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Free, online tool to make:

Notes, Diagrams and Mind Maps

What makes it work ?

Online editable notes

Choose fonts, sizes, styling, like any text-editor. The text is just inside a shape.

Easy click and drag

Point click and drag works like a charm: Move or resize shapes. Touch zooming and dragging for touchscreens supported.

Quick, big and accessable

Like on a whiteboard. Just click anywhere and start typing. Hotkeys for new paragraphs. Import images, textfiles or pdf.

Share your work

It's' easy to share your notes. Anyone with a recent browser can use Breakdown Notes, and there is no registration required.

Colours, shapes, icons

Breakdown lets you use all these to better differentiate and focus. You can also use your own images.

Zooming and panning

Want an overview? Zoom out. Want details? Zoom in. Want to see another part of the map? Just pan.

Thinking needs flexibility

Breakdown is an ideal tool to make notes, because its flexibility will let you rethink and reorder the map easily.

Icons a plenty

The are many icons to spice up your notes and maps. Just select, click, drag.

Use it any way you like

Notes, flow charts, decision trees, tournament diagrams, flash cards for studying, an electronic bulletin board: it's all possible.

Example maps

Take a look at some of the example maps. Clicking the picture will take you to the map page where you can zoom in and out of the map, and add things yourself.

Family tree

using the tv show modern family

family tree

An example showing how to add pictures, merge elements, use hierarchies, or see who's related to whom

Periodic table

Zoom in and out of the table

periodic table

An example with some neatly aligned shapes.

Note taking

A presentation of notes

note-taking

This one will start with the presentation. Use the arrows to move to the next slide. Press the stop button to stop the presentation and browse the map yourself

Learning mode

Capitals and countries of Europe

capitals cities of Europe

This example showcases flippable elements and study mode. Enter study mode (options menu) and shapes flip for a second on click or touch, so you can quickly study / test yourself. Works great on tablets.

Sorting Series

IMDB top 250 corrected

imdb

Filter the shows you already watched, liked or disliked, so you can decide what to watch next. This example showcases a more whiteboard style of use.

Studying Javascript

Taking notes while studying

note-taking

This is an example of the notes taken following the course Asynchronous Javascript (on edx.org). Lots of copied text and images straight from the course.

Organisational Chart

Of the European commission

european commission organisational chart

See which commissioner has what portfolio and steers which departments.

A decision tree

An example using fruits

fruit decision tree

An example using some basic shapes, connections and text labels to construct a decision tree / flow chart for fruit. So you know what you are eating...

Walt's Concept Map

A remake of a walt disney original

disney concept map

Walt Disney made this concept map for his imperium, showing how for example music and magazines division enforce the movie division and vice versa.

English grammar notes

A really big map

english grammar

A map full of grammar. The first map using levels. Levels allow you to show only a particular subset of shapes, which you can use to highlight either structure, or show more details.

Customer journey

Based of a Starbuck customer

starbucks customer journey

This example shows a simple use of tables and lines to recreate a experience map. It shows how simple it is to position anything, anywhere with Breakdown Notes.

Learning Scala

First steps to functional programming

scala study

This example shows the notes taken during the course function programming with scala at www.coursera.org. Plenty of branches to follow along.

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Diagrams, maps and notes
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Making notes, and brainstorming is hard. Breakdown Notes brings the tools that support in stead of limit you.

Breakdown Notes is intended for students and professionals who need to learn, think, analyze, brainstorm, collaborate and present. Its intention is to offer one tool to help with all this.

It not a just a text editor, nor is it a note book. Its not just for diagrams, nor just for presentations. It intermingles the basis of all these things, because that's just what you need to get things done.

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Shapes and styles

Learn more about the basics

Make Flashcards

A feature to help you study

Import Graphviz graphs

For some postprocessing

Learn with games

Make the world whole again

Group and merge

handle more then one

Drag, drop and paste

Explained for the pro's

Making presentations

help to get started

Drawing

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Tables

spreadsheet mania

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