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Software for mindmapping and information organization

Software for mindmapping and
information organisation

Vic's compendium of software that supports knowledge management and information organisation in graphical form. Includes mind mappers, concept mappers, outliners, hierarchical organisers, KM support and knowledge browsers, 2D and 3D.More...










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From:  Bitsmith Software   Product:  Personal Knowbase    Added:  2006-06-18
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Screenshot mind mapping software Personal Knowbase     Screenshot mind mapping software Personal Knowbase     Screenshot mind mapping software Personal Knowbase    
What they say:  " Personal Knowbase Is a Unique Free-form Note Organizer Using Keywords.
It's the perfect software for organizing research notes, e-mail archives, tickler files, and more. Index your notes, messages, and ideas using keywords for fast access.

- Clean, intuitive interface
- No limits on number or size of notes
- No unmanageable data trees
- Index on keywords that you choose
- Password protect your private information"
Observations:  Outliner software
Where:  http://www.bitsmithsoft.com/
OS: Windows
Price:  US$40
Categories: outlines
 
From:  Blade Software   Product:  NotateIt    Added:  2005-10-13
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Screenshot mind mapping software NotateIt    
What they say:  " NotateIt software creates a multi-page 'magnetic' whiteboard on your computer helping you to brainstorm, mindmap, collect, organize and store your thoughts and ideas"
Observations:  This could be described as a lightweight Visio.
Where:  http://www.notateit.com/
OS: Windows
Price:  GBP17
Categories: diagramming, mind maps, whiteboard
 
From:  Bob Hepple   Product:  gjots2    Added:  2007-07-08
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Screenshot mind mapping software gjots2    
What they say:  " gjots2 is a simple jotter application for your desktop - an outline processor.
You can use gjots2 to organise your jottings into a tree structure, adding thoughts and miscellany as you go. You can get it to spit out HTML, XML, postscript, pdf, man etc etc (see the online manual for an example of the HTML conversion).
You can use it to 'mind-map' your compositions - write down all your thoughts and then start organising them into a tree. By manipulating the tree you can easily reorder your thoughts and structure them appropriately.
gjots2 supports the use of ccrypt, gpg and openssl to encrypt and decrypt files. Just make sure the encryption packages that you want to use are installed as they are not all a standard part of all Linux distributions.
gjots2 is written under the GNU Copyleft GPL so please note the terms and conditions under the license section of the manual. Broadly speaking the program is free of charge and free of restrictions on what you can do with it, except restrict it - in other words, it's liberated or 'libre' as well as free as in free beer, but that's much less important.

Since version 2.0.0, gjots2 is implemented in Python and pygtk for GTK-2.

Internationalisation and Localisation
French, Russian, Italian, Czech and Norwegian versions are complete and Hungarian is already under way."
Observations: 
Where:  http://bhepple.freeshell.org/gjots/
OS: Linux
Price:  Free
Categories: outlines
 
Articles
Mindmapping can remove creativity blocks

Here's a view of creativity worth reading. It mentions mindmapping only briefly but it does provide a hint to one of the ways around creative blockage. I've added one of my own at the foot.   [Vic]

Crack the barriers to creativity

Mind mapping can help with creativity – it frees you from the rigidity of lists for example – and with its visual approach stimulates alternative ways of viewing a problem. But here, Joann adds a barrage of other techniques to help you crack barriers to creativity.   [Vic]

Basic introduction to mindmapping

I didn't see why this shouldn't work all the year round. No need to wait for the New Year - here it is.   [Vic]

Mindmapping for the quick-witted

This is a good, quick description of what mindmapping is, when applied to its use for note taking. It’s a little short on specifics and examples, so you’ll have to browse further on mind-mapping.org for those.   [Vic]

Vegetable or royalty – take your pick with mindmapping

Whether you have vegetable or royal aspirations, I can confirm that you'll find mindmapping a great way of calming yourself down when you have many calls on your time, ideas buzzing round your head and objectives to meet. But it must fit your own personal style of thinking, and you must set aside the time to do it! That's how I bust stress, not by mapping out my stressful times. But we're all different, and maybe this will work for you.   [Vic]


The opinions are Vic's but material in quotes that follows "What they say" is quoted from the vendors' web sites. Product names used in this web site are for identification purposes only. All trademarks are the property of their respective owners.  If you come across any software that isn't here but you think should be, please let me know: Vic at the above domain. If you have questions about mind mapping, concept mapping or outlining, you can let me know and I'll give it my best shot.