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Sunday, November 11, 2007

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Tony Buzan's iMindMap Software

Although mindmapping has its origins from quite a few sources, Tony Buzan lays claim as the “Inventor of Mind Mapping.” He certainly has had an impact on the development of using mind mapping as a tool. Well now he’s selling his own mindmapping software, iMindMap. Available for Windows, Mac, and Linux, it looks to be a competitor for MindJet’s MindMap Pro, and from what I’ve seen works well with a Tablet PC. I’ve just run across this software (thanks to a link from Marc Orchant) and will be checking it out soon. There is a 30 day free trial if you’re interested in checking this out.

In the meantime, here is a video that not only gives you an idea of the software but a little background on mindmapping in general.

Tags: Tony+Buzan, mindmapping, Tablet+PC

Software | MindManager | Tablet PC

11/11/2007 8:17 AM MST

Tony Buzan's iMindMap Software Comments [8] | Digg This | del.icio.us | Citations

Sunday, November 11, 2007 10:34:11 AM (Mountain Standard Time, UTC-07:00)

Although imindmap is quite different -visually speaking- compared with the rest of the products, I'm not sure if this difference justify migration from other products like mindmanager, i.e. I'm gonna test the product, but I'm afraid that I can be biased after years of using mindmanager for my professional tasks

Juan Chulilla

Sunday, November 11, 2007 10:56:01 AM (Mountain Standard Time, UTC-07:00)

Very nice of them to support Macs and Linux, i just tried it and it runs very well on my Linux-Tablet.

I played around with it but i'm still undetermined if a mindmapping-software would give me any advantages over drawing the mindmaps all freehand (on my Tablet of course).

schmolch

Sunday, November 11, 2007 12:39:22 PM (Mountain Standard Time, UTC-07:00)

Who knows, maybe Mr. Buzan will do more to popularize Tablets than Mr. Gates. If he has a large influence and following, people will look at his effortless use of a pen over the computer screen and say, "My computer can't do that."

They may then start thinking like schmolch above and say, "If my computer could do that, why would I need his software? I guess to make the lines and printing more artful if one doesn't do calligraphy."

Mike Moore

Sunday, November 11, 2007 3:24:17 PM (Mountain Standard Time, UTC-07:00)

I am using Freemind for all my note Taking and task organization. Together with ritePen it is quite at the level of thes more polished mind mapping tools, but free. And it has a couple of additional features, e.g., can be easily published on a Website as it is Java based.

pibach

Sunday, November 11, 2007 5:32:32 PM (Mountain Standard Time, UTC-07:00)

Timing is everything- I just came across this also and even thought about posting something here about it. Downloaded the demo, and must say I like it- it is a different experience than mindmapper, mostly because it is far more "organic"- it is very different being able to draw lines the way you want to, it is much more like the experience of mind mapping the way Buzan teaches it. It doesn't interface with office, but I think I will keep giving it a try.

Brian J.

Sunday, November 11, 2007 6:01:36 PM (Mountain Standard Time, UTC-07:00)

pretty nice product - lacks the polish of MindManager and doesn't support the TIP, nor ink, that I can find.

Rob

Sunday, November 11, 2007 6:34:04 PM (Mountain Standard Time, UTC-07:00)

Tried it. Yes it lacks ink. Closer look at the video shows that they are using ritePen for this. Neurons-like connections are nice, but that makes it rather resource intensive and slow to use. For real big mindmaps and day to day use Freemind seems to be the most professional and functional.

pibach

Sunday, November 11, 2007 7:51:39 PM (Mountain Standard Time, UTC-07:00)

Shit, i just started to like it and made a little mindmap and after about 20 minutes its already slowing down.
I opened some bigger sample mindmaps and moving them around i get about 2 fps.

Too bad, they really look more polished then my handdrawn maps.

schmolch

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