Mind Mapping Software
February 22nd, 2007 | Filed under Technology.I’m doing an assignment for university that needs me to create a mind map. Since these school computers haven’t any mind mapping software installed on them I went to find a web based version. Surprisingly this isn’t something the might of Google has created yet (give them time though 
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A bit of searching came across this post on a blog dedicated to Mind Mapping software. It reviews a web application called MindMeister which is an entirely web-based mind mapping tool. It’s all DHTML and Javascript, the way Google do their apps (I assume, it’s definitely not Java or Flash) and is pretty good. There are keyboard shortcuts allowing you to pour ideas into the map without too much extra thought. It exports as RTF or GIF and has some collaboration features too.
Currently it’s an invite-only beta, but I have nine invites left, and sending an email to privatebeta @ mindmeister.com will give you one. You can also get them by subscribing to their newsletter.
I like this new “web 2.0″ thing, I use many different computers each day - as a teacher there’s at least 200 PCs that I can log into and use, and they all forget my settings at logout. Also I can’t install new applications on them. However, providing I have web access I can still get to all my mail, calendar and now do productive things too
