It helps me see connections better than anything. They have one on their web site with around 65,000 nodes! It doesn’t look complex because you only see a small piece at a time. It’s dynamic, meaning that any note clicked on becomes the center, showing the parents (yes, multiple parents makes a note, in effect, a multiple replicant), the children and the siblings. (2) when they work well, they became too complex and collapse of their own weight. The problems with most is that (1) they usually force you into a tree structure, unable to change the root, unless they are a concept map. Also if someone could tell me how Inspiration integrates with DT I would really appreciate it And I’ll do my best to answer any questions you might have. I would love to hear any feedback others have, regarding things I may have missed with these tools or other programs I should check out. But if you’re looking for a straightforward mindmapping tool with decent DEVONthink integration, MindNode seems to be the one to get. I’m still interested in trying out Inspiration because of some of its other features. It’s also the least expensive package I evaluated, another plus. It’s good news for me because with the exception of its hotkeys (which may be configurable, I’m not sure yet) I found it the most intuitive. Its documents are natively displayable by DT, and the printed PDF is fully searchable. I’m waiting on a response from support before I can try it out.Īt this point MindNode is in the lead for me. MindManager required me to register to download the demo, and since I already had three demos on my machine I didn’t feel like it The Inspiration demo said I didn’t have permission to run it. Two other products I’ve considered but haven’t evaluated yet are MindManager and Inspiration. Print dialog has option to scale to fit to one page which made it render nicely By default printed across multiple pages that made no sense in DT.It’s possible that via a different print config the text does become searchable, but I wasn’t able to figure it out. The central idea text does get indexed by DT, but none of the child nodes do. I had suspected this might be the case so my fallback plan was to print as PDF into DT. None of the products were natively searchable by DT, meaning that if I imported a document into DT and did a search on the content, I got back no hits. I want to feed my mindmaps into DTPO to initiate writing projects and have an ongoing visual aid for the structure, as well as general note-taking for deeper understanding. I mentioned that I’m using mindmaps for brainstorming and initial outlining for my projects. I use DTPO, but I don’t think I’ve used any special features in my tests so it should be applicable to all versions. I’d like to share my experience with DT integration. I’m not going to go into that, they’re all competent mindmap tools and you should try them for yourself. They all behave a bit differently and have their quirks. NovaMind Pro - $149 (express: $49, platinum: $249)įirst thing I did was check out the UIs.MindNode Pro - $20 (has a free edition too!).I downloaded trials for the following products: So far I’m using mindmapping primarily for outlining in a less structured/linear manner. Trying to generate and capture ideas in a heirarchical outline is effective but somewhat constraining for me. It’s a great tool for outlining for me especially, because I tend to have ideas bubble up in all sorts of places. I’m a complete mindmap newbie, but I’ve really enjoyed mindmapping so far. Ordpad seems to be just web.I’m looking at mindmap products and wanted to share my discoveries with the group as I think they may be of interest to some people. Freeplane I can see it is like marmite - love or hate it. I can see xmind is for linux and android, but I don't want to be locked into a subscription, I don't want web versions (don't trust em). I've gone through the previous post most suggestions (xmind/freeplane/orgpad), and just need to bounce my thinking off the group, I have a linux laptop and a chromebook, I'm looking to use mm software on both, and would like the data file to be open format. At some point I'd also like to print these off, which may span across multiple A4 pages, and would like the software to intelligently re-size/re-arrange so nothing is lost on the edges. I'm studying at the moment, handwriting my notes as a mindmap, works great, however, as I study other courses I'm running out of paper and so, am looking to digitise a large proportion of the notes so I can add as I go on.
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