Think Think is a Free Web App created using HTML5, Django, Google App Engine, and jQuery.  In Think you can create and view mind maps that are called thoughts. Touted as a mind mapping application, as can be seen from the screenshot, this supports concept mapping structures that depart from mind mapping’s hierarchical form. GraphMind GraphMind is a Drupal module (Drupal is a Content Management System).  Notable is the fact
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VUE from Tufts University has just appeared in a new version: 3.0 New data discovery and exploration tools. Import XML documents, RSS feeds and CSV files. New Exploration Tools panel. Automatic zoom feature for selected items. More automation in highlighting specific content. Compatible with Firefox’s Zotero extension. This is free and it runs on Windows, Mac and Linux.  Worth a look, as it brings concept mapping and presentation together.  As far as I
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There is a new version of Topicscape Pro out now – version 2.0 and it’s a major upgrade.  Long-time followers of this blog will know that I was one of the early beta testers when Topicscape first went public.  I’ve used it ever since as an information organiser and even occasionally for mind mapping. I tried out their new offering and was delighted to find that it has tags.  I’ve long wanted to
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It’s been a month since the last update to mind-mapping.org, and the list of items to add has built up more sharply than usual so I decided it was time to clear the decks.  Apart from anything else, iPhone is keeping mindmappers busy with low-cost software to play with and there’s a new and imaginative application appearing every few days it seems. Cohere Cohere is a browser based collaborative visual thinking tool
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On Mind-mapping.org this week there are four new entries in the master list - three graphical and one a related development platform. bCisive bCisive is software for business decision making and diagramming.  It supports building and communicating business cases as well as documenting the reasoning behind decisions. GenIE & SMILE GeNIe is a user-friendly development environment for graphical decision-theoretic models. It is the Windows user interface to SMILE, which is a
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For too long now we have had many statements about the origins of visual mapping but there are too few examples, to my way of thinking. I’ve just written about early visual thinking maps and included a couple of cases. If any can add to the list by providing other early examples, I’d love to have
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Here’s a quick update after my recent post – I found an on-line mapper showing the relationships between words, called Visuwords. This has similarities to VisualThesaurus but it goes a stage further because it seeks to show the relationships between words using colour and shape-coded connecting lines.  So what you get is a type of concept map.  The part-of-speech of each word is colour-coded as well.  You can’t build your own maps with
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New on mind-mapping.org this week are three map-related tools: C-TOOLS, CharTr and Mind2Chart.  And two that have been updated - VUE and MindVisualizer. C-TOOLS C-TOOLS is a server / web based combination for making concept maps in an educational environment.  It even has an automated mark-students’-work-as-you-go capability. CharTr It’s early in the life of this project but it is making progress. Mind2Chart Not a mind mapping product, but an add-on for
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New in the Mind-mapping.org database this week: Text2Mindmap Using a simple indented outline-format text file (no section numbers, just tabs) this web-based application can build a simple tree-structured mind map. Thoughtograph This is mind mapping software that shows a tightly-integrated outline on the left, with the map on the right. GNletting Mindmap A basic concept mapping / mind mapping browser-based application. For details of these, see their entries at the main
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Pretty fluid, cool, and oh yeah, expensive? … once they’re past the proof-of-concept stage. wikiWall – Stefano Baraldi’s Master’s Thesis.  Projected from above.  Watch it in action here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JkKLLhlWm0E And this one would catch the kiddies’ attention when they complain about having to do concept maps for homework.  The Surface-like tabulaTouch. Catch it in action at this link: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jpJKCb8hL4g&NR=1 Vic http://www.mind-mapping.org The master list of mind mapping & information management software