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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:  Jason Horman   Product:  WikidPad    Added:  2006-06-18
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Screenshot mind mapping software WikidPad    
What they say:  " WikidPad is a Wiki-like notebook for storing your thoughts, ideas, todo lists, contacts, or anything else you can think of to write down.
What makes wikidPad different from other notepad applications is the ease with which you can cross-link your information. Links in a wiki are created by typing in WikiWords. A WikiWord is any mixed case word typed into the editor.
TodoList or JohnDoe are example WikiWords. The term wiki means ''quick'' in Hawaiian, and wikis are all about quickly linking your information together. Wikis are not a new concept, in fact there are many web based wiki servers available."
Observations:  Wiki Outliner software
Where:  http://www.jhorman.org/wikidPad/
OS: Windows
Price:  Free (open source)
Categories: outlines
 
From:  Jeff Mitchell Company   Product:  Shadow Plan    Added:  2006-06-26
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Screenshot mind mapping software Shadow Plan     Screenshot mind mapping software Shadow Plan     Screenshot mind mapping software Shadow Plan    
What they say:  " Our philosophy here is simple -- involve the user in the design and building process: release early, release often, and listen. You can see by our rapid development and busy mailing lists that we truly work this way. If you like (or dislike!) what you see just let us know, and we'll try and fix it in the next release - which is often only a week or two away.

In following with our belief that good software should be inexpensive, updates and support are always free, so update often! We'll never hold you back!"
Observations:  A kind of note taker and organiser that has a Palm to desktop link as its main aim. Screenshots weak on realistic examples of use.
Where:  http://www.codejedi.com/
OS: Linux, Mac, Palm, Windows
Price:  US$23
Categories: outlines
 
From:  Jeffrey Heer and others   Product:  Prefuse    Added:  2007-10-03
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Screenshot mind mapping software Prefuse     Screenshot mind mapping software Prefuse     Screenshot mind mapping software Prefuse    
What they say:  " Prefuse supports a rich set of features for data modeling, visualization, and interaction. It provides optimized data structures for tables, graphs, and trees, a host of layout and visual encoding techniques, and support for animation, dynamic queries, integrated search, and database connectivity.
Prefuse is an extensible software framework for helping software developers create interactive information visualization applications using the Java programming language. It can be used to build standalone applications, visual components embedded in larger applications, and web applets. Prefuse intends to greatly simplify the processes of representing and efficiently handing data, mapping data to visual representations (e.g., through spatial position, size, shape, color, etc), and interacting with the data. Some of the features of prefuse include:
Table, Graph, and Tree data structures supporting arbitrary data attributes, data indexing, and selection queries, all with an efficient memory footprint.
Components for layout, color, size, and shape encodings, distortion techniques, animation, and more.
A library of interaction controls for common interactive, direct-manipulation operations.
Animation support through a general activity scheduling mechanism.
View transformations supporting panning and zooming, including both geometric and semantic zooming.
Dynamic queries for interactive filtering of data.
Integrated text search using a number of available search engines.
A physical force simulation engine for dynamic layout and animation.
Flexibility for multiple views, including 'overview+detail' and 'small multiples' displays.
A built in, SQL-like expression language for writing queries to prefuse data structures and creating derived data fields.
Support for issuing queries to SQL databases and mapping query results into prefuse data structures.
(and perhaps most importantly)
Simple, developer-friendly APIs for creating custom processing, interaction, and rendering components."
Observations:  Not exactly mind mapping but tree visualizations and many other related types.
Where:  http://prefuse.org/
OS: Linux, Mac, Windows
Price:  Free
Categories: data visualization, development platform, influence diagrams
 
Articles
An overview of concept mapping

This is a 1997 article by Eric Plotnick, from the ERIC Clearinghouse on Information and Technology Syracuse NY

Concept maps and web research

For me, web research and concept maps are a good pairing. As I research - I build a map. As I map - I realise new areas that need research.
This papers variously by Arguedas, CaƱas, Carnot, Carvalho, Dunn, Eskridge, Gram, Leake, Maguitman, Muldoon and Reichherzer have helped me to understand why, and see other possibilities.

Assessment by concept map

This piece discusses the nature of knowledge, the difficulty in measuring achievement in the three types of domain knowledge, and how concept maps offer one way of judging students' knowledge structure.

Framework for mind mapping

Here is a link to a set of free templates for many types of mind maps. This is good solid stuff, and if you have MindManager, there's no reason not to get it.
But if you don't have MindManager, well, there's still no reason to hold back - go and pick up the MindManager Viewer from MindJet's site. That is also free.


Knowledge mapping for communities

Here's an interesting slideshow in which authors Simon Buckingham Shum and Alexandra Okada make a case for a move away from text towards knowledge or mind mapping presentation in a knowledge community. Their objective is to change cognition, no less.


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.