The user interface of Freeplane is not very modern, and it has an old-school look. However, you can find almost all the essential features to organize your planning – and that is the most important ...

Lindsey Ellefson is Lifehacker’s Features Editor. She currently covers study and productivity hacks, as well as household and digital decluttering, and oversees the freelancers on the sex and ...

Cowritten by Kelsey Schultz and Tchiki Davis. Mind mapping is a technique through which you develop and visually organize thoughts, ideas, and information. This technique involves identifying a ...

Josh Lowensohn joined CNET in 2006 and now covers Apple. Before that, Josh wrote about everything from new Web start-ups, to remote-controlled robots that watch your house. Prior to joining CNET, Josh ...

Freeform is a brand new iPhone, iPad, and Mac app from Apple that lets users create multimedia boards on an infinite canvas that include text, images, drawings, links, files, and more. It’s an ...

Gaming in VR is great, but there’s huge potential for the tech to be used for productivity too. One early stab at that is Noda, a mind mapping tool for the Vive and Rift. A mind map is a type of ...

Mind mapping is a powerful learning technique that can significantly enhance memory, processing speed, and depth of understanding when mastered at the highest level. The technique is divided into ...

I first heard about mind mapping from a former colleague. I had seen his visually appealing planning notes. I had even asked for a quick tour of the advanced computer program he used to generate ...

Literature and Latte’s $15 Scapple is a unique amalgamation of productivity tools from the folks who brought us the amazing Scrivener () writing app. The developers describe Scapple as a freeform, ...

There are many free mind mapping software available for Windows. However, some tools come with a very complicated UI. This freeware comes with fewer features than other standard mind mapping tools, ...