Someone seeing the map you produce may not be able to make much sense of it, but it’s how you got there that matters. The map map you make during this process will probably be filed away and forgotten when you’ve finished. The process of building the map can help you think something through, get new ideas or learn. (wondering which software made this map? Click here) Either because it makes you think I’ve been mapping for more than thirty years but soon after starting, I saw that there are two motivations for using mind maps (and similar visual models): When the process of making it is what’s important or when the map itself is what you need. The map below shows the advantage of being able to go beyond a tree structure. It’s amusing, but it does confine the user to a strict tree hierarchy and that’s something I find very limiting. I played with text2mindmap for a while, because it takes a different approach: Key in a text outline and it produces a mindmap from it. Myself, I mostly use Xmind, 3D Topicscape Pro (naturally, as much of it is my design), MindManager, MindMeister and CMAP depending on what I’m doing. Here you will find recommendations, some free and some not so free. Most of us probably do all of these from time to time, so we need a quiver full of arrows to choose from. Some mindmap alone, others mindmap in groups. Some people use them for study, some for planning projects, some for organizing information, some to spark ideas and facilitate brainstorming sessions, some while planning the writing of a report or blog post. What is “best” depends so much on how you use mind maps.
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