By letting you nest whiteboards inside of one another, Allume brings order to your sprawling, big-picture thinking while letting you follow tangents wherever they lead.

What we love: Diving deeper into an idea by creating a new board inside of an existing one. When planning a space-themed party, for example, we could devote one canvas entirely to where the DJ booth would go in relation to the drinks station and another canvas for sketches of an astronaut costume.

Quick tip: Use the Transcribe feature to record a brainstorming session – and add the full audio to one board and text to another.

Meet the creator: Adam Wulf created Allume as a research project in a human-computer interaction lab. He said he wanted to augment how creative people develop ideas, which can be a messy process. “Allume isn’t another notebook – it’s a cosy space to think,” he says.