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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:
Jason Horman
Product:
WikidPad Added:
2006-06-18
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| What they say: |
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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/ |
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Linux, Mac, Windows |
| Price: |
Free (open source) |
| Categories: |
outlines, wiki-related |
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| From:
Jeff Mitchell Company
Product:
Shadow Plan Added:
2006-06-26
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125
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| What they say: |
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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!" |
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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. |
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http://www.codejedi.com/ |
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Linux, Mac, Palm, Windows |
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US$23 |
| Categories: |
outlines |
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| From:
Jeffrey Heer and others
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Prefuse Added:
2007-10-03
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126
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| What they say: |
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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/ |
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Linux, Mac, Windows |
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Free |
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data visualization, development platform, influence diagrams, networks |
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Here's a link to my main Knol entitled "mind mapping". There are cross reference items on related terms as well.
Here's a link to my main Knol entitled "Concept map". There are cross reference items on related terms as well.
This is the start of a historical survey of visual mapping. It kicks off with one well-known classic example, and follows up with a very interesting map that has more recently come to my attention. I've written about origins of mind mapping before, but now I'm assembling samples. I've also mentioned elsewhere (see the comments) that I'd like to get samples of Idea Sunbursting that Dr. Perusek wrote to me about.
There's a lot to like in the (unrestrained!) enthusiasm this author shows for Mindmaps. [Vic]
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