Your choice of mind mapping software

Posted by Stephen R. Diamond
Oct 19, 2006 at 07:23 AM

Cassius wrote:

>While I do not use mind
>mappers, I’d like to point out that in Personal Brain, ANY node can become the ” ...
>ultimate element at the center.”

Maybe I should look at PersonalBrain, but it would seem to me the significance of being able to look at things from various centers depends on there being the possibility of various centers. I mean, if you took PersonalBrain and built within it a strictly hierarchical outline—one and only one element that everything else ultimately falls under—being able to look at things from different vantage points could only mean being able to center on non-central branches. (Something like a hoist.) I gather that in PB, however, you can construct any kind of web, so nothing is necessarily central and nothing is necessarily ultimate. You can do this also with an outline structure that allows the most liberal cloning of topics, as in UltraRecall. If I’m not completely off base, PersonalBrain has more affinity with certain outliners than with mindmapping in the strict sense.