About
Mind42.com
In Mind42, 42 is not only the answer to Life, the Universe, and Everything! 42 means FOR TWO and indicates the collaborative character of mind42, because that is exactly what mind42 is: A collaborative browser-based online mind mapping tool.
It allows you to manage all your ideas, whether alone, twosome or working together with the whole world. As mind42 runs inside the browser, installing mind mapping tools is no longer needed - for a hassle-free mindmapping experience. Just open the browser and launch the application when needed - it behaves like a classical desktop application!
Mind42 is a web application - however, this doesn't mean yout have to set your comfort aside. Mind42 is a WYSIWYG (What You See Is What You Get) mind map editor supporting keyboard shortcuts, drag and drop, zooming and much more. No forms and lists which are generally used in web application. A real application - within your browser.
What is mind mapping
Short answer: A very useful image based method for brainstorming.
However, this short answer only covers a fraction of what mind42 is about. And of course there is a more precise description of mind mapping available at Wikipedia.
Mind mapping is about collecting ideas arranged in a tree like diagram. From a programmers point of view, the creation of such diagrams requires graphical processing. As web browsers weren't able to do graphical processing for a long time, such applications only existed as classical desktop applications which had to be installed. But times have changed, computers got faster and browsers became more powerful. Mind42 is one of the first solutions for mind mapping which is a pure web application - with all its advantages. No installation required - accessable everywhere!
Being a web application, mind42 enables another interesting feature realizable on the web: collaboration. Brainstorming is no single user activity - the more people take part in a brainstorming session, the better the results will be. When using mind42, every participant of a brainstorming session has an immediately updated view onto all the already collected ideas.
Help
An extensive help, which explains every feature of Mind42, is avilable here. But the features which make Mind42 unique could be summed up like the following:
- No installation
- Accessable everywhere
- Intuitive interface
- Many node attributes (icons, colors, images, text styles, links)
- Collaboration (simultaneous editing)
- Easy publishing and distribution of maps
