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I'm looking for a piece of software where I can basically draw branches, almost in a tree structure and have headings and text for each node.

While stepping through legacy code I often find myself debugging functions that call other functions, that call other functions.

It can get fairly complex, and I would like to draw up some "visual map", not to be confused with a UML or flow chart. No graphics per say, mostly text, but in tree form.

I know Excel would work, paper and pen too, but I am curious if there is software like this, possibly even a visual studio plugin?

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Google for mind mapping software. – Karl Bielefeldt Mar 7 '12 at 16:48

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Check out FreeMind. It's a particularly good implementation of a note-taking system called "mind mapping". I frequently use it for just the sort of problem you're describing, especially when I find myself in a new and confusing environment (aka "drinking from the firehose").

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