I just found this one, and find it quite intriguiging. Think of it as a multi-platform Freeplane.

It's called MindMup. www.mindmup.com. It's an open source, free, browser-based app. I've just put it through its paces on Windows, Ubuntu, my iPad, the Nexus tablet, and even my Android phone. The software tries to be "frictionless" and gets pretty close. That is, you go to the URL and just start using it - one of the lowest entries to a software platform I've seen. You can save files on Google Drive, Dropbox, or your local browser cache. While the screen display varies a bit with platform, it seems to preserve functions through touch screen menu options.

While it isn't quite the powerhouse of iThoughtsHD, it's price, speed, and elegance make it a pleasure to use.

I'm impressed. It doesn't do hoisting, so it may not be quite the presentation tool I find Xmind good for. But for those of us looking for fast, clean, simple, cloud-based solutions, this is a fantastic fit for the tool chest. As always, I'll be interested to hear what my colleagues here think of it. I get the basic mind map functions, but am still trying to figure out its uses for file management and notes.

For me, this one is a keeper.

The notes allow for a lot of formatting. What's missing: search, and copy and paste from the mindmap to text. But the developers are actively soliciting votes on what should happen next. God, I love open source.

jaslar wrote:

I just found this one, and find it quite intriguiging. Think of it as a
multi-platform Freeplane.
It's called MindMup. www.mindmup.com.
For me, this one is a keeper.

jaslar - have you carried on using MindMup? I've started using it today on ChromeOS, and I'm also quite impressed. I'm trying to figure out what the catch is. They do have a premium service, MindMup Gold, but I don't quite get it why anyone would want to use that, if you can save your mind maps on Google Drive or Dropbox anyway?

Or is the catch that you can only create mind maps in the free version up to 100kb size? I guess I haven't hit that ceiling yet, so I don't know how big a mind map that really is.

I tried it out for about 15 minutes and worked through the menus and help files. Nice tool for quick mind mapping. It reminds me of Scapple.

I was puzzled by your comment that it has lots of formatting for notes. I presume you're referring to attachments. I found virtually no formatting for the nodes themselves, which I thought was a bit of a shortcoming. You can change the fill color but can't change the font (though you can zoom in if text is too small for you). You also can't change font color, can't underline, can't bold. Nor can you control where it wraps text. It does it on its own and the text is center-justified and can't be changed. You also can't re-size the nodes, change the borders, or move the nodes (except from left side to right side).

Its strength is its simplicity and that's quite valuable. You can jump in and use it immediately without having to wade through a help file. I like it.

Wayne

I used it almost every day for about a month. Then, as so often happens, I wandered off to text again. Workflowy seems to suit the projects I'm working on these days. Yes, the formatting was in the "attachment," which is the node note. And I see that they have now added "Find."

The Gold membership does seem to address power users - mainly offering larger files.

It still looks good, and seems to be getting better.

jaslar wrote:

The Gold membership does seem to address power users - mainly offering
larger files.

Thanks. Also just found this on their blog: "Anonymous users can upload maps up to 100 KB in size to the service for conversion." Some of my bigger Freeplane .mm files do go over 100KB, so I guess this would prevent me from uploading those.

In any case, their Chrome browser and Google Drive integration is very good, when one is working across different platforms.

Dr Andus wrote:

In any case, their Chrome browser and Google Drive integration is very
good, when one is working across different platforms.

In the meantime MindMup have also launched what they call "MindMup Desktop" (beta), although actually it is a 'standalone' Chrome app (i.e. you need Chrome to be installed for it to run). But it does work offline, and it also allows multiple maps to be open.

https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/mindmup-desktop-free-mind/eealagocaipaflcjmeapmobpmilffopi

MindMup seems to have just introduced outline export in a number of formats:

"Create Markdown, Word/Google Writer and Text document outlines easily"

http://blog.mindmup.com/2015/11/create-markdown-wordgoogle-writer-and.html

MindMup have just introduced a vertical (top-down, org-chart style) orientation, as an additional view.

It would have been interesting if it could be reversed as a bottom-up hierarchy, just like you can turn a right-aligned mind map into a left-aligned one, by dragging the nodes. Unfortunately that's not the case. But it's still a nice new option to have, for yet another visualisation possibility.

http://blog.mindmup.com/2016/05/create-vertical-hierarchies-with.html

One thing that's annoying about MindMup 2.0 (I don't know if this is a feature or a bug) is that if you are working on a MindMup file saved to Google Drive, it will not longer allow you to attach images from your local drive or even the rest of Google Drive but defaults to Google Photos.

However, I don't want to add photos to my MindMup nodes, only small 16x16 pixels icons (e.g. ticks for "Done" or exclamation mark for "Attention"). Yet Google Drive makes it difficult to add those kinds of image files to Google Photos, and even if I manage to circumvent that somehow and attach the icons finally, MindMup 2.0 gets the scaling wrong and renders them as too big and pixelated.

This all worked just fine in MindMup 1.0. :(

I am able to upload images to create a node image from my local drive in Mindmup 2

To get a reasonable image I resized the image file as 72x72 size

Andrew Mckay wrote:

I am able to upload images to create a node image from my local drive in
Mindmup 2

Are you opening and saving your MindMup file from/to Google Drive? I'm wondering if it's a restriction imposed by the Google Drive integration somehow.

Dr Andus wrote:

Andrew Mckay wrote:
>I am able to upload images to create a node image from my local drive
in
>Mindmup 2

Are you opening and saving your MindMup file from/to Google Drive? I'm
wondering if it's a restriction imposed by the Google Drive integration
somehow.

I am saving my files to Google Drive
Right click the node
Press Node Image and I get the option to upload from my pc

I enjoy Mindup but I am not a serious mindmapper.
In face I only have only file which is called " Life "
I try and map the basics of a crazy life and world we live in

Are you sure you're on Mindmup 2.0? The URL should start with drive.mindmup.com. If not, it's still Mindmup 1.0.

Dr Andus wrote:

Are you sure you're on Mindmup 2.0? The URL should start with
drive.mindmup.com. If not, it's still Mindmup 1.0.

It is Mindmup 2.0

https://drive.google.com/open?id=0B3iHoh0Wr2lIZUVIcW1XQXM3eE0

Andrew Mckay wrote:

I am saving my files to Google Drive
Right click the node
Press Node Image and I get the option to upload from my pc

Ah, I see what you mean. Yes, I can do that too (though that method still uploads the image file onto Google Drive as well).

But that would be very tedious to do manually every time I want to insert e.g. a checkmark (i.e. click the tab, upload the file, manually change the size).

In MindMup 1.0 it could remember the location and rendered the correct image size automatically, so it was easy to repeat the action.

The other problem is that icon images for some reason don't get recognised by Google Drive as "photos" and therefore are not displayed when I want to insert them again. So that would mean re-uploading the local file to GDrive when it's already there...

Never mind, thanks for checking for me.