Concept map
A concept map or conceptual diagram is a diagram that depicts suggested relationships between concepts. Concept maps may be used by instructional designers, engineers, technical writers, and others to organize and structure knowledge.
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mind mapping software is used to create diagrams of relationships between concepts, ideas, or other pieces of information. It has been suggested that the mind mapping technique can improve learning and study efficiency up to 15% over conventional
note-taking
Note-taking (sometimes written as notetaking or note taking) is the practice of recording information from different sources and platforms. By taking notes, the writer records the essence of the information, freeing their mind from having to Reca ...
.
[
] Many software packages and websites allow creating or otherwise supporting mind maps.
File format
Using a standard file format allows interchange of files between various programs. Many programs listed below support the
OPML file format and the
XML
Extensible Markup Language (XML) is a markup language and file format for storing, transmitting, and reconstructing data. It defines a set of rules for encoding electronic document, documents in a format that is both human-readable and Machine-r ...
file format used by
FreeMind
FreeMind is a free mind mapping application written in Java, which is further developed by the fork Freeplane. FreeMind itself was last updated in 2014. FreeMind is licensed under the GNU General Public License Version 2. It provides extensive ...
.
Free and open-source
Compendium.v1.5.2-Screenshot.png , Compendium
Dia 0.97 - Flowchart example.png , Dia
Freemind-0.9x Screenshoot.png , Freemind
screenshot of Freeplane v.1.1.3.png , Freeplane
LighthouseMap.pdf , TikZ
Vym_ui_windows.jpg , VYM
The following tools comply with the
Free Software Foundation
The Free Software Foundation (FSF) is a 501(c)(3) non-profit organization founded by Richard Stallman on October 4, 1985. The organisation supports the free software movement, with the organization's preference for software being distributed ...
's (FSF) definition of
free software
Free software, libre software, libreware sometimes known as freedom-respecting software is computer software distributed open-source license, under terms that allow users to run the software for any purpose as well as to study, change, distribut ...
. As such, they are also
open-source software
Open-source software (OSS) is Software, computer software that is released under a Open-source license, license in which the copyright holder grants users the rights to use, study, change, and Software distribution, distribute the software an ...
.
Freeware and other proprietary software
Cmaptool screenshot.png , Cmap
Coggle Document.png , Coggle
MindMup screenshot.png , Mindmup
XMind Screenshot TDias.png , XMind
The following is a list of notable concept mapping and mind mapping
applications
Application may refer to:
Mathematics and computing
* Application software, computer software designed to help the user to perform specific tasks
** Application layer, an abstraction layer that specifies protocols and interface methods used in a ...
which are
proprietary software
Proprietary software is computer software, software that grants its creator, publisher, or other rightsholder or rightsholder partner a legal monopoly by modern copyright and intellectual property law to exclude the recipient from freely sharing t ...
(albeit perhaps available at no cost, see
freeware
Freeware is software, often proprietary, that is distributed at no monetary cost to the end user. There is no agreed-upon set of rights, license, or EULA that defines ''freeware'' unambiguously; every publisher defines its own rules for the free ...
).
See also
*
Brainstorming
Brainstorming is a creativity technique in which a group of people interact to divergent thinking, suggest ideas spontaneously in response to a prompt. Stress is typically placed on the volume and variety of ideas, including ideas that may seem o ...
*
*
List of Unified Modeling Language tools
This article compares UML tools. UML tools are software applications which support some functions of the Unified Modeling Language.
General
Features
See also
* List of requirements engineering tools
References
External links
*
Outliner
An outliner (or outline processor) is a specialized type of text editor (word processor) used to create and edit Outline (list), outlines, which are text files which have a tree structure or a tree view, for organization. Textual information is co ...
*
Study software
*
References
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