One way to expand your thoughts in a particular Discussion is to discover them from the IMINDI Thought Agent which scans all the thoughts in your Discussions and compares them with thoughts that other IMINDI users have made public. When you initially select a Discussion (after it has existed for a while), the Thought Agent automatically provides you with suggested users and thoughts in the main viewscreen that IMINDI recognizes may help to expand your thinking in this area. If you click onto any of these suggested thoughts you will be taken to a thought inside the public Discussion of another IMINDI user, just like you would be if you had used the "All IMINDI" search function.

Another way to connect your thoughts to others is to directly connect them by using the "Merge this Discussion" link on the bottom right box while you are viewing their public Discussion. This will result in you not only adding that one thought but all the thoughts in that IMINDI user's Discussion to your own Discussion. Every time you add the thoughts of others to your Discussions, these thoughts will retain the authorship of the IMINDI user who authored those thoughts.

You can also make your Think Tanks open to the public by selecting the "Anyone can join" button in the administration box at the bottom of the resource window. IMINDI keeps track of which user adds which thought to a Discussion, regardless of who started the Discussion. The more your thoughts are used, the higher your rank.

Combining a Discussion with Notes and thoughts contributed by a group of Like Minds makes a very powerful engine for documenting and exploring ideas. IMINDI is webware for Think Tanks, hive projects, and classroom organization of all kinds. This of course means that a shared Discussion can take on a life of its own long after you have stopped contributing to it.

IMINDI can be used passively, simply browsing other's thoughts. But the real power of IMINDI comes when you, yes you, spend some time linking up your thoughts, and sharing them with others.