There's something romantic about the traditional mind map—pen in hand, paper spread out, branches flowing organically as ideas come out of your head. I've clung on to my notebooks and sticky notes for ...

Before writing an essay or making a strategic business plan, you must consolidate your thoughts and then implement them. For making such a plan, you might need a whiteboard or perhaps a pen and paper ...

Mind Mapping is a creative exercise that starts when you pen down that one big idea or theme. This big idea is like the trunk of a tree, each new idea is a new branch, and each sub-idea is a smaller ...

Mind mapping is a great way to add structure to brainstorming sessions and visualize your ideas. Check out the applications your fellow readers use to do their best brainstorming. Update: This list is ...

Collecting and organizing ideas is a key first step to undertaking any task. When you’re planning a new product, making a decision, organizing an event or solving a problem you’ll be full of ideas, ...

You can get your ideas down quickly and map your mind with ease with Coggle, a freemium browser-based tool for project managers and thinkers. Why you can trust ...

Blumind is a free, tiny, portable tool for quickly creating mind maps, org charts, and logic diagrams. Blumind (free/donationware) is a simple and friendly mind-mapping application. The entire package ...

Bill Gates mind-maps. So do Jack Canfield, Deepak Chopra, and Al Gore. Leonardo da Vinci was the most famous mind-mapper of all, his visual style of note taking immortalized in his notebooks. Mind ...

Brainstorming sessions are great, but sometimes you can drown in a thicket of ideas, half-concepts, and free-floating words. If that sounds familiar, you might want to consider a mind-mapping tool.

Innovative ideas are a bi-product of thinking outside the box. Brainstorming is an essential method for creating new ideas and thinking in a different way, but it’s not always easy to get into the ...