Digital Post-It-Note Board to Outliner

Posted by Glen Coulthard
May 6, 2015 at 03:17 PM

Looking for a “better” solution for the following scenario:
I have a meeting with 5 other professors, laying out a new course progression on digital marketing. We have identified 40+ weekly topics (e.g., SEO, Affiliate Marketing, Google Analytics, etc.) that need to be placed and ordered into 3-5 bins (courses). We are meeting in a boardroom with whiteboards and laptop-to-projector connections (but no smartboard). The old-school method would be to draw “bin” lanes on the whiteboard and then use Post-It Notes to move course topics around, but there must be a better way. Ultimately, I would like to be able to do the following in a visual Windows-based solution:

1. Create bins (lanes) for courses
2. Create and drag topics to bins
3. Reorder, sort, and auto-arrange bins and topics
4. Format bins and topics, including color-coding
4. Add bin and topic notes and attachments (e.g., course description and lecture ideas)
5. Save and export the results to a DOCX/ODT document, including notes

I am familiar with and use MindManger, VUE, CMap tools, MyInfo, myBase, ConnectedText, and other tools, but the one that comes nearest is the discontinued MindSystems Amode. Are there any other solutions that I may be missing that you can recommend? This seems to be a common scenario in brainstorming and planning meetings.
All the best,
Glen