A day with Vym mindmapping tool
I’ve been looking for tools to help me think about my work. Apart from a text file with the outline of ideas that I have, I want to check out mindmapping tools as well. I saw a package named Vym and tried it out. Even if it’s just been a day, I wasn’t happy with it. I’d stick with Freemind. Why? Here are the reasons why:
- The menu of Freemind seems more intuitive than that of Vym. What are xlinks? It’s not easy for a first time user. In Freemind you create branches/nodes easily and you could easily remove them too. I got confused with the terms in Vym.
- The Vym note editor gets me confused about what I should do. I want to create a mindmap. I couldn’t easily find out how to use the note editor though it is potentially very useful for stuff like adding very long descriptive text about various items I need to discuss.
- They could both export their files to OpenOffice.org though. So that’s one thing that Vym has going for it. It could make your mindmap into a presentation without you having to fiddle around with the outline itself.
Maybe I got a little too impatient with Vym. But reading about it makes me think that Vym is a useful app but maybe it’s not for me.
Have you tried using Vym? What’s your verdict?
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1 opinion for A day with Vym mindmapping tool
Mindmapping Maven
Mar 11, 2008 at 10:17 am
While I haven’t tried VYM, I have nothing but good things to say about Freemind. It is such a great program, that for me does everything I need, which is primarily why I have not tried some of these other programs. Thank you for the write up though, its nice to see what others are doing with mind mapping.
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