Free brainstorming software for windows

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Requirements: Internet Explorer 5.01+

Isnt it frustrating when you have just delivered a hugely dynamic introduction to your lesson and the children set off to work and then the first question as they open their excerise books is "Whats the date?"
Now all you can do is swap from the stimulating, thought provoking brainstorming ideas to a new window and display the date.
Fresher Schools Date Window will allways stay on top!
Whatever program you are using you can display the date in whatever position on the whiteboard you desire.
Main features:
- Choose date format
- Choose the font
- Choose the font colour
- Choose the background colour
- Change the font size
- Position on the screen anywhere
- Run from startup of your computer
- Remembers all settings
- Temporarily hide to access windows underneath
System requirements:
- .NET Framework

Free Mind Mapping - Freemind Mapper 0.8.1 offers an effective tool which helps you operate hierarchical editor with strong emphasis on folding. These two are not really two different things, just two different descriptions of a single application. Often used for knowledge and content mgmt.

Uses of FreeMind

1. Keeping track of projects, including subtasks, state of subtasks and time recording
2. Project workplace, including links to necessary files, executables, source of information and of course information
3. Workplace for internet research using Google and other sources
4. Keeping a collection of small or middle sized notes with links on some area which expands as needed. Such a collection of notes is sometimes called knowledge base.
5. Essay writing and brainstorming, using colors to show which essays are open, completed, not yet started etc, using size of nodes to indicate size of essays. I don't have one map for one essay, I have one map for all essays. I move parts of some essays to other when it seems appropriate.
6. Keeping a small database of something with structure that is either very dynamic or not known in advance. The main disadvantage of such approach when compared to traditional database applications are poor query possibilities, but I use it that way anyway - contacts, recipes, medical records etc. You learn about the structure from the additional data items you enter. For example, different medical records use different structure and you do not have to analyze all the possible structures before you enter the first medical record.
7. Commented internet favorites or bookmarks, with colors and fonts having the meaning you want

Major Features:

1. Fully functional following of HTML links stored in the nodes, be it www links or links to local files.
2. From very early versions, Freemind supports folding which is its essential property.
3. Fast one-click navigation, including folding / unfolding on one click and following links on one click at the same time (you don't have to make choice between fast following of links and fast fold/unfold). You can move the map by dragging the map's background as well as using mouse wheel.
4. Undo
5. Smart Drag'n Drop, including the possibility to copy nodes or copy style of nodes; dragging and dropping of multiple selected nodes; dropping of texts or list of files from outside
6. Smart copying and pasting into, including pasting of links from HTML or structuring the pasted content on the basis of the number of leading spaces in a line; pasting of lists of selected files
7. Smart copying and pasting from, including plain text and RTF (MS Wordpad, MS Word, MS Outlook messages).
8. Export of map to HTML, with folding
9. Find facility, where found items are shown one by one as you do "find next", and the map is unfolded only for the current item.
10. Possibility to use and edit long multiline nodes; even with newlines
11. Possibility to decorate nodes with built-in icons, colors and different fonts.
12. Low costs of risk of switching away to another mind mapping tool, because FreeMind stores maps in XML format. If you have a lot of maps created by FreeMind and you want to switch to another program, writing a conversion program should be easy, especially if that program features Visual Basic scripting facility. Christoph Rissner describes in his article
13. Weak spots include:
14. The support of pictures in nodes is in preliminary stage. When you want to carry a map around with you, you have to take care that you take the image files with you.
15. FreeMind is basically one user application. Although users can in principle work on the same map, there is only preliminary locking mechanism to prevent conflicts, at the time, switched off by default.
16. In rare cases, following of HTML links in the web browser does not work on some computers; the same holds for opening local files.
17. Limited support for fancy graphics.
    

Requirements: Windows XP SP2 or Vista