Sep 10th, 2007
Cayra
Thanks to the Mind Mapping Software blog, I’ve discovered the latest in a flood of visual mapping tools, Cayra. Read the rundown of features over there and then check out this screen cast I made that shows how Cayra moves. It’s pretty impressive. It looks like Cayra will do a better job than most mind mapping tools of adapting to the context of a particular bunch of information by shifting irrelevant stuff out of the way with smooth animations. It seems to achieve a compelling compromise between the contextualizing and 3d-ness of PersonalBrain and the gestalt of more conventional mind mapping software. It will be interesting to watch this tool grow. Oh, and it’s apparently free, at for now.
The Mind Mapping Software Weblog: Cayra, a new desktop mapping program, is announced
Cayra, which is currently at release 0.8.2. It’s built around the Microsoft .NET framework, and claims to combine mind mapping, concept mapping and topic mapping. The screenshot (above right) looks quite colorful and elegant.
Arthur, thanks for sharing.
I just tried it and it seems pretty nice to create concept maps. It definitely deserves a deeper look. Regarding concept maps, I only knew CMap, which didn’t impress me at all.