Throughout the past two days, I’ve been trying to force myself to use a mindmapping tool, which I’d tried previously with terrible results. The main problem has been that utilities in this category are cumbersome, ugly, or both. For something designed to produce an image that appeals to visual thinkers (which I don’t necessarily count myself among, but you know. Whatever.), these products were failing. Hard.

Along comes MindNode. Here’s a lightweight, free, beautiful application that is so easy to use I felt as though I was missing something important. My sole complaint is the inability to cross-attach “nodes”, but other than that–perfection.