Brainstorming and Mind-Mapping Software - Free software downloads and software reviews.
15 Great Mindmapping Tools and Apps. Mindmapping is the process of drawing up diagrams that show relations between various ideas, tasks or information. For many of us this shows to actually be a way of taking notes that can be more useful than just writing down keywords or sentences like we do on a to-do list. By drawing mind maps you actually visualize your tasks and how each task can influence each other in a better way, making your brain remember more easily and/or come up with new ideas. The Tools There are various tools for mindmapping out there, both free and paid versions. In this article I will focus solely the free options. The apps are not in any particular order. I will simply mention 15 apps I’ve tried and found interesting, then you can see which one(s) could be most interesting for you.
The ones that require any installation, can be run on all platforms that support Java unless something else is specified. Freemind ↓ You can download Freemind here. Xmind ↓ You can download Xmind here. Bubbl.US ↓ Web application. How To Make A Mind Map - Version 1. Problem Solving - a no-cost approach. Mind Maps – The PowerTool For The Mind. Starting over – (part 2) “If you fail to plan, you plan to fail.” Jim Rohn This quote really says it all. Let’s take the hypothetical case of a person who built a website because he had an idea. What he did not have… alright, I’ll come clean: what I did not have was business plan, or even a plan for what this website was supposed to achieve.
I learned from the failure, though, and one of the tools I am now using diligently to help me plan is Mind Mapping, first with pen and paper and then digitally. Years ago, I came across Tony Buzan’s Mind Map book, and I have been using his concepts ever since. Mind Maps are probably THE most powerful tool to help plan, design and organise anything, from a simple multinational corporation to the most complex home based Internet marketing business. I had several reasons for creating this video and embedding it here. Firstly, given the same amount of time, I think it is less boring and more instructive to watch a video than read about the stuff.
Freeplane pushing for visibility. I’ve been meaning to add Freeplane to mind-mapping.org for a while, but its alpha status was holding me back. Now I’ve heard from Ryan Wesley, Freeplane’s project manager, that overall it is pretty stable. They are putting out a call for more contributors and more users, so let’s look at Freeplane: It is an open source and free mind-mapping program that resulted from the forking of the FreeMind code base 18 months ago.
FreeMind developers had different ideas about how that software should develop, and the result was a split. Freeplane has a 6-member team and registered at Sourceforge in November 2007. Since then they have been refactoring the code so that they can be more reponsive to requests from the user community. It is still in alpha so it should only be used for testing for now. There is no policy identification of feature differences yet – and these are what I believe a user will want to know before making a commitment to Freeplane. Here’s a Freeplane screenshot: Vic Google.