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by keithpeter 4776 days ago
Should you happen to use Mac OS, have you seen Tinderbox (Eastgate systems)? Windows (and Wine) users may want to look at Inspiration.

Both allow 'unconstrained' mind mapping/concept mapping where the spatial arrangement of objects is not enforced.

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Excellent! I like to work with:

- Loose sentences/notes, which I group into 'clouds' of related topics (without a mindmap's edges). Scapple [0] on OSX is good for this (and spider diagrams), and Microsoft OneNote.

- Spider diagrams - I find mentally these much easier to create when listening to a presentation or in a meeting. The straight lines help for some reason

- Mind maps. My weakest skill, but as someone else commented they stay in the mind better than anything else does, and I can remember some from 3+ years ago.

[0] http://www.literatureandlatte.com/scapple.php