Personally, I’m not printing out many documents, I general read on screen and try to be quite paperless. Most people I know print out quite a lot, and I understand them. When it comes to reading, paper still has a too big advantage over screen to prevent people from pressing the print button. Myself I also prefer paper rather than reading on screen, but it is much easier to store and classify documents in an electronic form and therefore I print out as little as possible.

Now when it comes to taking notes and brainstorming, I’m still on the old school with paper, sometimes also keeping notes in my email client in the form of mails in my Draft folder. None of these methods really scales well.

So I’m happy that I put a bit of time in learning FreeMind. It is a free mind mapping software that helps to keep notes and do brainstorming. It’s is definitively better as my “notes in Draft folder method” (while I can still share it as it can be exported in HTML) and it is much cleaner than on paper. I’m planning to use it more, and it could even be very good too to take meeting notes.

I have been more and more interested on TabletPC lately and this is an application that could definitively be very good to use on one.

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