Patrick, I had never heard of HabitRPG, it looks amazing!!! I think I'll introduce it to my students to help them get rid of their bad study habits (like not looking at exam materials until the very night before the exam...).

I always thought Evernote's interface was a little complicated. This looks simpler and has a beautiful design. I think I'll give it a try, thanks!

There were two things that always helped me get the material into my head:

I can't believe MindMeister didn't make it into the top 5, I've tried xmind, freemind and mindnode and they are neither as user friendly nor as pretty as MindMeister.

Is there going to be a new survey and article about mind mapping software any time soon? I've been following the developments of the various tools for the past year or so and I have to say that A LOT has changed since this article was published. Some tools have barely released an update, while others - some of them…

I've always had problems retaining information from books, but I actually think I've found the perfect system now, at least for e-books. I read pretty much all my non-fiction books on a Kindle, and while I read I use the Kindle's highlighting tool to mark important passages and quotes. Then I use a tool called…