Archive for October 2009

Creately, CUECards, MindDecider, SpicyNodes and Inflow

Oct 19th, 2009 | By Vic
Creately, CUECards, MindDecider, SpicyNodes and Inflow

I’ve done separate posts about two recent findings over the last couple of days: Diagramic and the filling in of a historical entry.  Time now for the remaining new items in Mind-mapping.org: Creately Creatley is a nice on-line diagram-drawing software with mind mapping as one of the type of diagrams supported.  It has a free version, and a Plus version with a rather special subscription scheme: Pay what you think it’s
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Welcome to the ancient mindmapping-software vaults

Oct 18th, 2009 | By Vic
Welcome to the ancient mindmapping-software vaults

Did you know that unless you dig deep, you’re only seeing part of  mind-mapping.org?  If you click through to the link above, for now, you’ll see 284 entries.  Observant readers will see that the top line adds “from a total of 349″.  So what’s with the missing 65? That’s where all the dead mind mapping and similar software packages go to their final rest.  If you want to see them, go
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Diagramic – text to diagram

Oct 17th, 2009 | By Vic
Diagramic – text to diagram

Up till now, I’ve known of three text-to-diagram applications: Mappio, Text2mindmap and Diagrammr.  Now I’ve come across another: Diagramic.  I just added it to mind-mapping.org. It’s a little web-based application, and as it stands it is fun but only useful for very simple cases.   Here’s an image with data I took from a paper by Scavarda, Bouzdine-Chameeva and others, about causal maps: I made this with simple text like this: “Cognitive
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Tweet, tweet, tweet

Oct 9th, 2009 | By Vic
Tweet, tweet, tweet

Feedburner tells me I have well over 3,000 subscribers to my feed.  I was surprised when I saw that.  And humbled.  My posts are sporadic, and yet still people follow this blog.  Thank you folks! Now, please come and follow me on Twitter, and you’ll be more up to date, with between-post happenings.  You won’t find out
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MindMapPaper – free hybrid software [updated Oct 15th]

Oct 2nd, 2009 | By Vic
MindMapPaper – free hybrid software [updated Oct 15th]

New on the scene and in mind-mapping.org is MindMapPaper, a free, Windows-only offering from Lex River.  It is desktop software and needs .Net to run. MindMapPaper is an original approach to mind mapping with advantages and disadvantages. In its favour are these benefits: Simplicity.  It takes just a few minutes to learn all you need to use the software. The appearance is clear and simple. It gives you complete control over
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