Here is the up-to-date infographic and analysis You need to manually export, download, and upload exchange files for the Mac/web apps.NOTE: This report was updated in February 2013. It’s also still easier to share maps between apps on iOS than on the Mac. Let’s be honest, even their native app feels like a web app. While I’ve also heard more formal descriptions of context maps, they are more technically oriented toward system analysis. A concept map may have more than one central node and does not have the connotation of being random and highly visual. I prefer the term “concept” or “context” map over “mind map”. There’s no single complete package, but I’m glad that there is at least an interchange format that mostly works.
I use each for a different mode of my work. iThoughts provides fast input and is terrific research tool. MindNode is beautiful, simple and easy to read. MindMeister is superb for collaboration and web access. I’m happy to use each app for their particular strength. It sure would be nice if this worked more smoothly. So, if you want the convenience of sending maps between apps, don’t use images or other attachments. It exports a format that it then refuses to open. The dissapoint is that MindMeister for iOS will only import basic file types like Freemind and not the MindManager format. Send the map to the MindMeister iOS app, which will offer to import it. Starting in MindNode for iOS, export the map. It’s just the text.īut if you export to the MindManager format, you can send it to iThoughts and all of the images are transferred too. Unfortunately images are not included with this export format. The map is transferred without issue and opens right up. Starting in MindMeister, select the map to send to MindNode or iThoughts (tap the information icon in the lower right corner):Įxport the map in Freemind format and then select either MindNode or iThoughts for iOS to open the file. It’s a nice example because it contains formatting, icons, arrows, images and boundary formatting in MindMeister.
Here’s an example map from MindMeister that I generated for a recent episode of Technical Difficulties. This isn’t as ideal as MindNode working with the MindMeister API, but it still works darn well. It’s now been fixed, which allows me to (at the very least) send a map from one app to the other. Until recently there was a bug, somewhere, that prevented easily sending maps from MindMeister to MindNode. But, their collaborative features and ubiquitous access keeps me as a paying customer. 2 Unfortunately, their iOS app is not very good when compared to highly polished apps like MindNode 1 But, because I work on Windows part of the time and because MindMeister has terrific functionality for collaborating on maps, I spend a fair amount of time in their web app. I use a heck of a lot of concept maps when I plan.
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