A new tool for drawing mind maps: Abstraxo

Abstraxo is a new web tool for visualizing, and sharing information by generating mind maps, or concept maps, through an intuitive user interface.

These are some of the highlights of what the app can do:

• nodes dynamically self position, no need to move them manually
• each node can hold user defined properties
• relations can be labeled
• create multiple maps (clusters) in the same view
• export (save) maps as a text in JSON format
• import (load) text in JSON format as a map
• multiple color schemes
• It is only going to get better, as I spend more time on rolling out improvements and gathering feedback.

The app starts with a single node. Once pressed and selected, it provides users with several actions to choose from:

• new child: creates a child of the slected node
• edit: modify the node’s label
• open: opens a modal for managing properties (name-value pairs)
• delete: deletes the node and all its descendants
• expand/collapse: if the node’s children are visible: collapses the node (hides all the descendants), otherwise expands the node (spawns hidden descendants)

Additional mind maps (clusters) can be created by pressing the central button on the top.

Browser support

• Chrome v67 — latest Chrome
• Firefox v69 — latest Firefox
• Edge v79 — latest Edge Exact cross browser compatibility is unknown at this time.

The app is developed and published by me, on May 25th 2020. If you want to help me improve it, consider supporting me by buying me a “coffe” on app’s donation page. Thank you.