

Many of them seem to be SEO optimised links to products like Miro, Lucid Chart, etc., but I wanted something more guaranteeably installable - and cheaper. (Oh my it makes my skin crawl when I open up Word and it defaults to Calibri.)Ī casual search for “mind mapping software” on Google brings forth a bewildering array of options. My husband is a designer so after all these years I appreicate options for making my work look good, even if I’m not so great myself at the base design. I use WIndows for work, but a mix of macOS, Windows and iPad OS for productivity away from work. That way I could get benefit from it personally in addition to work. Support multiple installs under the same license or subscription.Support either a one-off payment or annual, rather than monthly subscription.
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The requirements I set out with were pretty loose: My new role has a lot more planning in it, and so after the first few weeks of endless bullet-point notes with crazy levels of indentation I decided it was time to look again at mind mapping - but this time, seeing if there was any software I could use to tackle it. I’d see examples of people using them for a variety of reasons - study, work, planning, etc., and then make a half-hearted stab at doing one but start to get bogged down in hesitency when drawing them on paper. I’ve always been one of those people who has been a bit leery of mind maps.
