The more you read the crazier it gets. I had to stop reading after a couple of chapters because of the caps and horrible writing.

Before spending more than 5 minutes on this, read "his vision" on this chapter: http://www.speakeasy.org/~lion/nb/html/doc010.html

I use the open source version: http://freemind.sourceforge.net/wiki/index.php/Main_Page

brilliant tool. I highly recommend it. I use it constantly.

Have you moved the the rc for 0.9, yet? If so, is it stable enough to rely on (in your opinion)?

Or use PersonalBrain: http://www.thebrain.com/