What’s Your Favorite Mind Mapping App?
In this Hive Five – a list of the best of the best apps based on your recommendations and our research – we want to know about your favorite mind mapping tools. What do you use to brainstorm, organize, and collect thoughts?
If you are unfamiliar with the concept, a mind map would look like this: you write down a topic or idea, and then draw branch lines from it to break the idea down into its various components. These components can have subcomponents – connected by many lines – and the process continues until you create a diagram that is (hopefully) as beautiful as it is useful. It might look something like this:
We last talked about mind mapping apps back in 2013, and there are probably even more incredible possibilities for Windows, Mac, iOS and Android now. We want to know everything about them, especially your loved ones.
Here’s what we need you to do: leave a note in the comments and tell us which mind mapping apps you like and why. We’ll go over everything you bring up, do our own research, and give you a list of the best apps you can use to get started with this incredibly useful trick for organizing your thoughts.