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Old 09-23-2017, 11:11 PM   #1
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Mind Mapping Software


I'm looking for someone that has experience using mind mapping software.

Someone that can explain their past experience with it, share what their observations where/are, how well did it work for them etc. Did they find a specific software that they have used and prefer.

Oh yeah and something that works with Ubuntu based system like Elementary OS.

Thanks in advance:-
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Old 09-24-2017, 08:39 AM   #2
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I'm looking for someone that has experience using mind mapping software.

Someone that can explain their past experience with it, share what their observations where/are, how well did it work for them etc. Did they find a specific software that they have used and prefer.

Oh yeah and something that works with Ubuntu based system like Elementary OS.

Thanks in advance:-
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Bwah.

I have very good experiences with an old mind mapping software called "kdissert". Unfortunately the development of this was discontinued with version 1.0.7 back in 2007. It depends on alot of KDE3 libs, but has since been replaced by (what I find useless) "Semantik".

Kdissert unlike Semantik was intuitive to use. The mind mapping software available today aside from Semantik that I know are some Java based things. Huge programs and unecessarily java based.

If anyone knows python and c++ they could rewrite kdissert

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Old 09-24-2017, 11:13 AM   #3
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i had a quick search earlier, it seems this was a big thing (in the linux world) 5-10 years ago.
no personal experiences to share.
what experiences are you looking for?
technical, about the software itself?
or whether it actually helps to - do what? map the mind?
 
Old 09-24-2017, 05:50 PM   #4
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I have played with FreeMind in the past. It provided a way to accumulate and organise information for a presentation in HTML format. I did it as an exercise to avoid using the ubiquitous PowerPoint. It worked well, but for me there were no productivity gains, so I have not pursued it. YMMV.
 
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I found topic fascinating, so DDGoo|ed it. Found xMind as: best linux Mind Mapping Software.

Let us know how it goes! Thanks for all your tons on help on LQ!!!

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Old 09-24-2017, 07:34 PM   #6
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I have played with FreeMind in the past. It provided a way to accumulate and organise information for a presentation in HTML format. I did it as an exercise to avoid using the ubiquitous PowerPoint. It worked well, but for me there were no productivity gains, so I have not pursued it. YMMV.
Thanks allend:-

I'd like to hear from more members on this.

I'll look up Free Mind online.
 
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If anyone knows python and c++ they could rewrite kdissert
I read"Python" book from cover to cover but I'm not that good with it.
And aside from that I don't know c++:-

Thanks for sharing zeebra:-
 
Old 09-25-2017, 12:07 AM   #8
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https://www.freeplane.org/wiki/index.php/Main_Page

Does probably more than you need.
 
Old 09-25-2017, 04:33 PM   #9
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https://www.freeplane.org/wiki/index.php/Main_Page

Does probably more than you need.
Thanks for the link.
 
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After downloading and unzipping Freeplane I'm looking at all of the directories scratching my head and thinking does this software have to be built? <OR> do I just need to install the dependencies and than run the Freeplane.sh script?

I'm trying to install Freeplane on Slackware. Later I found the Slackware build script for freeplane here:
https://github.com/GwNih/SlaGware/bl...ane.SlackBuild

Code:
bash-4.3$ ./freeplane.sh
which: no java in (/usr/local/bin:/usr/bin:/bin:/usr/games:/usr/lib64/kde4/libexec:/usr/lib64/qt/bin)
ERROR:   Couldn't find a java virtual machine,
         define JAVACMD, JAVA_BINDIR, JAVA_HOME or PATH.
 
Old 09-28-2017, 04:02 AM   #11
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a java app.
is java installed & in your PATH?
 
Old 09-28-2017, 05:01 AM   #12
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specific software that they have used and prefer.
I can strongly recommend View Your Mind, which I've been using for many years.

The Java alternatives (freeplane, freemind) seemed surprisingly sluggish (I suppose that's Java GUIs in general).
 
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a java app.
is java installed & in your PATH?
Java is installed:-

Code:
[ installed ] - gcc-java-5.3.0-x86_64-3
But I don't think it's in my PATH from the directory that Freeplane is in:-
 
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I can strongly recommend View Your Mind, which I've been using for many years.

The Java alternatives (freeplane, freemind) seemed surprisingly sluggish (I suppose that's Java GUIs in general).
Thanks
 
Old 09-29-2017, 08:20 AM   #15
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Java is installed:-

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[ installed ] - gcc-java-5.3.0-x86_64-3
But I don't think it's in my PATH from the directory that Freeplane is in:-
sorry, i think you need a runtime environment instead, usually jre-something.
 
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