Here’s a link to an interesting, albeit brief, review by Stewart McKie of the Mac OS X software program NoteMind. Unlike conventional mind mapping software, which enables you to capture a set of ideas in visual form, NoteMind lets you collect and organize information in one view – a personal knowledge base – which can […]

Remember I told you earlier this month that CS Odessa (developers of ConceptDraw MINDMAP) launched a ConceptDraw Labs, and that they were beta testing a program called Brainstorm Lite? Well, it’s now out of beta and has been officially released by the developer, as of yesterday. Brainstorm Lite is an application for Mac OS X […]

“Widgets” are popular little programs, often free, that you can download for Mac OS X that perform dozens of useful and fun tasks. CS Odessa, the developers of ConceptDraw MINDMAP, recently launched ConceptDraw Labs, which was created to develop enhancements for its line of ConceptDraw products. One of the latest things to come out of […]

CoCo Systems recently announced the availability of VisiMap Professional v4.1. This new version adds several new features: Support for Office 2007 (Outlook, PowerPoint, Project and Word) Export to PDF and XPS formats (these require Word 2007 to be installed) Export to MHTML (single-file HTML archive) format and Compatibility with Windows Vista (both 32-bit and 64-bit […]

CS Odessa recently released sceenshots of ConceptDraw MINDMAP 5, which it hopes to release by the end of this month. New and improved features in this version include these: A completely new and easier to use attractive interface. Using clipart instead of library shapes allows you to create professionally styled maps. The Outline and Map […]

When Nick Duffill sent me an e-mail about Mindomo, I was expecting to see just another web-based mind mapping tool: you know, basic functionality in a Flash-enabled interface. Some features, but mainly lots of future promise. But imagine my surprise when I read Nick’s post and then tried it for myself – and discovered that […]

Mind Technologies has just announced a public beta test program for Visual Mind 9. The most important new feature is real-time map sharing, via a new Visual Mind Server that manages collaboration between users. Any changes made to a shared Visual Mind map will immediately be made available to other users who are working on […]

Marc Orchant, who writes the Knowledge at Work blog for ZDnet, recently published a review of MindMeister, the most promising of the new batch of web-based mind mapping tools I told you about earlier this month. Like me, he is impressed with its well-designed functionality: "I am mighty impressed with this beta. It’s polished, easy […]

Slowly but surely, users and developers of mind mapping software are starting to post video clips on YouTube, the immensely popular video sharing website. The latest clips to be uploaded to this site are 3 that are focused on business usese of MindManager: How to add a custom button to the MindManager toolbar Using one […]

Matchware, the developer of the OpenMind 2 mind mapping software application, have just announced the launch of a free file viewer, which enables users of the program to share their OpenMind files with colleagues who aren’t users of it. If the user of OpenMind saves the file using the program’s "Pack & Go" feature, the […]