You know what else is cool? Dia.
Sure, you could shell out hundreds of dollars for MS Visio, and get a great product that produces great results.
or, you can follow this link
and get a different great product, that produces great results.
You wanna know what’s cool? And free?
Inkscape.
Can't afford Adobe Illustrator? Get Inkscape.
Want to do serious vector art under Linux? You need Inkscape.
go get it!
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I have written before about mind-mapping software, and I heartily endorsed FreePlane as an Open Source tool that was light and easy to use. And it still is.
But just today, while researching LMS's I came across this little nugget:
it's another mind-mapping tool, but this one is based on the eclipse IDE platform. It's a heavier download/install, but the d/l package immediately includes the mac, windows & linux variants, and they are self-contained, so there's nothing more to installing them than to drag the appropriate app folder somewhere sensible, double-click on the application, and voila! it opens.
The app itself is running very smoothly, allows drag-and-drop re-ordering of your mind map/tree, and has several built-in themes (almost all usable!), and several dozen pleasing graphics to spice up your nodes.
HTH,
bud
Five Geek Social Fallacies
Arrived at via a circuitous route: A Blast from the Web's Past (dig that background gif!)
And, yeah, I'm guilty of a few of these...
