I’ve wanted to come clean for years, because I lumped productivity apps into the same category as corporate team-building exercises. They were a well-intentioned, over-engineered hassle that got in the way of actual work. Mind maps were the worst offenders, and I thought of them as glorified flowcharts consultants throw on whiteboards to justify their $500-per-hour fee. Sure, I used small flowcharts as an extension of a***og note-taking in college, but it still felt like a convoluted, arts-and-crafts way to visualize a simple bulleted list.