Docear 1.0 Alpha 1 available for registered users

We released the first preview version of the new Docear, the successor of SciPlore MindMapping. Please visit our new website www.docear.org for more information and read in our blog about the preview version Alpha 1. Please note that from now on, SciPlore MindMapping will not be updated any more. In addition, we won’t write in [...]

The new name of SciPlore MindMapping is...

One month ago we asked our users to send us suggestions for a new name for SciPlore MindMapping. We got a few dozens of ideas and would like to thank all the participants very very much for their great and creative ideas! In our team, we had lots of discussion about the pros and cons [...]

SciPlore MindMapping now provides literature recommendations (Beta 15)

Beta 15 of SciPlore MindMapping is out. The major new feature is the literature recommendation module. Based on your mind maps SciPlore MindMapping provides you with literature recommendations that can be downloaded immediately and for free. For this feature we use our upcoming new service Mr. DLib which has several millions of articles indexed from [...]

Help us finding a new name for “SciPlore MindMapping”

Over a year ago we started the development of SciPlore MindMapping. So far the response in the academic community was overwhelming. We get almost daily emails from users telling us how much they like the software and download counts are steadily increasing. Now, I am very pleased to announce that in the near future we [...]

Good by FreeMind, welcome FreePlane

When we started the development of SciPlore MindMapping about a year ago we decided to use FreeMind as code base. That means we used FreeMind`s source code, modified it slightly, and added some new features. It was a straight forward decision: for many years, FreeMind was bascially the standard choice if you wanted a free open [...]

Beta 12 and 13 of SciPlore MindMapping released

Beta 12 has many new features and improvements

New: Incoming PDFs are now displayed in seperate window New: ‘Import All’ and ‘Import New’ Bookmarks Improved: Update of the monitoring node is now MUCH, MUCH faster Improved: Better understandable error messages when the web service is not available (for mind map backup, user validation etc.) Improved: [...]

Beta 11 of SciPlore MindMapping released

Today we released Beta 11 of SciPlore MindMapping. There is a number of new features, namely:

New: Copy several BibTeX keys from different nodes at once New: Open the folder that contains the software’s log files via the menu New: Keyboard shortcuts for the most important functions New: Backup reminder (user is asked to activate [...]

Beta 10 of SciPlore MindMapping released

Today we released Beta 10 of SciPlore MindMapping. There are no new features but SciPlore MindMapping should run now smoothly with Linux and MacOS. I guess, there will be still some problems but you certainly will tell us if that’s the case (at least I hope so)

Download Beta 10 here.

Beta 6 of SciPlore MindMapping released

Today we released Beta 6 of SciPore MindMapping. There are two major improvements:

1. BibTeX files created with Mendeley can now be used with SciPlore MindMapping

2. A PDF’s title is extracted from BibTeX files and displayed in the mindmap Download the software here http://www.sciplore.org/software/sciplore_mindmapping/

How to write a thesis (Bachelor, Master, or PhD) and which software tools to use

Translations: Chinese (thanks to Chen Feng) | Portuguese (thanks to Marcelo Cruz dos Santos) | Russian (thanks to Sergey Loy) | send us your translation

How to write a PhD thesis? This is not a trivial task. Related literature needs to be found, notes need to be taken and finally the thesis has to be [...]