I hate keeping things in my head. There’s plenty of room for stuff, but I like to keep it vacant for important stuff. There is a lot to be said about using ToDos, and Mind Maps to keep thoughts organized so that you can free up some of that biological computing power in your brain. There’s a lot of great applications out there that let you do mind maps, and they’re full featured, but that’s not what I want to show you guys today.
Today is keeping things simple day.
I stumbled across an application yesterday called MindNode. It essentially lets you map out relational information in a way that’s easy to understand, and even quicker to setup.
Click a “node”, label it, then create sub-nodes, label them, and away you go.
This thing can be used for a host of scenarios, take for instance this map of Macgasm.net where I listed out the different sections of the website, and a couple of new additions we’re working on (Sorry, they’re blurred out), as an example. Heck you could use this for a rudimentary network mapping tool, or even an organizational personnel map.
MindNode has a basic free version, as well as a paid for version that offers a bunch of more options. If you’re really looking for something more professional with a deep feature set, you might also wont to check out OmniGraffle. If OmniGraffle is a little too pricy for you, you could always enter our holiday giveaway, and start praying that you win. Just a suggestion.
