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 […]

Web-based mind mapping tools must be all the rage these days. In recent weeks, I’ve reported on Bubble.us and Thinkature. Now there’s MindMeister, a web-based mapping application that actually provides more than just simple mapping capabilities. With this well-designed app, you can: Change topic color and add symbols/icons to map branches Cut, copy and paste […]

NovaMind Software Pty. announced this week that it has added a number of services to its website, to provide enhanced support to its customers: A new user forum has been launched, where you can ask questions and share ideas with other NovaMind users. A fully searchable support database, where NovaMind users can find answers to […]

Simple, web-based mind mapping tools seem to be gaining in popularity lately. Earlier this week, I told you about Thinkature. Now I’ve just discovered another online visual mapping application: Bubbl.us. It uses several keyboard commands (Enter and Tab) to enable you to add topics and subtopics, while the mouse can be used to drag and […]