This seems to be in the air! I was following a post over at ProBlogger and just now, looking for that link, found he’s posted another on this topic.
And now there’s also “On Mindmeister, XMIND and Mind Mapping†at CircleSixDesign.
I’ve seen a lot of folk wrestling with maps for large project or concepts and, well, their experience has tempered my enthusiasm … but for blogging? Seems that this “restricted case” is a real good fit.
For the record: FreeMind (an OpenSource project), Mindomo, MindMeister, and XMind.
Also, The Mindmapping Toolbox: 100+ Tools, Resources, and Tutorials from BootStrapping.
I didn’t find the site I really wanted to post. I recall that it’s from early 2006 … wudda been good for context. *shrug*
December 15th, 2007 on 08:48
Web-based mind mappers
There’s a whole load of web-based mind mapping software. I’ve just put up a summary of what’s free (MindMeister and Mindomo aren’t), what you get for free limited account from the subscription ones, and which can import and export from MindManager and FreeMind. All the prices for the non-free ones as well.
The starting page is here: http://www.mind-mapping.org/web-based-mindmappers/
Vic
http://www.mindmapsearch.org
The master list of mind mapping sites
December 15th, 2007 on 17:18
Hello Vic
And thanks for this.
I really haven’t put even a moment into building a canonical list from the resources I’ve documented here. Perhaps I should have, and perhaps I should, but that’s never been the rational for this journal. This is peripheral to something else I’m working on, so items that appear here are of some relevance to the bigger project, and are here only as my own aide memoire.
So I appreciate that you’ve put together such a good directory.
One question, Vic. (Ok, two): I don’t see FreeMind appearing in any list, though you’re very thorough in documenting the web-based systems that connect with it. Did you decided to limit your directory to web-based? (A decision I can understand and would respect.)
Also, the lovely Venn-style diagream on your main page … have you considered making that into a clickable map? Reason I ask: I was a fan of maps for a long time but got fed up with the effort of generating them by hand … so I’m wondering if there’s an easy way to leverage the sort of value you generated in that one.
cheers
and thanks
–bentrem
December 16th, 2007 on 10:46
Re: Hello Vic
Hi Bentrem,
As I think you’ve seen now, the web-based section is just an off-shoot of the main Mind-Mapping.Org site, where FreeMind is included. It’s possible to embed a browsable FreeMind map using Flash, so it’s arguable that it should be included, but I decided not to have it there because it’s read-only.
As for the Venn-diagram, I do intend to make it clickable. I’ll probably have to do it by hand, so I just went ahead and uploaded these four new pages first. I seem to recall a helper for making these in an HTML editor I have tucked away in a dusty cupboard on my hard disk somewhere. Your prod will probably make me dig it out. The diagram started in Visio.
Cheers
Vic
http://www.mind-mapping.org
The master list of mind mapping &
information management software
December 16th, 2007 on 19:11
Re: Hello Vic
Visio does really nice work, for sure.
But still, and yet … one step from 2008 and we’re still talking about hand-crafting basic stuff. (At WordPress I’m wrastling with a post editor that really fails with the simplest stuff, as well as producing code that fails XHTML validation.)
Good on you; I hope we can all persist through the frustration.
December 15th, 2007 on 17:51
Re: Web-based mind mappers
FYI: folks should know about Vic Gee’s blog at Mind-Mapping.org.
Items found in the first few of his posts:
* http://eric-blue.com/projects/mindmapviewer/ (Eric Blue’s blog)
* http://www.mindmappedia.com
* http://mindmapping.typepad.com/the_mind_mapping_software/ (related to Innovation Tools)
December 15th, 2007 on 18:19
Also of interest
The MindMapping lens at Squidoo.
Also, pertaining to education / pedagogy: Jeremy Hiebert’s “HeadSpace”.
December 15th, 2007 on 19:31
p.s. In the system
Vic –
I found that I’d included you on this site back in March:
http://gnodal.livejournal.com/2007/03/28/
December 16th, 2007 on 19:15
Related
“Visual Innovation Tool” from SolutionLanguage.com< and Flowchart.com