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Mindmapping on Vista - with the Ribbon GUI!
Published January 23rd, 2007 in .NET, Technology blog
I am a big fan of mindmapping and a regular user of Mind Manager X5 pro when I was running XP on my system. However, X5 Pro is not compatible with running on Vista. Looking at other mindmap programs revealed a couple of free ones however both required Java (Freemind & Compedium). I have never been very comfortable with Java.
Then I came across Novamind. Not one that I had ever looked at before. Net 2.0 based, lovely GUI and the Ribbon!
Downloading and istalling the 30 day trial was painless (except for the now familiar Vista UAC dialogues). A day after I had installed an update was released, the program notified me of this on launch and offered to download the update and install it. 2 clicks and it was updated to the new version. This was also pretty impressive.
The program has a mind map tutor with step by step tutorial building up to a complex mindmap with all the bells and whistles.
I am very impressed so far. Novamind lends itself to both quick and simple note-taking and brain storming mindmaps as well as complicated maps with graphical background, icons and attached documents/resources. I think I have found my replacement to Mind Manager.
Sumeet Chadha : Birmingham, United Kingdom
"This is a must have"
Well - I do not want to duplicate the - true - statements in the other testimonials, just one thing should tell it all: NovaMind set a personal record for me. That is: first shareware ever purchased within 1 hour after downloading the trial version.
After moving from Win XP back to Mac OS (after moving in the opposite direction 5 years ago) the only application I was really missing was Mind Manager and for a while I was afraid I would have to live with outlining tools such as OmniOutliner or Notebook (which are both very good products I do recommend if outlining is what you want to do). But outlining tools do not offer the amount of assistance and visual clarity in developing complex concepts, while being an enormous time saver in being a development, presentation and marketing tool at the same time.
Honestly, I have been involved in several large-scale international consulting projects and the difference between showing decision makers an outline (or presentation) and allowing them to actually "feel" how much effort and thought went into creating "their" solution by presenting a Mind Map is enormous and priceless.
NovaMind offers exactly that while even being easier to use than the Windows counter part. Add to that the reasonable pricing and (compared to many other current Mac OS X apps) broad import/export capabilities... (cannot even think of words to describe my happiness finding out how well the Mind Manager import works having more than 1700 of them at hand) this is a must have. Love it.
Uwe Rueckeshaeuser : Frankfurt, Germany/Bangkok, Thailand
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