For any of you who have to do creative or strategic brainstorming, I highly recommend MindJet. I like to think of it as visio on steroids. I actually have to say that this is one of the more impressive tools I have used in quite a while.
Mindjet is a free flowing program that lets you create a whiteboard of sorts with categories, sub-categories etc, but where this tool really leaves the pack behind is this...you can easily and instantly link to files, websites, images, documents, spreadsheets, contacts...basically anything. This opens up the application to all sorts of wonderful possibilities.
There are a ton of templates that you can us to start your projects. Looking for a creative brief...no problem. A strategic plan...no problem. Its all there ready to go. Plus there looks to be quite an active community behind it as well who are willing to help and creating more templates and pushing the product further ever day. I really like that.
I recommend going out to their website and downloading the trial...you have to try it for your next project.
