Started using LibreOffice spreadsheets to outline and make notes. Simple formatting is made easier with a grid. Writing full paragraphs is possible but discoura

Started using LibreOffice spreadsheets to outline and make notes. Simple formatting is made easier with a grid. Writing full paragraphs is possible but discouraged. It's easy enough to make a list, reorganize it and export or feed it into code. It's even possible to add multimedia to the document. I do not rely on writing todos to accomplish todos, for the accomplishment, I focus on "set and setting", using self-talk, making a comfortable workspace etc. For a lot of things this seems to be a sweet spot. On occasion I will use a mind mapping tool. This is really another way of brainstorming a topic, and so it doesn't "put things in their place" so much as it does introduce new relationships and address coherency of thought process. The hierarchy of mind mapping is often too much structure and something more like a word or phrase cloud is called for - which grids are good at emulating.