iMindMap is the Mind Mapping software from Tony Buzan

Tony Buzan

Anthony "Tony" Peter Buzan is an author and educational consultant. He is a proponent of the techniques of Mind Mapping and mental literacy. He claims to have worked with "corporate entities and businesses all over the world; academics; Olympic athletes; children of all ages; governments; and...

. The desktop application uses Tony Buzan’s organic Mind Mapping methods to create maps for brainstorming

Brainstorming

Brainstorming is a group creativity technique by which a group tries to find a solution for a specific problem by gathering a list of ideas spontaneously contributed by its members...

, organising, creative thinking, project management and planning.

Developed by ThinkBuzan Ltd, Buzan’s iMindMap runs on Microsoft Windows

Microsoft Windows

Microsoft Windows is a series of operating systems produced by Microsoft.Microsoft introduced an operating environment named Windows on November 20, 1985 as an add-on to MS-DOS in response to the growing interest in graphical user interfaces . Microsoft Windows came to dominate the world's personal...

, Mac OS X

Mac OS X

Mac OS X is a series of Unix-based operating systems and graphical user interfaces developed, marketed, and sold by Apple Inc. Since 2002, has been included with all new Macintosh computer systems...

 and GNU/Linux. The software allows organic and linear Mind Map

Mind map

A mind map is a diagram used to represent words, ideas, tasks, or other items linked to and arranged around a central key word or idea. Especially in British English, the terms spidergram and spidergraph are more common, but they can cause confusion with the term spider diagram used in mathematics...

s to be created using a mouse, keyboard, interactive whiteboard or tablet computer

Tablet computer

A tablet computer, or simply tablet, is a complete mobile computer, larger than a mobile phone or personal digital assistant, integrated into a flat touch screen and primarily operated by touching the screen...

.

The latest version iMindMap 5.4 was released in April 2011 and as part of the range includes a new free product, iMindMap Basic. iMindMap Basic is a simple Mind Mapping desktop tool that can be downloaded for free and is a lifetime license. There is also an online tool with collaboration and cloud storage, iMindMap Online

iMindMap 5 includes the following features: Presentation View; 3D View, SmartLayout, MultiMaps, Smart Cells including flowcharts and spreadsheets, adding & exporting audio notes, attaching data (via dragging and dropping), intelligent printing, filtering, integration with Microsoft Office

Microsoft Office

Microsoft Office is a non-free commercial office suite of inter-related desktop applications, servers and services for the Microsoft Windows and Mac OS X operating systems, introduced by Microsoft in August 1, 1989. Initially a marketing term for a bundled set of applications, the first version of...

 (Word

Word

In language, a word is the smallest free form that may be uttered in isolation with semantic or pragmatic content . This contrasts with a morpheme, which is the smallest unit of meaning but will not necessarily stand on its own...

, Excel

Microsoft Excel

Microsoft Excel is a proprietary commercial spreadsheet application written and distributed by Microsoft for Microsoft Windows and Mac OS X. It features calculation, graphing tools, pivot tables, and a macro programming language called Visual Basic for Applications...

, PowerPoint, Project, Outlook), Apple iWork

IWork

iWork is an office suite of desktop applications created by Apple for the Mac OS X and iOS operating systems. The first version of iWork, iWork '05, was released in 2005. The suite originally bundled Keynote, a presentation program which had previously been sold as a standalone application, and...

 (Pages, Numbers, Keynote) and OpenOffice (Writer, Calc, Impress); Project View for project management; image and icon library; sketch tool, OPML Import & Export, expand and collapse; focus on and focus out; relationship arrows; boundaries; importation of Mind Manager, Novamind, Freemind and Word files; export as web pages , PDFs and SVGs, It also Supports Mac Snow Leopard and Windows 7.

Languages include: English and Japanese. For a list of all current languages, see Product history table below.

Product history

Version	Platform	Release Date	Languages
iMindMap Beta Version 1	Windows, Mac	Released November 2006
iMindMap Version 1	Windows, Mac	Released January 2007
iMindMap Version 1.5	Windows, Mac, GNU/Linux	Released July 2007
iMindMap Version 2	Windows, Mac, GNU/Linux	Released September 2007
iMindMap Version 2.5	Windows, Mac, GNU/Linux	Released May 2008
iMindMap Version 3	Windows, Mac	Released September 2008	English, Welsh, German, French, Spanish, Italian, Russian, Polish, Traditional Chinese.
iMindMap Version 3.1	Windows, Mac, GNU/Linux	Released November 2008	English, Welsh, German, French, Spanish, Italian, Russian, Polish, Traditional Chinese.
iMindMap Version 4	Windows, Mac, GNU/Linux	Released May 2009	12 languages including English, German, French, Spanish.
iMindMap Version 4.1	Windows, Mac, GNU/Linux	Released October 2009	15 languages including English, Portuguese (Brazilian), Swedish and Danish.
iMindMap 5.0	Windows, Mac, GNU/Linux	Released April 2011	English, Japanese.
iMindMap 5.1	Windows, Mac, GNU/Linux	Released June 2011	English, Japanese.
iMindMap 5.2	Windows, Mac, GNU/Linux	Released July 2011	English, Japanese.
iMindMap 5.3	Windows, Mac, GNU/Linux	Released Aug 2011	English, US English, Japanese, Spanish, French, German, Dutch, Portuguese.
iMindMap 5.4	Windows, Mac, GNU/Linux	Released November 2011	English, US English, Japanese, Spanish, French, German, Dutch, Portuguese, Italian, Russian, Polish, Traditional Chinese and Danish.

File format

• DMG/Zip file formats
• Import Mind Manager, Novamind and FreeMind Maps
• Import Microsoft Word files

External links

• Official homepage of Buzan's iMindMap