I discovered this neat free software called FreeMind. It is a genre called mind mapping software. The idea is that you the way you think is with a bunch of interconnected ideas. This software allows you to dump all of your thoughts into it and then link them together, allowing you to see the big picture of what you have to do. People use it for all sorts of things from planning a party to designing software to planning industrial processes.

I started using it today at work to keep track of things I have to do. The end result might be a few maps, but there may be a number of dependencies for each map. This software allows me to put all of these dependencies in one place and manage them from there rather than trying to keep it all straight in my head or on paper.

You can download FreeMind from here.

This is what I have so far:


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