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Best or shall I say easiest Mind Mapping software is?

by jan roos
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Hi everyone, Which mind mapping software do you use? I am looking to make maybe 2 mind maps for now so free would be good but I don't mind paying either. I am looking for an easy to use software as I don't want to spend 2 hours learning it.

Any suggestions would be much appreciated.

Jan
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  • Profile picture of the author LetsGoViral
    What is this "mind-mapping" software I keep hearing about? I mean, you have your brain, what more do you need?
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    • Profile picture of the author sonamlama
      Hey Jan,

      The mind map that I use is called, Free Plane
      You can get it free at this website:

      Freeplane - free mind mapping and knowledge management software

      It's a wonderful mind-mapping software and it's FREE.

      It may be a little confusing at first, but once you play around with it for a few minutes or so you'll get the hang of it and easily start creating your mind maps.

      Hope this helps.

      Sonam
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      • Profile picture of the author jan roos
        Originally Posted by sonamlama View Post

        Hey Jan,

        The mind map that I use is called, Free Plane
        You can get it free at this website:

        Freeplane - free mind mapping and knowledge management software

        It's a wonderful mind-mapping software and it's FREE.

        It may be a little confusing at first, but once you play around with it for a few minutes or so you'll get the hang of it and easily start creating your mind maps.

        Hope this helps.

        Sonam
        Thanks Sonam, will check it out for sure.

        Jan
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    • Profile picture of the author jan roos
      Originally Posted by LetsGoViral View Post

      What is this "mind-mapping" software I keep hearing about? I mean, you have your brain, what more do you need?
      Maybe if you've seen one u will get it.

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    • Profile picture of the author John Thornhill
      I love iThoughtsHD on the iPad. Especially as I can fire up the iPad in seconds if I have an idea.

      Originally Posted by LetsGoViral View Post

      What is this "mind-mapping" software I keep hearing about? I mean, you have your brain, what more do you need?
      I have only just got into mindmapping and let me tell you once you try it you will not look back. Each time I create a new product I'll be mindmapping all the way.

      John
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  • Profile picture of the author Tyrus Antas
    Freemind is free to use and so is Mindmeister.

    As for paid, MindJet all the way.

    Tyrus
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  • Profile picture of the author D Baker
    Mindmiester is great and you get 3 or 4 mind maps with the free account.
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  • Profile picture of the author whateverpedia
    My favourite is bubbl.us. It's free and does something cool when you delete a "bubble".
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  • Profile picture of the author Dexx
    MindJet ftw
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  • Profile picture of the author WSOHero
    Hi..

    I'm using Visual Mind..
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  • Profile picture of the author Fenshon
    I use xmind.
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    • Profile picture of the author Jason Fladlien
      freemind. You can learn how to use it in like 3 minutes, works on macs and pcs. I have done hundreds of hours of paid live webinar training with freemind. Overall probably sold over $500,000 to live classes where the content was 90% off a freemind mind map.

      Who needs flashy when simple works so well? that's what freemind is - super simple. But works great.
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  • Profile picture of the author JordanFrancis
    Another vote for XMind. It's free, but it doesn't look it =)
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  • Profile picture of the author Roy Penrod
    I use Xmind, too. I can even use it to write articles. Very handy tool.
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  • Profile picture of the author JRGautreaux
    I have been using MindMeister for about 5 months now and I like it. I usually register a new account for each project I'm working on. You get 3 free mind maps for each account. I probably don't use all the features available, but I use enough of it to layout my projects in a visual way. I really like the note features as it helps you remember key points at a later date.

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  • Profile picture of the author CityCliq
    MindMeister's super frustrating if you try and use it as a collaborative tool. If you're rolling solo, it's fine. But in that case, you might as well use Omnigraffle and get a wireframing tool out of it as well.
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  • Profile picture of the author JMSD
    Originally Posted by jan roos View Post

    Hi everyone, Which mind mapping software do you use? I am looking to make maybe 2 mind maps for now so free would be good but I don't mind paying either. I am looking for an easy to use software as I don't want to spend 2 hours learning it.

    Any suggestions would be much appreciated.

    Jan
    Tried Mindjet which is amazing but very expensive. Mindjet had a free trial period a couple of years ago. Don't know if it still does.

    GoalEnforcer (desktop) does a similar thing and even their top version which I use is at a fraction of the cost of Mindjet.

    I plan all my site projects on Goal Enforcer where it provides facilities for start and end dates and even gives you a visual reading of the % of tasks completed in each sub-section of your project. Invaluable for planning and keeping track of things to do to completion and highly affordable.

    Give it a try. There's a 60 day money back guarantee.
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    • Profile picture of the author Martin Percival
      Seeing the interest in this subject, I posted up an webinar that I ran about Mind Mapping on my blog.

      Yiou can find it here:

      Mindmap Mastery | Martin Percival

      Forgive the quality, it was my first gotowebinar video conversion The actual tools get covered from about 13 minutes in if you already have a grasp on the concepts.

      There's nothing to buy here, you don't even have to sign up if you don't want to.
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