Coggle - Collaborative Mind Maps is an extension for the Chrome browser designed to facilitate clear understanding and sharing of complex information. It provides a clean, simple and intuitive interface for creating mind maps, supported with real-time collaboration, enabling users to brainstorm together. Coggle integrates seamlessly with Google Drive, allowing easy organisation and sharing of maps with Google contacts. Other features include unlimited diagrams and image uploads, full change history, and download and export options for different formats like PDF, Image, .mm, and text. It also supports markdown, comments, chat and embeddable diagrams.
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The simplest, cleanest mind mapping tool on the web. Coggle gives you a clear way to share and understand complex information. It's a collaborative mind-mapping tool that simplifies complex things.
Coggle integrates seamlessly with Google Drive, so you can organise your mindmaps how you like and easily share with your existing Google contacts.
Features:
→ Real-time collaboration
→ Unlimited diagrams
→ Unlimited image uploads
→ Full change history
→ Markdown support
→ Download as PDF & Image
→ Export as .mm and text
→ Comments & Chat
→ Embeddable diagrams
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Pros
Intuitive and easy to use interface
Useful tool for mind mapping, especially for those on the autism spectrum
Good collaboration features
Affordable pricing for the paid version
Integration potential with Google Drive
Cons
Many features locked behind the paid "Awesome" version
Frequent pop-ups and prompts to upgrade to the paid version
Limited functionality in the free version
Difficulties in navigating key shortcuts
Lack of sufficient support documentation
Most mentioned
Usability issues in the free version
Importance of pricing and payment methods
Intuitiveness and simplicity of the tool
Need for more features in the basic version
Desire for better support and documentation
User reviews
I am now into my second year of the paid "Awesome" version of Coggle. Being that I'm on the autism spectrum, I find mind mapping to be a useful tool in many aspects of my life and work. I have used several mind map solutions over the years, including FreeMind and MindMiester. While Coggle may not have all the features of other offerings, I prefer it these days over any other mind map solution, for its simplicity. I'm surprised at some of the other reviews here which complain about how complex, un-intuitive, and difficult it is to use. I found Coggle to be very intuitive and easy to use. My only complaint is that the nodes of the joining lines can be difficult to select sometimes, especially when they are layered on top of each other. Setting the colours by a hex code or dropper/picker would also be an improvement over the current method, which often see me generating a range of child branches just to get the colour that I want, then deleting the rest. Beyond that, I expect to continue using Coggle "Awesome" into the future, and I look forward to any new features that get added to it.