Xmind v3.2

 

 

Popular brainstorming and mind mapping tool,

Eclipse Community Award 2008 winner,often used for capture ideas,

knowledge/project management  and GTD,supporting fishbones/org-charts/

tree charts/spreadsheets,compatible with Freemind/Mindmanager,easy-to-use. 

Microsoft Office (2010) Portable

 

Microsoft Office 2010 or Office 14 - the working title of the next

version of Microsoft Office for Microsoft Windows. Microsoft started work on Office 2010 in 2006, which ended the work on the Microsoft Office 12 (which went under the name of Microsoft Office 2007).

Tiny USB Office v1.6

 

Tiny USB Office replaces the former FloppyOffice package, is an improved version of the small, portable productivity software suite which offers a collection of unique standalone free software applications. If you find yourself working on different machines and like the idea of having portable software that you can access hassle-free from any computer, then this is the package for you.

Edrawsoft Edraw Max Pro v5.2.0.1237

Edraw Max is a versatile graphics program, with features that make it perfect not only for professional-looking flowcharts, organizational charts, network diagrams and business charts, but also building plans, mind maps, workflows, fashion designs, UML diagrams, electrical engineering diagrams, directional maps, database model diagrams...

Freemind (Mind-Mapping Application)

 

FreeMind is a Java-based, cross-platform solution which is designed to make the process as intuitive as possible via 'child' and 'sibling' links that hopefully build your map into something meaningful. To get started with FreeMind, you'll need to locate and double-click on the 'freemind.jar' file in the 'lib/' folder of the FreeMind folder.

You start off with a 'Child Node' which is your main subject. You can write this title in a huge number of font sizes and styles and then right-click on it to add Child Nodes, which are subjects that relate to it. You then have a huge number of tools and annotations down the left hand side to add color and notes to your mind map. This toolbar is horribly crushed together and cluttered though, making it very difficult to see them clearly.

The basic adding and removal of items on FreeMind is extremely easy but the interface does suffer from a lack of organization and clarity. The above mentioned toolbar is way too crowded with many annotations that are not particular useful (such as penguins) and overall, the program does feel a bit flimsy.

OS requirements for FreeMind:

OS: Win95/98/98SE/Me/2000/NT/XP/Vista

URL: http://freemind.sourceforge.net/wiki/index.php/Main_Page 

Current Version: v0.8.1

Download: Developer's Site