The latest update on mind.mapping.org brings a new entry, Hortus, and a significant change to XMind. Hortus After my previous post about a nascent mind mapper for Second Life, there’s another Second Life story.  It is Hortus, part of the ICTS immersive training suite.  It is a graphical story planner. XMind A few days ago, XMind went to an open source model.  So XMind can be used on your own desktop, free.  They also have a web-based
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I’ve been writing about the future of mindmapping recently, and decided I’d better mention updates to the Master List of mind mapping software.  Three new packages have appeared recently, all of them free, and their records are now in the mind-mapping.org database.  CoFFEE CoFFEE has concept mapping as a minor capability in its function as a groupware application for digital discussions in live classrooms. Hypergraph Hypergraph specialises in making hyperbolic maps and is already
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Jeff Lowe of the ThinkBalm Innovation community posted recently about on-line brainstorming session using a 3D mind mapper that he had developed.  Naturally, I wrote off to find out about it and he quickly gave me a couple of links. These are early times – I can’t even point to the site for the software itself, so it doesn’t earn a place in the mind-mapping.org database yet, but it’s newsworthy and
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I thought a review of comments and communications would be good at this half-way point of the competition, after I followed the suggestion to extend it. The response is encouraging and some good ideas are coming out.  This is how the suggestions have built up so far, most recent first: Chance Brown has posted a comment about his
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I’ve had off-line suggestions that the objective of the “expand mind mapping” competition is so great that a month is not much time to pull it all together.  We’ve had some good ideas already, which may set us on the right track, but I haven’t seen what I feel is that “killer idea” yet. I’m
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