FreeMind

You’re familiar with the concept of mindmapping, right? Some people call it clustering. Some call it a wagon wheel.

Generally, it’s done with pen/cil and paper. Well…

Courtesy of Hope Wilbanks on Plurk, I found out about a free software that does that: FreeMind.

I tried it out for a couple days before I decided to post about it here. I did a mindmap of an article I’ve previously written and on Kiernan’s Curse. It works great for small and large projects.  It’s definitely a keeper.

The only drawback I’ve found about it is that with the large projects, if I print the map, it either takes way too many pages or (when condensed to one page) the print is too small to read.

But, hey, that’s quite all right.

You can download the basic or master versions. The master version has a .pdf converter and some other features. (The PDF thing is the only thing I remember off the top of my head.)

It was a bit confusing at first, but that passed quickly.

I am definitely going to add this to my collection of creativity tools.

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