I’ve known about ASCiiFLOW for a while – it’s been on my To Do list to share with you, but I had it down as a curiosity, not much more, that I would add to Mind-mapping.org one day.  Then I started playing with it. It’s a nerd’s delight! If you’ve been using visualization to understand and help others understand processes for a few decades, I expect you’ll have constructed boxes
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See the updates to this story at the end – it’s fascinating! Have you seen MindMapr, or the web site http://free-mindmapping.com/tool/? I was preparing an entry about these for mind-mapping.org and found an interesting tale. MindMapr is a Google Chrome browser app that lets you make maps without being on line.  Free-mindmapping.com is a site that lets you do the same, but with any HTML5-capable browser. These two look so
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EducationEye presents a highly original tool for exploring curated feeds.  Its focus is on innovation in education and it organizes items visually, using colour to classify, a clever ‘paging’ arc and a form of clustering.   It is read-only, though you can submit suggestions.  There’s a search box, of course, and it offers an interesting but sometime patchy browsing experience. Give it a try! Vic Have you checked Vic’s Faves
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Diagram.ly is an on-line, browser-based diagram maker. This may appear to be another on-line diagram maker like DrawAnywhere, LucidChart or LovelyCharts.  But it has an unusual approach: Although browser based, users diagrams can be saved offline.  The Save function makes an XML file that can be saved on the user’s PC.  Then, on the next visit it can be loaded up again.  Diagrams can also be saved as SVG, PBG
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I added Ikonmap to Mind-mapping.org a few months back, but only now am I blogging about it. Ikonmap is an online, Flash-based mapper so it runs in your browser, but it is not collaborative software – there’s no multi-person editing.  You can’t even share a map for viewing online. It is free, so I mustn’t be too critical but there’s not much that can be done to make a map
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There have been many tweets and a few blog posts about the striking-looking mind mapper Connected Mind, and I’ve been able to find time to have a look at it at last, as well as add it to the Mind-mapping.org database. This  is a Google app and you will need to have Google’s browser, Chrome, installed to use it.  Although it is browser-based, you’ll still need to download it –
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Blumind has been around for a while, and I’ve been trying it out and have now added it to Mind-Mapping.org.  This is a simple mind mapper, but is free and has a wide range of preformatted colour schemes and map layouts. It can produce pleasant-looking maps like this (click for a full-size image): and, as you can see, it maintains a running outline-format version of the map’s content alongside. It’s
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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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The ideas that readers sent in to Mind-mapping.org’s recent competition are starting to bear fruit.
You can now comment at the blog or on Vic’s Picks without needing to register. There is now a Mindmappers’ Forum. Following suggestions that came up in the competition, I have added categories in the forum to cover: Case studies; Collaboration; … (read the full article…)

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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