[Hidden-tech] Mind Mapping Software

[Rich]

In following up on your comment, I found: 
http://www.infovis.info/index.php?cmd=search&words=graph&mode=normal
It does list a Natto view tool, the site itself lists dozens of tools to 
provide different view and approaches

Tnx
Rich

Bill Kirtz wrote:
......
> In any case,
> a good while ago there used to be a product that utilized what they called a "Natto view" which
> continuously and dynamically listed taxonomies of web associations into typical star patterns. I
> have searched for it just now, but was unable to find it, perhaps it has disappeared. The web
> example was just a demo of what could be done and the product was being sold at that time.
> Bill Kirtz
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> Subject: Re: [Hidden-tech] Mind Mapping Software
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> I am looking for suggestions on creating more complex 'active' maps.
>
> I like how most mind mapping software provides the ability to draw maps 
> that drill down and expand
> as you explore the map.
>
> I have been experimenting using Mind Mapping software for more complex 
> maps, 
> specifically for bi-directional maps -- for example,
>     when looking from one node forward, it feeds other processes, all do 
> this.
>
> What I need is:
>     when look at any of those processes backward, they can be feed from 
> more than one node.
>
>     This can all be done with a regular drawing tool like Visio or open 
> office draw
>     which loses all the dynamic drill down functions of a mind mapping 
> software
>
> One more requirement,  the node structure really needs to be stored in a 
> database,
> which can be loaded from an online system and the mind map needs
> to be displayable on a web site.
>
> Some of the tools I looked at store the map as XML.  That is less desirable
> although it will work since we can dump the database in the proper XML 
> format.
>
> I am not necessarily looking for free tools, free is nice, commercial is 
> ok, mega bucks is out the question
>
> Any suggestions ?
> Rich
>
>
> Tom Najemy wrote:
>   
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>> On Fri, Jan 30, 2009 at 2:55 PM, Ross Grant <dearross at gmail.com 
>> <mailto:dearross at gmail.com>> wrote:
>>
>> Hello, everyone.
>>
>> I'm wondering if anyone can recommend mind mapping software to 
>> organize a large amount of information. 
>>
>> I use hand-drawn mind maps frequently to organize projects or to 
>> collect my thoughts, and I've used the basic free program, FreeMind 
>> ( http://freemind.sourceforge.net ). Before weeding through the many 
>> other options, I thought I should check with you all.
>>
>> Specifically, I need something that will allow me to easily scale up 
>> or down the map through multiple hierarchical layers. The same file 
>> should be able to present broad and detailed views, and to shift focus 
>> from the primary node to secondary nodes. I would like to produce a 
>> series of PDFs with different nodes as the focus of their own map, as 
>> well as a broad view of the entire map.
>>
>> Thanks for your help,
>>
>> Ross
>>
>>  
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