1. A machine-assisted method comprising: providing a graphical user interface (GUI) including an idea map window for displaying and editing a graphical representation of a hierarchical network of nodes, the nodes representing ideas, and links between ones of the nodes, the links representing relationships between the ideas; and providing a word processor document window for displaying information associated with the hierarchical network in a word processor document, the displayed information organized in a sequence obtained by hierarchically processing any linked children nodes in either a clockwise or an anticlockwise manner as displayed about their respective parent nodes in the hierarchical network.