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Ask HN: What's your favorite mind mapping tool?

6 points by ethansk ↗ HN
All the mind mapping software I've tried hasn't been very good. Usually the UI was clunky and lacked keyboard shortcuts. And/or the design looked like something from last decade. And finally they haven't seemed very powerful.

Are there any fast, pretty, quick-to-use mind mapping tools I've accidentally missed?

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moksly
Post-it notes on brown paper on a wall.

I mean, unless you’re making them by yourself, the digital tools are probably always going to be worse than something that everyone can get up and move around very easily.

ethansk
For whatever reason post-it notes won't stick to my walls. Maybe it's the paint. But there for myself anyway so nbd
moksly
That’s why you use a huge piece of brown paper. That way you can also roll it up and save it for another day.

It’s actually a methodology taught at Danish MBA schools called a brown paper exercise.

Experience will quickly teach you to tape the post-it’s to the paper before rolling it up though.

alltakendamned
Mindjet Mindmanager, but quite expensive these days :/
eimrine
Maybe you can help me - I need a mind mapping tool where I can build a tree not only in top to bottom direction but vice versa. For example I have b=>c=>d and I want to get a=>b=>c=>d . I have tried several mind mapping tools but none of them can do it.