Knowledge Management

Qiqqa is a free research and reference manager. Search for, read and annotate your PDFs. Then review your work, write up and create bibliographies instantly.

Creative Data Manager.

The AXON Idea Processor provides an environment that supports the thinking processes. It helps you to create, communicate, explore, plan, compose, design, learn... and:

Create flowcharts, UML, Venn, and mind map diagrams with customizable templates, a drag-and-drop editor, and export options for sharing visual data easily.

Protégé is a free, open source ontology editor and knowledge-base framework.

Minzel is a beautiful and free mindmapping tool built for creatives and gives you the power to visualize your thoughts. It is simple to use and allows fast and productive mind mapping. You can use Minzel on every modern browser.

PathVisio is a free open-source pathway analysis and drawing software that allows drawing, editing and analysing biological pathways.

Highly visual software for planning support used by strategists, process improvement specialists, and teachers. Windows and Mac OS X.

Personal Memory Manager helps you spin-off from the top: manage your own knowledge and ideas. When you write a diary or weblog, study for an exam, work on a research paper, scenario or book, you can create or import your notes into PMM and map them out like sticky or yellow...

Argunet Editor is a free argument map editor for analyzing and visualizing complex debates. You can use it offline and save your debates on your hard-disk. Or you can use it as a client-server application.

Tool for efficiently building attractive diagrams.

BibSonomy is a system for sharing bookmarks and lists of literature (BibTex format).

Pearltrees is a social curation tool. It lets you organize, discover and share the stuff you like on the web.

Dropmark is a visual collaboration tool for creative people and teams. Drag and drop to the menu bar app, and your files are automatically uploaded to the cloud. Organize and invite colleagues to view and collaborate privately, or share your content with the world.

Organize your online bookmarks in nested folders, search for terms, or look for your last added, last used or most used bookmarks. Import and export to a standard bookmark file.

Save, annotate, and organize web resources with highlighters, sticky notes, cross-device sync, Outliner, advanced search, and flexible sharing options.

Visual information management for creatives - Organize knowledge intuitively using cards and boards

The Shelf modern knowledge platform helps on-demand businesses improve customer satisfaction and reduce costs with fast, helpful answers to customer and employee questions.

Zotero is a free, easy-to-use tool to help you collect, organize, share research and cite your research sources directly in your favourite word processor, with 300 MB free online storage.

TheBrain helps you organize all your Web pages, contacts, documents, emails and files in a context-driven visual map.

ConnectedText is a powerful but simple information management system. It is based on wiki principles and is a free-form note-taking and note-management application that allows you to keep an unlimited number of notes in one or many files.

Docear is a unique solution to academic literature management, which helps you organizing, creating, and discovering academic literature. The 3 most distinct features are:

Free and open source, Java-based mind-mapping app for the desktop featuring a hierarchical editor that emphasizes folding.