Thursday, January 27, 2011

XMind - Mind mapping and brainstorming tool

It's hard to come by a free tool that allows you to minimalistically visualize your ideas. Spider web or mind-map diagrams are great ways to chart central ideas and subsequent supporting or off shoots.

XMind is an open source program that enables elaborate mind mapping with great click creation of items and realignment of tasks and options with ease. It allows you to export the charts to a variety of formats, including but not limited to PDFs and image files.

There is a professional version with an yearly subscription, but unless you work in a heavy requirements surround with the needed capability of project management, collaboration or presentation requirements then the free version suffices.

I find it not only a great way to outline ideas and projects, but also a handy to do list as every idea I have is listed and clearly prepped with subtopics. Visit the site to download the installation file.

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