ThinkingTools, softwares which helps in ThinkingProcess

Posted by Cyganet
Jan 20, 2021 at 11:45 AM

Hi Newbee,

I’m going to interpret “thinking tools” as those that help you develop new ideas, rather than store information that is collected from an outside source, which would be “knowledge management”.

For me, it often starts with mindmapping using Freeplane https://www.freeplane.org/wiki/index.php/Home
For concept mapping, I like to use CmapTools https://cmap.ihmc.us/ or VUE https://vue.tufts.edu/
If I’m drawing diagrams to clarify my thinking, I use PlantUML https://plantuml.com/
If I’m just jotting ideas down in an outliner, any one will do. I quite like Dynalist https://dynalist.io/
If I’m making a presentation, I use MS Powerpoint to make the outline and order of slides before filling them in
If I’m writing individual pieces of text, I like a clean environment like Typora https://typora.io/
If I’m writing a book, I use InfoQube https://www.infoqube.biz/

For storing information in a wiki format with connections I use ConnectedText https://www.connectedtext.com/, but I don’t use it to create new ideas. You CAN use it that way by using its outliner feature which is equivalent to using Dynalist from my list above

Hope this gives you some ideas for your list.