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    <p>I'm having trouble with project management &amp; am looking for a good tool that will be a good match for the way my brain works (very associatively). I'd like a bug-tracker but one that I can group tasks into topics and associate the topics to each other in a graph (see the Wikipedia entry on <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Topic_Maps" rel="nofollow noreferrer">Topic Maps</a> ) so that I can find &amp; visualize easily the "big picture". I've tried using AbstractSpoon's <a href="http://www.abstractspoon.com/" rel="nofollow noreferrer">ToDoList</a> and it works well but it's hierarchical and after about 30 or 40 entries I get lost in a maze of things to do.</p> <p>any suggestions?</p> <hr> <p><strong>edit:</strong> I've now tried <a href="http://freemind.sourceforge.net" rel="nofollow noreferrer">Freemind</a>, <a href="http://www.conzilla.org" rel="nofollow noreferrer">Conzilla</a>, <a href="http://www.xmind.net/" rel="nofollow noreferrer">XMind</a>, and <a href="http://vue.tufts.edu/" rel="nofollow noreferrer">VUE</a>. Freemind and Conzilla were a little flaky. XMind seems to be the most polished of the four; they have a "pro" version which is non-free (pay by the month >:( which is weird) but an open-source base version which is free. You can't export the data directly from the program with the free version, but the storage format is just a .jar-style (ZIP file w/ extension .xmind) file that contains a "contents.xml" that is easily parsed if I needed to.</p> <p>@codeslave: </p> <blockquote> <p>but how important is the visual representation any way</p> </blockquote> <p>Visualization is everything! I've got information overload and I need to be able to navigate a mess of information. I don't want it to be super-Powerpoint-polished, but I need to be able to use the associations that I create to remind myself how to find what I'm looking for. In an ideal world you could just full-text search everything, but that only works if you can remember the search phrase. Often I'll file something under "algorithm" and when I go to look for it I look under "programming" instead, or vice-versa. Associativity solves that problem by allowing me to visually browse my "mental model" of the information I've stored.</p>
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