Mindly (mind mapping‪)‬ ١٧+

I have found this app to be perfect for my needs and those of anyone that wants to organize their life. It resembles the thought process. Once you click one of the “planets” you get taken to another “solar system” that is connected to the first “planet” you clicked. It all depends on how your organize things but if you do a good job organizing, this app is fantastic. You can link one thought to another or one thing to another or several things to each other. Using this I know all the things that pending and have been done. Definitely a great app. Even the fact that you can assign different colors is great. Each “planet” or “sun” can have a different color which makes for easily seeing the different things you have linked to each other. Definitely real programmers have worked on this app.

This app looks beautiful and has a really well-designed interface, but it doesn't really offer what I need. To me, the whole point of mind-mapping is to visualize the links between things and ideas in order to reveal hidden connections. This app does the mapping, but has no way to link objects except to the object they are initially linked to. So, for example, if you wanted to make a map where you have breakfast, lunch, and dinner foods, you could do that just fine. But if you wanted to show that cheeseburgers can be both a lunch and dinner food, the only way to do so is to create "cheeseburger" twice — once under lunch, then again under dinner. The ideal would be to create the object under one of them, then draw a link to the other, so you only have one "cheeseburger", and linked to both lunch and dinner. This way you see the connections between the ideas — again, the whole point of mind-mapping. Creating the object twice (one under each category) is accurate, but not useful, since you'd actually have to explore the entire map in order to make the connection that cheeseburger is under more than one category. Which, again, defeats the whole purpose of mind-mapping.

This app makes it so easy to map out my essays and other stuff (yes I know I’m so specific). I do not know what I would do without it! This app is very self explanatory and, quite frankly, fun to use. I love all the different color options. I also like how you can write the main idea of a bubble and go into detail about it underneath. There are endless opportunities on this fantastic app. I really enjoy using it. I would highly recommend it for all students and other people. I do not have the pro version, but I really do not have a need to get it because all it does is provide you with the ability to do more bubbles, but you can make plenty bubbles without it. So, all in all, I think you, reader, should get this app to organize your thoughts, plan out an essay, etc, etc.