Month: September 2008

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iPhone / iPod Touch mind mapping software

In the big-screen world of computers there is a seemingly endless supply of developers keen to give us mind mapping software.  Are we going to see a repeat on the iPhone and iPod Touch?

A few days ago there was MindMaker (US$5) – the first contender.  It has some way to go, but does show promise and they have a roadmap.  Its most obvious limitation is that it does not provide a landscape view when the device (mine’s an iPod Touch) is rotated. 

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Now there’s iBlueSky (US$8) – to my eye a more stylish entrant, and one that already offers portrait mode. 

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Not quite mind mapping software, but capable of making hand-drawn maps is Zeptopad (US$10).  They even choose a hand made mind map as their screenshot illustration (but I don’t think it would come very high in the hand made mind maps survey that the Mindmaps Directory people have going on):

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And there I was thinking I’d have a quiet week…. 

Regards
Vic Gee
http://www.informationtamers.com/mind-mapping/
The master list of mind mapping &
information management software

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Interesting hand made mind maps

My focus at mind-mapping.org is on software-made mind maps – well obviously, I do claim this as “the master list of mind mapping and information management software”, after all.  But in the past, I have pointed readers of this blog at a couple of resources for attractive hand made maps. 

Now, here’s some more: A collection of hand made mind maps the Topicscape people have at their blog.  Called “The Great Hand-drawn Mind Mappers Face-off” they have five makers of hand drawn maps in one post, and a survey to find your favourite.  To see the enjoyable work of these rather special mind map makers, please go to this link:
http://www.topicscape.com/blog/2008/09/22/the-great-hand-drawn-mind-mappers-face-off/. I think you’ll be glad you did.

Cheers
Vic
http://www.informationtamers.com/mind-mapping/
The master list of mind mapping &
information management software

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Free mind mapping software

Over at LifeHack, Joel Falconer is spreading the good word with a list of 11 free mind mapping programs – a mixture of desktop and web-based ones.

Mind-mapping.org shows ’em all, I think, but you have to check for those showing Free in the price box so it’s useful to have Joel’s list.  Maybe I’ll add a “list free ones” function to the site one day. 

Meanwhile here’s the skinny on all the web based mind mappers (15 of them) and outliners (3) showing what’s free and how much the subscriptions are for the others.

Cheers
Vic
http://www.informationtamers.com/mind-mapping/
The master list of mind mapping &
information management software

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bCisive, GenIE & SMILE, Outliner 2.0

On Mind-mapping.org this week there are four new entries in the master list – three graphical and one a related development platform.

bCisive

bCisive is software for business decision making and diagramming.  It supports building and communicating business cases as well as documenting the reasoning behind decisions.

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GenIE & SMILE

GeNIe is a user-friendly development environment for graphical decision-theoretic models. It is the Windows user interface to SMILE, which is a portable library of C++ classes implementing the models.

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Outliner 2.0

Outliner is an outliner for mobile phones and PDAs.  It lets you create your outlines with desktop software and import them.

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Vic

http://www.informationtamers.com/mind-mapping/
The master list of mind mapping &
information management software

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