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Freeplane slips out of Beta (updated)

Vic — Wed, 28 Jul 2010 14:11:58 +0000

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...)

Ketso: Mind mapping soft, but not mind mapping software

Vic — Mon, 26 Jul 2010 14:50:34 +0000

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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VivaMind – new online mapper

Vic — Fri, 23 Jul 2010 08:14:35 +0000

VivaMind is a browser-based application for making mind maps (kinda – or bubble charts). It allows you to add text, video, image and code attachments to nodes. The control to add images and videos includes a nice little Google / YouTube search box to help locate suitable material. Each node can also be set up to take you to a web page. It’s not clear what the code attachments can
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The curious case of the absent “Trusted Voices”

Vic — Mon, 12 Jul 2010 13:20:05 +0000

I wrote about Mindjet's inclusion of me as a Trusted Voice in my last post and my abstention, but as I thought about it, I noticed some odd omissions. I edit MindMapSearch - a search engine that focuses on people and sites that provide good information about visual thinking (and keeps the "made for advertising" sites out of the search results).

So I have a pretty good idea of those who have a "voice and leadership in the mapping community". They have good and trustworthy people on the list, ....... But just a minute, "leadership in the mapping community" does not include Tony Buzan? (read the full article...)

“Trusted Voice”

Vic — Thu, 08 Jul 2010 10:56:10 +0000

I just had an invitation from Mindjet to be badged as one of 14 blogs they consider to be "Trusted Voices". I'd like to have the advanced information offered, and access to the Mindjet blog. It can only improve my information source and ability to spread the pro-mapping word. But I like to think that Mind-Mapping.Org is already everyone's trusted voice. Surely association with Mindjet puts a doubt in the mind of anyone using Mind-Mapping.Org or reading my blog posts and tweets?
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Mapping relationships between words

Vic — Sun, 04 Jul 2010 09:52:26 +0000

Thinkmap SDK has been in Mind-Mapping.Org for a long time, but that is a software development kit (SDK) and we haven't included anything built with it until now. So here is VisualThesaurus. This is an on-line app that lets you explore relationships between words in the English language visually. It is read-only, and to use it more than a very few times requires a subscription, but I from time to time I see positive comments on blogs and Twitter from users who like it.
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Oldie but goodie

Vic — Thu, 01 Jul 2010 04:07:34 +0000

Finally, better late than never, eMindMaps is making its way into Mind-Mapping.Org. eMindMaps I ran into this only recently, it’s actually a free, old version of MindManager. Probably version 3 or 3.5 (MindManager is on version 8 as I write). Mindjet renamed this eMindMaps and released it free. It is available still on many sites. By today’s mapping standards, it looks a little … how shall I put it … “quaint”,
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Mapyourinfo

Vic — Mon, 28 Jun 2010 15:21:03 +0000

Mapyourinfo is an on-line application for exploring Wikipedia through mind maps. It can do a creditable job of mapping a topic from a Wikipedia page, pulling the structure from the section headings and levels, much as WikiMindMap does. It seems that once it did more, allowing you to upload your own FreeMind maps, but that does not work now.
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More Power to your mind maps

Vic — Mon, 21 Jun 2010 14:03:12 +0000

Project and to-do list management are related and major categories of use for mind maps in business. This has resulted in a healthy market in add-ins for popular mind mapping software. MindManager was first to add project management data attributes, and several add-in companies have exploited the data to make our lives easier when we track our daily tasks and projects. Nick Duffill is an old hand in this field but
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Is that the first Cacoo of summer, I hear?

Vic — Mon, 14 Jun 2010 10:39:26 +0000

Cacoo ... cacoo. This web app has finally made its way into Mind-Mapping.Org. Cacoo is a neat browser-based diagrammer and it's free (for now). It has 13 stencil sets with useful images and shapes covering basic shapes, balloons, arrows, office equipment, sitemap symbols, network components, flowchart symbols, office layout, people, smileys, an intiguing freehand wireframe, regular wireframe and UML symbols.
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