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Beyond the daily to-dos, I also find myself writing down random notes on different pieces of paper in my office, on my kitchen table and just about anywhere I find paper and a pen. Its four iPhone screenshot images are broken links, the Support link leads to a missing page and the last activity seems to have been in 2011, aimed at iOS 3.2.I run my business out of my home and find myself searching for get things done, task management and organizational apps a lot. The seventh one was Maptini, which is in the Apple app store, but appears abandoned. I have not included names or links for these. In their iTunes web page entries, some of the above had a ‘Support’ hyperlink that led to a page unrelated to support – one was a spam page selling watches, another was to a non-existent Twitter account, two others promote a generic app directory.One included the name of a well-established mindmapper in the graphic of its icon, which looks like an attempt to pass itself off as something it wasn’t, and it had the same name as yet another mapper by someone else.Another three also had the same screenshots (though not matching the two mentioned above) but were allegedly by different authors.So either one is a rip-off of the other, or an author is trying to double the app’s exposure in the app store. Two had identical screenshots but were allegedly by different authors.The first sentence of this article said “Here is an almost complete view across the apps…” Why “almost”? In fact there are seven others, but I didn’t include them and this is why: If you would like to comment on tools mentioned (or tools missing) the blog post here is open for comments. Some were there already, but 39 were not. The database at Mind-Mapping.Org has also been updated to reflect the many new tools I found when I was writing this. This shows iTunes or Google Play links, more details, and in some cases more sample maps. Each entry has prices, applicable devices, my observations and an example map (click through for larger image).Ĭlick on the mapping tool’s name to see the entry corresponding at Mind-Mapping.Org.

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One long page wouldn’t work for the 60+ items in the Mobile Master List, plus all the Free/Lite/Pro variants, so the full list is broken down into 6 pages. Everything in Personal Faves is included in The Mobile Master List. If you can spend a little more time looking at alternatives, and many of them are imaginative and interesting, look down the page at the Mobile Master List and browse. Some, like Popplet, Pearltrees, Lucidchart and Kidspiration have more specialized uses and you’ll need to be sure that they do what you want. If you’re looking for a quick choice, I don’t think you’ll go far wrong with any of these in Personal Faves. A couple, iThoughts and SimpleMind, went the other way: Mobile version first and desktop later. Here, you’ll find mostly the well-established mappers that already have desktop or online versions and have added a mobile app to their stable. The most popular formats for inter-operation between different mapping tools are FreeMind, MindManager and Xmind.

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Or – if the publisher of your desktop software has not produced a mobile version – you’d best look for an app that can import and export files in a format that your existing software can read. Personal Faves is the best place to start in that case. If you already use a desktop mapper, you’ll probably want to find a mobile version of the same software. There are two sections here – Personal Faves and the Mobile Master List. Most have some personal observations – some drawn from experience, others by looking at available on-line information. The entries quote each publisher with an extract from the apps iTunes or Google Play page for the app. You may be as surprised as I was at just how many there are in Google Play and the Apple iTunes App Store.

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Here then is an almost complete view* across the apps that can make mind maps and concept maps on iPhones, iPads and Android devices.

The field now deserves a comprehensive look as more and more of us do at least some of our mapping ‘on the run’ so this is a total re-write. This piece first went online in early 2010 and plenty has changed since then.

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