I\'ve been searching an app that is able to represent information as a tree stru

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I've been searching an app that is able to represent information as a tree structure, so I found outliners. But all the outliners contain information as something like "tree-list", with expanding folder down and collapsing them up.

But what I'm really looking for is an app that is really similar to Windows Explorer or Mac Finder with the icon folder view but is intended to contain plain (some combination of text, pics etc.) information, not files, so that I could for example store a whole "slide" intended to matrices (I'm a math student) with text and pictures without need to store text in one file and pictures in the other.

I'd really love to have iOS 7-8-like opening style for folders, so that you could "dive into" some subject, but I guess, these are just dreams...

Is there something at least somehow similar to what I described? Preferably on Mac.

Explanation / Answer

The tool that precisely meets your needs is XMind. It allows you to easily compose such structures and you can instantly change the views choosing from a host of formats from mind maps to tree lists as you see fit. XMind is open source and free and can be used on Mac, Windows and Linux. There is also a portable version available for free that you can use with tools like dropbox or google drive and never lose your notes. You can also mix and match different media types ranging from text, images, videos, audios and LateX code (math stuff) with the best formatting options among all open source mind mapping tools.

They also have a commercial version that lets you present directly off your notes but that's an added use case.

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