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Mind mapping vs. Venn diagrams
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Posted by Stephen Zeoli
May 22, 2012 at 10:59 PM
Tinderbox would work for this purpose, I believe, but of course you’d need a Mac and the willingness to pony up the bucks. Still, I wanted to mention it for completeness.
Steve Z.
Posted by Hugh
May 23, 2012 at 08:49 AM
Slightly OT but related to Steve’s post above: Tinderbox now has the facility to import directly from Scrivener (Mac version), with a lot of Scrivener’s meta-data intact. Useful for analysis; it may also open up the possibility of round-tripping when Tinderbox can export more of its own meta-data to Scrivener, something which the Tinderbox team is working on.
In addition, Mark Bernstein’s book, The Tinderbox Way, has just reached its second edition and has been published in ebook form; I’m finding it a helpful guide to understanding the application, alongside Steve Z.‘s own extremely valuable blog posts: http://welcometosherwood.wordpress.com/tinderbox/
Posted by MadaboutDana
May 23, 2012 at 09:33 AM
I’d also point out that e.g. Mindo on the iPad allows you to draw boxes round mindmapped nodes, kind of enclosing them in larger fields. It’s not quite the same as Venn diagrams, but for brainstorming purposes could fulfil much the same function (especially on an iPad). The same function is almost certainly available in other mindmapping software, too.
Posted by MadaboutDana
May 23, 2012 at 09:48 AM
Sorry, forgot to include a link to Mindo: http://itunes.apple.com/us/app/mindo/id355182443?mt=8
It’s not immediately obvious how to do some stuff in it, but once you get the hang, it’s remarkably powerful (and quick). I much prefer it to the other mindmappers I’ve experimented with on the iPad (including Mindjet’s own).
Posted by Dr Andus
May 23, 2012 at 10:31 AM
MadaboutDana wrote:
>I’d also point out that e.g. Mindo on the iPad allows you to draw boxes round mindmapped
>nodes, kind of enclosing them in larger fields. It’s not quite the same as Venn
>diagrams, but for brainstorming purposes could fulfil much the same function
>(especially on an iPad). The same function is almost certainly available in other
>mindmapping software, too.
Thanks for the suggestion. Though for my brainstorming purposes the ability for the mind map clouds to intersect would be the killer feature (and also the ability to have more than one starting node).
My favourite mind map app on iPad is iThoughtsHD:
http://www.ithoughts.co.uk/iThoughtsHD/Welcome.html