Organizing Your Ideas, Rules, and Fluff Snippets

[dammitbiscuit]

I've been looking at corkboard.me and trello.com but they're not so good for creating "trees" of branching or flowcharted information. So I'm wondering where everyone stores their ideas, or wishes they had stored their ideas if they had known better.


I guess Corkboard is the better of the two because I can move things around and resize things to make somewhat of a "tree", but it's pretty clumsy and a dash tedious. Trello only lets you create columns, but they're beautifully done and amazingly easy to work with - if I could get a branching Trello structure, I'd be the Happy Clam.

 

[Kobold Stew]

Check out MindNode -- it's a free app, and is quite robust for creating a branching idea structure. I am using it both in gaming and in RL.

 

[Hand of Evil]

OneNote but on my iPad I use CaptureNotes

and older thread on the subject with a lot of ideas...

http://www.enworld.org/forum/media-...topics/81852-programs-organize-campaigns.html

 

[jefgorbach]

"wikidPad is a Wiki-like notebook for storing your thoughts, ideas, todo lists, contacts, or anything else you can think of to write down. What makes wikidPad different from other notepad applications is the ease with which you can cross-link your information."

unfortunatey the link to their homepage is currently erroring; hopefully temporary as it seems to be a great, error free and easy to use freeware.

 

[Wild Gazebo]

I like Obsidian Portal.

 

[Hand of Evil]

Also, NBOS (makers of Fractal Mapper) has The Keep

The Keep v1.0

 

[dmfubar]

Mind Node looks pretty good but it is a Mac only product. No bueno for a PC person like myself. I use Personal Brain for my organizational needs. There is a free version that works just fine, with the primary difference between it and the paid version involving the use of attachments (in the full version you can attach any type of file to what they call a "thought").

TheBrain :: Mind Mapping Software, Brainstorming, GTD and Knowledgebase Software

 

[Hand of Evil]

Mind Node looks pretty good but it is a Mac only product. No bueno for a PC person like myself. I use Personal Brain for my organizational needs. There is a free version that works just fine, with the primary difference between it and the paid version involving the use of attachments (in the full version you can attach any type of file to what they call a "thought").

TheBrain :: Mind Mapping Software, Brainstorming, GTD and Knowledgebase Software

On the iPAD, there is an 99cent app called Cell Storm, it used HEXes for your ideas and gives a different look to idea mapping - I like it for gaming, because, it uses HEXes, ie 6 sides for dice rolls!