Mind mapping based solutions. Forum Experience.

Mind mapping based solutions. Forum Experience.

In this forum experience we write about solutions that base mind mapping as a basic technique.

compare Mind Pad with others

I find Mind Pad to be a great software, and thank you for your postings in forum and answers by e-mail.

I was using Mind Pad to create mind map and support brainstorm process. It would be great if there was any review that highlighs features and benefits of Mind Pad in comparison with other mind map products.

An interesting micro content application called TiddlyWikki

TiddlyWiki is an experimental Micro Content WikiWikiWeb.
It allows anyone to create personal Self-Contained hypertext documents that can be posted to any web server, sent by email or kept on a USB thumb drive.
It's written in HTML, CSS and JavaScript to run on any modern browser without needing any Server Side logic.

It could be very interesting if mind map software could output and input into this approach, especially in producing simple wikiwebsites, either for personal on desktop or even websites.

And what these TiddlyWiki do look like it has incredible potential. Even Blogging, RSS etc could benefit.

To try this -
TiddlyWikki

Panama is the first country adopting Cmaps nationwide

The Cmap software was designed to literally map out what scientists know in diagram form.
And now The Florida Institute for Human and Machine Cognition is providing the concept mapping software to individual schools as well as training teachers in Panama.
Software, first designed to preserve scientists' knowledge now can be used as a tool to help children learn.
Cmaps can be used to assess student knowledge, encourage thinking and problem solving instead of rote learning, organize information for writing projects and help teachers write new curricula.

Gaspar Tarte, who is spearheading education reform in Panama as the country's secretary of governmental innovation, wrote: We need to move education from a memorizing system and repetitive system to a dynamic system. We would like to use tools and a methodology that helps children construct knowledge, concept maps was the best tool that we found.
A Cmap is a series of concepts, usually nouns, linked by phrases or verbs.

To view details about this approach -
Fla. Concept Mapping Idea Going Global

To try this software-
Cmap Home Site

Interesting content management system - use together

TYPO3 is a free Open Source content management system for enterprise purposes on the web and in intranets. It offers full flexibility and extendability while featuring an accomplished set of ready-made interfaces, functions and modules.
TYPO3 can run on UNIX, Windows or Mac-OS shared hosted servers (you don't need root access).
It is standards-based, it also has a wide range of extensions, including front-end Wiki capabilities, XML support.

So, you can experiment with mind maps as navigation aids within its pages.
Also, if you use mind maps for content creation, you can think about how to create mind map - friendly content templates and import capabilities. Of cource, it depends on the mind mapping software you use.
TYPO3 has a multi-page content facility, which could house an exported map.

Read more about this here -
TYPO3 Home Site

Now you can use mind maps with SUSE LINUX!

Vym from Novell is a smart little open-source tool for mind mapping.
At first sight, a vym mind map might look like a child's scribble or drawing.
vym comes with the latest edition of SUSE LINUX Professional (9.3, at this time) or can be downloaded as RPM package for SUSE LINUX Professional 9.1 and 9.2 from SourceForge.

Main features:
- mind mapping (colors, icons);
- note taking (notes can be a part of the map);
- linking with other maps and documents;
- you can work with several different maps at the same time;
- background design.

Read more -
Novell Cool Solutions Feature and Vym Official Site

Free full-featured Synthis Process Modeler is available now

The Synthis Process Modeler is a flowchart-based documentation tool.
In support of the general release of its new Synthis Process Server product, Synthis Corporation, a provider of process documentation software, announced free permanent licenses for their full-featured Synthis Process Modeler desktop application.

The Synthis Process Server is a web-based content management server that enables companies to securely share, manage and control important documents and files.
Main capabilities:
- full- text search across an organization's entire process model;
- visual business processes documenting and mapping;
- linking process maps to supporting documentation such as Word files;
- generating Web-based documentation and reports that can be viewed using any Web browser.

Read more -
Press Release

Mind-Pad and MindManager

Mind-Pad seems a great product, however, I've been using Mindmanager X5 Pro for some time. Can you give me some ways or methods which could perhaps persuade me that Mind-Pad is a better product. I am interested in purchasing Mind-Pad, but only if it can offer a really new way for mindmapping etc..

Re: Mind-Pad and MindManager

Mind Pad supports "object-oriented" approach. Meaning your topics may be not just a text or picture boxes, but objects with variety of properties.

For instance, with Mind Pad you can create your own contact map, every topic will have a properties, such as "Name", "Phone", "E-mail" ... Read more: Contact map with Mind Pad

Imagine, you are brainstorming the idea of using some product to solve the problem. You would like to collect in mind map all the information about candidates -- name, price, web-site, short note and others. With Mind Pad you can easily design an object with properties you need (or use some default object or contact us for new object request). Read more about object-oriented mind mapping in Mind Pad

If you have a purchase decision that I'd like to recommend to purchase Mind Pad right now. We are now working on new version and it will have a lot of new features making Mind Pad competitive to Mind Manager and other products. As a result we will change the Mind Pad pricing (we will keep it in-expensive, but we will have to change the price). So now is the best time for purchase.

Thank you for your questions and I hope you will use Mind Pad

Thanks so much for your reply. There were three great things I liked about your response ...

1 - How quickly you replied.
2 - The detail about your product.
3 - Not bagging your opposition.

I purchased Mind-Pad earlier tonight after getting your reply and I look forward to the new features!

RG wrote: Mind-Pad seems a great product, however, I've been using Mindmanager X5 Pro for some time. Can you give me some ways or methods which could perhaps persuade me that Mind-Pad is a better product. I am interested in purchasing Mind-Pad, but only if it can offer a really new way for mindmapping etc

Now I feel Mind Pad to be a valuable software. MindManager is good, but with Mind Pad it's EASY to create good-looking stylish maps.
Also, I'm now learning contact map (using Person type object) and it looks great, more over, it's a good approach as important information is visualized.

For more information read an article http://www.mind-pad.com/solutions/contact-mind-map.htm

Mind mapping based solutions. Forum Experience.

Mind mapping based solutions. Forum Experience.

compare Mind Pad with others

An interesting micro content application called TiddlyWikki

Panama is the first country adopting Cmaps nationwide

Interesting content management system - use together

Now you can use mind maps with SUSE LINUX!

Free full-featured Synthis Process Modeler is available now

Mind-Pad and MindManager

Re: Mind-Pad and MindManager