Mindmapping software
News about Cayra
Mike Goodold just commented at on my August 2010 post about Cayra that the developers hadn’t done a good job of specifying requirements. Well, sadly Cayra became orphan software years ago, but here’s a way to get it going on Windows 7, if you have problems.
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Resources at Mind-Mapping.Org
MindMapSearch.Org is the razor-sharp mind mapping search engine that lets you search all the authority sites and only those sites. Avoid all the spam sites that mention "mind mapping" only to make you click!
Interoperability is the place to go to find out how to open a mind map in software other than the one used to make it.
Web-based mappers provides a handy single reference source to the free and subscription on-line applications for mind mapping.
Mind Map Libraries lists the major collections of mind maps available on line.
Featured
iThoughtsHD update
Thanks to Andrew Wilcox for pointing out to Vick’s Picks that iThoughtsHD, arguably the most significant iPad mind mapper**, has just undergone a significant upgrade. It now allows images, better formatting and hyperlinking nodes, an improved note view, better performance and other enhancements. iThoughtsHD still costs less than $10 and a matching update for iThoughts for the iPhone is due out soon.
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Vic’s Picks is here!
Mind-Mapping.Org is the unchallenged leader in completeness of information on software for mind mapping, visual information management and other forms of mapping on the Web. But the amount of information there may be overwhelming: 97 pages of current products, 3 per page, and 29 pages of historical ones. So now, Mind-Mapping.Org introduces a major enhancement: Vic’s Picks. Vic’s Picks is really two things: A place for readers to quickly find what’s
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Gephi: eye-popping, free graph analysis
The latest addition to Mind-Mapping.Org is a mapping application with a formidable collection of exciting and engaging ways of presenting and visually analysing networks – or as maths buffs call them, graphs. Gephi Gephi is an interactive tool for visualizing and exploring networks and complex graphs. ”This is a software for Exploratory Data Analysis, a paradigm that appeared in the Visual Analytics field of research”, they say. It is free open source software.
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I’m browsing “Designing Universal Knowledge” by Gerlinder Schuller at present, and came across a thought-provoking guide to simplicity (‘laws’ is OTT, but that’s how they are described). I like this list a lot. Reduce The simplest way to achieve simplicity is through thoughtful reduction. Organize Organization makes a system of many appear fewer. Time Savings
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TreeSheets – fast, visual organisation for notes
Did you notice that my last post about new items in mind-mapping.org mentioned eight items but there were actually more in the database? . . . . oh never mind. That’s because I was playing with a new entry that fitted a need I had, and chatting back and forth with its very capable developer, Wouter van Oortmerssen, as
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The initiative on mind & concept mapping software interoperability
It’s here at last! The first publication of mind-mapping.org‘s information for mindmappers who want to interchange information between one mind mapping software package and another. After several months of (spare-time) work I’ve finished putting all the information I’ve been ferreting out and begging for into a usable form, and in one place. Presentation The hardest part was deciding how to present it. What I decided on was to show what
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News
News about Cayra
Mike Goodold just commented at on my August 2010 post about Cayra that the developers hadn’t done a good job of specifying requirements. Well, sadly Cayra became orphan software years ago, but here’s a way to get it going on Windows 7, if you have problems.
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The Mindmappers’ Forum I had a work panic last month and regrettably didn’t visit the Mindmappers’ Forum for three weeks. When I got back, I found it had been taken over by spammers. I’m not sure why, because I was using an anti-spam plugin that had worked well since the beginning. Anyway, I cleared it up in three stages: First, last month, I deleted all the spam entries, and set moderation on
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There was a problem with an Edraw component. This has now been fixed by the publishers of Edraw.
Project management
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A call to mind mapping software publishers [Updated] Many users of mind mapping software use it for project management (amongst other things). Some mind mapping software has the ability to record task information, like start date, due date, estimated working time to complete, dependencies and percent complete. In addition, some packages can give alerts on approaching or past due dates, make Gantt charts, and export data to Microsoft Project and Outlook. These are the mind mapping applications (and
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I’ve just added GoalEnforcer to mind-mapping.org. This is a project management product that uses a diagram like a 2-level mind map. Nodes can have start and finish dates and show percentage completed. Unlike a mind map, the node that starts in the centre doesn’t have to stay there. You can step around the map and reveal information that was previously hidden, but you’re always limited to the one you have chosen
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Education
Mind mapping for the blind There is a project, started by Roy Grubb of WikIT, to help a blind student whose course means he must mind map. That seems a little inflexible of the educators involved, but there it is. Can anyone help? I did some searching and came up with this image: … from this page: http://www.oriko.com/#industrie&006planb Unfortunately it’s a research project, otherwise it looks like a step in the right direction. There’s more
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The Mind-Mapping Wiki In a post some months ago, I promised to tell you more about WikIT, the mind mapping wiki but kept getting distracted. Now I have found a few minutes to keep my word. WikIT is a facinating resource. It takes the line that different uses of ‘information maps’ (I’m planning a post about that phrase!) are best served by different map types and
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Valuable & captivating study resource Here’s a carefully put together and attractive analysis of mind mapping for learning: Here is the “Study Matrix 101 – Advanced Mind Mapping Strategies“. A full-size pdf version is available for download as well. It’s not just a pretty picture — there is a substantial accompanying article. Vic
Mind maps
Mindmapinspiration’s Gallery Mindmapinspiration has a Gallery and, as usual with Paul Foreman’s inspiring work, it’s great. A worthy addition to mind-mapping.org’s Mind Map Libraries. Check it out. Vic Gee
Libraries of Mind Maps (updated) Have you noticed the growth of sites featuring libraries of mind maps on the web? I’ve just published a page collecting information about these. I’ve has this on my ToDo list for far too long and yesterday I finally put it to bed here: The Mind-mapping.org Mind Map Libraries List. When I say “finally” I mean
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My focus at mind-mapping.org is on software-made mind maps – well obviously, I do claim this as “the master list of mind mapping and information management software”, after all. But in the past, I have pointed readers of this blog at a couple of resources for attractive hand made maps. Now, here’s some more: A collection of hand made mind
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Knowledge management
Visual note taking From Japan, but working in English, iroha Note takes a textual approach to visualization – or a visual approach to text notes (take your pick).
Its free version feels rather like clustering with Post-it notes, but adds the capability to freely associate notes using visible but subtle linking lines. In an optional box on the left, an outline appears to show the macro-level structure.
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A visual eye on education EducationEye presents a highly original tool for exploring curated feeds. Its focus is on innovation in education and it organizes items visually, using colour to classify, a clever ‘paging’ arc and a form of clustering. It is read-only, though you can submit suggestions. There’s a search box, of course, and it offers an interesting but sometime patchy browsing experience. Give it a try! Vic Have you checked Vic’s Faves
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Organisation charts with backing – OrgPlus OrgPlus is desktop software for enterprises. It is a visual front-end to an employee database back-end, with query functions to support Human Resources planning and, of course, organisation charts. OrgPlus provides a useful blend of serious data manager and attractive visual presentation. Vic Have you checked Vic’s Faves yet? Subscribe to the RSS feed for news of regular posts & follow me on Twitter for in-between items about visual tools you never
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