Following up on my recent post reviewing a number of freely available, cross-platform GTD applications, I now present short reviews for a few mind-mapping tools. Again, the criteria were:
The tools have to be free (at least as in beer), and
The tools have to be cross-platform, either web-based or run in Windows and Linux.
I'd love to be able to test also on a Mac, but unless some kind soul decides to give me one, I'm limited to these two platforms for the moment. After some quite extensive searches, I arrived at the following list of tools to test:
Web-based:
Mindmeister
bubbl.us
Desktop
Freemind
Labyrinth
Compendium
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I have been trying to get David Allen's famous productivity method, GTD (Getting Things Done), to work for me, and in this effort I have tried numerous tools to help me along. Some of them rely on computers to run, others do not. However, since I spend most of my day in front of a computer, I found that a computer tool suits me best, since then I don't have to "switch environments" to take notes or check on something. Here are my experiences with what I would choose as the five best tools to use daily:
Nozbe
Nozbe ...