Comparison Of Mind Mapping Apps

March 30th 2007 Tech 5 comments

I’ve noticed that mind mapping seems to be a bit of a hot topic at the moment with a few sites talking about it. In somewhat of a contrast to this, having covered it a little in the recent past I have recently hit a bit of a brick wall. Beyond doing rough scribbled down mind maps in my notepads for brain storming purposes I have not had any other practical use for it, I have certainly not been able to implement it into my GTD system in a manner that appeals to me, as much as I would like it to.

I recently came across a blog dedicated to mind mapping however. Of particular interest was his detailed chart comparing the main web-based mind mapping tools out there (two of which - Mindomo and bubbl.us - I have covered in the past). If you are interested in mind mapping and taking it further I suggest you check it out. Meanwhile I will see if I can find inspiration for where I can take my mind mapping experiences to next.

If you like this post then please consider subscribing to my RSS feed for easy access to the latest content. If you prefer, you can also subscribe by email and have new posts sent directly to your inbox. More info on RSS can be found here.

Related Posts

What next?

Submit to Reddit
Bookmark it
Digg it!
Subscribe to feed

Reader discussion

I’ve tried a couple of the commercial mindmapping programs, mindmanager included, and found them all inferior to the free, simple and intuitive freemind. It has become my most valuable app, and I use it for everything from elaborate goal planning and brainstorming to creating heirarchal inventories and family trees.

Have you looked at 3D Topicscape (http://www.topicscape.com)? This can help you organize your information using a mindmapping-type approach, but allows much larger maps to be handled than is practical with a traditional 2D mindmap. It can import a FreeMind mindmap, and export it again, back to Freemind using the new Topicscape Beta.

Although it doesn’t have mindmapping software, this new site I’m working on has lots of Flash templates for organising and developing ideas which I’m hoping you might find useful…

http://www.classtools.net

I tried Personal Brain - works great with Feisty, but not as good as with Windows. However full version costs a small fortune!

Thanks for sharing your thoughts, everybody

Trackbacks

Leave a Reply