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MindManager sucks

or for that matter all mind-mapping applications that I know.

Although it offers a really nice, effective and lightweight way of _structuring_ concepts, my problem right now is that I can not use it because I can not force the concepts in a simplistic tree.
In my head the concepts pop up in different places depending on the context  or point-of-view one is currently looking at. What I’d like to have is something where I can mesh concepts (and actual text) in 1..n qualified graphs – depending on the point of view / context / focus, without re-creating relations (simple aggregations or level of details) in various documents.
All this with an UI that is not getting in the way (aka I am looking neither for  a Wiki not a  Microsoft product)

Help!

3 comments to MindManager sucks

  • Eike Lang

    I have a very hard time wrapping my head around what you are trying to achieve. Maybe I’m just too dense to get it, but I recommend you try to provide one or two graphical mock-ups illustrating what exactly it is you want to do.

  • Use the Brain. Haha. No joke. Look here: http://www.thebrain.com/

    Maybe not *exactly* what you’re looking for but hey, give it a shot. Bang. Argh.

  • ‘The Brain” is getting close. It’s a bit to playful and the layout is dog-slow. Maybe I should simple author in Graphviz.

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