There are five additions to the mind map software list at Mind-mapping.org this weekend: Imindi, PAUX, UML Explorer, Mappio and yalips. Imindi – Something to watch – with interest.  It has high aspirations but little information on actual progress so far: Mappio – This is not officially out yet, but it’s accessible and you can sign up without waiting.  I made a little mind map of mind-mapping.org with Mappio, but I’ve blogged
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Here’s a proto-product that will be interesting if it lives up to its aspirations – Imindi. There is little more than a blog peeping up over the parapet for now: http://imindi.typepad.com/imindisaid/2007/08/what-is-imindi.html “The Imindi Thought Engine enables you to input your Thoughts and the semantic connections between them (Why, What, Where, When, Who, How) in a naturally radiant fashion with one thought radiating outward to one or many associated thoughts that themselves radiate outwards
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I’m adding this one to Mind-mapping.org as part of this weekend’s update, but I want to put the word out now: Mappio – it’s at mappio.com - will take a lightly indented text file and make a mind map from it.  The text must be formatted according to some simple guidelines and the indents show structure.  For now, the maps are limited in many ways, but it is a very interesting approach to
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In the spirit of the well-established move towards open or semi-open file formats, at Mind-Mapping.org I recently began a new initiative. This is to collect information about the format of mind- and concept map files, or the format of exported structured files.  The intent is to make public those formats for which the software publishers give permission.  Over time, I hope that there will not only be file format descriptions,
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This weekend’s update to Mind-mapping.org brings a lively and colourful new mind-mapping product, Cayra; VORG Express, a free information manager; and a development platform for throw-away web applications that revolves around a MindManager mind map. Cayra - This is an attractive program, free for now, that produces colourful maps that don’t have to represent a pure hiearchy.  It can therefore produce a limited form of concept map as well as mind maps. VORG
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There are some useful comments about bubble.us here: Mind Mapping Software – Fast, Free, Simple, Online. The reviewer Dane Morgan says “But most of all I like that the maps it produces look like mind maps look in my mind.”  I would add that it’s also able to produce concept maps of a sort – a network rather than a hierarchy. I’ve added the link to the bubbl.us review entry
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The new entrants to mind-mapping.org this week are: Taonotes – a reasonably-priced outliner. Dia – free diagramming software with the ability to draw mind maps, but it has no features specifically aimed at easing mind map production.  Then again, it is free. XWiki MindMap – an add-on to XWiki that lets you introduce mind maps (made in FreeMind) to a wiki. Vic