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FreeMind may appear a bit antiquated at first, as the Mind Maps created are very ‘wiry’.  It gives you two options, bubbles or fork, for the appearance of your Mind Maps. I found this frustrating at first, as I am a puristic Mind Mapper at heart. I want to create organic, multicoloured branches. FreeMind is simply not the tool to do this.

There are however a number of options available to customise your Mind Map, including clouds, colours, fonts etc. You could easily create a Mind Map that is beautiful, colourful and unique and therefore appealing to ‘both sides of the brain’.

Use of FreeMind is extremely fast. I think it’s because it does not have the overhead of creating all the fancy stuff.

It is great for the management of information if you are not a puristic Mind Mapper, as you can get many words on a branch quite easily. You can therefore manage summary and detail information on the same map quite easily if you want to include paragraphs.

I suggest you try both FreeMind and XMind as they are both free and see which one you like, especially if you are new to computer generated Mind Mapping. Once you are happy with the concept of ‘drawing’ Mind Maps on your computer, you can evaluate the trial versions of the commercial tools and see whether they are worth their price tag.

To get FreeMind, go to the FreeMind Website, http://freemind.sourceforge.net

Xmind has a unique offering in that it offers a totally usable Free Version, as well as a Professional Version. The professional version has advanced features, but I have not tested it yet.

The Free Version actually contains enough features to get you started.

The interface is very user friendly and I was creating Mind Maps within a few minutes of installing the software without the need for a manual. It certainly does not feel like a free version, unlike so many other open source applications.

The default template is very similar to that of Mind Manager, which does not conform to the puristic Mind Mapping Principles, but it is very usable. I easily changed by Mind Map to have curved, tapered, mulitcoloured lines, which looks more like an organic Mind Map, as recommended by Tony Buzan.

I also imported one of my MindManager Mind Maps, and it imported it effortlessly. I had to rearrange some of the branches, but it was easy enough.

I suggest that you download Xmind today. There is a Windows, a Linux and a Mac version. Go the the XMind website, www.xmind.net to download the software. There are no obligations for you to buy the professional version and the software is a full version, not a trial version.

I like the software so much that I will be suggesting that our students use XMind for all the courses we provide.

Do it now! Download Xmind and become a part of the growing crowd using computer generated Mind Maps.