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Online brain storm

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Mind map

A mind map (or mind-map) is a diagram used to represent words, ideas, tasks or other items linked to and arranged radically around a central key word or idea. It is used to generate, visualize, structure and classify ideas, and as an aid in study, organization, problem solving, and decision making.

It is an image-centered diagram that represents semantic or other connections between portions of information. By presenting these connections in a radial, non-linear graphical manner, it encourages a brainstorming approach to any given organizational task, eliminating the hurdle of initially establishing an intrinsically appropriate or relevant conceptual framework to work within.

A mind map is similar to a semantic network or cognitive map but there are no formal restrictions on the kinds of links used.

Most often the map involves images, words, and lines. The elements are arranged intuitively according to the importance of the concepts and they are organized into groupings, branches, or areas. The uniform graphic formulation of the semantic structure of information on the method of gathering knowledge, may aid recall of existing memories.

Mind map software

Online brain storm can help you to find a new ideas.

Description of Online Brain storm software:

At the center of screen you will see a main idea.

Use the button add Node and Delete node for developing online brain storm diagram.

One click on the node. Then change the title of it.

Press Store-Load button for storage brain storm in to the internet Data Base.

You can free use and copy this flash movie. Send it for your friends and business partners.

What Free Mind is good for

Current users of Free Mind use it for the following purposes:

Keeping track of projects, including subtasks, state of subtasks and time recording

Project workplace, including links to necessary files, executables, source of information and of course information

Workplace for internet research using Google and other sources

Keeping a collection of small or middle sized notes with links on some area which expands as needed. Such a collection of notes is sometimes called knowledge base.

Essay writing and brainstorming, using colors to show which essays are open, completed, not yet started etc, using size of nodes to indicate size of essays. I don't have one map for one essay, I have one map for all essays. I move parts of some essays to other when it seems appropriate.

Keeping a small database of something with structure that is either very dynamic or not known in advance. The main disadvantage of such approach when compared to traditional database applications are poor query possibilities, but I use it that way anyway - contacts, recipes, medical records etc. You learn about the structure from the additional data items you enter. For example, different medical records use different structure and you do not have to analyze all the possible structures before you enter the first medical record.

Commented internet favorites or bookmarks, with colors and fonts having the meaning you want.

Alternatives to using Online brain storm

To achieve that which FreeMind offers, you can use variety of tools.

Free or freeware mind mapping program, for instance Thinkgraph (http://www.thinkgraph.com), VYM - View Your Mind (http://www.insilmaril.de/vym/) or Kdissert (http://freehackers.org/~tnagy/kdissert/). Thinkgraph is not open source licenced, and in our view falls back behind FreeMind in terms of ease of use and look-and-feel. VYM is licenced under GNU GPL, with no distribution for Windows available; comparative evaluation to FreeMind is missing. Kdissert is licenced under GNU GPL, and is not available for Windows; evaluation is missing as well.

Commercial mind mapping program, for instance MindManager (http://www.mindjet.com/), Inspiration (http://www.inspiration.com/), MindGenius (http://www.mindgenius.com/), Visual Mind (http://www.visual-mind.com/) or MindMapper (http://www.mindmapperusa.com/).

Note editor / reference manager / PIM - personal information manager, for instance open source Key Note (http://www.tranglos.com/free/keynote.html) for Windows. In the case of Key Note, you obtain folding, much richer text formatting than in FreeMind, many small notes in one file and it is quite easy to reorganize the structure of your notes. It is not so fast when it comes to changing the color of nodes and not so intuitive when you move things around. It is not possible to set a link to a node, only inside the note, which is sort of equivallent of FreeMind's node without children. Key Note is much faster because it is not written in Java, but it runs on Windows platform only. Definitely worth having a look at. In Linux, the hierarchical rich text note editor TuxCards (http://www.tuxcards.de/) may be of interest.

Text editor with Outline mode, e.g. MS Word (http://www.microsoft.com/office/), LyX (http://www.lyx.org/) or Emacs (http://www.xemacs.org/). Outline mode enables you to fold headings and move complete "nodes" (chapters, sections, subsection) around, as well as changing the levels of the nodes. The convenience and speed of operation in the areas of restructuring, organizing, overviewing and adding items does not reach that of FreeMind, but on the other hand: if you already use one of these editors, you can avoid the extravagance of installing and learning to use a new tool and gain part of what FreeMind offers that way.

Text editor with Folding mode, e.g. Emacs (http://www.xemacs.org/), Vim (http://www.vim.org/) or jEdit (http://www.jedit.org). Again, you achieve information hiding, but the overheads of using folding mode when compared to FreeMind are considerable.

Outliner (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Outliner), e.g. cross-platform Java outline editor (http://outliner.sourceforge.net/) or Microsoft Windows based Outliner (http://hardtware.de/index.cgi?site=products&action=outliner). Compared to FreeMind, these programs are rather rudimentary. Another option is cross-platform Python-based outliner Leo (http://webpages.charter.net/edreamleo/front.html) (Python Licence); evaluation is missing.

A concept map editor, like freeware CmapTools (http://cmap.ihmc.us/), GNU GPL-licenced Conzilla (http://www.conzilla.org/), or freeware Compendium (http://www.compendiuminstitute.org/) (written in Java, and relying on database). Unlike mind maps, concept maps are general graphs rather than trees.