OrgPlus is desktop software for enterprises.  It is a visual front-end to an employee database back-end, with query functions to support Human Resources planning and, of course, organisation charts. OrgPlus provides a useful blend of serious data manager and attractive visual presentation. Vic Have you checked Vic’s Faves yet? Subscribe to the RSS feed for news of regular posts & follow me on Twitter for in-between items about visual tools you never
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Before the Blackberry Playbook is even on sale, there’s a mind mapping app: Cogimap.

If the popularity of mind mapping apps on the iPad is a good indication, this one will be welcome to future PlayBook users. I often see comments that the iPad is worth it just for the ability to map on the move. But iThoughtsHD and iMindMap for iPad set a high bar.

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KeepNote is a free note organiser based on an outline format. It is open source software and runs on Windows, Mac and Linux.

There are extensions/plugins supporting importing …

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Emberlight is an on-line app that works with either Tinderbox or Twig (both for Apple Mac, from Eastgate). Twig has been described as ‘Tinderbox Lite’.

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TreeLine is a semi-visual information organiser – it makes outlines, not mind maps. And it has just made it into Mind-mapping.Org, thanks to a tip-off from Francisco Pantera.

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Version 2.4 of Dropmind is out with updates in both the web and desktop versions. The word is that the Dropmind iPad version is with Apple awaiting approval.

New in DropMind Desktop are MS Excel import/export; multi-touch support; insert spreadsheet; MS Office 2003/2010 support.

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On-line diagramming service Creatley has just released a desktop application running in Adobe Air that mirrors the functions of its browser-based tool.

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New in Mind-mapping.org are two tools to help show related web sites with their connections shown visually: Pearltrees and Trailmeme. Just the kind of stuff we like!

Their purposes are closely related, and that prompted me to take a broader look in this post at the ‘map the web’ scene and three quite different approaches, by adding SpicyNodes. These offer a useful improvement on simple lists or even outlines.

There is a project, started by Roy Grubb of WikIT, to help a blind student whose course means he must mind map.  That seems a little inflexible of the educators involved, but there it is. Can anyone help? I did some searching and came up with this image: … from this page: http://www.oriko.com/#industrie&006planb Unfortunately it’s a research project, otherwise it looks like a step in the right direction. There’s more
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Edistorm is a browser-based collaborative application for brainstorming and it’s now on Mind-mapping.org today. It work likes a form of clustering – Post-Its™ on a wall – but being web based, it allows idea collection and exchange between people in different locations and even across timezones. It supports voting on proposals, and can generate suggestions to provoke new ideas. A strong point is that, unlike many browser based mapping applications,
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