Mindmapping apps
November 23, 2009A month or so ago I searched the net for free mindmapping software and found FreeMind and MapMyself. Both are really useful – FreeMind is quite structured and orderly, whereas MapMyself allowed more creativity and freehand mindmaps. I was revising for law exams at the time and found them really handy for organising thoughts and prompting my memory.
A couple of weeks later I searched for free alternatives to Microsoft Onenote, and found a really cool program called Evernote, which has online and downloadable versions, and syncs to my iPod Touch. It gives me an email address which I send notes to and they automatically appear in my Evernote notebook. And anything I post on Twitter also gets into Evernote just by re-tweeting to @myEn.
Funnily enough that search also uncovered PersonalBrain. Having a play around with this new program, I got the feeling it was much bigger and more powerful than I could work out for myself, and that it would be worth my while to RTFM (read the manual!), which I did.
Indeed, PersonalBrain combines notebooking and mindmapping in one really cool application. You can organise your thoughts in many ways, add attachments, tags and inter-relationships, and … well lots of really cool stuff!
How do you normally remember all the things you need to remember? What’s your favourite organisation tool?
