Writing methods I've still got to try

Writing is just as much a freelance job as every other. You're working from home, mostly after hours, and are responsible for yourself and your own coffee supply. That doesn't only mean time, creativity, self-marketing and the writing itself, it also includes advancing your own skills and training yourself. That might sound pricey, but it's actually rather simple: You are bored, your mind is blank, you still have to write so-and-so-many words to finish your self-imposed quota, and you just can't get in the mood. What do you do?
If you're me, you google ideas to get shit done. If you're a writer and trying to do that, there are thousands of websites and blogs dedicated to just that magical thing. Most of them basically tell you the same, but with minor digressions and different emphases.
I tried most of them at one point or another, but here are some I still haven't or didn't want to try yet. Let's take a look at the three runners-up!

The Snowflake Method

... as it is described here! I came as far as step 1, the selling sentence, and that was it for my brain. It's not so much that I can't do it, but rather that I'd lose all those little ideas that start popping up as soon as I've got my one-liner. If I didn't write those down, and then the follow-up ideas, I'd never get anything done. Since this method asks for a full outline and filling in details afterwards, I can't do it. Yet. As I said before, writing is a skill and knowing one- and only one- way to do it doesn't mean you're actually good at it.

Notecard outlining

I've done something vaguely similar to this for NaNoWriMo 2014, but it didn't work out and I dropped the technique before I actually got anywhere. It's basically writing down all the scenes you want to build into your novel on separate notecards and shuffling them until they fit in a neat outline. It does sound useful, especially if you keep the scenes general enough to use one stack of scene notecards for all your stories, color code them into action, love, surprise, violence, lazy, and so on ...
Might be a good way to get unstuck if you don't know what to do next and need some spice. I'd just pick a card matching the atmosphere I want and continue writing.
I haven't gotten to the point of actually writing something on the notecards I procured, though, so there's that. They do make my desk look more sophisticated and writer-y!

Visual Maps

I'd actually love to try this method, because I'm a sucker for visual representations and overviews. But I'm also a lazy bum and I don't want to fumble around with design software for hours, just to get some picture that won't ever be able to give me more information than a block of text, a list, or a notecard.
I'm still hoping to find software that can do both-- generate timelines and context graphics and spit out lists or pre-made summaries at the same time. As soon as I got that, I'll try outlining via visual maps.


So... does any of you use one of these three outline techniques? If so, how do you like them and did you make your own, small changes to make them a better fit for you?