Team Collaboration Tools Like Tinderbox?

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Hey folks! I need a concept mapping tool with some Tinderbox-like features but that can be worked on by several people at a time. Sharing a file and managing who opens it and when won’t work for this use case. If TBX, Curio, Heptabase could handle multiplayer, they would all pass with flying colors.

Musts

  1. Control over where nodes end up on the page… able to group and position at will.
  2. Ability to annotate connections between nodes.

Nice to haves

  1. Authorship of nodes
  2. Ability to add multimedia like images, videos, pdfs, etc.
  3. Metadata on nodes

Anything come to mind?

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Freeform

An easy example is Freeform. Collaborate on Mac, phone, iPad, or all of these.

Definitely not Tinderbox-like – it’s just a flat canvas – though it has nice features and is easy to share. Free.

Muse

Muse is a step-up from Freeform. The pro version supports collaboration, which I’ve not tried. Subscription, stand-alone or via Setapp.

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Scrintal? https://scrintal.com

It allows collaboration, though I’ve not used it.

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Try Google Docs.

The Slide application would work for graphics, and you could also pull in the other apps from the suite if required. The Workspace environment can help organize elements as projects.

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Hi Beck

Although a very different product, I have been involved in teams using Whimsical for keeping teams aligned with flowcharts and mind maps.

I do not have a ton of experience with it, but it has worked well with the projects I have been involved with

Reminds me a lot of Miro but for teams

Tom

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These are great, thank you! I think Muse will be the winner if the collab features are up to snuff. We’ll give it a try. And thank you, as always, @PaulWalters for the tip!

And for folks who haven’t yet used Whimsical, I am a huge fan. We use it all the time for collaborative team work, it’s truly… well, whimsical! Plus, I know a few of the folks on the team personally and can vouch for them as good humans.

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I don’t know if this meets your criteria about control over where nodes line up on a page…at least not in its graph view, but Capacities is a really interesting looking app.

It’s kind of like what you might get if Notion and Tana had a baby together.