Comments on: Give me directions to a map

Question: Give me directions to a map

regicide is good for you — Tue, 11 Sep 2007 16:47:34 -0800

Are there any wikis that offer mind-map visualization (somewhat like Wiki Mindmap)? How about concept mapping software which also has wiki-like functionality?

I want something which allows me to establish links between documents, akin to a wiki, but which will also show me a visual representation of all those links (it'd be nice to be able to do it in reverse too...) Basically a whiteboard, but with the referencing and cross-referencing power of a computer.

I'd like it to run locally, on a PC if possible, and ideally not be hierarchy-based (ie. Free-form maps, not like FreeMind. Being able to work in text, or having some sort of non-proprietary output, would be pretty keen too.)

I'm amazed how hard it is to find this. I'm guessing there's no free option. There may be some commercial software out there that does just what I want, and it simply hasn't been clear through all the corporate productivity buzzjargonspeaksoup such things tend to be drowning in.

Please don't say Tinderbox, even though I'm this close to buying a Mac if I have to. I'm probably also almost equally close to paying you to write the damn thing for me if I have to.

By: i love cheese

i love cheese — Tue, 11 Sep 2007 17:40:18 -0800

Is The Brain what you're looking for?

I remember spending a few hours with it when it first came out in the late 90s, and thinking that it was pretty cool but sluggish on my Win95 machine...

By: i love cheese

i love cheese — Tue, 11 Sep 2007 17:41:56 -0800

Corrected link

By: regicide is good for you

regicide is good for you — Tue, 11 Sep 2007 19:25:37 -0800

Thanks i love cheese... interesting, but perhaps overkill (and I don't like the idea of dropping a couple of hundred just to link a bunch of text files...). Still, I'll try it out.

Is there nothing else? Plugins for existing wiki software? I guess even Mac programs would be acceptable too.

By: Drastic

Drastic — Tue, 11 Sep 2007 19:30:28 -0800

FreeMind is a freeware example of this type of thing.

By: regicide is good for you

regicide is good for you — Mon, 17 Sep 2007 10:03:41 -0800

In case anyone seeking something similar comes across this thread, I should say I at long last found pimki (specifically, I'm using the pimki2 alpha release), which uses GraphViz to show a clickable mindmap of all the pages in a wiki.