Thanks Amontillado:

Enough said! I have a lot of respect for Edwin Yip, and the way he persevered with DocumentXManager! I am glad he is the developer.

As I said, I like both the written description he provides for FastMindMap, as well as the GUI (which I very much like). I will download FastMindMap, and I hope others do also.

Amontillado wrote:

Daly de Gagne wrote:
Hi Amontillado:
>
>Amontillado, I am curious about what you said of having "a positive
>feeling about the developer". Is that because of the way the site
>presents FastMindMap, or do you know the developer? The site itself,
>including the comments from users, leaves me with a positive feeling,
>and that reflects on the developer.
>
>Thanks for mentioning FastMindMap.
>
>Daly
>

The developer is Edwin Yip of DocxManager.

When he first released his Word enhancement, he had pretty serious
problems. I think the biggest was tied to underlying changes in Word.

He sent email to every purchaser offering a full refund. I thought that
was a pretty stand-up thing to do.

I don't know Yip beyond the contact I had with him in those early days
of his Word add-on.

I declined his refund, opting to wait for Yip to re-invent his product.
As it turned out, I migrated away from Windows and Word, but I'm glad I
didn't get the refund. If the product had initial flaws, the effort was
worth supporting.

As for mind mapping, it's a useful brainstorming technique and I think
there are features that would make mind mapping a killer technique.

Imagine a cross between The Brain, Tinderbox, and a mind map. There's
the map, nodes with attachments and notes, and if you click on a node it
becomes the new main node. If you want, you can make any node link to
the main node of a deeper map, which would be a little like folding.