Slickplan helps you plan visual maps for websites, and makes images, PDFs and links to send to website owners for discussion during the design stages.  It’s easy to use.  There’s an example here, based on a small part of the the Mind-Mapping.Org website. This is a free, online web app, based in your browser, so there’s nothing to download or install. I see no way of making flowcharts with this, despite
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From Japan, but working in English, iroha Note takes a textual approach to visualization – or a visual approach to text notes (take your pick).

Its free version feels rather like clustering with Post-it notes, but adds the capability to freely associate notes using visible but subtle linking lines. In an optional box on the left, an outline appears to show the macro-level structure.

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I received a note from David RR Webber about the CAM editor project on Sourceforge.net and the support in the new V2.0 for Freemind mind maps. Looks interesting if your work covers visualization of XML data exchanges.  Here’s a screenshot of what it does – David says, “Essentially this is for software developers who want to represent their XML information exchanges as mind maps. “You can take any existing XML
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Thank you to all who commented and made suggestions in the ”How to improve Mind-mapping.Org” competition.  I will be acting on many and have commented below. Meanwhile, here are the winners : Wojciech Korsak, Andrew Wilcox, Paf, Ivan J. Andrade and Waveydavey001. My decisions were based on the practicality for me to make the changes suggested and, where more than one person made a suggestion, the first one to make it.
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Thanks to Andrew Wilcox for pointing out to Vick’s Picks that iThoughtsHD, arguably the most significant iPad mind mapper**, has just undergone a significant upgrade.  It now allows images, better formatting and hyperlinking nodes, an improved note view, better performance and other enhancements. iThoughtsHD still costs less than $10 and a matching update for iThoughts for the iPhone is due out soon.
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Answer two questions about Mind-mapping.org and you might win one of the five licences for iMindMap 5 Ultimate that I have to give away:
1. Which is the most useful part of Mind-mapping.org to you at present?
2. How could I improve Mind-mapping.org? Focus on which improvement you would most like to see, but feel free to make general suggestions as well. The five most useful replies, in my judgement, will win … (read the full article…)

Cayra is an imaginative, attractive mind/concept mapper that I’ve praised before. It is no longer supported but copies of the installer are still available. Today, @Kevin added a comment to the Cayra article in Vic’s Picks where he volunteers to pick it up and develop it further, if he can get the source code.

I’ve done some searching and found that the source code was released once under the GPL, but I can’t find a copy of it now. Do you know where we may find a copy for Kevin, to the benefit of the mind mapping community?

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Many users of mind mapping software use it for project management (amongst other things). Some mind mapping software has the ability to record task information, like start date, due date, estimated working time to complete, dependencies and percent complete. In addition, some packages can give alerts on approaching or past due dates, make Gantt charts, and export data to Microsoft Project and Outlook. These are the mind mapping applications (and
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I’m sure you’ve seen the brilliant and ground-breaking concept map that Walt Disney drew in 1957. You should have, it’s been on Mind-mapping.org since mid-2008 … Well, here’s another piece of outstanding visual thinking and communication apparently from even earlier – 1943 – and yet it looks fresh enough to have been designed yesterday: The Disney organization chart.

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MindV is a new browser-based mind mapper that uses Silverlight. It has a ribbon interface and a surprisingly good selection of mind mapping functions for a version 1.0 product, with new features promised (more later). There are one or two rough edges, but the user interface and feel when editing maps already make it more like a desktop product.

It should be useful for project management – basic task information and other items can be stored with each node … (read the full article…)