Search This Blog

Tuesday, April 21, 2009

Not much

Gorse Fox doesn't have a great deal that he can talk about today. He
is preparing a number of presentations and other materials for later
in the week. As an aid to this he has been using a mind papping tool.
He has used such tools since since the early 90s but the old licensed
version of Mindmap didn't get transferred to his new laptop - and at
the current price there was no way he was updating the license.

He tried Freemind, but has always found it a bit clunky so resorted to
some Googling and found Xmind. This seems to do the trick nicely, and
is free. So far so good.

After work we met up at a fine establishment that purveys meals based
on recipes from the Indian sub-continent. A most pleasant meal.

--
Sent from my mobile device

2 comments:

MrB said...

There are a lot of online mindmap services that are pretty good, take a look at MindMeister, I'm sure thats what it's called.

The Gorse Fox said...

Because of the nature of the work that GF undertakes for Starfleet, it would be inappropriate to use a web-based service in case it was compromised in some way.

However, you are right there are many useful mind mapping tools(most of which GF has tried).

He particularly likes the 3-d aspects of Personal Brain (http://www.thebrain.com/) - but when it comes to printing out the results, it has its limitations.