A serious challenger to existing iPhone mind mapping apps swam into my view today: iFreeMind. The site says “iFreeMind is a native software on iPhone for reading, showing and modifing the files created by FreeMind, and also for creating, writing the FreeMind compatible format files.” This appears to hold an impressive hand of FreeMind capabilities and sets the bar for other iPhone apps to beat: Icons; detailed colour control; built in help
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A new mind mapping application for the iPhone (OS 3.0 required) has just appeared. It’s a FreeMind look-alike and boasts compatibility with FreeMind files. To an extent that’s true: I can make a mind map and export it via email to a PC and open it in FreeMind. $2.99 won’t buy a lot of software, of course, but this one is very limited.  Central node, branches out, all one colour,
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I recently dipped a small toe in the Twitter water (@vicgee) and am starting to find some interesting sources.  It’s a stream of very mixed information – some twitterers telling us they’ve just got up (oh, really? . . . yawn), some quoting aphorisms or saying what their own thinking is just then, others pointing to interesting finds
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Arjen ter Hoeve has just started a new site called Mind Maps Unleashed. He believes that many mappers make maps and don’t use them, and now offers a training course to remedy this.  So far he has covered topics like: Looking & Seeing, Knowing & Understanding 3 Questions Regarding Children, Age And Mind Mapping The
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I’ve been meaning to add Freeplane to mind-mapping.org for a while, but its alpha status was holding me back.  Now I’ve heard from Ryan Wesley, Freeplane’s project manager, that overall it is pretty stable.   They are putting out a call for more contributors and more users, so let’s look at Freeplane: It is an open source and free mind-mapping program that resulted from the forking of the FreeMind code base 18 months
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Craig Mecham of upcoming Strengthsmapper.com has put out an invitation for a limited number of Beta testers for the company’s ”personal development and team-building” add-in for MindManager 8. He did this in the form of a comment on my most recent post.  Blog comments are rather hidden unless you’re looking for them, so this post is to make it more visible and provide you with a link. For participation, Craig promises “a free download of the software add-in along
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