My friend and colleagues Brad Degraf and Jon Ramer teamed up to get me into MindMeister, on on-line mind mapping tool with a bunch of great features. I'll do a How-to on this later, after I've used it a bit.
But for now, I wanted to review it.
Here is a map I did for this article:
So the first nice thing is that you can embed a mind map into your blog posts quite easily. (We'll see how it survives feeds though). You merely select "export", copy the code. and drop it into your post.
Sharing with friends is just is easy. Simply invite someone you need to collaborate with to MindMeister and share the mindmap with them.
You can select between "viewers" who can see your mind maps or collaborators who can actively edit the mindmaps.
You can also import or export to your favorite mind map programs, including Freemind and Mindmanager.
The controls are similar to both Freemind and MindManager. Insert starts a new node in the next level, enter creates a new node in the same level, etc.
After I've had a chance to use it for a few weeks, I'll do a how-to.
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Looks like it's been nicely sprinkled with magic Web 2.0 pixie dust, but I'm afraid I still don't understand what mind maps are good for in the first place.
Maybe I'm just not a particularly spatial thinker and I should take it on faith that other people are.
Posted by: Prentiss Riddle | 08 May 2007 at 11:32
The mind map doesn't survive my feed. :(
Posted by: whereswilliam | 09 May 2007 at 00:45