Comapping has released some new features to their excellent online mind-mapping tool, and they asked me to take a look and write a few words about it. Took me a while to do it (seems like everything does lately), but finally I managed to give this the attention it needed to come up with a decent (I hope!) review.
Comapping is one of the better online mind mapping tools, and I first heard of it while researching for the first series of mind mapping tool reviews here at Daily Iteration. The newly added features were really important things that ...
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
One ...
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 ...