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Mind-Mapping Software
mouser:
the most important thing to me in such tools is ease of use.. make it really easy for me to do the basic stuff like put objects on screen and connect them and then move them around. i know it sounds obvious but many of the big drawing tools i've seen are geared for complicated stuff and are not the best for quickly sketching out stuff.
Curt:
One feature I will need is the kind of tooltip that shows you a lot of the text from the object I am pointing at. Headlines alone will not do. Also, it should handle RTF format.
kartal:
multimedia support (image, movie, sound)
file drag and drop operations (as nodes and content)
automatic thumbnail creation of images and movies
rss and html support per node
import and export for common formats
preliminary internal drawing tool (vector or bitmap)
ability to reference nodes from other project files
internal calendar
customization
custom color schemes from center node to braches (like gradient)
speed and small memory print :)
I have more ideas but these are the main things I d onto see many softwares support
what features would you like to see in it?
-vizacc (October 05, 2007, 05:03 PM)
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sri:
Here's a list of online mindmapping web services I collected: http://delicious.com/sridhar/mindmapping.
Popular mindmapping links: http://delicious.com/popular/mindmapping
Dormouse:
Topicscape ( http://www.topicscape.com ) allows as many parents for a node as you want, it also has a 'loose association' link for ideas that are outside the parent/child hierarchy, and a Topicscape Islands node where things can be parked for later consideration, to be moved once you've decided where they go.-roytsganda (February 14, 2007, 08:05 PM)
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With the resurrection of the topic, I had a look at this. It seemed very attractive until I looked at the screenshots under User Stories. I had expected it to be much more visual than 2D mindmaps, but it is actually much less - everything is represented as a pseudo-3D triangle/cone/pyramid. Just a slightly graphical frontend to a database. I'm as happy as anyone to deal with pure data, but the point of mindmapping to me is to see more possibilities and different types of links by seeing/thinking visually.
It would be nice if there were anyone around who actually uses it and can say why I'm wrong.
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