Comments on: Mind mapping program review: desktop or online?

By: Till Vollmer

Till Vollmer — Fri, 16 Feb 2007 20:09:26 +0000

Try http://www.mindmeister.com. We are in private beta, but you might get a code by writing an email to privatebeta@mindmeister.com

By: Stephen

Stephen — Tue, 23 Jan 2007 09:17:43 +0000

I have been using Freemind for years, for my money, it is the best and its FREE!

All the best

Steve

By: Dragos Roua

Dragos Roua — Mon, 22 Jan 2007 08:29:06 +0000

I definately go for MindManager. Online apps are cool, but we do need to have a more organized and secured culture to overcome all those fears about data usage and so on. When the total amount of online generated data will become impossibly to be managed by any imaginable machine, (making though your data pretty secure) then I might switch to it.

There is also the road to your application: in desktop you just have your mouse, in online, you have the mouse + internet provider + app server, which can be a headache sometimes…

Just my 2 cents…

By: glen

glen — Sun, 21 Jan 2007 22:23:33 +0000

Wow, great suggestions guys.

Freemind is pretty slick, and very free. I may have to check out Novamind someday.

Thanks for the heads up Jon. I’m really excited to see the updates in the near future.

By: Behind the glasses » Blog Archive » An online collaboration tool

Behind the glasses » Blog Archive » An online collaboration tool — Sun, 21 Jan 2007 19:48:40 +0000

[...] There are dozens of different mindmapping software applications, yet only a few of them are online apps. One of applications which can be used in a Web browser is Thinkature, which I found today thanks to this post on LifeDev blog. [...]

By: Jon Chambers

Jon Chambers — Sun, 21 Jan 2007 18:41:01 +0000

Hi there!

I work for Thinkature and just wanted to let you know that we’re all about giving people control over their data. We’re working on providing useful ways to export workspaces for local storage and for use in other applications. We also never, ever look at the contents of our users’ workspaces.

Also, Morgan is quite right that Thinkature isn’t strictly a mind-mapping application (although we’re not strictly a diagramming application, either), so we hope you’ll forgive any domain-specific shortcomings in the interface. Of course, if you have any suggestions, we’d be happy to hear about them.

Thanks very much! We’re thrilled that you enjoy Thinkature!

By: Morgan

Morgan — Sun, 21 Jan 2007 17:47:00 +0000

I’ve used several mind mapping programs over the years – including Mindmanager on the PC, Freemind, and Novamind (on the Mac). novamind is my current mapper of choice, but I do look for other visual programs.

Thinkature looks very interesting, but I would argue that its interface is “clunkier” as it isn’t a pure mind mapper– it seems more of a diagramming program.

For diagramming, I’m using Omnigraffle Pro, which has a great interface. Thanks to a little open source tool – linkback – I can embed and later edit diagrams from Omnigraffle into Novamind (and maps from novamind into omnigraffle documents).

Given my workflow – often in meetings without connectivity – the online only option is not feasible.

Free mind has some publishing / sharing abilities:
http://freemind.sourceforge.net/wiki/index.php/Main_Page

By: Bruce

Bruce — Sun, 21 Jan 2007 11:40:57 +0000

I have tried Mind Manager too, but in the end went for NovaMind - it produces much nicer Mind Maps, is easy to use, very powerful, and costs less than a third of the price of MM Pro. It doesn't give you the online collaboration you seem to want, but as a Mind Mapping application, NovaMind is excellent.