Mind Mapping

I‘ve got some new favorite software.  My current job demands lots of creativity and strategic thinking, which is great–I am by nature both creative and strategic.  My main problem is that I’m not always the most organized.  I wonder sometimes if my greatest ideas have floated away because I forgot to write them down, of if I did write them down the paper got hopelessly lost in an unorganized mass of crumpled papers.  Well, I think I may have found a solution: FreeMind. 

FreeMind is an opensource Mind Map tool written in Java (which means it’s available for all platforms).

FreeMind makes its case:

So you want to write a completely new metaphysics? Why don’t you use FreeMind? You have a tool at hand that remarkably resembles the tray slips of Robert Pirsig, described in his sequel to Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance called Lila. Do you want to refactor your essays in a similar way you would refactor software? Or do you want to keep personal knowledge base, which is easy to manage? Why don’t you try FreeMind?

I really like it so far and plan on giving it extensive use in the near term. If anything really negative about it crops up I’ll let you know.