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Diagrams.net
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Rich functionality for a web-based application
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Import from Visio .vsd is useless
Even simple diagrams get all scattered.
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Integrates with multiple cloud storage services
Draw.io offers saving files directly to services such as Google Drive, OneDrive or Dropbox along with saving to to computer.
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Behaves strangely for certain diagram types
For example the snapping function for arrows doesn't work properly for the sequence diagram template.
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Real-time collaboration
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Great flexibility customizing text labels
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Completely free
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There is also a Desktop version
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Good list of different output formats
Draw.io supports export for PNG, GIF, JPEG, PDF, SVG, HTML, and XML.
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Internet Explorer 6-8 and touch device support
Draw.io works with every browser (even IE 6) without plugins.
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Platforms:
Web, desktop
License:
Apache v2 (Github repo too)
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Creately
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Professionally designed templates
The templates are well thought-out and actually helps you get started. Not like many other sites where the details are already filled in.
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Watermark on export for free users
If you are a free user, exporting a document will create a watermark.
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Easy and simple to use
Consist with an example diagram which we can use to draw the diagram. Most required diagrams are available.
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Web version requires Flash
Flash is known to have security flaws and use high resources.
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Works across all operating system (Windows/MacOS/Linux)
Does not require flash.
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Dekstop version is commercial
If you want to use dekstop version, you need to pay $75.00/ user.
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Intuitive UI
Easy to use drag and drop interface and a contextual toolbar that shows you all the important actions when you select an object. The automatic creation and connecting of next object alone saves tons of time.
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Real time collaboration
You can invite anyone by their email addresses to collaborate with your diagram. You can see others' changes to the diagram real time with the Creately Online and Desktop app.
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Visio Import
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iSO and Android apps to view diagrams
You can't edit diagram using the apps but provides a nice clean interface to view, share and comment on them.
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SVG import and export
Creately supports SVG (Scalar Vector Graphics) import and export to make your diagrams more attractive. It allows you to re-size your diagram as much as you want without getting it messed up.
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Platforms:
Windows, Mac, Linux, Web
Exports:
JPEG, PNG, PDF, SVG
Real-time collaboration:
Yes
Imports:
JPEG, PNG, SVG, VISIO
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ThinkComposer
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Multilevel
Diagrams can be multilevel, this means that they can have nested diagrams within them.
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Open source
Licensed under the terms of the GNU General Public License v3.
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Tables
Tables can be populated from CSV files.
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Platforms:
Windows
Technology:
C#
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nomnoml
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Everything runs client side
You can use the website even for sensitive content as nothing is sent to the server.
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Can't connect entities on different levels
The tool can't connect entities on different levels, for example a class and a class inside an other package.
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Customizable
You can override the global styling for the diagram and you can also define custom types for the entities. It is really powerful.
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Free and open source
You can extend it, if you find something missing!
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Automatically saves
The browser-based tool automatically saves your changes to your localStorage, which is a nice and handy feature.
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Text format
The tool generates diagrams from a simple text format, which is easy to edit and you can even version control it.
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Fully fledged
It knows many types of UML entities and relationships so you will barely miss anything.
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yEd
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Automatic Layout
With automatic layout you get great looking diagrams with very little effort. yEd has the most versatile and most complete collection of automatic layout algorithms.
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Clumsy UI
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Completely free
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Not free-as-in-freedom
Not released under an open-source license.
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Multi-platform
Runs on Windows, Linux and Mac OSX. There also is a Web application.
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Platforms:
Web, Windows, Linux, Mac
Exports:
SVG, PNG, GIF, EPS, PDF, SWF, EMF, JPG, BMP, HTML image maps, EPS
Imports:
GraphML, GML, XML, XLS, GEDCOM
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Microsoft Visio
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Pretty expensive
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Complete set of tools
Visio has the most thorough set of standard support and tool-set.
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Proprietary
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De facto standard
Microsoft Visio is the de facto industry standard diagram creation software.
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Very clumsy for state diagrams, limited features
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Looks good
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Imperfect integration with Office
Since Visio was acquired, not originally developed by Microsoft, integration is not as seamless as the core Office Suite is known for. Diagrams can get corrupted while importing from Visio to Word or Powerpoint.
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Easy usage
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Lucidchart
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Limited functionalities for customizing look & feel
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Integrates with a variety of services
Lucidchart has Google Drive, Google Apps, JIRA, Confluence, Jive, and Box integration.
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Limitation for free users
Limit to 60 components per document and up to 3 documents.
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Revision history
Keeps track of previous version of files and is capable of reverting any changes made.
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Only web version available
Desktop or other platforms are not supported.
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Simple UI
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Secure
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Tutorials
A selection of tutorials are available.
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No data ownership
Users keep all rights to documents created using Lucidchart services.
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Can import and export Microsoft Visio documents
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Platforms:
Web
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Diagramo
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Free
Free and open source.
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Save not working
Online saving does not seem to work, tested with Chrome browser.
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Export to PNG, JPG, GIF or SVG
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Website is not secure
No https website.
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Platforms:
Web
Technology:
Javascript, PHP
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Continuity
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Free
Free for personal and commercial use.
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Mono needed
Needs Mono .NET with GTK# to be installed.
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Extensible
Extensible with scripts and images.
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Platforms:
Windows Linux Mac
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Gravizo
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Markdown syntax
Can be used on GitHub using Markdown image tag.
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Online only
No applications for local use in the free version.
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URL
You can use an URL which will be rendered by Gravizo and include it in your website or blog.
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Platforms:
Web, Windows, Linux, Docker
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Xmind
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Clean, easy to use UI
XMind's interface is uncluttered and easy to overview. It allows for quick, intuitive navigation and use. For example, Enter adds more items to a node, Tab adds a child node, all commonly used shortcuts works as expected, etc.
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Expensive
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Free and open source
XMind, except for Plus and Pro features, is open source with code available on GitHub.
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No offline capability
If the Internet goes down, you cannot use this XMind. This is painful on the iOS phone where data link must be online before you can use it.
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A wide variety of templates available
XMind has preset templates available that allow getting started quickly. There are templates for project planning, status reports, dashboards, organizational charts, swot analysis, timelines, decision trees, weekly plans, among others.
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Newer versions become heavyweight and bloated
Even though there are more features, starting with version 8 application is very unstable. A lot of users still prefer version 7.5 or 6.5.
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Extremely flexible
XMind is capable of displaying information in a multitude of ways (classic mindmaps, charts, timelines, decision trees, etc), it can add labels, clip-art, notes, files, audio recordings, it can then take the project and export it in a variety of ways including an synced gantt chart.
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Used to offer their NOT-free products
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Built-in Gantt view
XMind has a build-in Gantt chart view and with the pro version, XMind allows synchronizing it.
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FreeMind files sometimes don't work
XMind claims it can read FreeMind files, but certain .mm file saves from Freeplane or MindMup generate an error on open.
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Can copy entire hierarchy to/from Word with a simple copy/paste action
XMind allows quickly copying over structure of the mindmap as a tab-indented list starting at the node selected. It can also take a tab-indented list and create a mindmap from it.
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Task management (pro)
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Very good performance
The app is incredible complete, flexible, and fast.
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Cross-platform
Works on Windows, OS X and Linux.
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Local Network Sharing
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XMind Plus & Pro adds more export options
XMind Plus & Pro can export to Word, PowerPoint, PDF, SVG & MindManager.
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Audio recording (pro)
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Platforms:
Windows, Linux, Mac, Web, Mobile
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Inkscape
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Free and open source
Inkscape is GPL-licensed and maintains public repositories.
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Very slow startup on some systems
Depending on factors like how many fonts you have installed, Inkscape can take upwards of 30 seconds to launch.
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Opens lots of file types
Inkscape supports many common formats for import (including SVG, Photoshop and Illustrator) and its plugin architecture allows more to be added.
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Uses its own SVG-format by default
Inkscape might use SVG as its default format, however this SVG's contains some additional SodiPodi/Inkscape additions that can be troublesome if you want to import the SVG into some other application.
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Export to different file types
Files can be exported and saved as a "normal" svg, png, jpg, bmp etc. file.
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1.0 is sluggish
Inkscape 1.0 uses GTK 3 which is sluggish and slow for low spec systems( eg. ARM, Celeron, Pentium, Core-i3, Ryzen 3 or Athlon ) compared to previous versions.
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Cross-platform
Pre-built binaries are available for Windows, Mac and Linux. Inkscape can be built from source on additional platforms.
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Buggy
Application is often buggy so it happens from time to time that the popup / right-click menu won't close and stays open. It crashes also sometimes randomly. This makes it almost unusable for productive / business use.
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Integrates well into a X11-System
Its uses the X11 icon theme and desktop theme(GTK).
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Crashes very often
Inkscape encountered an internal error and will close now - is one of its standard messages.
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It can do anything
A very powerful software that can do pretty match anything!
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Since 0.91 the gradient editor is gone
It is now only possible to edit a gradient on screen. but you can't set a stop to a specific percentage anymore.
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Measurement Tool
This tool is extremely handy and can not be found in any other vector graphics programs out there.
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Limited work with ICC CMYK color scheme
Support for ICC color profiles only in SVG files.
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Live Path Effects
Extremely powerful menu that offers more than 30 powerful Live Path Effects to apply to paths vastly enhancing the application functionality.
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Uses GTK
It looks an feels like an alien. It also uses now touch-based widgets instead of professional widgets.
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Guides, Grids, and Canvas Rotation
Extremely handy features when building complex graphics using Inkscape.
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Y-axis inverted
0,0 coordinates begin in lower left corner, not upper left corner as SVG standards define in Inkscape 0.92.x. It seems this is now fixed in the 1.0 beta 2 version of the program.
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Dark Theme Support
The new 1.0 beta 2 version finally got support for dark theme which normally is only available for commercial software like Affinity Serif, Adobe Illustrator.
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A toy for facebook-ist enthusiasts, not for professionals
It's a Linux niche mumbo-jumbo, same as GIMP for raster edit .
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The new version 1.1 is looks and feels fantastic
Inskape got UI update: new dockable dialogs.
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Based on the GTK widget toolkit
Software is based on GTK, so it might not integrate well in non-GTK environments. It also requires many dependencies on those non-GTK desktops. It also adds dependencies to GTK-environments since it is written in C++ which requires the gtkmm wrapper/interface.
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Interface is available in 29 languages
Basque, British English, Brazilian, Portuguese, Catalan, Croatian, Czech, Dutch, Finnish, French, German, Greek, Hindi, Hungarian, Icelandic, Indonesian, Italian, Korean, Latvian, Norwegian (Bokmål), Polish, Romanian, Russian, Slovak, Spanish, Swedish, Turkish, Ukrainian, Urdu, Swedish.
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Mac version does not look as polished as its versions for Windows/Linux version for the 0.92.x version
It seems that Inkscape 1.0 beta 2 for Mac got some needed attention and it looks a lot better with dark theme support. native DMG installer and they got rid of X11 which is great.
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It's really easy and fun
Vector graphics can be created and edited with Inkscape.
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Incompatible with previous versions
Sometimes backward compatibility breaks. For example, pre 0.92 SVGs are incompatible with later releases (due different default resolutions).
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No support for large printing machine system
No support for large printing machine environment, except exporting the resulting artwork to PDF.
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Under GNU GPL
It is released under GNU GPL which one of the restricted open source license.
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Platforms:
Windows, macOS, Linux, Unix
License:
GPL-2.0-or-later
Technology:
C++
Initial Release:
2003
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Dia
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Unmaintained
Dia has not been updated since 2009. It's already a very complete piece of software, but still sad.
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Tons of icon sets
Has flowcharts, uml, chemical engineering, electronics, and dozens of other complete sets, built in.
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UX is a joke
UX is not good enough. For example, to edit element text you must double-click it, then click text box, and then you can start typing text.
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Free and open source
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Custom gzipped XML format
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Coggle
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Supports Markdown (their own variant)
Markdown is a plain text formatting syntax designed so that it can optionally be converted to HTML using a tool by the same name.
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Tree relations only; no non-parent links
Coggle's model allows a node to have multiple children, but only one parent, and no other connections of any sort.
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Collaborative
Coggle allows inviting friends and colleagues to work collaboratively on notes and diagrams in real-time.
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Unconventional note taking style
Coggle is a mind mapping application, not a traditional text based note storage platform.
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Pretty diagrams
No effort to create beautiful diagrams.
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Supports LaTeX
LaTeX is a document preparation system and document markup language. It is the de facto standard for the communication and publication of scientific documents.
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Allows easy color-coding of paths
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Versioning support
Enter history mode to view all changes to a diagram over time, and make a copy from that point.
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Optional Chrome store App
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Free
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Lots of export options
Exports to PDF, image, plaintext and .mm files.
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