Three new items this week: An on-line diagrammer that can be used for mind and concept maps, and information manager that gives flexibility in how things are organised, and what may be the earliest on-line concept mapper going back to 2002 but which seems to have had little attention. Ajaxsketch This is part of the Ajax13 suite of browser-based applications that, at the time of writing, needs Firefox.     Basket Basket is for
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Some new information organizing and visualization software for you.  Things got behind as I put together the web-based mindmappers reference pages (see my post of 14th December, 2007) and continued working on the interoperability reference resource.  The web-based one is done, as previously announced here, and the interop one is approaching first publication.  But the entries for the mind mapping software database kept piling up, so I had a clear out
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You know all those web-based mind mapping applications?  Well, I’ve been happily digging around for the past couple of weeks and putting all the information together and at last it’s published.  Now you can see at one web site which applications are totally free or, for the subscription ones, what you get for their free limited option. Here’s the front page: http://www.mind-mapping.org/web-based-mindmappers/ The pages show which ones are absolutely free, the costs and options for the subscription
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Two One of the web-based mind mappers are is not answering the doorbell. Kayuda.com and Bubble-mind.com is are both showing “cannot display” pages after about 30 seconds of trying.  Update: Happily, Kayuda is still around.  http://mindmaps.kayuda.com/ is fine.  Only http://www.kayuda.com/ and http://kayuda.com/ are the ones that give the ‘cannot display’ message. Permanent redirect anyone? The flowering of so many Web 2.0 mind mapping sites over the last ten months was bound to lead to some sort
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In the spirit of the well-established move towards open or semi-open file formats, at Mind-Mapping.org I recently began a new initiative. This is to collect information about the format of mind- and concept map files, or the format of exported structured files.  The intent is to make public those formats for which the software publishers give permission.  Over time, I hope that there will not only be file format descriptions,
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New: Curio – I mentioned this project management software with mind mapping built in recently in the blog and now it’s up on mind-mapping.org. New: Free outliner Task Coach has been added. New: BrainStreamer is a task manager that includes a mind mapper. New: (Well, new to mind-mapping.org) ThinkTank a charming piece of downloadable, runnable outlining history from twenty years ago.  That cover looks strangely familiar… New: TVO (The Vim
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