Visual Mind vs MindGenius

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Posted by daly_de_gagne
2005-03-20 21:51:25

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

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