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| From:
Jason Horman
Product:
WikidPad Added:
2006-06-18
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109 |
| 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 |
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| From:
Jeff Mitchell Company
Product:
Shadow Plan Added:
2006-06-26
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110 |
| 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 |
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| From:
Jeffrey Heer and others
Product:
Prefuse Added:
2007-10-03
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111 |
| 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 |
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 Articles
This is a 1997 article by Eric Plotnick, from the ERIC Clearinghouse on Information and Technology Syracuse NY
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, Cañas, Carnot, Carvalho, Dunn, Eskridge, Gram, Leake, Maguitman, Muldoon and Reichherzer have helped me to understand why, and see other possibilities.
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.
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.
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.
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