Once there was mayomi.net, the first on-line mindmapping tool I've found - based on Flash - but that sank without trace last year. Was it ahead of its time - before the change of thinking that made Web 2.0? Or is it an indicator of how other on-line mind mapping sites may fare? Mayomi's author did it as a thesis project, but if it had garnered sufficient interest and use, it would not have been left to die, I suspect.
WriteMaps concentrates on that "niche" group of people who are trying to build a site map because it grew out of designer Scott Jehl's initial need for an easy and standardized way to do just that, to create site maps.
I think that attempting to turn a tool that was specifically created for a certain task into a broader user tool would actually diminish the value of it by flooding users with too many intricate controls and choices that most would not need.
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Once there was mayomi.net, the first on-line mindmapping tool I've found - based on Flash - but that sank without trace last year. Was it ahead of its time - before the change of thinking that made Web 2.0? Or is it an indicator of how other on-line mind mapping sites may fare? Mayomi's author did it as a thesis project, but if it had garnered sufficient interest and use, it would not have been left to die, I suspect.
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http://www.mind-mapping.org/
The complete list of mind mapping and information mapping tools.
You can find Scott's initial paper about it here: http://scottjehl.com/localProcess/StyleMap/
I think that attempting to turn a tool that was specifically created for a certain task into a broader user tool would actually diminish the value of it by flooding users with too many intricate controls and choices that most would not need.