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…)

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.

And in Dropmind web version, Integration with Google Sites; voting on topics; a new ribbon design; and map from topic. … (read the full article…)