Compendium

Compendium is a software tool providing a flexible visual interface for managing the connections between information and ideas.

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What is Compendium?

Compendium is a software tool providing a flexible visual interface for managing the connections between information and ideas.

Many people use Compendium to manage their personal digital information resources, since you can drag+drop in any document, website, email, image, etc, organise them visually, and then connect ideas, arguments and decisions to these. Compendium thus becomes the glue that allows you to pool and make sense of disparate material that would otherwise remain fragmented in different software applications. You can assign your own keyword tags to these elements (icons), create your own palettes of icons that have special meanings, overlay maps on top of background images, and place/edit a given icon in many different places at once: things dont always fit neatly into just one box in real life.

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Discontinued

The last update of this program was 2013. Most if all the links to the original program no longer work. The newer versions of the program points to other websites that don't list the program or associated.

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Concept Mapping

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Developed byCompendium Institute
LicensingOpen Source and Free product.
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TimAustralia

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A brilliant, powerful program - I'm amazed it's free and that it's not more well-known. I definitely recommend checking it out. Vote it up if you like it - more people should know about it.

In order of what I find most outstanding:

you can have nodes within nodes within nodes - making it easy to express a large amount of info in an ordered way. Also, you're not tied to a master node - you have an open space, like cmap.
a node can appear in many places - change one, they all change
a node can appear as a picture - just drag and drop and you've created one. (can also be a link...a list...and of course any node can have text, which can be seen quickly by mouse-over or opened for editing)
outline view, tags
you can draw different lines between nodes to show relationships

DRAWBACKS (major and minor):

search is case-sensitive ONLY. this can be a big problem: you find yourself cutting the first letter off words to find them!
i find the text input area pretty ugly and don't like editing text much in it...for many of my own uses, this is a killer
nodes that do appear in multiple places: you can't delete all instances in one go
if you open a backup copy of a project, you will find littered throughout your text "\n" in various places! And it would have lost its paragraphing
you can't just drag and drop nodes into each other...you have to click and open them and then throw the node in....

Some of these problems may have been fixed in latest version.

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It's a software for learning purposes. It's more than CMapTools

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