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Add to SafariWhen comparing Coggle vs ThinkComposer, the Slant community recommends Coggle for most people. In the question“What are the best mind mapping tools?” Coggle is ranked 10th while ThinkComposer is ranked 21st. The most important reason people chose Coggle is:
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Specs
Question Ranking
Pros
Pro 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.
Pro Collaborative
Coggle allows inviting friends and colleagues to work collaboratively on notes and diagrams in real-time.
Pro Pretty diagrams
No effort to create beautiful diagrams.
Pro 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.
Pro Allows easy color-coding of paths
Pro Versioning support
Enter history mode to view all changes to a diagram over time, and make a copy from that point.
Pro Optional Chrome store App
Pro Free
Pro Lots of export options
Exports to PDF, image, plaintext and .mm files.
Pro Multilevel
Diagrams can be multilevel, this means that they can have nested diagrams within them.
Pro Open source
Licensed under the terms of the GNU General Public License v3.
Pro Tables
Tables can be populated from CSV files.
Cons
Con 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.
Con Unconventional note taking style
Coggle is a mind mapping application, not a traditional text based note storage platform.
