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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:  AlfaAlfa Software   Product:  AlfaPad    Added:  2006-06-18
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Screenshot mind mapping software AlfaPad    
What they say:  " AlfaPad Notes Organizer uses an intuitive, double-paned Explorer-like interface to allow hierarchical storage of information. A graphical hierarchical display of your documents (branches and items) appears on the left, while a text viewing/editing window is displayed on the right. Branches and items can be re-arranged via drag and drop."
Observations:  Outliner software
Where:  http://www.alfaalfa.com/
OS: Windows
Price:  US$20
Categories: outlines
 
From:  ALogic SA   Product:  eGems Collector Pro    Added:  2006-06-24
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Screenshot mind mapping software eGems Collector Pro     Screenshot mind mapping software eGems Collector Pro     Screenshot mind mapping software eGems Collector Pro    
What they say:  " Ideal for students, writers, independent researchers, small to mid-size workgroups,
eGems Collector Pro 2.6 is the easiest and fastest way to capture, organize and source your electronic research! It will help you save your valuable research ''gems'' - text, images and links - from the Internet, digital libraries, email and open applications."
Observations:  Note taking software with a tree-structured mode.
Where:  http://www.egems.com/
OS: Windows
Price:  US$20.00
Categories: outlines
 
From:  Andreas Geier, Christian Gruhler, Benedikt Funk & Oleg Zemljakov   Product:  Ekpenso    Added:  2008-07-06
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Screenshot mind mapping software Ekpenso    
What they say:  " Ekpenso.com is an online mindmapping tool. Create and share your mindmaps. Ekpenso.com offers the ability to edit your mindmaps even when you're offline: There are Google Gears and Adobe-Air versions."
Observations:  It's very early days for this very basic web-basedmind mapper, but interesting that they have opted to provide off-line usability from the start.
Where:  http://en.ekpenso.com/
OS: Adobe Air, browser based, Google Gears
Price:  Free
Categories: mind maps
 
Articles
Tony Buzan has defined these "rules" for Mind Mapping:

I believe these rules are well worth following if you use mindmaps for learning. They are very hard to follow completely and rigidly - and its not worth trying I have found - if you use mindmaps in adult life, in your work or projects.

Who invented mind mapping

This comes up from time to time - usually in the form of "Buzan didn't invent mind mapping".

Underlying theory of Concept Maps

Here are links to important scholarly papers by Joseph D. Novak and Alberto J. Cañas on Concept Maps, their theory and construction.

Semantic networks

"Semantic network" is a broad enough term to cover many forms of information map. Here is a link to an article by John F. Sowa, originally written for the Encyclopedia of Artificial Intelligence.

Visual representation of knowledge

Here are some links to articles on the visual representation of knowledge by Sigmar-Olaf Tergan, an academic leader in the field

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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.

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