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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:
Bob Hepple
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gjots2 Added:
2007-07-08
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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." |
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| Where: |
http://bhepple.freeshell.org/gjots/ |
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Linux |
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Free |
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outlines |
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| From:
BOSSdev
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Spinscape Added:
2008-05-04
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| What they say: |
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Spinscape, an application people can use to structure the countless bits of digital information we are faced with daily. What does this mean? Well, with Spinscape you can brainstorm, collaborate, tag, link, and navigate through information more quickly and easily than ever before." |
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The press release for Spinscape, dated April 2008 says "With Spinscape, our goal is to create the next level of mind mapping, 'Mind Mapping 2.0'. They're a bit late, I'd say, with Bubbl.us, Glinkr, Kayuda, Mappio, Mind42, Web of Web, WiseMapping, Comapping, Mapul, MindMeister, Mindomo, MeadMAP all in the Mind mapping 2.0 space, some since 2006. |
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http://www.spinscape.com/ |
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browser based |
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I have no information yet |
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mind maps |
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| From:
Brainstorm Software Ltd
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BrainStorm Added:
2005-10-13
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| What they say: |
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BrainStorm enables high-speed thinking, planning and organizing. You can capture, store, modify and rearrange ideas and other info in a free-form tree-like and hyperlinked model. Publish and email these 3D models as HTML or export as text outline." |
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Hierarchical outliner software rather than a graphical mapper. |
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http://www.brainstormsw.com/index.html |
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Windows |
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US$75 |
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outlines |
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 Articles
I've seen comments from people who have looked at mindmapping but never used the technique: "I never know what to do with the mindmap once I've got it." Well, here's one answer. [Vic]
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]
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]
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]
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]
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