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Most ToDo-List services online offer basically hierarchical lists(trees) with some bells and whistles. Mind-mapping software just seems to be a pretty drawn tree.

Is there a conceptual difference? Or not?

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From a topological point of view a mindmap is indeed a tree. One difference with a classical tree is that in a mindmap you don't have the implicit prioritization; there's no item at the top of the list, and no item at the bottom.

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Yes, mindmap is just an hiearchical tree without prioritization of the (main) branches. Ref en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mind_map . – sabre23t Nov 9 '10 at 14:28

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