[jessedhillon]

Have you tried FreeMind? The interface is quite good -- none of this circle drawing stuff you point out.

[eliasmacpherson]

Bears repeating that the keyboard shortcuts in freemind, particularly enter and insert, remove the need for the mouse. They are much quicker than circle and line drawing with pen and paper.

[jjsz]

I use Wisdomap. One level about Mind42 but I can't collapse parents. I use it to make outlines. Click text mode then manually add the format after exporting. It's a pain. Does Freemind export formats in HTML?

[jessedhillon]

It can export your mind map as a set of nested lists.

[derrida]

If you use Org-Mode in Emacs, you can also export to Freemind (C-c C-e m)