Comments on: FreeMind for Mind Mapping /2007/05/13/freemind-for-mind-mapping/ David Szpunar: Owner, Servant 42 and Servant Voice Tue, 04 Aug 2009 21:59:21 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.5.2 By: clare b /2007/05/13/freemind-for-mind-mapping/comment-page-1/#comment-14924 Tue, 04 Aug 2009 21:59:21 +0000 http://infotech.davidszpunar.com/2007/05/13/freemind-for-mind-mapping/#comment-14924 I have special needs and I have tried to download this software to no avail can anyone provide an idiot proof way of doing so with VERY clear step by step instructions?

]]> By: Gaelen O'Connell /2007/05/13/freemind-for-mind-mapping/comment-page-1/#comment-108 Mon, 14 May 2007 20:35:43 +0000 http://infotech.davidszpunar.com/2007/05/13/freemind-for-mind-mapping/#comment-108 Hi Roy,

You’re right about our focus on project management. We have a new Jetpack solution coming out with 19 sample project management maps and additional white papers you might like. You can check it out here and get some free sample project management maps for download:

http://www.mindjet.com/us/jetpack/?s=2

Mindjet also offers a series of free webinars, that show the thought leaders and parter integrations you talk about at this link:

http://www.mindjet.com/us/company/events/webinars_recorded.php?s=3

]]> By: Roy /2007/05/13/freemind-for-mind-mapping/comment-page-1/#comment-106 Mon, 14 May 2007 01:46:16 +0000 http://infotech.davidszpunar.com/2007/05/13/freemind-for-mind-mapping/#comment-106 ve used it to lay out two small > projects and make sure I wasn’t forgetting > anything. I'm using Freemind's 0.9.0 Beta 9 and haven't hit any snags yet. I've used mindmapping for project planning for many years. I have Mind Manager which is really good (bought it while it was sub-$100 - I won't pay their upgrade prices though), but for routine mindmapping, FreeMind is plenty good enough. Once you start laying out early thoughts about projects with mindmapping, there are two things that I've found: The mindmaps make a natural structure to hold and manage all the files and information around a project; and mindmaps for significant projects soon get too big to be usable. At that point, I switch to 3D Topicscape - see http://www.topicscape.com/ This can import a FreeMind 0.9.0 (not 0.8.0) file and build a 3D Topicscape structure from it. And the way Topicscape is put together, it helps in managing information - many files can be attached to a node, things can be held in more places than one without copies of shortcuts and so on - as well as working with very big projects. (You can even do a round-trip, back to FreeMind.) On the cost of Mind Manager, I think it's worth mentioning that it does a lot more for project management than just mindmapping. And there are add-ons that help with Getting Things Done (GTD) like Gyronix, that many people organize their lives around. Roy]]> > So far I’ve used it to lay out two small
> projects and make sure I wasn’t forgetting
> anything.
I’m using Freemind’s 0.9.0 Beta 9 and haven’t hit any snags yet. I’ve used mindmapping for project planning for many years. I have Mind Manager which is really good (bought it while it was sub-$100 – I won’t pay their upgrade prices though), but for routine mindmapping, FreeMind is plenty good enough.
Once you start laying out early thoughts about projects with mindmapping, there are two things that I’ve found: The mindmaps make a natural structure to hold and manage all the files and information around a project; and mindmaps for significant projects soon get too big to be usable.
At that point, I switch to 3D Topicscape – see http://www.topicscape.com/
This can import a FreeMind 0.9.0 (not 0.8.0) file and build a 3D Topicscape structure from it. And the way Topicscape is put together, it helps in managing information – many files can be attached to a node, things can be held in more places than one without copies of shortcuts and so on – as well as working with very big projects.
(You can even do a round-trip, back to FreeMind.)
On the cost of Mind Manager, I think it’s worth mentioning that it does a lot more for project management than just mindmapping. And there are add-ons that help with Getting Things Done (GTD) like Gyronix, that many people organize their lives around.

Roy

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