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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:  M2M Matter to Man   Product:  PMM Personal Memory Manager    Added:  2006-02-02
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Screenshot mind mapping software PMM Personal Memory Manager     Screenshot mind mapping software PMM Personal Memory Manager     Screenshot mind mapping software PMM Personal Memory Manager    
What they say:  " Personal Memory Manager helps you spin-off from the top: manage your own knowledge and ideas. When you write a diary or weblog, study for an exam, work on a research paper, scenario or book, you can create or import your notes into PMM and map them out like sticky or yellow notes on one or many whiteboards (one for each aspect). You model and construct one integrated body of knowledge representing your mind. At any moment and from any bit, you can recollect and visualize the whole information architecture surrounding it, as context, and improve on or learn from it!

Improvement (6.00) are bigger friendliness, a big increase in mapping and navigating speed.

Student edition: Personal Memory Manager(c) can be your study home for all the constructive mind power you were given and wěll need again, to be recollected for your self motivation. Simply enter, from one new perspective and orientation at a time, what you feel is positive and important for the knowledge tree to grow."
Observations:  Sticky notes meets concepts maps software. Quirky. See their mini-movie here: http://www.mind-mapping.org/PMM.gif
Where:  http://www.pmm.nl/
OS: Windows
Price:  US$64; Student edition US$29
Categories: concept maps, information management
 
From:  macropool GmbH   Product:  Web Research Professional (before 22/6/06, it was called ContentSaver)    Added:  2006-06-24
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Screenshot mind mapping software Web Research Professional (before 22/6/06, it was called ContentSaver)     Screenshot mind mapping software Web Research Professional (before 22/6/06, it was called ContentSaver)     Screenshot mind mapping software Web Research Professional (before 22/6/06, it was called ContentSaver)    
What they say:  " Web Research Professional is a powerful software to leverage your Internet research. It lets you easily capture relevant material from the Web while doing research. Powerful features help you structure and evaluate the collected material. Web Research Professional is capable to handle comprehensive knowledge bases and is prepared for network usage."
Observations:  Web Research, Information Gathering software
Where:  http://www.macropool.com/en/products/webresearch/professional/index.html
OS: Windows
Price:  33.53 EUR
Categories: outlines
 
From:  Mahadevan R   Product:  The Guide    Added:  2007-02-04
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Screenshot mind mapping software The Guide     Screenshot mind mapping software The Guide     Screenshot mind mapping software The Guide    
What they say:  " The Guide is an application that allows you create documents ('guides') which inherently have a tree (which you can modify as you please) and text associated with each node of the tree. The text itself is of the rich-text variety, and the editor allows you to modify the style and formatting of the text (fonts, bold, italics etc).

For the initiated, the Guide is a two-pane extrinsic outliner. This concept is similar to mind mapping in some ways."
Observations:  Outliner software for Windows
Where:  http://theguide.sourceforge.net/
OS: Windows
Price:  Free
Categories: outlines
 
Articles
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.

Visual mapping and recession-proofing your job

It looks like businesses are in for a tough time in 2008 and beyond. If your employer downsizes, how can you take steps to make sure you're one of the survivors?

Here are the Knols on mind mapping

Here's a link to my main Knol entitled "mind mapping". There are cross reference items on related terms as well.



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.