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Hi, I need a Mind Map software for building a network of people that I know. Can you suggest me something FOSS please?

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[–] curioushom@lemmy.one 2 points 2 years ago (2 children)

I use the Mindmark plug-in for Logseq most of the time. I have used and liked FreeMind in the past.

[–] gadgetzombie 1 points 2 years ago

Likewise the graph view for obsidian (not foss) or foam (extension for vscode/vscodium) . The graph view is perhaps less useful than the traditional mind map (great if you just want to see connections though) but overall these options are much more powerful

[–] Lx32@feddit.it 1 points 2 years ago

This seems realy good, I can expand linking also file and papers. I think that I'll try it. Thanks very much

[–] sensibilidades@kbin.social 1 points 2 years ago (2 children)

Dumb question: what’s a mind map? i’ve heard of it, and seen some examples, but still have no real idea what one is for.

[–] Lx32@feddit.it 0 points 2 years ago

Is a schema whwre you connect information thru a logical way. You usually use for studing and connecting the concepts. I'll use it for connecting the professors and universities that I know

[–] LadyAutumn@lemmy.blahaj.zone 0 points 2 years ago

A visual method of storing information. It's meant to represent association. Thing a is connected to thing b, and thing b is this and that and so on. It's a method of organizing information by association.

Instead of like, family trees, in the case of OP it might be like. (Friend a) -> (friend b) i met through friend a -> (friend b's brother) -> etc. Then additional information is added like (friend b) -> (photographer) and (friend b) -> (big marvel fan).

[–] thingsiplay@beehaw.org 1 points 2 years ago (1 children)

FreeMind maybe is what you looking for: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/FreeMind Freeplane seems to be an option too: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Freeplane

[–] Lx32@feddit.it 0 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Thanks, later I'll give a check. I think that freemind pop out on my search but I get so many results that I did not know which was better

[–] thingsiplay@beehaw.org 1 points 2 years ago

To be fair, the only one I used in the past was FreeMind for personal notes. I can't say if it is truly better, just providing you some FOSS software. I also found this one, which I never heard before: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vym_(software)