I was just about to pledge allegiance to the new note-taking program Zim, which has just the flexibility or cussedness or whatever I like in a mindmapping program, when I noticed that there have been some changes at www.mindmeister.com and its software seemed to me to work better than ever with the N900

Of course, Conboy also has unique virtues, and Evernote has to be mentioned.

But I wanted to mention this new Mindmeister ease of use; it has long been one of my favorites (I'm actually a paid-up member, though you can use about five mindmaps without paying anything) but I always had a few problems using it with a tablet. Yesterday my tests with the N900 were just beautiful -- I could create a mindmap and zoom and scan without problems.