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FreeMind is a premier free mind-mapping software written in Java. The recent development has hopefully turned it into high productivity tool. We are proud that the operation and navigation of FreeMind is faster than that of MindManager because of one-click "fold / unfold" and "follow link" operations.

yEd is a powerful diagram editor that can be used to quickly create diagrams manually or import external data for analysis and auto-magically arrange even large data sets by just pressing a button. You can use yEd to quickly create flow charts, BPMN and UML diagrams, organization charts, mind maps, and many other kinds of diagrams, graphs, and networks. Choose from a wide range of highly sophisticated layout algorithms to automatically arrange diagrams in no time. An intuitive and visually appealing user interface makes creating diagrams fun. Once a diagram has been created, it’s easy to save, print, or export it to popular formats like PDF, SWF, EMF, SVG, JPEG, GIF, PNG, or HTML image maps. »

XMind is a brainstorming and mind mapping application. It provides a rich set of different visualization styles, and allows sharing of created mind maps via their website.The application is available as an Open Source version and as a paid commercial 'Pro' version. XMind Pro offers extended features like Gantt charts, a presentation mode, export features (PDF, Office, MindManager and Freemind), audio notes, a merge feature, privately online sharing, and more. The Open Source version is otherwise a very functional and powerful 'Mind Managing' software. »

Draw lets you produce anything from a quick sketch to a complex plan, and gives you the means to communicate with graphics and diagrams. With a maximum page size of 300cm by 300cm, Draw is a an excellent package for producing technical drawings, general posters, and much else.

TheBrain helps you organize all your Web pages, contacts, documents, emails and files in a context-driven visual map.

The ultimate replacement for spreadsheets, mind mappers, outliners, PIMs, text editors and small databases. Suitable for any kind of data organization, such as To-do lists, calendars, project management, brainstorming, organizing ideas, planning, requirements gathering, presentation of information, etc. Its like a spreadsheet, immediately familiar, but much more suitable for complex data because its hierarchical. Its like a mind mapper, but more organized and compact. Its like an outliner, but in more than one dimension. Its like a text editor, but with structure. »

The Visual Understanding Environment or VUE is a free, open source concept mapping application written in Java.

Create deep visual documents, adaptable and multi-level diagrams, flowcharts, concept maps, mind maps and models.Users can:- Define their own types of nodes and connectors, to reuse nomenclature, symbols, details structure.- Add Details to your Ideas (attachments, links, custom-fields, tables)- Ideas can have a whole new diagram inside (multilevel/composable)- Can generate a report for the whole Composition document.- Reports are exportable as PDF/XPS and to HTML.- Collapse/Expande supertrees or subtrees of connected ideas.- Add Markers to your ideas (predefinables).- Include rich descriptions, versioning, complements (stamps, regions/boundaries, call-outs, notes, legends, cards). »

This software empowers users to construct, navigate, share, and criticize knowledge models represented as Concept Maps. The toolkit is platform independent and network enabled, allowing the users to build, and collaborate during the construction of concept maps with colleagues anywhere on the network, as well as, share and navigate through others models distributed on servers throughout Internet.

ConnectedText is a powerful but simple information management system. It is based on wiki principles and is a free-form note-taking and note-management application that allows you to keep an unlimited number of notes in one or many files. The information can be accessed at an instant through sophisticated full-text searches, which can span all open files. Navigation between topics is a breeze. ConnectedText works like a notebook with an unlimited number of pages, which can be linked with one another easily by wiki-type links. It is also a free text database with hyper-linking ability. This provides you with a fast and easy way to store, structure and organize all your notes. It has a very capable outliner. ConnectedText's outlining view works like a one-pane outliner. But it can also be made to work two-pane outliner. Topics can be dragged into the outline view, for instance. It can also be used as a clipboard collection tool. When the clipboard catcher is turned on, anything copied to the Windows clipboard is automatically transferred to a ConnectedText topic. You can also drag and drop information from almost any source on the Web or your computer. »

Blumind is a small mind map editing and viewing tool, running on the Windows platform, supporting English and Simplified and Traditional Chinese interface.

VYM (View Your Mind) is a tool to generate and manipulate maps which show your thoughts. Such maps can help you to improve your creativity and effectivity. You can use them for time management, to organize tasks, to get an overview over complex contexts, to sort your ideas etc.

Compendium is a software tool providing a flexible visual interface for managing the connections between information and ideas.

Highly visual software for planning support used by strategists, process improvement specialists, and teachers. Windows and Mac OS X.

NodeMind is powerful, reliable and ergonomic tool for visualization and design. With the help of this program you are able to create schemes and mind maps, plan events, generate new ideas, exchange information structures, carry out decision synthesis, manage projects and hold on presentation