Brainboard vs. Xmind

Well suited:

• Organizing information.
• Doing research.
• Organizing goals.
• Planning tasks.
• Planning meetings.
• Structure for writing documents.

Less appropriate:

• Sharing documents among the teams/multiple users.
• General-purpose infographics.
• Writing longer paragraphs in the note field is very limited.
• Integration with GitHub.
• Integration with Confluence.
• XMind uses a proprietary document format which is not indexed by search programs on a PC or a Mac. This means that one cannot search in the content of the XMind documents.

Incentivized

• Easy to use, simple flowcharts.
• Multiple functions, flowcharts can be edited to be suitable for a variety of tasks.
• Displays information in a dynamic and interesting way.

Incentivized

• Functionality to show when topics are in-line with eachother
• Unable to save colour schemes on the website
• An ability to see previous versions of the mindmap, save history

Incentivized

Commands and controls extremely easy to navigate and use. Ability to import mindmaps and collaborate also contribute to a very pleasant usability experience

Incentivized

The support around a bug in the tool which prevented the correct printing of diagrams. Support came back after a few days, and there was no workaround. Eventually, the bug was fixed in a future release. The company does not pay much attention to user forums. With better support and plugin mechanism for user contributions, the product would be more convincing.

Incentivized

As Xmind draws a specific focus on mindmaps its functionality is very clear and easy to use. Other mindmap systems make you connect the topics and arrows yourself which can be very frustrating and finnicky. Its presentation is very clear and displayed cleanly

Incentivized

• Increased productivity of employees.
• Provided structure and clear thought processes.
• Reusable content.

Incentivized