Hi, I need a Mind Map software for building a network of people that I know. Can you suggest me something FOSS please?

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FreeMind maybe is what you looking for: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/FreeMind Freeplane seems to be an option too: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Freeplane

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Thanks, later I’ll give a check. I think that freemind pop out on my search but I get so many results that I did not know which was better

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To be fair, the only one I used in the past was FreeMind for personal notes. I can’t say if it is truly better, just providing you some FOSS software. I also found this one, which I never heard before: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vym_(software)

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I use the Mindmark plug-in for Logseq most of the time. I have used and liked FreeMind in the past.

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Likewise the graph view for obsidian (not foss) or foam (extension for vscode/vscodium) . The graph view is perhaps less useful than the traditional mind map (great if you just want to see connections though) but overall these options are much more powerful

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This seems realy good, I can expand linking also file and papers. I think that I’ll try it. Thanks very much

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Dumb question: what’s a mind map? i’ve heard of it, and seen some examples, but still have no real idea what one is for.

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It’s a visual tool to explore and develop ideas by organizing them in a hierarchical way. It works by “associating” key words with different other groups of key words. It’s a classic strategy, we used it in school to explore new topics together in class.

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