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The "mind maps" referred to here are of two types: What could be called "true mind maps", of the type described by Tony Buzan that follow a set of guidelines; and the much looser family of hierarchical diagrams very widely referred to as mind maps. 
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== Mobile mapping apps from Fluent to Inspiration ==
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Before talking about these two types, some context about the process of mind mapping:
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Mind mapping is a graphical way of dividing a topic into component parts, generating and organizing solutions to a problem, or provoking ideas and capturing the results of a discussion. Many mind mappers feel that it has freedom of thought and creativity built in.
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[[Image:project-mind-map.jpg|right|Medium-sized project mind map]]
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| align="center" width="140pt" style="background:#f0f0f0;"|'''Mapping tool'''
Mind mapping (as the phrase is commonly used) is less formal than concept mapping. At first sight it looks similar, but is very different in actual use. Mind mapping is more personal. You may make a mind map for many different purposes and two people working on the same topic will often produce very different mind maps.
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| '''[http://www.mind-mapping.org/?productOrPublisher=Fluent+MindMap Fluent MindMap]'''||[[File:Fluent Mind Map.jpg]]||style="background:#E5FFFF;" colspan="2" align="center" |'''$2'''||style="background:#DEF1D3;" align="center" |—||Accidental Fish Ltd||||[[File:Fluent Mind Map-example.jpg|220px]]
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| '''[http://www.mind-mapping.org/?productOrPublisher=FreeMindLite FreeMindLite]'''||[[File:FreeMindLite.jpg]]||style="background:#E5FFFF;" align="center" |—||style="background:#E5FFFF;" align="center" |'''Free'''||style="background:#DEF1D3;" align="center" |—||Yonglei Zhang||This is a viewer for maps made in the PC software FreeMind, or in this developer's own iOS app iFreeMind.||[[File:FreeMindLite-example.jpg|150px]]
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| '''[http://www.mind-mapping.org/?productOrPublisher=Headspace Headspace]'''||rowspan="2" |[[File:Headspace.jpg]]||style="background:#E5FFFF;" colspan="2" align="center" |'''$4'''||style="background:#DEF1D3;" align="center" |—||rowspan="2"|Flat Black Films Inc||rowspan="2"|One of the more unusual mappers, working in 3D. The UI takes some getting used to.||rowspan="2" |[[File:Headspace-example.jpg|220px]]
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| '''[http://www.mind-mapping.org/?productOrPublisher=Headspace Headspace Lite]'''||style="background:#E5FFFF;" colspan="2" align="center" |'''Free'''||style="background:#DEF1D3;" align="center" |—
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| '''[http://www.mind-mapping.org/?productOrPublisher=iBlueSky iBlueSky]'''||[[File:iBlueSky.jpg]]||style="background:#E5FFFF;" colspan="2" align="center" |'''$10'''||style="background:#DEF1D3;" align="center" |—||Tenero Software||A conventional bubble chart maker, with useful import and export options from PC mapping products.||[[File:iBlueSky-example.jpg|220px]]
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| '''[http://www.mind-mapping.org/?productOrPublisher=iBrainStormer iBrainStormer]'''||rowspan="2" |[[File:iBrainstormer.jpg]]||style="background:#E5FFFF;" colspan="2" align="center" |'''$1'''||style="background:#DEF1D3;" align="center" |—||rowspan="2"|iVinnyApps Inc.||Decorative effects (transparency and shadows) may appeal to some, but I don't feel they aid clarity.||rowspan="2" |[[File:iBrainstormer-example.jpg|150px]]
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| '''[http://www.mind-mapping.org/?productOrPublisher=iBrainStormer iBrainStormer Free]'''||style="background:#E5FFFF;" colspan="2" align="center" |'''Free'''||style="background:#DEF1D3;" align="center" |—||Limitations of free version not stated.
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| '''[http://www.mind-mapping.org/?productOrPublisher=Idea+Sketch Idea Sketch]'''||[[File:Idea Sketch.jpg]]||style="background:#E5FFFF;" colspan="2" align="center" |'''Free'''||style="background:#DEF1D3;" align="center" |—||NoSleep Software LLC||For simple mind maps in pastel colors.  Can convert a map to an outline and a text outline to a map. Claims that it can make flowcharts or concept maps should be treated with caution. In app purchase $3.50 allows sharing with other devices.||[[File:Idea Sketch-example.jpg|220px]]
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| '''[http://www.mind-mapping.org/?productOrPublisher=iFreeMind iFreeMind]'''||[[File:iFreeMind.jpg]]||style="background:#E5FFFF;" align="center" |—||style="background:#E5FFFF;" align="center" |'''$5'''||style="background:#DEF1D3;" align="center" |—||Yonglei Zhang||It's a pity this has no native iPad version.||[[File:iFreeMind-example.jpg|150px]]
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| '''[http://www.mind-mapping.org/?productOrPublisher=iMindMap iMindMap]'''||[[File:iMindMapL.jpg]]||style="background:#E5FFFF;" align="center" |—||style="background:#E5FFFF;" align="center" |'''Free'''||style="background:#DEF1D3;" align="center" |'''Free'''||rowspan="4"|ThinkBuzan||A small iPhone screen is not the ideal place for mind mapping, but the way iMindMap operates is the best I've found in this specific context.||rowspan="4" |[[File:iMindMap HD-example.jpg|220px]]
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| '''[http://www.mind-mapping.org/?productOrPublisher=iMindMap iMindMap HD''']||rowspan="2" |[[File:iMindMap HD.jpg]]||style="background:#E5FFFF;" align="center" |'''Free'''||style="background:#E5FFFF;" align="center" |—||style="background:#DEF1D3;" align="center" |'''Free'''||rowspan="3" |The mobile version of one of the canonical desktop mappers, designed by Tony Buzan's company, and the one most capable of making organic mind maps as Buzan envisages them.  iMindMap HD Plus is obtained via an in-app purchase.
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| '''[http://www.mind-mapping.org/?productOrPublisher=iMindMap iMindMap HD Plus''']||style="background:#E5FFFF;" align="center" |'''$14'''||style="background:#E5FFFF;" align="center" |—||style="background:#DEF1D3;" align="center" |—
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| '''[http://www.mind-mapping.org/?productOrPublisher=iMindMap iMindMap Edu''']||[[File:iMindMap Edu.jpg]]||style="background:#E5FFFF;" align="center" |'''$14'''||style="background:#E5FFFF;" align="center" |—||style="background:#DEF1D3;" align="center" |—
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| '''[http://www.mind-mapping.org/?productOrPublisher=iModeler iModeler]'''||[[File:iMODELER.jpg]]||colspan="2" align="center" style="background:#E5FFFF;" |'''Free'''||style="background:#DEF1D3;" align="center" |—||Consideo GmbH||This is not exactly for mind mapping, it's closer to a simplified form of Southbeach Notation, but it is useful for visual modeling and Systems Thinking. However, the meat is in the on-line web app, a subscription to which is from EUR120 - 240 a year.||[[File:iMODELER-example.jpg|220px]]
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| '''[http://www.mind-mapping.org/?productOrPublisher=Inspiration+Software Inspiration Maps]'''||rowspan="2" |[[File:Inspiration Maps.jpg]]||style="background:#E5FFFF;" align="center" |'''$10'''||style="background:#E5FFFF;" align="center" |—||style="background:#DEF1D3;" align="center" |—||rowspan="2"|Inspiration Software, Inc.||Very flexible and capable. Worth the cost. This can make concept maps as well as mind maps.||rowspan="2" |[[File:Inspiration Maps-example.jpg|220px]]
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| '''[http://www.mind-mapping.org/?productOrPublisher=Inspiration+Software Inspiration Maps Lite''']||style="background:#E5FFFF;" align="center" |'''Free'''||style="background:#E5FFFF;" align="center" |—||style="background:#DEF1D3;" align="center" |—||When I last looked, this was little more than a demo.
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What a mindmap contains and how it looks will depend on why it is being done, and how the person making it chooses to slice and dice the subject matter. Here are two thumbnails to give an idea of just how different mind maps can be.
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These two mind maps were both done by the same person and illustrate the differences in maps for different purposes.  [[Image:thinking-map.jpg|left|Thinking mind map]]The one on the right was used to control the information gathered during a large project, and that on the left was made to think through an issue and come up with some answers.
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Mobile mapping apps from [[Mobile mapping - Instagrok to Mind Tux|'''Instagrok''' to '''Mind Tux''']]
 
 
When the first is seen at a readable magnification, it is hard to work with, it is so large. Still, it is an improvement on working with no mind map at all.
 
 
 
You can break the map into many sub-maps, but this does limit the convenience of the resulting collection of maps.
 
 
 
 
 
== Buzan mind maps ==
 
[[Image:Information-management-200.jpg|thumb|200px|A Buzan-style mind map]]
 
Buzan mind maps are those that largely follow the guidelines laid down by the originator of the term who has made it popular, Tony Buzan.
 
{{:Buzan's guidelines simply stated}}
 
 
 
== Common mind maps ==
 
 
 
This would include true mind maps, of course, but also [[spidergrams]], [[bubble diagrams]] and in some cases even [[tree diagram]]s.  Buzan's guidelines do not allow for boxes or bubbles (unless you interpret rule 8 liberally).  But some mappers like to have nodes: Something concrete or tangible that helps when you're organizing information that you have at your fingertips but not on paper yet. It can also help when you're drawing relationships.  This can lead to what many people like to call a [[bubble diagrams]].
 
 
 
Any map with a central topic and nodes radiating out from that is very commonly called a mind map.  Well over half the references to "mind maps" on the web are of this type.  There is one example at the top of this article.  Click this selective link to see a [http://www.topicscape.com/mindmaps/?type=SG wide range of examples] of what are commonly called mind maps.
 
 
 
It is useful to separate out [[concept maps]] because there are distinct differences of structure and content that make them suitable for different purposes.  A clear distinction is therefore made here.
 
 
 
== Who uses mind maps? ==
 
 
 
Mindmapping is used by teams in business, by visual thinkers and, in Europe especially, by students.  In the United Kingdom it has a particularly good hold, because Tony Buzan is British and has evangelized its use there. It has a good hold in Asia - Malaysia, Singapore, Thailand, Australia and, to a lesser extent, Hong Kong.
 
 
 
During 2007-2008 there awareness of the technique increased greatly in the USA, to judge by references on the web. There is now a steady daily stream of news items, new sites and blog posts, and mindmaps themselves are even appearing integrated into web sites and blogs.
 
 
 
The technique is used by [[Project management with mind maps#Project planning|project managers to do their initial planning]] and organize their project information, by writers preparing to blog, by business people preparing reports, and by hobbyists to organize their collected information about their favorite topic.
 
 
 
== Terminology ==
 
 
 
Discussions about the absolute value of different map types should take place [[Talk:Map_wars|discussion tab]] of the [[Map wars]] entry
 
 
 
 
 
[[Category:Creativity]]
 

Revision as of 06:37, 18 March 2014

Mobile mapping apps from Fluent to Inspiration[edit]

 

Mapping tool Logo iPad iPhone Android Publisher Comments Example
Fluent MindMap Fluent Mind Map.jpg $2 Accidental Fish Ltd Fluent Mind Map-example.jpg
FreeMindLite FreeMindLite.jpg Free Yonglei Zhang This is a viewer for maps made in the PC software FreeMind, or in this developer’s own iOS app iFreeMind. FreeMindLite-example.jpg
Headspace Headspace.jpg $4 Flat Black Films Inc One of the more unusual mappers, working in 3D. The UI takes some getting used to. Headspace-example.jpg
Headspace Lite Free
iBlueSky IBlueSky.jpg $10 Tenero Software A conventional bubble chart maker, with useful import and export options from PC mapping products. IBlueSky-example.jpg
iBrainStormer IBrainstormer.jpg $1 iVinnyApps Inc. Decorative effects (transparency and shadows) may appeal to some, but I don’t feel they aid clarity. IBrainstormer-example.jpg
iBrainStormer Free Free Limitations of free version not stated.
Idea Sketch Idea Sketch.jpg Free NoSleep Software LLC For simple mind maps in pastel colors. Can convert a map to an outline and a text outline to a map. Claims that it can make flowcharts or concept maps should be treated with caution. In app purchase $3.50 allows sharing with other devices. Idea Sketch-example.jpg
iFreeMind IFreeMind.jpg $5 Yonglei Zhang It’s a pity this has no native iPad version. IFreeMind-example.jpg
iMindMap IMindMapL.jpg Free Free ThinkBuzan A small iPhone screen is not the ideal place for mind mapping, but the way iMindMap operates is the best I’ve found in this specific context. IMindMap HD-example.jpg
iMindMap HD IMindMap HD.jpg Free Free The mobile version of one of the canonical desktop mappers, designed by Tony Buzan’s company, and the one most capable of making organic mind maps as Buzan envisages them. iMindMap HD Plus is obtained via an in-app purchase.
iMindMap HD Plus $14
iMindMap Edu IMindMap Edu.jpg $14
iModeler IMODELER.jpg Free Consideo GmbH This is not exactly for mind mapping, it’s closer to a simplified form of Southbeach Notation, but it is useful for visual modeling and Systems Thinking. However, the meat is in the on-line web app, a subscription to which is from EUR120 – 240 a year. IMODELER-example.jpg
Inspiration Maps Inspiration Maps.jpg $10 Inspiration Software, Inc. Very flexible and capable. Worth the cost. This can make concept maps as well as mind maps. Inspiration Maps-example.jpg
Inspiration Maps Lite Free When I last looked, this was little more than a demo.

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