Gideon King has announced that NovaMind 4 will soon be updated with several improvements that will enable users to enhance the look of their mind maps: The ability to fit branch images automatically into the branch (scaling them to fit) The ability to fill the branch with the image (cropping as necessary) The ability to […]

Mindjet, the developer of the popular MindManager mind mapping software, announced today that it has acquired JCVGantt Pro 3 from Gantt Solution. This MindManager add-in makes it very easy for project managers to transform the tasks in their maps into Gantt bar charts – a key tool for project planners. JCVGantt Pro 3 will now […]

CS Odessa, the developer of ConceptDraw MINDMAP, has announced that it plans to launch a new software program called ConceptDraw Office that will seamlessly integrate the capabilities of ConceptDraw (for business diagramming), ConceptDraw Project (for project management) and ConceptDraw MINDAP into one powerful visual documentation tool. "The key innovation behind ConceptDraw Office is that for […]

One of the beauties of open source software is that any programmer can take its existing source code and add to it – or "branch" it off in exciting new directions. Eugene Antimirov recently reported in his blog that he has created a version of Labyrinth (an open source mind mapping app written in Python) […]

During the last year or so, I have maintained an extensive chart that compares the features of 22 desktop mind mapping programs. Normally, I only make this available as a bonus report for my e-books. But because it has generated such strong interest from so many people, I have decided to make it available as […]

MatchWare, the developers of the excellent OpenMind 2 for Windows, recently launched a Mac OS X version of their flagship mind mapping software program. It appears to have all of the features and functionality of the Windows version, including export to Microsoft Word, HTML websites and an interactive Timeline view. OpenMind Mac Edition is priced […]

For the past several weeks, a select group of MindManager users (including yours truly) got to participate in the first phase of a private beta program for Mindjet Connect, a new online collaboration tool that will allow MindManager 7.2 users to create secure workspaces and share their maps and attached files with others. Mindjet just […]

I recently discovered a mind mapping program for Lotus Notes that integrates project management tools to an extent that I have never seen before. MindPlan was created by a German developer, Haus Weilgut, and it makes project management tools like GANTT charts, milestones, resource allocation and progress tracking an integral part of the application, not […]

Mango Software has just announced the launch of XMIND 2008 version 2.3, which enables XMIND users to import maps from MindManager, as well as export XMIND maps to the native MindManager file format. According to the updates page, apparently XMIND could import MindManager files before, but not without some problems. The process has been improved, […]

Cayra.NET, a developer of a new mind mapping/concept mapping application, has just announced the availability of a Cayra maps online viewer. At first, I thought this was an application that allowed anyone to view Cayra maps, even if you don’t have the program. But in reality, it appears to be an online repository, where you […]