@amerpie I have a unique relationship with mindmaps. Every so often, I find a good use case, and I use a Mindmap and get blown away; then I explore the tool and use it for other things and get quickly lost in all the visual bells and whistles (fonts, colors, attachments, icons, round connectors vs. angled ones, etc.) to the point nothing gets done and leave it alone for another year or two.
@jtr You should use the paper and pen method then. It stimulates your brain in the same way, but you don't get caught up in the extraneous crap.