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Re: braindump Vs Vym Vs kdissert



Alle lunedì 31 maggio 2010, Alejandro Exojo ha scritto:
> El Lunes, 31 de Mayo de 2010, Valerio Passini escribió:
> > Why do you like it more than the other alternatives?
> 
> I've used both VYM and KDissert (I suppose Semantik, it's KDE4
> version, behaves the same), and I've seen a screencast of braindump
> 0.8.
> 
> I see braindump as a different mindmapping tool than others. Since
> it's built using KOffice technologies, it has many drawing and
> presentation options. That's pretty nice for some purposes. However,
> I see KDissert and VYM (and other more "conventional" programs) as
> more focused on mindmapping. There the interface and the drawing are
> more focused on having all well tied together, since that's what
> makes a drawing a real mindmap with everything related.
> 
> That said, I'm using none of them, since I like much more the way
> that Freemind behaves. This is a different way of doing a mindmap,
> since you focus much less in positioning everything or drawing
> graphical elements. You just focus on taking notes of everything in
> a structured way. And since it supports folding (a complete must
> have for me, but kind of impossible to implement with other tools),
> it's quite convenient for making summaries or to-do lists. It's only
> problem is that is written in Java, so is slow and heavy, and it's
> UI is a little bit ugly (the keybindings are quite nice, tough).
> 
> Greetings.

Thank you Alexandro for considering my questions and your quite 
extensive review of several mindmapping tools, some of which I have 
never heard about.

Valerio 


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