The new mindmapping application for Mac OS X, Quick Node, is temporarily free on the Mac App Store here.

I haven’t used it, I just learnt of the price drop from £13.99 UK and $19.99 US and wanted to tell you.

But I do use mindmapping now and I do sometimes find it very useful. I had a project I was late starting recently and I used Mind Node on my iPad to let me whack down every thought I could muster about it. Then I could see that okay, those two ideas could go together, if I find another one for here than that’ll sound better, and then I just wrote up what was in front of me. It worked too.

So visual thinking can be good but it isn’t for everybody and I find it isn’t for everything I do. So the chance to try it out for free has got to be a boon.

Note, though, that Quick Node doesn’t support OPML: you can’t very easily create a mindmap and then export it to something like an outlining app or a To Do manager. You can save in Quick Node’s own format plus TIFF image or PDF but effectively this makes it a personal-use-only tool. I only use Mind Node personally, I have yet to share any of the maps with anyone else, but I do regularly export to OPML so that my To Do manager, OmniFocus, can import it.

Quick Node – Easy Mind Maps and Diagrams for OS X is free today (July 3, 2014). If it’s gone off sale by the time you look for it, the price will probably be that aforementioned £13.99 UK and $19.99 US but in its short life the app’s price has bounced around a lot so it may yet be more.