Mind Mapping + OneNote

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Hello, I really enjoy OneNote 2010 however I'm a bit curious if anything that mashes OneNote and Mind Mapping technology exist. The only thing I've found is for an older version of OneNote and for a ludicris price of $350. Any leads would be greatly appreciated, Thanks and Best Regards, Howard

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You could do it with OneNote - use the hyperlinks in OneNote to connect ideas. You could even use the Wikilinks feature to create new pages and link those.

If you want to draw boxes and lines you can do it, though OneNote isn't perhaps the most elegant solution for that and occasionally the lines can get moved awkwardly if you add things above or around them.

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2015-12-16T06:04:44+00:00

for anyone who cares, a "better" place to make this suggestion is the "Uservoice" forum. There already is 1.5 year old suggestion there with over 1000 votes for the idea.

https://onenote.uservoice.com/forums/327186-onenote-for-windows-windows-phone/suggestions/6160979-mindmap-functionality?page=4&per_page=20

So, given the length of this suggestion and the other one, it appears that no one at MS agrees with us .... <sigh>
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Anonymous

2015-12-16T01:55:57+00:00

Dear all,

I'm pleased to see that this discussion has benn alreadu opened. I'm using a LeNovo X220 Tablet computer with meets perfectly the requirements of Windows 8. I really appreciate the ability to easily swith from RT to Win8 inferface, thank you really much for (finaly) offering a disruptive answer to competitors' touch-enhanced tablet.

However, I do agree that the main and most important core business to microsoft is the integration of Windows 8 into a connected, agile, robust and handy environment. Those will soon remain the most important decision factor for the consumer.

Windows 8 already demonstrated outstanding interconnectivity between social media and messages, easy to share features, excellent hand writting recognition... so, in a period of increasingly high numbers of information to share/store/organize OneNote appears to ba the conerstone of the Office solution, even morer given the productivity increase given buy the touch capabilities...

From my point of view too, integrating a mindmapping feature into OneNote, each nodes being a sheet where to add comments, links, attachements... That would be, as far as I know, the best present for this end of year.

So... go to work MS guys, I love what you have been doing with Windows 8... Please, keep on !

I agree. OneNote with integrated Mindmapping feature would be incredible! I am a visual person and love mind-mapping. I have given up on Freemind (which I love) and do all my mindmapping in OneNote. OneNote 2016 has the ability to move sections by its 'handles' and also 'collapse/expand' those same sections. It use THIS capability to accomplish my mindmapping. It's not as 'visual' as I'd like, but it gets the job done for me. Freemind also lacks the ability for me to have a significant amount of text in a Node (unlike MagicalPad). That's why I use OneNote. I can have all the text I'd like. I can dock a SECOND OneNote Window on the side of my screen and work on TWO OneNotes at the same time! For the best 'visuals' I've found, it is on MagicalPad (an apple/IOS product), which unfortunately isn't Windows friendly and worse yet has a reputation for being unstable and LOSING its data. OneNote has SIGNIFICANT redundancies which means that I don't lose my notes! OneNote is a Cornerstone of my life and my computer work. Adding a mind-mapping feature to OneNote is my epitome of 'ideal'.
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