I’ve just added Middlespot to Mind-Mapping.Org.   Although it’s not exactly a mapping application, it is highly visual and supports organising information, provided it’s on the web, by clustering. Middlespot This browser-based application lets you mash together web pages you visit regularly into one big sheet and you can have many such sheets.  Each web page can be shown in thumbnail or larger sizes, moved around and arranged in clusters that
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Happy New Year!  Gradually catching up – more to go though. Topicscape Pro The beta version of Topicscape I wrote about last month has now passed out of beta and been formally released as a live version.  2D and 3D views below.  I’m using this and liking it a lot.  Give it a try. Freeplane The alpha version I wrote about last June is now into a more stable release
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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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There are five additions to the mind map software list at Mind-mapping.org this weekend: Imindi, PAUX, UML Explorer, Mappio and yalips. Imindi – Something to watch – with interest.  It has high aspirations but little information on actual progress so far: Mappio – This is not officially out yet, but it’s accessible and you can sign up without waiting.  I made a little mind map of mind-mapping.org with Mappio, but I’ve blogged
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Here’s a proto-product that will be interesting if it lives up to its aspirations – Imindi. There is little more than a blog peeping up over the parapet for now: http://imindi.typepad.com/imindisaid/2007/08/what-is-imindi.html “The Imindi Thought Engine enables you to input your Thoughts and the semantic connections between them (Why, What, Where, When, Who, How) in a naturally radiant fashion with one thought radiating outward to one or many associated thoughts that themselves radiate outwards
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This weekend’s update to Mind-mapping.org brings a lively and colourful new mind-mapping product, Cayra; VORG Express, a free information manager; and a development platform for throw-away web applications that revolves around a MindManager mind map. Cayra - This is an attractive program, free for now, that produces colourful maps that don’t have to represent a pure hiearchy.  It can therefore produce a limited form of concept map as well as mind maps. [Update
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There’s an update on the amazing status of ECCO Pro. Those with long computer memories will recall how much of a popular (almost cult) following this had soon after it was launched in 1993, with its highly customizable interface.  It’s been  on mind-mapping.org since June last year loosely under the outliners and information management categories.
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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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There are some interesting additions today.  One, Rationale, is for making argument maps, and another, Pocket FreeMind, that has potential.  The author says he may later make it produce actual mind maps on pocket devices. gjots2: a simple, free jotter and outline processor for Linux, NeoMem: a free outliner that lets you define different classes of record. Rationale: A graphical tool for expressing what the makers call “Argument maps”. Pocket Freemind: A free outliner
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After fussing over the new blog, I had time to catch up with some of the new entries I’ve been accumulating recently (more to come).  The current trend is still mainly for on-line, browser based services. Cumulate Draw -=-  Free on-line diagrammer.  Could be used for mindmaps but not designed for that.  A poor-man’s MS Visio, perhaps? SproutLiner -=-  Free on-line outliner.  No security for your outlines (no log in) if
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