You can use XMind to create MIND MAPPING or SOCIAL BRAINSTORMING.

Some tools that you can use from XMind such as: Topic, Subtopic, Topic Before, Parent Topic, Floating Topic, Floating ‘Central’ Topic, Relationship, Boundary, Summary, Attachment, etc.

The STRUCTURE that you can insert such as Fishbone (Left Headed), Fishbone (Right Headed), Spreadsheet, Map, Map (Clockwise), Map (AntiClockwise), Org (Down), Org (Up), Tree (Right), Tree (Left), Logic Chart (Right) and Logic Chart (Left).

The MARKERS that you can add such as Priority (Priority 1, Priority 2, Priority 3, Priority 4, Priority 5, Priority 6), Smiley (Smile, Laugh, Angry, Cry, Surprise, Boring), Task Complete (Starting, WOrking, Half, Near Complete, Completed, Pause), Flags (Green, Red, Orange, Purple, Blue, Cyan), Stars (Green Star, Red Star, Yellow Star, Purple Star, Blue Star, Gray Star), Half Stars (Green Half Star, Red Half Star, Yellow Half Star, Purple Half Star, Blue Half Star, Gray Half Star), Others (Calendar, EMail, Phone, Phone, Fax, People, People, Clock, Coffee Cup, Question, Exclamation Mark, Light Bulb, Business Card, Social, Chat, Note, Lock, Unlock, Yes, No).

You also can choose the STYLE, such as TOPIC (Grassland, Skyline, Deep Ocean, Caution!, Surprise, Silver Coin, Bumble Bee, Void, Decision, Process, Terminator, Comments), BOUNDARY (Clouds, Lake, Explosion, Stone, Neon Light 1, Neon Light 2), RELATIONSHIP (Sagittarius, Tracing, Subway, Bridge, Watch This!, Flow) and SHEET (Water, Wheat, Space, Blacboard).

You also can choose the THEMES such as: Default, XMIND Classic, XMIND Simple, XMIND Business, XMIN Academese and XMIND Comic

You also can export to: FreeMind, HTML, Image, Marker Package, Mindjet MindManager Map [Pro], PDF (Map) [Pro], PDF Document [Pro], PowerPoint 2007 Presentation [Pro], PowerPoint 97-2003 Presentation [Pro], RTF File (Word Compatible) [Pro], Text, Word 2007 Document [Pro], Word 97-2003 Document [Pro], XMind 2008 Workbook.

You also can import from: FreeMind 0.8/0.9, Marker Package, MindManager 5/6/7/8, XMind 2008 Workbook.

You can download XMIND from http://sourceforge.net/projects/xmind3/