products provide? Applications like Outlook can be clumsy and challenging to use effectively, especially for right brained, visually oriented users. Our "Mind Designer" might help you get better control of your stuff... "Mind Designer" allows you to break out of the heirarchies that most outliners force you into. As a non-programmer, you can effectively create your own application that works with the way you think instead of being hostage to the way some programmers think you should organize your stuff. The "Mind Designer" works seamlessly in real-time with Microsoft Outlook. "Mind Designer"includes our highly visual "Knowledge Lens" idea mapper to give you a holographic view of your ideas. The "Ontologer" knowledge manager is our industrial strength enterprise level knowledge management tool. "Ontologer" provides the intuitive interfaces of "Mind Designer" and "Knowledge Lens" in a shared, distributed work-group or enterprise environment.

Ecco Helpers

EccoHelpers is a collection of utilities for EccoPro. It is currently being provided for free to the EccoPro community. Paid support is available.

Ecco was once considered to be the top personal information manager (PIM). When it was at the height of it's popularity, it was discontinued by it's manufacturer. Ecco continues to be unsurpassed in many ways and continues to have an avid and loyal group of users.

Ecco was used extensively for project management, requirements tracking, planning, etc. in the early stages of development for neXpect. (of course we now use "Mind Designer" for those tasks...)

We developed a number of extensions to Ecco for our own use and decided to share them with the Ecco community. (more...)