Mind Mapping Software

[Brad]

I had an amazing (to me at least) demo given to me during a meeting last night of mind mapping software.  We were having to choose between a number of Responses for our Request for Qualifications and we used MindNode software (Mac) to chart it all out. http://mindnode.com/. Of course that sort of locks you into the Mac ecosystem.

I did find one for Linux Mint http://freeplane.sourceforge.net/wiki/index.php/Home
Installed but have not tried it.

I can see where this would be great for brainstorming sessions, notes etc.

Anyone use Mind mapping software and how and which do you use?

[Drastic]

I've used them before but typically set up and time in usage negates any savings for me, but I didn't really give it a good run.

https://www.exobrain.co/
was recommended to me the other day, plan to take a look.

[Rooftop]

I use mindomo.  It's OK, but I mostly use it because everything else annoyed me. 

[Brad]

Exobrain might be just what I want. Web based would be good to maybe get it to work on Mint, iOS, Blackberry, and Android all at the same time. Plus the once and future Ubuntu phone.

[Gurtie]

ooh, like exobrain.

I wonder if I'll actually use it or revert to paper and pen though - I concentrate way better when I doodle and nothing does that as well as pen and paper!

[Rooftop]

Exobrain does look good.  From the demo video it looks slower to add lots of points than mindomo, but that might just be the video.

[Adam C]

ooh, like exobrain.

I wonder if I'll actually use it or revert to paper and pen though - I concentrate way better when I doodle and nothing does that as well as pen and paper!

Same here.  I have notebooks (the paper ones) stacked up all round my desks covered in scrawled diagrams that mean little to anyone else but me in the moment.  Not sure I'd have the patients to run that train of though through a mouse and keyboard

[Rooftop]

ooh, like exobrain.

I wonder if I'll actually use it or revert to paper and pen though - I concentrate way better when I doodle and nothing does that as well as pen and paper!

Same here.  I have notebooks (the paper ones) stacked up all round my desks covered in scrawled diagrams that mean little to anyone else but me in the moment.  Not sure I'd have the patients to run that train of though through a mouse and keyboard

I'm a paper note taker too.  I have piles of OCD friendly black moleskine (style) notebooks neatly arranged by date.  The inside is rather more chaotic.   I tried a lot of alternatives over the last few years: tablet, digital pen, handwriting recognition, laptop.  In meetings in particular paper just works better.  I do find i have to get those notes into a more structure form sometimes though - mindmap (or more usually just a spreadsheet) works well then.

[Drastic]

Man I'm glad to read others using paper for some of this.

I put all of my notes and data in a tree style note app, but when it comes to todo list, prioritizing work and just getting everything sorted out, I can't do it without pen and paper.

[ergophobe]

I've tried Freeplane.... kind of cool, but my mind doesn't map to mind mapping software very well