I've been using PersonalBrain from TheBrain
Technologies Corp (www.thebrain.com) for many years.
It's a package where you can define a network of nodes
which are interconnected in 3 directions: up, down and
sideways.

I use it to connect subjects (e.g. technologies,
methodologies, tools, interests), companies and
people, both for my professional life as for my
private life. Per node you can add notes, a URL or an
application. Changing relationships is just a matter
of drag-n-drop.

Well, it's a bit of extra work to keep it fully
up-to-day (I wish Outlook would allow me to do that
for the contact list), but you don't have to put in
everything, only what you think may be useful for the
future.
Anyway, it gives me a pretty good picture for
communication, and now and then I discover that people
are related to me in unexpected ways.

Frank.


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