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I've been using XMind for about 3 years. I write down a lot of information in it, which causes the file to become quite large. After a while (>1000 nodes) everything becomes slow - loading, saving, browsing the tree. At some point XMind has an "out of memory" problem, and I must create a new file, and juggle between them. That is annoying.

Is there any scalable mind mapping software out there? Preferably free, but commercial is fine.

Andrey Rubshtein
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    Why the downvotes? (the Q is rather legit IMO.) – Apache Dec 09 '13 at 15:23
  • Without knowing more about your context and your problem, is smelling to me more like a wrong focused problem more than a technical gap. – 174140 Dec 09 '13 at 15:23
  • @uprego, please explain. – Andrey Rubshtein Dec 09 '13 at 15:28
  • I don't see why you, a person, assuming you are not representing a corporation wanting to attack a big problem with a monolithic solution, would have a problem so big that needs a model bigger than a thousand entities. Here is important for you to understand the significance of the words **model** and **entity** applied to a context of computer science. – 174140 Dec 09 '13 at 15:34
  • @uprego, I write about 10 topics each day - what I need to do and what I've done, kind of a diary with hyperlinks to files. It becomes about 20*12*10 = 2400 topics per year. I am not using it for modelling software if that is what you are implying. – Andrey Rubshtein Dec 09 '13 at 15:52
  • Don't mind map them, use [treeline](http://treeline.bellz.org/) – 174140 Dec 09 '13 at 16:10
  • Those kind of programs are not graph friendly and prompt you to organize your tasks with a tree. But in the corner case I would bet that is better for you to fork treeline or similar software to support graphs rather than using mind mapping software for the daily schedule and of course the past journal. – 174140 Dec 09 '13 at 16:15
  • @Shiki In regards to your first comment, product recommendation requests are not "legit", they are off-topic according to the [site policy](http://superuser.com/help/on-topic). –  Dec 10 '13 at 17:11
  • @Moses, according to http://meta.superuser.com/questions/5372/how-do-i-ask-a-question-that-may-require-recommending-software/5373#5373, my question fits the format of "I have problem-x that I don't know how to solve. I've already tried X, Y, Z, but those programs don't work because this or that. How do I do this?" , where x = "Need to write down thousand of nodes", X = "XMind" and this or that = "everything becomes slow". Am I missing something? – Andrey Rubshtein Dec 10 '13 at 22:42

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Freemind has a user who has successfully gone up to 22,000 nodes (with some slowdown, but still useable) on a rather old computer with 2GB of RAM.

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David
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