Mind mapping is a brainstorming technique that helps to visually organize thoughts and ideas around a central topic or theme. This has a variety of benefits:
- Find better and creative solutions and find them faster.
- Better and easy information retention/ remember and recall information
- It makes complex ideas easier to understand
- It increases productivity.
- … and a lot more.
Here is a list of five mind mapping apps which can save us the hassle of word processing and formatting.
SimpleMind Lite comes with everything you need to get started with mind mapping.There is no need to sign up for an account and it is adfree.
XMind is an easy to use mind mapping tool. It includes 16 diagrams and 10 themes. It is designed for people who need to use an efficient tool for brainstorming, organizing ideas and work plans in every day life as well asfor organizing notes, prepare lessons, …etc
Mindomo The Mindomo platform provides an environment where you can collaborate with others by sharing ideas and working together on mind maps in real time. You can create unlimited maps and folders which can be edited, shared and exported.
MindMeiser comes in three plans: basic,personal and pro. It requires registration.The basic version is free and it provides some basic features: -sync maps and folders with your free online account / Support for drag & drop, zoom, pan / Add icons, colors, styles and map themes / View and edit notes, links, tasks and attachments on topics / Draw connections between nodes / Play presentations / Share maps directly from the device / Real-time collaboration.
Mindly The full version has a lot of featues: Attach notes, image or icon to any element / Color schemes for elements / Visual clipboard for reorganizing content / Export as mindmap (PDF/OPML/Text) and a lot more.
