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The mind mapping technology of visual thinking was invented by Tony Buzan in the 1960s.
Along with the traditional practice of hand-drawn mind maps there is a range of special mind mapping software, which is commonly used to create mind maps for purposes of business, project management and knowledge management.
The first version of ConceptDraw MINDMAP was released in 2001. Since 2008 it has been a part of the ConceptDraw OFFICE software package for Windows and macOS platform.
Using a standard file format allows interchange of files between: mind maps, project files and diagrams.
ConceptDraw MINDMAP can import OPML files, text outlines, MS Project, MS Word and MS PowerPoint files, along with some mind mapping formats, such as MindManager, XMind and FreeMind.
Export options include MS Project, MS Word, MS PowerPoint and MindManager as well, and also Adobe PDF, HTML, MP4, and a variety of graphics formats.
Through the set of plug-ins ConceptDraw MINDMAP is compatible with Twitter, Evernote, MS Outlook and MS OneNote.
Built-in ability to save mind maps to one of the following online services: OneDrive, Google Drive, and Dropbox makes further collaborative editing of mind maps available.
Joeran Beel, Stefan Langer (2011). "An Exploratory Analysis of Mind Maps" (PDF). Proceedings of the 11th ACM Symposium on Document Engineering (DocEng'11). ACM.