Great article btw.

MindVisualizer provides a partial solution for personalized mindmap, it integrates the Windows built-in Paint program seamlessly, allows you invoke MS Paint with popup menu and draw your picture with it, then the drawn picture will be right inside the node when you close MS Paint.

MindVisualizer also allows you have multiple central topics in a single map, this is achieved by adding unlimited floating topics into do the map and have unlimited childnodes for each of the floating topics.

All after all, just like people are still using pens and papers today in spite of computers are almost everywhere, hand-drawn mindmaps will always have their position.

Edwin Yip

The iMindmap program allows you to insert your own sketches and this could be useful, but it might look a bit amateurish!

Comparing computer drawn mind maps with hand drawn is like comparing writing with a beautiful fountain pen in a journal to using Microsoft Word. They each have their place and complement each other.

Keep up the great work with your web site. Your research on Mind Mapping is a valuable resource.

Charles

I’ve been using NovaMind for several years, and telling people about it just doesn’t get it through to them, but when I show them how I brainstorm new ideas or put together a project plan using NovaMind, they get it really quickly. And when I do a presentation using NovaMind, everyone comes up to me afterwards and is asking what software I was using.

I’m sure I’ll use your list when telling people about Mind Mapping in the future though, and hopefully wake some more people up to the power of Mind Mapping. Thanks for putting the effort in to put it together.

James