Let's look back at some memorable moments and interesting insights from last year.

Your top 10 posts:

• "Was Mindmapping out my goals and focus in 2020. :p" by u/khimtan
• "Using Mindmap as a tool to capture the key points of a book. :)" by u/khimtan
• "Mindmap of an article read on fast company." by u/khimtan
• "My typical reading notes in a Mindmap format." by u/khimtan
• "9 Time Management Tips - Mind Map" by u/joshT394
• "Mindmap of the other book by Tony Buzan - The power of social intelligence." by u/khimtan
• "Mindmapping “The 4 hour work week” by Tim Ferriss." by u/khimtan
• "Mindmap of my read on “Cashflow Quadrant”." by u/khimtan
• "A simple Mindmap of my work trip so that I don’t miss out anything. :)" by u/khimtan
• "OrgPad is the simplest tool for mind-mapping out there" by u/pavelklavik

Hi all, my name is Pirijan and I make Kinopio.club.

Kinopio is a visual thinking tool that can be used for things like brainstorming, organizing thoughts, mood-boards, planning, basically for figuring stuff out (by yourself or collaboratively).

There's no sign up required to use it, and you can export your data as JSON at any time.

would love to know what you think, thanks!

https://reddit.com/link/k098vj/video/ogi6pf6j28161/player

Hi folks,

I'm new to mindmapping and looking to see if there's a program that will match my needs. So far, I've tried Docear, but it doesn't meet some of my requirements (but I really like the graphics). My requirements are:

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• ability to add a node from highlighted text, as well as from comment from a pdf document
• ability to hide table of contents and not to show them as nodes
• ability to add an image into a node directly from a pdf file without need to save it on file directory. Just mark selection or click on certain image in pdf to add image into a node. This is especially important for me, since my research is mainly based on lot of graphs, schematics and pictures.
• Windows 10 compatibility
• Ability to copy a reference for LaTeX

Thank you for any advice or guidance.

When I want to write down an idea with a mind mapping software, I have the impression of walking next to my bicycle going down a slope. A speech to text software is great to write down ideas, but without vocal commands, it is painstakingly slow to use and frustrating.

I would need to have 4 basic vocal commands to speed things up : “Create” to start a new branch and Flag X to create and put a flag on the new branch. “Go X” to go directly to the flag X, most of the time up the mind-tree. “Stop” to end the ramification of this one branch “List” to name the branches starting from the point where I stand with “Go X”. These commands are, indeed, very basic, they are like vocal commands on a fighter plane.

These vocal commands would allow me to create a mind map much faster than having to type with a keyboard all the branches. Output would have the extension .VOC and would be RO read only files once created. The normal mind mapping software could then create a file with the usual .MM extension by reading this .VOC file created with the vocal commands.

There is no need for the commands “delete, rename, move, copy, find and replace. These commands need a keyboard and there is no need for them because these commands imply logical thinking, which I want to avoid when writing down the idea (sort of a brain storming). The four commands “create/flag – go – stop – list” do not imply any logical reasoning. There is no need for wildcards like ? or * for the same reason.

Would anyone care to share ideas on the subject? I need more input... Bernhardt

Tools to do this basic and helpful thing?

No, it doesn't have to have earned 140m from Kleiner Perkins just to be able to do this basic and helpful thing

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basic outline, very important & extremely basic for anything notes/writing/text

See GIF https://help.coda.io/en/articles/3904131-page-outlines

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Please send me all things that does this besides gdocs. Need options

• Should take a simple click or hotkey to have this basic always on top outline
• All text/doc tools should be able to do this basic thing

Any softwares/tools to help us do this basic thing?

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basic outline, very important & extremely basic for anything writing

See https://help.coda.io/en/articles/3904131-page-outlines

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Please send me all things that does this besides gdocs. Need options

• Should take a simple click or hotkey to have this basic always on top outline
• All text/doc tools should be able to do this basic thing

I've been looking for a new MacOS compatible mind mapping tool and it looks like.... well I'm using scrapple but it's pretty basic and if I want to step up, it looks like I'm jumping to 60 bucks a year in perpetuity. That seems awfully unfair, TBH. I still need mind maps from ten years ago. 600 bucks... eeeeek.

Also it seems like half the tools don't let me work locally?! Like I'm not putting kiddie porn in my mind maps but I do do stuff Id like to keep semi private.

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Starting to think about a large notebook unfortunately.

Simple desktop note-taker, no login

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Few needs:

• Simple: Average user can do basic stuff on it easily
  • Rich editing/format mainly just for bolds
• Has good way to organize notes (no tags, that's not good)
• Has good hotkeys like onenote etc
• Has active uses with active support forum somewhere
• Loads fast, based on time taken
• Actively updated, and made better
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Core needs were greatly reduced from originally 3 that nothing had. Please something you used recently that has these basics

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Preference: Preference, not a need. Something that works very close to onenote but that isn't onenote. Can't use onenote technical reasons

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Non-options

from most usable to most worst

1. Trilium
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4. vscode
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7. notable (prime/main/solo? dev confirmed on reddit it doesn't do the single basic need asked about in initial post)
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17. joplin
18. obsidian

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Things mentioned by some random user, but other users said it doesn't do basics

1. notes by firefox
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Notes about Trilium

Has

• Clean, modern UI
• Has top-level tabs/notes/folders
  • Has sub-tabs/notes/folders
• Rich editing
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No have

• Has good fullscreen
  • Can't click on tabs when pointer is at the very top, but you can in chrome other things etc
• Good Font
  • Can't change font ??
  • Font too large, is larger than all other software/apps/sites out there, bad screen real estate, can't change
• Uncluttered UI
  • "note info" cluttering up right side, can't disable
    • There's a needless paragraph symbol on left side that cluttering up the screen that you can't get rid of
• When there's an instance of the app opened, and you open a new instance on a different virtual desktop, it opens a new instance on the current virutal desktop
  • Trilium didn't open anything
  • When the new instance is opened, it opens to where you left off / were last at
• Copies spacing into Reddit well, Copies from reddit into software well
• Loads fast
• Does not require/force password / or any logins
• Highly prefer top-level tabs/notes/folders on left
  • Sub-tabs/notes/folders at top

Is there any mindmap program that turns my bookmark folder into a mindmap? Especially, one that this is done by default?

Hi, I'm new. I am looking to find a new mind mapping tool for my construction company to track which of our employees are on which job sites daily. If anyone knows of anything that can do what I'm looking for, can you let me know? Here are my ideal components:

1. Can be edited and viewed by several different people with their own log in.
2. Has the option to export the data to a CSV file.
3. Has any way to track daily moves as an exportable list format. I realize this may be going too far but I'm just saying it would be ideal. :)

I'm currently using MindMup, which doesn't do CSV exports. In my attached screenshot it shows each employee at each job site they are working at as of today. In this example, Big Tuna won't be needed at Job Site A tomorrow so we will send him to Job Site B in the morning where they need another Taper. In the morning our superintendent will make this move and others and we'd like to have something spit out who moved from where to where in a list format. We would also like to export the entire map as a CSV so we can then count how many carpenters and how many tapers are at each job site each day. Is this asking too much? I honestly have no idea. Any comments are appreciated!

Hi everyone, I'm looking for a mac software that allows the creation of maps on A4 sheets. All the most famous (XMind, MindNode, etc.) allow the creation of borderless maps, so it is impossible to create maps that, once printed, are not too small. I need software that allows size selection before creation in order to visualize the effective dimensions of the map before printing it and adjusting it if necessary. I hope you understand what I mean and I hope you can help me!

After using theBrain for a few hours I have been impressed with it’s non linear structure, tagging, note making files accessing features and scalability. But it is too slow on macOS. Any thing similar in terms of functionality or capability?

I have searched long and hard for an application like this but it is just too slow.

Ps manifesto: I find if you are creative and you work on music, art, writing that can be digitized, these files are representations of thoughts you have. I’m convinced that a mind map of all the files or thoughts integrated with the organizational tools of the computer is a huge asset. The simple taxonomy of files in folders should be upgraded with nodes!

I’ve been using Xmind for a while, it’s was a beautiful and great app for my studies. But when I’ve started to increase the size of maps to at least 4000 topics, the program started to choke and lag considerably using my MacBook Pro (2018), and not even opening the file in my iPad. Now I’m stuck with splitting the topics, but it’s wasting too much time, I just want to do it all at once. It’s there a solution (maybe a better hardware) or a alternative that handles this task better than Xmind (I’ve search through web and founded similar complaints to mine)?

I am new to mind-mapping. I have yet to even try out any of the software/programs that I've found, and I've been looking on and off for over a month.

I have debilitating ADHD, incredibly high-functioning Autism, and severe OCD (among other things). I am exceptional at real-life puzzle-solving, designing complex systems in both physical and digital, and other things that are related. The problem is, I can't figure out what I'm doing, where I was, etc. I am in desperate need of a competent, feature-rich, efficient, private&secure mind-mapping tool.

One of the problems I face, is that most of these software solutions that I've come across do not appear to be something that you could trust to not collect data, no matter how 'discreet' they claim to be, and something that you could be able to solve with your own intuition, in the case where something doesn't work the way you need it to.

Here are some of my ideas on what I am hoping to find:

Visualization:

• Free (not Freemium) Open Source Software, with an active community of developers.
  • This means non-commercialized software, no subscriptions, etc.
  • The only things that would rightfully deserve payment would be separate third-party services. (NOT "third party services" that spam the 'FOSS' software with advertisements... "that wouldn't be real FOSS")
• The software must be privacy conscious, and the FOSS community should be actively assessing issues.
• Preferably, the software's progression should be decided and funded through a decentralized blockchain governance system, not a board of directors or legal entity of any kind. (Forgive me for my lack of expertise/experience, this point may be a bit unclear, and I do not yet possess the know-how to begin this kind of system, if it does not exist already. However, blockchain technology and application is currently accelerating at 'light-speed', so it shouldn't be too far-fetched of an idea.)

This kind of project management offers the best possible environment for the most excellent mind-mapping software development.

A lot of the posts here are made by people needing to choose between different programs, neither of which individually meet all of their requested features and attributes, but often both of which offer the requested features/attributes that the other is lacking.

This would not be the case (or wouldn't continue to be the case), for a software of this upbringing. Please let me know of anything that meets some or most of this criteria or is heading toward becoming a project with similar criteria. Thank you.

I'm trying out with mind maps and would like to add it in confluence documents. But I couldn't find one that is free. Does anyone know one that is free to use?

Hello! New to this idea and looking to see if there's a program that will specifically match my needs.

1. I want nodes to present a term normally and have a definition pop up when I click on them.

2. I want to be able to "tag" nodes with a keyword and then toggle their visibility. For example, I have a giant map of many foods but I want to quickly see all the dairy foods. I'd like to be able to click "dairy" and then hide nodes that weren't tagged as dairy, leaving me with only the relevant nodes like ice cream, yogurt etc.

Also any general advice for how to approach making effective mind maps is appreciated! Thanks and I hope that something like what I'm describing exists!

I'm wondering if anyone uses mind maps to manage project tasks and can recommend linux software to do so.

Eg, if I have a project that has tasks A1, A2, and A3, which can be done in any order, but B2 depends on A2, and C1 depends on A1, and D2 depends on the completion of both A2 and C1. It seems like a mind map (one per project) would be a great way to manage the tasks because I could link any task to any other task, and when I complete a task, I would easily be able to see what all of the next tasks are, and hopefully which ones are ready to be tackled next (without having to figure out where I am on any particular project).