Mind-Mapping.Org is the unchallenged leader in completeness of information on software for mind mapping, visual information management and other forms of mapping on the Web. But the amount of information there may be overwhelming: 97 pages of current products, 3 per page, and 29 pages of historical ones. So now, Mind-Mapping.Org introduces a major enhancement: Vic’s Picks. Vic’s Picks is really two things: A place for readers to quickly find what’s
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Cayra is a neat little concept and mind mapper and in my view is greatly undervalued, probably because Cayra.net is now an advertising site, and the software is no longer supported. But copies can be downloaded from Cnet and other download sites and it is very usable. It has some of the qualities of mind mapping software: Organic lines and colour; but at the same time, the connections it can make allow
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Some recent changes in The Master List at Mind-Mapping.Org:

New or updated images on entries for Aibase, ClaroIdeas, Gliffy, Mindgenius, MindMapper, MindView and Touchgraph; several programs that have sunk into oblivion (no response from their URL) now show up as “historical (defunct)”; some still on line, but obviously dormant, have been marked “historical”. This means that … (read the full article…)

MindMapSearch.Org was founded in 2007 and is a sister site of Mind-Mapping.Org. I update it from time to time, but now it has just had a soup-to-nuts review and update.

This, if you haven’t come across it yet, is a categorized source of all the authority mind mapping sites together with a focused mind mapping search engine.

There are so many worthless web pages that claim to deal with mind mapping but have obviously been thrown together to attract clicks to the adverts … (read the full article…)

Author Prof. Toni Krasnic today published a book about learning with mind maps called “Concise Learning“. “Teachers alone cannot ‘produce’ learning and success in students. Students need to accept that, ultimately, they are responsible for their own learning and success” says Prof. Krasmic and sets out in this well-reviewed book how this should be done. The book has a dedicated web site about learning through mind maps and Prof. Krasnic’s
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If you have spent a few minutes at Mind-Mapping.Org or on this blog, you will know that I like and use mind maps and concept maps.  You may not know I also use more formal visual models like data models, object-role modelling, and process simulation models.  I find these immensely useful in understanding the way businesses work, improving businesses and finding ways to solve problems. One modelling tool I learned about
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For three months, I had a post on this blog’s front page: “Questions about Edraw”. Now, I’m really pleased to say that the questions have been resolved and I have removed that post.

The publishers have released Edraw Max V5.3 and Edraw Mind Map V4.6.

Edraw Mind Map is a very capable, professional-looking application and is free. It makes more than just mind maps. With it, you can produce glossy-looking bubble charts, block 2D diagrams, 3D diagrams and use its smart-looking collection of clipart. There is dynamic help on the right-hand side of the main window, which is a nice touch, but anyone familiar with Visio … (read the full article…)

Cytoscape is a free, open source Java program, originally designed for highly specialised use in bioinformatics.  But if you’re glazing over, stick with me here: Through all the versions leading up to 2.7, its present release, it has developed into a general purpose analysis and visualisation tool for complex networks.  It has just been added to Mind-Mapping.Org. The core distribution provides a basic set of features for data integration and visualization.
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Freeplane first appeared in Mind-Mapping.Org last year but recently they announced that they were on a stable, live release: 1.1.1

They list the most important new features as these:

* Better inline editor for all plain text nodes * Edge-like connectors (available from connector pop-up menu) * External bitmap and SVG images can be attached & the dialog has file previews * Images can be scaled and reset * New scripting API * Loading and execution of external Groovy scripts * Full-screen mode … (read the full article…)

I love this one, folks. Mind mapping (sort of) for groups . . . without software, but definitely with soft components. Pitched somewhere between felt-board stories for pre-schoolers and Board of Directors strategy sessions, Ketso is a kit of parts which, by its design, imposes the mind mapping and visual thinking approach on a meeting. And you can wash it up in a bucket afterwards . . . But I
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