Mind Mapping for Organizing

August 20, 2008

free-mindI found the coolest download today – FreeMind!

It’s a mind mapping application for your computer that lets you create mind maps and print them out. I’m sure it does a lot of other cool stuff, I just haven’t thoroughly explored it yet.

My mind is spinning with all the possible ways to use this!
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6 thoughts on “Mind Mapping for Organizing”

  3. Holly

    OK, I’ve read the links and learned about mind-mapping and concept mapping and how the organizer in the link above uses it in her business, but I don’t understand why it is useful.

    What is the advantage of mindmapping over just keeping a running list of things to do?

     
  4. Eva Wallace

    Thanks for your comment, Holly – you raise a good point!

    Something I learned from years of home schooling is that there are different learning styles. Where some are very linear thinkers and a list may work wonders, others are much more visual in their thinking and need pictures and visual images to help in these areas. Maybe you’re a more linear thinker – if lists are working well for you, then great!

    For me lists work well for daily tasks and short projects. But for large or complex, multi-level type projects, it helps me to “see it” rather than read it. Just how my brain works, that’s all.

     
  5. Holly

    Thanks for the very quick and thoughtful reply.

    It occurs to me that while I keep several different to-do lists on a single piece of paper (to-do work, to-do home, to-do church….), I actually “see” them as spatial entities in my imagination…so maybe I’m mind-mapping without the paper!

    Thanks for the link, I’ll play around with it.