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Not really. But I’m glad you asked!

Google “crazy conspiracy board meme” and you’ll have a good analogy for what’s happening. If I start writing it down, things randomly disappear from board. Which requires me to look at the gaps and fill in the blanks.

You can imagine what this looks like from the outside. My dad has interrupted me so many times with “get to the point” and the only response I have is “working on it.”

The funny thing is… I’m an author and prefer to work with text.




Yeah, for mind map style note taking I use hierarchical bullet lists. It's the same topology (if there are no cycles) without having to worry about layouts, and you can have both hands on the keyboard. I go up and down a lot and move blocks around.


Yup. I'll break out my eink tablet, write bullet points, and make liberal use of the selection tool. (Text editing requires too many operations.)




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