Matt Elliott is a senior editor at CNET with a focus on laptops and streaming services. Matt has more than 20 years of experience testing and reviewing laptops. He has worked for CNET in New York and ...

The art of using pictures to represent words has been around practically since the beginning of time—think cave drawings. But in the business community, visual note-taking—which involves distilling in ...

Mind mapping, a form of visual outlining, may seem superficial, but once mastered it provides a powerful tool for managing information overload and the hyperbolic multitasking of the modern world.

Back in January, popular mind mapping software MindNode for Mac got a new set of outlining features. Today those handy tools are arriving on iPad and iPhone with the ability to add, edit, and remove ...