Creativity and Productivity Enhancement Utilities

Market overview of recommendable creativity and productivity enhancement utilities, especially in connection with the creation of technical documentation and user assistance (user manuals, online help files, demos, tutorials).

Mindjet MindManager

Price: approx. €356

iMindMap

Price: approx. €125 (Pro) and €189 (Ultimate)

Visual Mind

Price: approx. $109 (Basic Edition) and $249 (Business Edition)

MindGenius Business

Price: approx. €169

ConceptDraw MINDMAP

Price: approx. €169

DropMind

Price: approx. $99 for a perpetual license or $39 per year

Inspiration

Price: approx. $69

Freemind

Popular mind mapping tool.

Price: free (Open Source)

vym - View Your Mind

Alternative mind mapping tool.

Price: free (Open Source)

TaskArchitect

Price: approx. €325 (Standard) and €1015 (Pro)

AXON Idea Processor

Suite of diverse creativity tools.

Price: approx. $135; also free version with limited features available

lexiCan

Price: approx. €40

Wysigot

Downloads and archives individual web pages. Monitors individual web pages for changes and highlights new sections on a page.

Price: free lite version (Freeware); Plus version approx. €32

HTTrack

Allows you to download a complete website for off-line browsing or archiving purposes. Rearranges the original site's relative link-structure so that all links within the downloaded site work locally.

Price: free (Open Source)

Linkman Pro

Extremely powerful browser-independent bookmark manager.

Price: approx. $29; free lite version available for non-commercial use

Web Forum Reader

Offline desktop web forum reader.

Price: approx. $30

Timesheets Express

Flexible time tracking software.

Price: approx. €99

A Note

Creates sticky notes on the Windows desktop. Also allows you to configure alarms and to sync notes via a server.

Price: free (Open Source)

Mozilla Sunbird

Cross-platform calendar application.

Price: free (Open Source)

project-open

Web-based ERP / project management software for organizations with 2-200 users. Integrates CRM, sales, project planning, project tracking, collaboration, timesheets, invoicing and payments.

Price: free (Open Source)

OpenProj

Project management software very similar to MS Project. OpenProj has equivalent functionality, a similar user interface and can open existing MS Project files.

Price: free (Open Source)

Open Workbench

Powerful desktop application for project scheduling and management.

Price: free (Open Source)

Ganttproject

Project management for smaller projects run by only one or a few persons.

Price: free (Open Source)

KPlato

Project management application of the K Desktop Environment.

Price: free (Open Source)

7Zip (Open Source, Windows)

Excellent file compression and archiving tool.

Price: free (Open Source)

Cobian Backup

Flexible, automatable file backup utility (uses ZIP format).

Price: free (Open Source)

FileZilla

Powerful FTP and SFTP client and server.

Price: free (Open Source)

WinDirStat

Superb disk usage statistics viewer and basic cleanup tool. Based on the Linux program KDirStat.

Price: free (Open Source)

True Crypt

On-the-fly disk encryption software. Creates a virtual encrypted disk.

Price: free (Open Source)

KDiff3

Compares or merges two or three text files or directories.

Price: free (Open Source)

Compare It!

Powerful text comparison utility for text files, Word files, Excel files, RFT files and PDF files.

Price: approx. $29

WinMerge

Visual text file comparison and merging tool.

Price: free (Open Source)

ZoomIt

Basic screen zoom and annotation tool for presentations.

Price: free

Sizer

Allows you to resize any window to a predefined size.

Price: free (Freeware)

Ditto

Extension to the standard windows clipboard. Lets you use several clipboards on your system at a time.

Price: free (Open Source)

DM2

Provides a number of Windows enhancements such as making it possible to let a window stay on top of all applications, and providing an extra button in all default Windows Open/Save dialogs. When clicked, this button shows a pop up menu with user-defined favorite folders and files.

Price: free (Open Source)

Add-In-World

Lots of add ons for Microsoft Office, many of them for free; (web site in German only).

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This page was last updated 08/2010.

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