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VYM (View Your Mind) is a tool to generate and manipulate mind maps, tree-like represantions of thoughts. Such maps can help you to improve your creativity and effectivity. You can use them for time management, to organize tasks, to get an overview over complex contexts, to sort your ideas etc. Maps can be drawn by hand on paper or a flip chart and help to structure your thoughs. While a tree like structure like shown on this page can be drawn by hand or any drawing software vym offers much more features to work with such maps. vym is not another drawing software, but a tool to store and modify information in an intuitive way. For example you can reorder parts of the map by pressing a key or add various information like a complete email by a simple mouse click.
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A map can concentrate a very complex content on little space e.g. a piece of paper. It helps to use both sides of your brain: the logical side and also your creative side (e.g. by using pictures, colors and keywords in a map, so called anchors). It is a technique to organize the way you think: It can help you by developing, sorting and memorizing your thoughts. Because you just use keywords and drawings, it is much faster than good old fashioned notes. Your brain memorizes things by associating them to other things -- a map makes use of those connections and stimulates new associations. vym is designed to make changes in the map very easy: e.g. if you use it for time management, just move a task to another place or recolor it by a simple mouse click in order to assign it to another day in the week or to give it a new priority.
There are lots of webpages (see e.g. the Wikepedia links below) and also books out there, providing lots of information on working with maps. |
| open the linked maps to see the new features :-) |
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vym is released under the GPL. In 1.5.0 an exception to the GPL was added to admit linking against non-GPL libraries. This is needed to make vym available on Windows systems. |
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Hi Uwe, we started to use VYM in Trolltech and are very happy with it. Great application indeed. |
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Recently someone visited my site and pointed out "View Your Mind" to me. I must say that I am very impressed. Granted it lacks many of the features of [..] and I need to get used to how it does things. However, I personally don't use most of these features and I think that VYM has the potential to replace [..] on my desktop. |
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You done a terrific job!!! Marco Costanzo |
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I'm a teacher from germany and im using vym. It rocks. Gratualtions to this very nice Programm. I changed from MS Windows to SuSE Linux. With Windows ive used the [..] from [..]. A very powerfull Programm with many things nobody needs. How do we say in Germany: Viele Gruesse Ron Hoffmann |
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Very nice, indeed. Makes me wish I had a Linux distro on my machine to use it; fits my thought exactly to what I need. I've got more thoughts than todo-lists. :) Greetings from Australia, Alexander |
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Glueckwunsch, gelungene Sache :) |
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Hi Uwe, benutze Dein Programm fuer S/390 Konfigurationen, ist wirklich sehr |
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Respekt! Dein vym ist ein sehr schönes Tool!! |
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Hi Uwe, gerade habe ich begeistert vym zum Gedankensammeln und -ordnen in einem Brainstroming genutzt. Feine Sache das --- danke!! |
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Echt nett, ein schoenes Tool :-)
Danke, |
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Hallo Uwe, ich bin begeistert. Vor allem dass du eine xml-struktur verwendest. Klasse. Ich habe immer den [..] unter Windows verwendet. Seit ich ausschließlich unter Linux arbeite, habe ich 'mal in [..] reingeschaut. Aber das mit Java gefällt mir nicht so recht. Jochen |
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