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Sciplore has produced an interesting hybrid between a mind mapping and reference management tool. Freemind Scholar adds two basic features over the excellent Freemind: you can have references (at this time, only bibTeX) inserted, and you can drag and drop hig
hlights on pdfs (the pdf is linked).
This looks like the perfect IDE for sketching notes while reading papers. I use oneNote for this, but I’ve tried mind maps before and could easily revert to it.
As soon as they implement zotero/endnote references, I can imagine many people finding this tool very useful.
Freemind Scholar is in alpha right now. Feel free to try it out and send them your comments, chances are they will implement your feature requests since they are just starting.
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Quesada J. A hybrid mind mapping and reference management tool: Freemind scholar. Academic Productivity. 2009. Available at: https://academicproductivity.com/2009/a-hybrid-mind-mapping-and-reference-management-tool-freemind-scholar/. Accessed September 5, 2011.
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hlights on pdfs (the pdf is linked).
May 27th, 2009 at 2:11 pm
Mindmaps get cumbersome with a lot of stuff or if you produce a lot of them (and cannot rediscover them on your harddrive later). I have stopped using them prefer to get all the notes, papers and references into a one simple database, where I can tag everything related to anything. Evernote is great for this purpose, with the added benefit of syncing itself on all my computers (and web and phone).
May 27th, 2009 at 4:13 pm
I guess you could put screenshots of your maps in Evernote and then they would be searchable.
May 27th, 2009 at 9:38 pm
Jose, you forgot to mention one more great thing about Freemind and Freemind Scholar: they are not just free, but open source (GPL to be precise). I am not a mindmap-kind of person myself, but I know that many people found it a killer idea when built-in Freemind support was introduced in WikkaWiki (the idea has been copied by most wiki engines since then).
May 27th, 2009 at 11:00 pm
Wow, once endnote is built in I’ll be blown away. You could also use this as a great teaching tool for how to build a great paper. I especially like the price
May 28th, 2009 at 1:45 pm
I tried the mac version with no success. The reply I got from the FreeMind team is: “We haven’t tested FreeMind Scholar
with Mac OS. So, it might be that it does not work at all in its
current version. We will try to get a Macintosh computer somewhere and
fix this problem.” Can anyone get it to work on Mac OS 10.5?
May 29th, 2009 at 4:17 am
Jose, would you mind briefly describing how you use OneNote in your academic framework? And also how does mind mapping benefit the academic?
Thanks.
June 7th, 2009 at 12:33 am
: I’ll try to write a post on how I use onenote.
June 7th, 2009 at 9:02 am
I try to run freemind scholar in my computer,sometime it could not executive smoothly,may alpha version.
I was using FreeMind now ( another free mind mapping software ),also need Java supported.
I use it for Essay writing.