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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The launch of Vic’s Picks was received with enthusiasm – my warm thanks to all the bloggers and tweeters who gave it an airing – so I decided to carry aspects of its style over into The Master List. Just finished that.

I suppose this blog should be next . . . hmmm.

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.

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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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