Five visual mapping tools have just been added to mind-mapping.org.  Aspire Not so much a mind mapping application as a visual way of expressing your goals, Aspire looks like a flexible new approach.  I’m hoping to get some better screenshots for the author.  There are videos at the Aspire site. Instaviz Another iPhone application to join the happy band of those supporting visual thinkers.  I make it six seven at present
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Chuck Frey, over at the MindMappingSoftware Blog has a piece predicting that 2009 will be the year when mind mapping goes mainstream. As readers who followed my competition here at the end of last year will know, I sure hope he’s right. But I do think it’s going to take effort from the community. What’s
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I was intrigued when XMind announced that they were going to release their software to open source recently. What was up?  Running out of money and looking for a way to keep the product live? Seeing more income from subscriptions rather than selling individual packages once, with occasional upgrades? Aiming at ad-income? Was the free version a ‘come-on’ for the full XMind Pro? Could this be the start of a trend with
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