Mindpin – Online Mind Map Gets More Reusable

Written by Luyi Chen on April 16, 2007
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MindpinOnline mind map editors such as Mindmeister and Bubbl.us have made editing and sharing of mind maps an easy job. You no longer have to install any software just in order to view a mind map. These services also enable collaboration between authors.

Mindpin is launched in June 2006 by a Beijing based group. It has all the basic features for an online editor, such as: creating, editing and hosting. It doesn’t have strong collaborative features like Mindmeister yet, and it’s not as cool as Bubbl.us, but one thing it does right is to make mind maps more reusable.

On the right side of the editing page, there’s a search panel. You can search nodes in other people’s public maps with keywords and tags, then drag and drop the results into your editing map. This is a good feature that will save you lots of time to reinvent the wheel. It also has two view models: figure view and list view. The list view will show all the nodes with their content in a list. I don’t feel this very useful for large maps though.

It also has social features like adding others users as friends and groups. These features have become typical in lots of web2.0 services. But they are not necessary unless you are going to become a promotion platform like Youtube of mind map. In most cases, users will just use other places such their own blogs to share their maps.

The service lets users to set a map as private, but I have found that people can still access the map if they know the correct URL.

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2 Responses to “Mindpin – Online Mind Map Gets More Reusable”

  1. Mindpin–中文版的思维导图制作工具 at WappBlog on April 16th, 2007 11:18 am

    [...] 前段时间介绍过两个国外的思维导图制作工具，分别是Mindomo及MindMeister，出乎我意料之外的是，很多人对此类工具很感兴趣，纷纷来向我索要MindMeister的邀请，但我手头邀请有限，想必很多人最终没有如愿以偿。不过现在，国内也出了一款类似的服务，CW上就介绍了这款名为MindPin的思维导图制作工具，而其官方称之为”交互式个人知识管理平台”。 [...]

  2. Mindpin–中文版思维导图制作工具 » | 奇想录 on November 30th, 2007 7:59 am

    [...] 前段时间介绍过两个国外的思维导图制作工具，分别是Mindomo及MindMeister，出乎我意料之外的是，很多人对此类工具很感兴趣，纷纷来向我索要MindMeister的邀请，但我手头邀请有限，想必很多人最终没有如愿以偿。不过现在，国内也出了一款类似的服务， CWR上就介绍了这款名为MindPin的思维导图制作工具，而其官方称之为”交互式个人知识管理平台”。 [...]

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