Free Mind Mapping tools
Posted by Jacque on September 3rd, 2008
The Stepcase Lifehack folks state that mind mapping is a way of taking notes, capturing ideas, exploring concepts and breaking down information into a more readily understood format.
“It’s a place where visual representations and written representations of things merge to create something that is more natural to the mind; it works with and represents the way we think, where as paragraph-based text is not representative of the thought process at all.”
Mind mapping can be used to brainstorm, to flesh out ideas, to organize for change, to look at things in a new way, to share and collaborate with others, and myriad other uses. You can mind map with paper and pen or with software especially designed for the purpose. Eleven mind mapping applications and web services are listed in this post. [via iLibrarian]
They include:
- bubbl.us
- Semantik
- RecallPlus
- Mindomo
- Mind42
- MindMeister
- Labyrinth
- Wisemapping
- PersonalBrain
- Vym (see image)
- and Freemind