Collaborative mind mapping with computer illiterate

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Posted by Ben
Sep 14, 2012 at 02:00 PM

> MindMeister looks very
>good indeed for this purpose.

I agree and I like their HTML5 foundation instead of Flash (used by Mindomo and many others). My complaint against them at present is the fold-expand function in their Android client: expanded trees often overlap making them impossible to read and interact with. -Ben.

Posted by Alexander Deliyannis
Sep 14, 2012 at 07:22 PM

Ben wrote:
>I agree and I like their
>HTML5 foundation instead of Flash (used by Mindomo and many others).

I believe that Mindomo doesn’t use Flash but Adobe Air, at least in the desktop application; and in the web client I didn’t see Flash running. Notwithstanding I have similar reservations for Air, which I have experienced mainly through Goalscape.

I also prefer HTML5 and expect that it will gradually take over in rich web applications. It’s really quite remarkable and for similar effects the footprint seems to be minimal compared to Air and Flash.

Posted by Daly de Gagne
Sep 14, 2012 at 11:20 PM

I’ve played around with MindDomo, and find it is stable and responsive.

Similarly, with Tweetdeck, which has been my main Twitter app for a couple of years.

So for me Air is not a problem - something that I wouldn’t say about flash which is the single greatest factor in crashing Firefox or Chrome (for me, at least).

Daly

Alexander Deliyannis wrote:
>Ben wrote:
>>I agree and I like their
>>HTML5 foundation instead of Flash (used by
>Mindomo and many others).
> >I believe that Mindomo doesn’t use Flash but Adobe Air, at
>least in the desktop application; and in the web client I didn’t see Flash running.
>Notwithstanding I have similar reservations for Air, which I have experienced
>mainly through Goalscape.
> >I also prefer HTML5 and expect that it will gradually
>take over in rich web applications. It’s really quite remarkable and for similar
>effects the footprint seems to be minimal compared to Air and Flash.

Posted by Ben
Sep 14, 2012 at 11:55 PM

Interesting. Wikipedia says that “Adobe AIR internally uses Adobe Flash Player as the runtime environment, and ActionScript 3 as the sole programming language.” So maybe AIR vs Flash is a distinction without difference?

I spent time in the past weeks bouncing between Mindomo and MindMeister for lecture outlining and presentation before settling (for now) on Freeplane and Mindjet on Android. Of those, only the first two have any collaboration features, though.

Posted by Alexander Deliyannis
Sep 15, 2012 at 05:38 AM

Ben wrote:
>So maybe AIR vs Flash is a distinction without difference?

Quite possibly.

>I spent time in the past
>weeks bouncing between Mindomo and MindMeister for lecture outlining and
>presentation before settling (for now) on Freeplane and Mindjet on Android. Of
>those, only the first two have any collaboration features, though.

What do you mean? Doesn’t Mindjet on Android link with MIndjet Connect?

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