Coggle is a

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. Coggle produces hierarchically structured documents, like a branching tree. This contrasts with other collaborative editors, like Google Docs, which provide either

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(text document), or tabular (spreadsheet) document formats. Its authors promise that it will be " free forever" although some features require a paid subscription.

Features

Some of Coggle's notable features: * Real-time collaboration * Sharing with organisations, individuals, or by private link * View and copy previous versions * Images * Links * Multiple root items * Joining branches * Comments on items * Markdown text formatting *

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math support using

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support * Android support

Supported file formats

Coggle supports export to PNG image and vector PDF formats, and import from plain-text outlines. There is also support for importing or exporting to the common

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file format.

Reception

Coggle was voted among the top-5 mind-mapping applications by the readers of Lifehacker in April 2013, three months after the website was first registered. Coggle has had a strong reception among the education community, praised for its simplicity and ease of use compared to other mind-mapping software.

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has criticized the visually simple user-interface for hiding too many elements, making advanced feature discovery difficult.

References

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* {{Mindmaps Mind-mapping software Note-taking software