Map your Mind!
One of the best tools I use when facilitating brainstorming is mindmapping, kaizens or fishbone matrices. Mind mapping illustrates ideas from the core into the broken up and cascaded causes. Once all ideas are adequatly exhausted and drawn, it becomes a roadmap on how you plan to approach your core objective.
I use mind maps in all my projects, even in my personal tasks, because it creates context to ambigous objectives. It creates dimension and perspective on where you want to go and what you want to accomplish.
I’ve tried several mind mapping tools both for Windows and Linux and have stripped down my choices to the two that I like and actually use; Mind Mapper for Windows and View Your Mind for Linux. They both perform on spec in terms of feature and functionality and the extra features that both products boast of are not as useful to me anyways. I’d suggest you try it out and see what works for you.
