Free your mind

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17 July 2007 at 09:57
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I’ve been using FreeMind for about two years. Here’s a good post from a while back, which lays out the main points of why it’s so great.

Effective brainstorming is the art of recording disjointed data (human thoughts) in such a way that they may then be grouped, sorted and prioritised. FreeMind’s tree-like structure encourages the user to start with the big stuff and whittle down to the details – but by the time you’re adding details, they’re falling into groups: making them much easier to manage.

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Greymatter

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2 December 2000 at 18:16
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Noah Grey has created a nifty little Perl program for creating weblogs via a web interface without having to rely on Blogger and the like. It works on Unix hosts running Perl 5, but not on any NT variation. After a bit of tweaking, I got the thing working on my NT4 host, so zipped up the amended files and sent them back to him. I don’t know how good they’ll be on anybody else’s setup, but they do work here. I’m not sure if I’ll go to such a system, but if I do, this is the strongest contender so far.

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