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Mind Mapping and Personal Finance

Money is a powerful motivator they say. Everyone dreams of being rich or at least richer. But many are those who fall to disgrace because they di Read more...
Mind Mapping and Writing

Everybody writes essays, summaries, reports, theses and other documents. There generally is a lot of places where writing is crucial. Imagine i Read more...
Why Mind Mapping

Mind map is a visual result after a thorough brainstorming on a topic. You might ask yourself why or how is that helpful. Well, have you ever, be Read more...
Mind Mapping Drawing Tips

Mind mapping, which is also referred to as a brainstorming diagram, involves jotting down a central idea on a piece of blank background then thin Read more...
Using the Mind for Concept Mapping

The mind is a powerful tool to assist men in doing daily activities normally and adequately. Concept mapping is an efficient equipment that uses Read more...
Mind Mapping to Solve Problems

Disorganized individuals often get stressed out. Are you one of them? If you are, then you probably encounter a lot of difficulties especially wh Read more...
Mind Mapping Info

Often, when you have a project, you can’t avoid having ‘if’ questions in your mind. Most individuals are like that and so they try to come Read more...
Mind Mapping for an Easier Life

Everyday, you have to deal with a lot of information. If you don’t gather or catalog them, the loads of information will be meaningless. Even i Read more...
Mind Mapping and Learning

Students usually take down notes of their teacher’s lectures. If you’re one of these students, how do you jot down the notes? Are you simply Read more...
Mind Mapping and Diagrams

Have you ever tried making a mind map? Mind mapping is quite popular nowadays and it has helped a lot of people already in solving their problems Read more...

Software Reviews

Pimki

Pimki is a personal information manager based on the Wiki-clone Instiki. It is written in the programming language Ruby and integrates several different features, as mind mapping or wiki, making it a very powerful organizer for any kind of information.

Pimki is a cross-platform software, which means that you can install it in any operative system, but the installation process is very complicated in any of them, requiring the use of an external application. It is, however, fairly easy to use, and combines the power of several tools to organize ideas, plans and projects, either personal or professional.

Compendium

Compendium is an open source mind mapping software developed by The Open University UK. Even though its starting point is the construction of mind maps, it ends up going further than that, probably due to the fact that it's driven by an academic institute. Compendium is ambitious software, which aims to be a general framework to connect information and ideas. If you're using Compendium for the first time, the screencasts available in their website are very helpful to help you understand the basics of working with the software.

iMindMap

iMindMap is a mind mapping application created by Tony Buzan, the person responsible for the popularization of mind maps in the 1970s. This software is probably the one which presents the purest form of mind mapping, not focusing, unlike others, in expanding into other formats.Therefore, it's developed to do one thing well, and it does. It is easy to create clear and helpful maps.
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Freemind

Freemind is one of the best-known free mind mapping software tools. It's a very user-friendly no-nonsense program, which allows you to organize ideas and plan out projects. It's fairly intuitive, with each mind map starting with a central node, to which you can add any kind of information you want. It uses the typical hierarchical structure of mind maps, with branches and sub-branches of nodes connected to the centre.

Personal Brain

Personal Brain is a cross-platform commercial desktop program developed by TheBrain Technologies; it comes in three flavours: Free, Core and Pro. Though primarily a mind mapping application, PersonalBrain aims to go further than that by breaking the traditional hierarchical structure of mind maps. This software allows users to connect different bits and pieces of digital information, including documents, folders or web pages, to ideas and thoughts.

VUE

VUE (Visual Understanding Environment) is an open source mind mapping application developed by the Academic Technology group at the Tufts University. The main goal behind the development of this software is the creation of a visual environment that integrates different kinds of digital information, to support teaching, learning and research. VUE is a very flexible tool that uses some basic concepts of mind mapping software but enhances it with an expanded search of online resources (such as Flickr) and especially with the possibility of creating non-linear presentations.

Freeplane

Freeplane is open source software for building mind maps. It is a spin-off of Freemind, having been created by a group of developers who had different ideas about the future of the program. A number of improvements have been introduced since the split, giving Freeplane a very strong set of features, specially taking into account that it's free software.
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