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Assistant Professor and researcher at SOM Research Lab (an IN3 - UOC team at Barcelona), he likes investigating on how software is developed, in particular how open-source software is developed and how people collaboratively drives the creation process. He has been working mainly in the area of programming & domain-specific languages, modeling, modernization and model-driven engineering.
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Hi, thanks for your answer.
Just for clarification, regarding the type of collaboration, I was referring to "online collaboration" (i.e., Google Docs) and not "offline collaboration", that is, versioning and so on (i.e., Git for mindmaps)
I see your point, I think we have a common opinion then. The issue is not exactly how people use mind maps but why they do not use them (and prefer other options). It also happens that I'm the only one using mindmaps in my team. Maybe more evangelization is needed, yes, in that case, this article is a nice starting point :)
Cheers!
Hi, happy to have read about this. I've been using mind maps (FreeMind) for a long time and it's nice to see others promoting its use.
The only comment I've have during these years is why mind maps have not become collaborative. I was about to create a new comment but reading this answer I think that it's better to continue the conversation here.
You say that mind maps are mainly targeting 1 user but I partly disagree. I can understand that the very own nature (malleability, layout, branching...) of a mind map can make it quite "personal", and therefore difficult to be understood by others. However, I also think that the solution is to agree on some rules to define how to create a collaborative mind map. Relatively speaking, in the very end, a mind map could be seen as a tree-based trello :)
Or maybe there are other reasons I'm overlooking?
Cheers!