Mind mapping for test planning

I am terribly excited about this for the past few days - Usage of mind mapping tools, to capture the spatial representation of tests.

- Capture the user workflows quickly (No more verbose manual writing )
- Capture the tests at macro and micro levels
- Workflows at macro levels & atomic functions at micro level capture using mind mapping
- Externalizing the micro level flows/tasks
- Externalizing the test data in Excel/CSV

The other exciting prospect is the open format nature, information interchange in either direction
- Read from the test intelligence from MM files to drive your automation framework(s)
- Capture flow from Automation scripts to generate MM files.

I will post as I learn along this exercise. I am first evaluating FreeMind Map.