Mindmapping

This is not everybodies tool: Mindmapping. You may hate it or love it. I love it. It help me to order my jeopardized thoughts.

Originally I used MindManager, but that became ridiculously expensive. Then I resorted to XMind. XMind is an installable being ported to a number of platforms (Java-based, yuck, I hate Java). The community-version does enough for me.

The crux is, that I am not always at home or working at my own computer. Mindmup is a viable way out. Regrettably they do not really propagate their free plan. Just having this is better than nothing. For real work I still prefer Xmind.

Pitfalls: Mindmup maps are only private when stored on a google-drive. On mindmup’s cloud storage in the free plan they are public! The free plan only stores maps on Mindmup’s cloud for 6 months. So for temporary stuff that is not your special Kung-Fu, this may be ok. You might still prefer PortableApps, because Xmind can be integrated there.

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