Mind Maps: Top Software & Do You Use Them?

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A mind map is a diagram used to visually organize information. A mind map is hierarchical and shows relationships among pieces of the whole.[1] It is often created around a single concept, drawn as an image in the center of a blank page, to which associated representations of ideas such as images, words and parts of words are added. Major ideas are connected directly to the central concept, and other ideas branch out from those.

I remember trying software only so long ago and didn't really like the offerings, any recommended software or do you just like to use a graphics editor where you can manually draw and write them?

What this has resolved to for me is more thinking in mind maps by creating table-of-contents organized plain text notes in a hierarchical way.

Thoughts on "mind maps" in general?