I’ll let you all know more if I stumble across anything interesting as I continue to use Vym. mm format), it’s been a pleasant and hassle-free experience. I’ve migrated quite a few of my project mind maps to it and aside from cleaning up HTML tags (I don’t think it imported 100% cleanly from the. It’s on parity with most of Freemind’s features, it’s got a few nice additions of its own, and it’s nice and snappy in terms of performance (thanks, in part, to being written with the Qt toolkit, I think). More importantly, when I installed it (it’s in the Arch repos), it appeared to do everything I needed it to. There’s nice video there that show some of Vym’s basic features. It turns out that Vym is seeing continued development on their SourceForge page. And you know what, I’m kind of happy that I did. All three of these, on their own, would dissuade most people from investigating further. And furthermore, they’re managing development on SourceForge. Also the site doesn’t appear to have been updated all that recently. The site design tries to cleverly use a mind map for navigation. Vym - I very nearly wrote this program off completely when I visited its website.Otherwise, I’d probably be all on-board with WiseMapping. That’s a bit more overhead and maintenance than I’d like to give myself. Unfortunately that means to use it myself, I would either need to use their web service (by now most of you should know how I feel about trusting my data on other people’s computers) or set up my own server. I actually really this concept a lot as an idea. WiseMapping - Wisemapping is a pretty cool choice as it’s all web-based. Plus there are a handful of network/cloud related features that I would actually rather not have at all. Unfortunately, I’m not overly fond of the open core model of open source development and XMind definitely uses that. XMind - Billing itself as “the most popular mind mapping software on the planet”, XMind has a pretty robust feature set and looks to be a strong contender. For those reasons, I had to shuffle forth and keep looking. Also, it’s not seeing much in the way of active development, so that was also kind of discouraging. Unfortunately, it’s “TomBoy” saving method really doesn’t jive with my project-based workflow. It has some really cool features and a really interesting approach to mind maps.
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