looking for inverted outlining tool for goal-orientated planning

Posted by Alexander Deliyannis
Apr 25, 2016 at 05:45 PM

Dr Andus wrote:
>Many thanks for all the suggestions. I did check most of them out, but
>for the time being I’ve decided to trial the aforementioned system using
>MindMup 1.0 (as opposed to 2.0, which doesn’t seem to be fully featured
>yet).

Though I find its name decidedly off-putting (I tend to pronounce it as mindmop) your positive comments prompted me to try it. Indeed it looks quite clean and capable. I was however unable to find how to set MindMup to build the map in the way that you suggest, i.e. to expand leftwards from the centre node.

>@jaslar
> >Indeed, Freeplane could be a good choice if I didn’t need the
>cross-platform availability on my Chromebooks.

Interesting; I was about to comment that Freeplane is cross-platform as it is Java based. Then I realised that Chrome ‘censors’ Java; it makes sense that Chrome Os would do the same. Or it is simply that no JVM (Java Virtual Machine) exists for Chrome OS anyway.

>@Alexander
> >Would you still have a link for that article?

I had searched for it in vain in my notes before my previous post. It is surely more than 8 years old, as since then I have been keeping such insights in Evernote.

I now searched on the web and was able to find the first post below and from there the second; neither is the one I remember, but they are both very similar. I suspect that it was Nick Duffill who had written the post in my memory:
http://mindmapping.typepad.com/the_mind_mapping_software/2006/12/funnel_timeline.html
http://duffill.blogs.com/beyond_crayons/2006/07/turning_systems.html

>MindMeister does seem to be able to do what I was after, it’s just
>something about its look and feel that eventually swayed me towards
>MindMup again.

Yes, it’s rather heavy looking. My own vote for online mindmapping services goes to mind42.com which however can’t do the left-to-right, at least not automatically.