I just got iThoughts, a mindmapping app that really helped (and is continuing to help) me organize my thoughts, brainstorms, inspirations and notes in a really cool way, here's an example of what one looks like: http://dl.dropbox.com/u/36332877/Example.html , each of those bubbles can hold a note (which you can see by hovering over them, try it!), links to resources (if you click on it, it takes you to the thread I mentioned), or links to other maps. What I like about this app is that everything can be spread before me, if I just thought of something that would be cool to add to my centaur's culture, I just make a "child topic" that leads from the Centaurs topic and call the child topic "Culture" and then put down my thoughts in it so that it looks like: Vadra--->Peoples---->Centaurs---Culture. I tap culture and then I can see the notes on the culture of my centaurs.
A much more thorough explanation of the app can be seen here, it might help my fantasy oriented explanation make more sense: http://www.ithoughts.co.uk/iThoughts/Ge ... arted.html
I know that not everyone thinks as chaotically as I do, but I hope this helps some of you as much as it's helping me! It's for iphone, ipod touch, or ipad. The iphone/ipod version is $7.99, but it's worth it! If you like this kind of note-taking, but don't have an idevice, you might want to look up some computer mindmapping programs. I hope this is helpful to someone!

Hey, Wolf! I moved this from GD to World Building, because it fits slightly better here.

Thanks for letting us know about this, Wolf!

Ok! I was trying to decide which would fit better, but the world building forum seemed to be different from my contribution, so I thought I'd play it safe and go with GD. Thanks, your moderating powers are appreciated!



You're welcome!

Jay introduced me to bubbl.us, which is similar but not as handy as this app seems to be.

Yeah, if you have an ipod touch, iphone, or ipad, iThoughts is a lot better because you can have it with you no matter where you are! I was going to put my mindmap about my fantasy world, but I decided that I didn't want all of that public on the web, I just want to show HWers how it can be used for world-building. So I might do it once I have a world sub-forum...

There are also any number of mind-mapping tools for the major desktop platforms. (For example, in my Linux distribution's package database are Freemind, Semantik, and vym, all of which are free ...) I keep meaning to try them for my worldbuilding (and other) projects.

You should! It might help you a lot. Yeah, the reason I prefer iThoughts is because a lot of people say it's the best mind-mapping tool, and it seems better than any other mobile app for mind-mapping (the reason I prefer mobile, is because that way I can use it at home and elsewhere).