Greetings, PINBALL is an unusual, online mind mapping tool. I found today’s offering nestled in amongst a long list of mind mapping apps on a web page curated by a well known teacher librarian (who’s name escapes me). It was the name that first caught my attention — PINBALL. What a weird name for a [...]

Greetings, MINDMAPS is a free, easy to use, online mind mapping tool. If you’re a fan of DE Tools, you know that I’m not a fan of mind-maps. Perhaps I’m just too linear, sequential to appreciate the graphic display of thoughts and ideas. I’ve also found that many of the free online tools are clunky and difficult [...]

Greetings, SPIDERSCRIBE: is a free, online, mind mapping tool. It’s been awhile since a mind mapping tool was featured, so here’s a new one that is still in beta. It’s called SPIDERSCRIBE and it promises a simple and easy to use service. SPIDERSCRIBE is certainly easy to use, for the most part. The reason is functionality. [...]

Greetings, POPPLET is a free, online, easy to use, mind mapping tool POPPLET is another take on the conceipt of a Mind Mapping app. Unlike DIAGRAM.LY, another Mind Mapping app recently featured on DE Tools, POPPLET does not have a lot of additional functionality and features. It does just one thing – Mind Mapping – but [...]

Greetings, WRIDEA is a free service for collecting and organizing ideas. This is a service that’s hard to describe or explain. It reminds me of a linear mind map. Ideas can be added but only in a list format. Once those ideas have been entered they can be divided into different pages or categories [...]

Greetings, BOARD800 is a free, web based collaborative drawing and whiteboard service. There’s not a lot to say about this app’s functionality other then – it works, very well. It has a nice, easy to use interface and enough tools and features to be useful. Drawing is simple and the resulting image can be published [...]

Greetings, SLATEBOX is a free, web based, mind-mapping program. It’s been quite a “dry spell” for new mind-mapping programs on the web so, for those folks longing for something new and different, here’s SLATEBOX. IMHO however, this one does not have the polish nor ease of use found in similar apps such as XMind or Kayuda. [...]

Greetings, VUE is a free, open source, downloadable, mind mapping program. It’s been a while since a mind mapping tool has appeared on this blog so here’s a new one that was recently developed and released by the Academic Technology group at Tufts University in Boston. It’s called VUE (Visual Understanding Environment). VUE is a free, ...

Greetings, LUCIDCHARTS is a free online program for drawing Mind Maps, Charts and Sketches. LUCIDCHARTS is a chart drawing application with many different uses such as drawing organizational charts, flow charts, mind maps, network diagrams, etc. LUCIDCHARTS provides several shapes libraries (such as, squares, circles, rectangles, pentagons, ...

Greetings, MIND42 is a free, web based mind mapping service. Unlike other app’s such as CREATIVELY which are drawing programs with Mind Map functionality, MIND42 is a one trick pony. It does just one thing – mind mapping – and nothing else. While that could be a draw back in some ways, there are positive [...]