Showing posts with label ThinkingSpace. Show all posts
Showing posts with label ThinkingSpace. Show all posts

Wednesday, December 7, 2011

Best Android App for Creating Mind Maps




If you’re a person with big, stellar ideas, your mind’s wheels always seem to be a-turning. Having a pen and paper handy might have offered you some comfort, and the pen-and-paper tandem can be useful for when you just want to scribble down that fleeting, elusive thought, or for when you need a blank canvas to to help you jot things down and get organized or, well, for when you’re just plain bored and doodling offers some cheap entertainment.


But, how cool is it if your smartphone can do that for you, plus more? That can be made possible with the Android-based mind-mapping app called Thinking Space.




A nifty app in itself, Thinking Space’s simplistic and functional interface is key to offering users a conducive environment to let thoughts run wild.


The app allows you to create visual maps that help you plan, organize,and follow through on ideas and activities, making sure you’re on top of everything even while you’re on the go.


Creating a mind map starts with a single node, which you can break down into further subnodes around this main node for branching or interrelated ideas. These subnodes can then, in turn, be broken down into more subnodes of their own, going deeper and providing more details for easy organizing and tracking of ideas.


Links, notes, colors, and icons help you highlight important items and organize your material better. The app also allows you to tag your mind maps or sort them into categories or folders. Just by selecting a tag or category, you can instantly bring up the nodes with those tags or placed under those categories.


Video: Thinking Space Android App Review





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Tuesday, November 1, 2011

ThinkingSpace for Android




Mind mapping applications have become an organizational tool that continues to grow in popularity on both PC and mobile platforms. They just make it easier to visualize, all at once, either all of the items you need to do, a workflow of which you are a part of, or any multi-part issue that requires your thought.


ThinkingSpace for Android, a free download from the Android Market (supported by in-app advertising), is one of the best mind mapping apps we’ve seen so far, and hands-down the best for Android devices.


We looked at ThinkingSpace on an Android tablet, and found it to be fully integrated with Android’s functionality – including the inclusion of gesture-based commands that make mind-map creation possible with swipes rather than keyboard strokes. (Although, you still have the option to create and edit mind maps with the on-board Android keyboard.)




Additionally, ThinkingSpace saves your mind map in the .mm format – meaning it will work with other mind-mapping apps, like MindNode, that also use that format. Once a mind map is created on ThinkingSpace, it builds in a number of options for exporting it, including straight to Gmail or Evernote.


Video: Thinking Space - review of an app for Android


Source: CRN.com

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