On Mind-mapping.org this week there are four new entries in the master list - three graphical and one a related development platform.

bCisive

bCisive is software for business decision making and diagramming.  It supports building and communicating business cases as well as documenting the reasoning behind decisions.

GenIE & SMILE

GeNIe is a user-friendly development environment for graphical decision-theoretic models. It is the Windows user interface to SMILE, which is a portable library of C++ classes implementing the models.

Outliner 2.0

Outliner is an outliner for mobile phones and PDAs.  It lets you create your outlines with desktop software and import them.

Vic

http://www.mind-mapping.org/
The master list of mind mapping &
information management software

For too long now we have had many statements about the origins of visual mapping but there are too few examples, to my way of thinking.

I’ve just written about early visual thinking maps and included a couple of cases.

If any can add to the list by providing other early examples, I’d love to have the chance to display them (with acknowledgement and link back) in this newly-begun collection.  Please email me: vic [at] mind-mapping [dot] org.  Idea Sunbursting is a particular case I’d like to carry an example of.

Vic

 [Update, 27th Aug: linked fixed, thanks to Matthew of Banxia.]

Here’s a quick update after my recent post - I found an on-line mapper showing the relationships between words, called Visuwords.

This has similarities to VisualThesaurus but it goes a stage further because it seeks to show the relationships between words using colour and shape-coded connecting lines.  So what you get is a type of concept map.  The part-of-speech of each word is colour-coded as well.  You can’t build your own maps with it, but put in a word and you’ll see it build the relationships in front of your eyes.

A bonus: Unlike many of these on-line applications, it has an option to take advantage of a large screen.

Vic
The master list of mind mapping &
information management software

New on mind-mapping.org this week are three map-related tools: C-TOOLS, CharTr and Mind2Chart.  And two that have been updated - VUE and MindVisualizer.

C-TOOLS

C-TOOLS is a server / web based combination for making concept maps in an educational environment.  It even has an automated mark-students’-work-as-you-go capability.

CharTr

It’s early in the life of this project but it is making progress.

Mind2Chart

Not a mind mapping product, but an add-on for MindJet’s MindManager that can produce Gantt charts from a mind map with project management data included.

MindVisualizer

MindVisualizer has been upgraded with multi-centred mind maps, and the association descriptions needed for proper concept maps.  Well worth a look.

VUE

 I have been hoping for screenshots from VUE and now I’ve found some on the site.  VUE recently became VUE 2.0, by the way.  Aimed at education, this has interesting possibilities for presentations.

That’s it for this week.

Vic
The master list of mind mapping &
information management software

New in the Mind-mapping.org database this week:

Text2Mindmap

Using a simple indented outline-format text file (no section numbers, just tabs) this web-based application can build a simple tree-structured mind map.

Thoughtograph

This is mind mapping software that shows a tightly-integrated outline on the left, with the map on the right.

GNletting Mindmap

A basic concept mapping / mind mapping browser-based application.

For details of these, see their entries at the main site.

Regards

Vic

Pretty fluid, cool, and oh yeah, expensive? … once they’re past the proof-of-concept stage.

wikiWall - Stefano Baraldi’s Master’s Thesis.  Projected from above.  Watch it in action here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JkKLLhlWm0E

 And this one would catch the kiddies’ attention when they complain about having to do concept maps for homework.  The Surface-like tabulaTouch.

Catch it in action at this link:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jpJKCb8hL4g&NR=1

Vic
http://www.mind-mapping.org
The master list of mind mapping &
information management software

Three new items this week: An on-line diagrammer that can be used for mind and concept maps, and information manager that gives flexibility in how things are organised, and what may be the earliest on-line concept mapper going back to 2002 but which seems to have had little attention.

Ajaxsketch

This is part of the Ajax13 suite of browser-based applications that, at the time of writing, needs Firefox.
 
 

Basket

Basket is for Linux - KDE - an outliner-type approach to organising information.
 
 

Ideatree

Surprisingly, this free, web-based, collaborative concept mapper goes back to 2002. I’ve been saying that Mayomi (now defunct) was the first on-line information mapper, but now I’m not so sure.

Vic

Some new information organizing and visualization software for you.  Things got behind as I put together the web-based mindmappers reference pages (see my post of 14th December, 2007) and continued working on the interoperability reference resource.  The web-based one is done, as previously announced here, and the interop one is approaching first publication. 

But the entries for the mind mapping software database kept piling up, so I had a clear out over the holidays, and I bring you six new programs.

Dendroscope

Information mapping for a very specialised area, evolutionary biology, but this could be stretched to other forms of hiearchical visualization, and anyway it’s free.

LinkSViewer

This is a web-based service that gathers together information about people, companies, educational establishments and all sorts of relationships and turns them into an interconnected map.  A concept map of sorts.

Shared Space

An information management tool with a mind-mapping influence.

Skrbl

Not a mind mapping tool, but an on-line whiteboard that would allow collaborative mapping.

Surfulater

Organize files in an advanced form of outline, with graphics and web pages in a browsing screen.

Solution Language Tool

A mind map and activity map editor.  No easy download for the free trial, instead you must fill in a form having five mandatory fields.

Finally, a historical note:  Rationale has been in the database since July 2007, but I just learnt of Reason!Able that it replaced, and added it for the record.

Happy New Year!
Vic

 Update: Corrected spelling of Surfulater.  December 28, 2007

You know all those web-based mind mapping applications?  Well, I’ve been happily digging around for the past couple of weeks and putting all the information together and at last it’s published.  Now you can see at one web site which applications are totally free or, for the subscription ones, what you get for their free limited option.  

Here’s the front page:
http://www.mind-mapping.org/web-based-mindmappers/

The pages show which ones are absolutely free, the costs and options for the subscription ones and what you can get for free at those sites, and what level of publishing, sharing and collaboration each supports.

Most importantly, there’s a visualization to show at a glance which web-based mind mapping application can import or export MindManager and FreeMind:

I’ve included some web-based outliners as well, and some diagramming and whiteboard sites, provided they support sharing or collaborations.

So now there’s no excuse.  Get out there and get mapping, get collaborating and share your maps - while it’s free!

 Vic

Two One of the web-based mind mappers are is not answering the doorbell.

Kayuda.com and Bubble-mind.com is are both showing “cannot display” pages after about 30 seconds of trying. 

Update: Happily, Kayuda is still around.  http://mindmaps.kayuda.com/ is fine.  Only http://www.kayuda.com/ and http://kayuda.com/ are the ones that give the ‘cannot display’ message. Permanent redirect anyone?

The flowering of so many Web 2.0 mind mapping sites over the last ten months was bound to lead to some sort of rationalisation eventually, but these barely got off the ground before vanishing. 

It’s a pity - I like them both.  Kayuda had has the mind-maps-or-concept-maps approach, including verb phrases to show how concepts are connected.

Vic

Updated: 19/10/2007