I define a tool as "better" when it makes me more creative. It's got to make my brain sizzle and pop with ideas. 

Over the past few days, I've been testing Imindmap, this is the tool created by the master mind mapper himself, Tony Buzan. Once I've worked with the program a little more, I'll write a review of it.

Since Tony Buzan more or less started the mind mapping craze, you may know that he has a "one word" criterion for each branch of a mind map. Let's say I'm not good at this -- my mind maps tend to be verbose.

Not to worry, for the length of the trial, all my branches will have ONE word only. :-) It will be a trial in more ways than one.