I am still computerless (long story still being written) so today I thought I might share impressions as I am have more time on these two really good apps .... I took a mindmap from the Mindjet newsletter and saved it to my desktop to import into the two applications and here are the results ...
The first to go was Mindomo (both loaded quickly and without incident) ... the richness of the choices and the ability to add task info and a more visual layout are instantly appealing. You can see the Office 2007 like ribbon above for use and the export options are good (PNG, JPG, GIF) ... also notice the publish and print options that give you even greater flexibility especially if you have printer drivers like OneNote or PDF printing ... you could use this almost exclusively ... the app loads into a separate window to create a large piece of working real estate ... so far this has worked without incident ...
The second load went into MindMeister ... this application is not nearly as rich or visual, but it is quick and efficient ... as you can see by the capture, this presents a much more spartan choice of options ... this may be an example of the less is more school of thought ... I find myself less distracted and focused using this ... the strength though lies in the export choices .... as you can see below, you not only can use FreeMind (good freeware mind mapping tool) but go to text which would be an export in an outline for word processing and the other option to go to a MindManager file directly ... you have pretty much got it covered by doing this ... two compatibility with MindManager ...
Love both of them you can see where you could use one or the other depending on your mood and what you want to accomplish ...
So in keeping with the mobility issue ... having these two choices for your toolbox enables project management, brainstorming, idea forming and ??? on the fly from anywhere ... mission accomplished ....
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