Mindmapping Resources

posted at 02:18:53
By Flipping Heck!

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Project Management

We're looking into using Mind mapping at work as a means of capturing customer requirements when we're onsite and then using this mind map to draw up a Technical Requirements Specification. I was asked to write up a list of software as I'd had quite a bit of experience trailing different mind mapping products.

Below is a list of some of the software I found. If any one has any more (preferably free) ideas, please post a comment!

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Concept Draw

http://www.conceptdraw.com/en/products/mindmap/main.php
30 Day Trial
$249 - Single user licence ($1120 - 5 user)
WinXP/OSX

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MindManager

http://www.mindjet.com/uk/download/
5 or 21 Day Trial
£149 - Single user licence
WinXP/OSX

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NovaMind

http://www.nova-mind.com/
30 day trial
£54.29 GBP - Single user licence (£260.48 - 5 User licence)
WinXP/OSX

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FreeMind

http://freemind.sourceforge.net/wiki/index.php/Main_Page
N/A
Free
WinXP/OSX

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Compendium

http://compendium.open.ac.uk/openlearn/index.html
N/A
Free (Non-Commercial??)
WinXP/OSX

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Gliffy - Online Mind Mapping

http://www.gliffy.com/
N/A
Free registration required
Cross Platform

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DeepMehta

http://www.deepamehta.de/docs/download.html
(Note, requires:
# Java 1.4 Standard Edition
http://java.sun.com/
# MySQL 4
http://www.mysql.com/
# Apache Ant 1.6
http://ant.apache.org/
# Optional: Apache Tomcat or another servlet engine)
N/A
Free
Cross Platform with above installed

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Visual Mind

http://www.visual-mind.com/downloadm.htm
30 day trial
$229.00 - Single user licence ($895.00 - 5 User licence)
WinXP

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