Mind mapping vs. Venn diagrams

Posted by Alexander Deliyannis
May 22, 2012 at 08:09 PM

Dr Andus wrote:
>But what if you wanted to do mind
>mapping where you are trying to establish the intersecting areas of multiple general
>topics (something similar to what a Venn diagram does)? Mind mapping software don’t
>seem to be equipped for that.

The only tool I can think of is Frieve Editor http://www.frieve.com/feditor/index.html (English page still pending http://www.frieve.com/english/feditor/index.html) mentioned by Lucas here http://www.outlinersoftware.com/messages/viewm/10774

Another (no longer developed) is Visual Concepts http://www.visual-concept.co.uk/ which is like a hexagonal version of Microsoft’s Sticky Sorter. However, as far as I understand, these tools don’t allow for the same items to belong to more than one group.

Leaving the visual aspect aside, I would note that you can accomplish the same data management effect with Tags in most programs.

Keeping the visual aspect and leaving the data management aspect aside, you could use just about any object-oriented drawing program like ConceptDraw, SmartDraw etc.