Dec

Using Web-Based Mind Mapping Tools

Interestingness Top 20 by Ctd 2005

(1) bubbl.us has several great features:

Create colorful mind maps online
Share and work with friends
Embed your mind map in your blog or website
Email and print your mind map
Save your mind map as an image

For a mind map about how to use bubbl.us, use this.

Text 2 Mind Map is a web application that converts texts to mind maps.
It takes a structured list of words or sentences, interprets it,
and draws a mind map out of them.

It has a “freeze map” checkbox to make the layout sticky, then drag the nodes around to rearrange the layout.

From freewaregenius:

“Text 2 Mind Map is listed as a work in progress, but it’s very complete in what it does. While it’s not as advanced as the other sites on the list, it is the most simple to use. You just make an outline of the text that you want in the left pane. Use Tab to indent and Shift+Tab to outdent to make the order of your thoughts. You can easily edit the list while you’re working on it or after the chart has been made.”

(3) Lovely Charts:

“With Lovely Charts’ extremely simple and intuitive drag’n drop drawing mechanism, you’ll be able to focus on what really matters. You won’t have to draw boxes or arrows, and you won’t have to worry about what symbol to use.”
“Check out our screencast to discover how it works, we’re pretty confident you’ll like what you’ll see.”

“You think…we draw” “You’ll be up and running in less than 2 minutes and it is 100% free.”

From freewaregenius:

“To get started with Lovely Charts, just create account and enter the verification code that’s e-mailed to you. You’ll have to have Adobe Flash installed for your browser, but you can quickly start creating diagrams for whatever purpose you need. Some cool features of Lovely Charts includes opacity control for each symbol and the ability to quickly select a different symbol in the same library group from the right-click menu. You can also control the line width and arrow end of any pointing lines and align the symbols to a grid.”

(4) Creately:

“Collaborate with your team and clients with easy sharing, publishing and post-it style comments. Multi version support means you never lose your work.”

“Create and draw: flowcharts–network diagrams–organizational charts–UML diagrams–sitemaps and SWOT templates”

Explore Creately.com:

From freewaregenius:

“Creately is the full-blown experience and the best tool out of this list. It is a data driven, online diagramming & design suite all in one sharp web application. With Creately, you have a package that is much more comparable to the full-blown commercial suites like Microsoft Visio. You can sign up for an account to get started immediately. Creately gives you a lot for free: unlimited public diagrams, 5 people collaborating on a diagram at most, the ability to publish/export, 10 megabytes of storage, and SSL protected connections. With the basic account, all exported documents are watermarked with the Creately logo. You can upgrade to the Creately Plus! account.”