You're an idea person, or at least that's what you tell yourself. Every morning, you wake up filled with innovative thoughts, and your desk is cluttered with multiple notepads and sticky notes scribbled with fragments of plans, ideas, and schemes. But let me ask you, when was the last time you brought one of your great ideas to fruition?

Many of us have great ideas, but only a small minority of people have the organizational skills to transform their ideas into actual action. Mind Pad is a knowledge management application that will help you to outline and visualize your ideas, a technique known as "mind mapping". This technique allows you to structure your thoughts, questions, and project objectives in a manner that is easy to understand.

With Mind Pad, you are presented with the unique concept of an "idea life cycle", which starts when you first come up with an idea, continues with the careful management of that idea, and finally culminates in the conversion of that idea into an action. Using an extensive library of available objects, you construct visual representations of your ideas that is known as a "mind map". As you improve and refine your idea, you can add captions, create links between ideas, add new items, and group related ideas together.

The end result of using Mind Pad is a robust, visual representation of your idea that looks and functions quite like a flowchart. Each of the elements of your Mind Pad mind map can be customized by shape, size, color, and many other properties, and each of these properties carries a specific meaning to the overall map! Your mind map can even be exported as a graphic file for use in other applications!