Visual Mind vs MindGenius
Posted by daly_de_gagne
on 3/20/2005
daly_de_gagne
3/20/2005 9:51 pm
Last week Stephen Diamond wrote about settling on Visual Mind, and I wrote that I tended to favour MindGenius.
Well, I tried doing what I wanted to do with MindnGenius, and I found that it was tricky to get the branches to grow where I wanted them to. It was easier than Inspiration, but not easy enough to do properly what I wanted to do.
When I looked at Visual Mind earlier I realize that it was the lack of nifty visual affects that shifted me away from it, and toward MindGenius. I decided to look at Visual Mind again.
I replicated what I had done in MindGenius, and found it much easier to control the placement of branches. It has, for example, an alphabetical sort option that does exactly what it is supposed to do. The automatic layout functions result in a cleaner layout than does MindGenius.
With Visual Mind it is practical to have many more sub-branches than it is with MindGenius.
Interestingly, I don't find the lack of aesthetic enhancements a loss at all, and find myself agreeing with Stephen that less is more.
Daly
Well, I tried doing what I wanted to do with MindnGenius, and I found that it was tricky to get the branches to grow where I wanted them to. It was easier than Inspiration, but not easy enough to do properly what I wanted to do.
When I looked at Visual Mind earlier I realize that it was the lack of nifty visual affects that shifted me away from it, and toward MindGenius. I decided to look at Visual Mind again.
I replicated what I had done in MindGenius, and found it much easier to control the placement of branches. It has, for example, an alphabetical sort option that does exactly what it is supposed to do. The automatic layout functions result in a cleaner layout than does MindGenius.
With Visual Mind it is practical to have many more sub-branches than it is with MindGenius.
Interestingly, I don't find the lack of aesthetic enhancements a loss at all, and find myself agreeing with Stephen that less is more.
Daly
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3/21/2005 12:29 pm
Since you are concentrating on the "looks" of mind mappers you might want to check out to new additions to the available software. I found them through Tony Buzan's site at http://shop.buzan.org/index.php?main_page=index&cPath=12
(Apparently TB has no problem endorsing several competing products and promoting them concurrently. Why should he, after all?)
Mapit! ( http://www.mapitsoftware.com/ ) offers most of the usual stuff but is competitively priced.
HeadCase ( http://www.bignell.de/ ) on the other hand is "the first Mind Mapping software to comply fully with the Mind Mapping laws". Indeed, it is an effort to use text colours and styles as visual cues in software the same way they are used in hand-drawn mind maps. I find the screen result highly disturbing to my eyes, but who am I to judge.
alx
(Apparently TB has no problem endorsing several competing products and promoting them concurrently. Why should he, after all?)
Mapit! ( http://www.mapitsoftware.com/ ) offers most of the usual stuff but is competitively priced.
HeadCase ( http://www.bignell.de/ ) on the other hand is "the first Mind Mapping software to comply fully with the Mind Mapping laws". Indeed, it is an effort to use text colours and styles as visual cues in software the same way they are used in hand-drawn mind maps. I find the screen result highly disturbing to my eyes, but who am I to judge.
alx