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MindMaple Is A Windows & iOS Mind Mapping Tool With Cross-PC Access

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Mind mapping is a useful technique that involves brainstorming new ideas associated with one central subject. The technique has been in practice for quite a long time, and there are various apps that can aid you in the process. We have covered a lot of such apps in the past like Blumind, TouchMind and Edraw Mind Map, just to name a few. MindMaple is another such app that we recently tried out, and were left fairly impressed. The feature-laden application is probably one of the best of its kind. It enables you to draw out your ideas via its intuitive interface, letting you put-in words, pictures, cliparts, and shapes etc. to link everything that is wandering in your mind. Alongside an impressive Windows version, the app also has a iOS variant, which works equally good on iPhone and iPad. Read More

Mindomo: Mind Mapping App With Themes, Cloud Sync & More [Android, iPad]

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Mindomo is an online mind mapping service that lets users, create, design and share mind maps with collaborators (or publicly) to accomplish their goals and tasks effectively. It offers numerous mind map presets, complete with the option to create notes, attach multimedia content, customize backgrounds, apply various themes, define relationships between entities, and add icons, tasks, comments and hyperlinks etc that can help you with visualizing your tasks, goals and objectives in an uncluttered manner. Catering to the needs of mobile users, the company has just released the official Mindomo client for iPad and Android. Designed along the same lines as the web service itself, the mobile app of Mindomo also lets you create new mind maps, customize them with the help of various nifty tools, keep in sync with your online Mindomo maps from any supported device, share them with the collaborators, and access all content even in offline mode. Read More

MindNode: Simple Mind Mapper For Your Small Scale Plans [Mac]

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Behind a really good idea, there may be a really well thought out plan or an extremely random chain of events and actions. For those with random thoughts and actions, move on, nothing to see here. For those who need to gather their thoughts or have a small rough sketch of what they’re going to do, there is MindNode, a free mind mapping app for Mac. The app is very basic, and is not meant for collaboration or sharing your mind maps with others. It lets you create a simple node structure with various parent and sub-nodes, which are color coded, so that you can easily distinguish ideas from the branch, and from one another. Read More

XMind Is A Feature-Rich, Advanced Mind Mapping & Brainstorming Tool

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A Mind Map is diagram used to represent an idea, a task or any other item linked to and arranged around a central key word or idea. Brainstorming is the process through whichhttps://www.facebook.com/ a group tries to find a solution for a specific problem by gathering a list of ideas spontaneously contributed by its members. This method of putting forward ideas as a group rather than working individually greatly increase the quantity and quality of the ideas produced. Mind maps are used to generate new ideas by visualizing the structure of the current ideas and organizing the available information for solving problems and making decisions. This technique is used in various organizations and is applicable in a number of different fields, relating to marketing, R&D, operations management and others. Previously, we have covered a simple mind mapping utility named Blumind that provides simple tools for create a mind map diagram. The application has a simple usage and user friendly interface. XMind is a bit more advanced open source brainstorming and mind mapping application to efficiently save time by managing brainstorming sessions. It's quite a robust application to apply various mind mapping techniques. More details up ahead. Read More

Edraw Mind Map: Create Complex Diagrams And Models With MS Office Integration

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Mind mapping applications help create diagram maps that represent words, ideas, tasks, or other items linked and arranged around a central keyword. Edraw Mind Map is a vector-based application that provides templates for creating mind maps, brain-storming diagrams, timelines for projects, financial and business based analysis such as the SWOT analysis and more. It comes with built-in libraries that contain almost everything, from clip-art, symbols, connectors, mind shapes, to objects that can be added for annotating mind maps. What makes Edraw better than other mind mapping applications like Mind On Track, is the availability of a wide range of built-in templates, automatic map layouts, support for multiple pages and MS Office integration. Once you have created mind maps or other kind of models, they can be saved in various image formats, as well as PDF and HTML files. Read More

Create Mind Maps On The Go With The Official MindMeister App For Android

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When talking of famous and widely followed online brainstroming services, MindMeister is one such name that instantly strikes the mind. Said service has a huge userbase courtesy of its instant mind-mapping capabilities, online sync feature, content-rich map library and an equally effective client for iOS-powered devices. While users from said platform have been benefitting from MindMeisterfor quite sometime, an Android variant of its client has just recently been launched into the Market. Like its iOS counterpart, the Android client of MindMeister supports extensive syncing of maps along with allowing users to create, store and share fully customized mind maps in separate folders, decorate maps with visually rich themes, supplement map content with personalized nodes, fonts, icons, notes, links and tasks and view maps/brainstorming ideas on the go. Read More

Mind On Track Automatically Creates Tasks From Mind Maps You Make

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A good mind map is a good way to get started on any project, it serves as a great way for always staying on track but mind maps too go through changes as a project progresses and requirements change. What gets frustrating is when you’ve already started a project based on a mind map, specified tasks and have to go back, change the map and reallocate tasks. The problem arises mainly because mind mapping and tasking are jobs kept in isolation from each other. Mind On Track is a desktop application for Windows and Linux that combines both these jobs in to one. As you create a mind map, different ideas are automatically turned in to tasks that can be tagged and given due dates. Read More

MindMapr – Offline Mind Mapping Chrome App Creates Basic Mind Maps

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Mind mapping is one way of getting cluttered thoughts out of our head and on to a piece of paper or perhaps a virtual canvas that mind mapping web apps give us. Mind mapping isn’t something that you do only if your plans involve building a rocket. No matter what it is you’re planning, mind mapping helps you organize ideas and tasks better. Of course not every idea deserves a state of the art mind mapping tool. For your simpler mind mapping needs, you can use MindMapr, a Chrome application that lets you create mind maps and save and export them. The app doesn’t require an active internet connection to work and can be used offline. Read More

Thoughtboxes Offers A Different Way To Organize Your Train Of Thoughts

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Everyone thinks differently and how you organize thoughts can differ from person to person which is why you might not be as nuts about the same to-do list manager or brainstorming app as your friends. If you’re still looking for the perfect app to help you manage your to-dos, try Thoughtboxes. Thoughtboxes is a take on brainstorming without mind maps and is perfect if you prefer to-do lists free of timelines. The web service comes with both a free and premium version. The free version lets you create up to three trains of thought and add unlimited number of boxes to each. The premium version allows you to create an unlimited number of trains of thought and collaborate and share them with friends. Read More

Blumind Is Free Advanced Mind Mapping Software For Windows

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A mind map diagram represents words, ideas, tasks, or other items linked and arranged around a central keyword. Mind mapping applications help create such diagrams to allow users to get an overview of their ideas and to bring them in an orderly manner. Blumind is a portable (installer package also available) application which provides simple tools for creating a mind map diagram. It supports chart layouts, such as an organization chart, tree diagram, logic diagram, and provides multiple export formats, for saving the created mind maps (such as PNG, JPG, BMP, TIFF, GIF, SVG and TXT). Read More