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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:  Cytoscape Consortium   Product:  Cytoscape    Added:  2010-08-03
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Screenshot mind mapping software Cytoscape     Screenshot mind mapping software Cytoscape     Screenshot mind mapping software Cytoscape    
What they say:  " Cytoscape is an open source bioinformatics software platform for visualizing molecular interaction networks and integrating these interactions with gene expression profiles and other state data.
Although Cytoscape was originally designed for biological research, now it is a general platform for complex network analysis and visualization. Cytoscape core distribution provides a basic set of features for data integration and visualization. Additional features are available as plugins. Plugins are available for network and molecular profiling analyses, new layouts, additional file format support, scripting, and connection with databases.

Cytoscape Core developer team continue to work on this project and near future, we are going to release next major version, Cytoscape 3.0."

Observations:  Don't be led into thinking this is a narrow field, specilist mapping product (''bioinformatics software'' and all that). Read on into their description to see that it is ''a general platform for complex network analysis and visualization''. Well, all right, ''complex network analysis'' is fairly specialised, and without context, understanding some of the images is hard, but ...
Where:  http://www.cytoscape.org/
OS: Any supporting Java
Price:  Free (OSS)
Categories: networks
 
From:  Dabbleboard Inc   Product:  Dabbleboard    Added:  2009-01-18
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Screenshot mind mapping software Dabbleboard     Screenshot mind mapping software Dabbleboard    
What they say:  " Dabbleboard is an online whiteboard that will help you visualize, explore and communicate ideas.
Reuse previously-made drawings
Allows sharing and real-time collaboration"
Observations: 
Where:  http://www.dabbleboard.com/draw
OS: browser based
Price:  Free; Pro:US$8/month; Various group rates.
Categories: diagramming, whiteboard
 
From:  Daniel H Huson, Daniel C Richter, Christian Rausch, Tobias Dezulian, Markus Franz and Regula Rupp   Product:  Dendroscope    Added:  2007-12-27
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Screenshot mind mapping software Dendroscope     Screenshot mind mapping software Dendroscope     Screenshot mind mapping software Dendroscope    
What they say:  " We have developed a new program, Dendroscope, for the interactive visualization and navigation of phylogenetic trees. The program provides all standard tree visualizations and is optimized to run interactively on trees containing hundreds of thousands of taxa. The program provides tree editing and graphics export capabilities. To support the inspection of large trees, Dendroscope offers a magnification tool. The software is written in Java 1.4 and installers are provided for Linux/Unix, MacOS X and Windows XP.
Dendroscope is a user-friendly program for visualizing and navigating phylogenetic trees, for both small and large datasets."
Observations:  This is mapping in a very specialised area, showing evolutionary connections, but I dare say it could be stretched to other forms of hiearchical visualization!
Download: http://www-ab.informatik.uni-tuebingen.de/software/dendroscope
Where:  http://www.biomedcentral.com/1471-2105/8/460
OS: Linux, Mac, Windows
Price:  Free
Categories: taxonomies
 
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.