Edraw Mind Map Creates Flowcharts, Business Charts, Operational Charts And More

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[Edraw Mind Map is not a freeware anymore. The following review was for a freeware and may not be valid anymore]. You have a business idea or working on and assignment or trying to accomplish a multilevel task or you are working on an educational project and you want to create a layout before actually start physical work. Let’s say you are in brain storming position. At this stage, you need a pen and paper, write down all the ideas you have regarding your project while doing brain storming. You can write the ideas in plain text or you can draw pictures or gestures regarding the idea. Doing this practice makes it easy to work on a project because you makes many things clear just by thinking and writing on paper. After shifting your brain storming on a paper, you need a clean layout of what you did on the paper. Use your computer and create a clean layout of the idea for future use. This whole practice is called Mind Mapping.

Stop! of course, you can do it on computer but the matter is normal graphic designing software did not get the special images needed to create Mind Map. You need a specialized tool for this. There are many mind mapping shareware available but a few freeware. One good freeware to create mind maps is Edraw Mind Map. The current version is v6.3. It helps you to create professionally designed diagrams: flowcharts, organizational charts, networking diagrams, business diagrams, task oriented diagrams, educational procedural diagrams and many others to make it clear, understandable informative to work on.

We have already wrote about Edraw Mind Map v1 around three years ago but since then there have been many changes in it and it has new interface and many new features. Well, It may not possible to write about all features but I will try go through a few but important features.

The most important feature is you can export your mind map to number of formats including Microsoft Office‘s Word, Excel and PowerPoint. You can also send the created mind map via email as well as you can upload to FTP servers. The export can be done in different graphics like BMP, DIB, JPG, GIF, TIF, PNG, WMF, EMF, PDF, HTML and SVG formats. And as I have told you can export it to MS Word, Excel and PowerPoint.

If you have installed  Microsoft Office, Edraw Mind Map integrates Microsoft Word, Excel and PowerPoint in it. When you will export your mind map to any of these apps, an inside window of that app will open showing you what you have exported to that application in real time view. It is just not the view, you can play with mind map in the integrated office window. There you can save it as you want in the available Save formats.

You can also import Visio files but there are a few issues with compatibility and it may not be 100 percent perfect what was in Visio. Moreover, you can do a batch conversion of Visio files into Edraw native file format: Edraw XML Files (EDX) and Edraw Compressed XML File (EDXZ).

Of course, Edraw Mind Map 6.3 has many shapes and connectors to draw mind maps. It got all the basic shapes to draw many types of mind maps. You can use it to designed diagrams like flowcharts, organizational charts, networking diagrams, business diagrams, task oriented diagrams, educational procedural diagrams and many others to make it clear, understandable informative to work on. Remember, it is a freeware.

You can read more and download Edraw Mind Map 6.3 here: