Xara Designer Pro+ questions about desktop publishing and note taking features

[Acorn]

Thanks for those links Acorn, I'll take a good look.
For the past few years I've been using mind maps (SimpleMind) to keep track of text notes, ideas, links and other bits and pieces, but it's good to look at alternatives.

Jon, I did all my Master's notes will handrawn Mindmaps and had been using Buzan's approach for over a decade before.
I bought into MindManager for about 10 years but it palls in comparison to drafting a MM by hand.
That got expensive so I moved to FreeMind, stable v1.0.1 and bet2 2 v1.1.0, running under Java for nigh on universal.

In between I discovered TiddlyWikis and got hooked on Markdown and eventually found Obsidian.

Acorn