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It’s pretty well known that I’m a huge fan of mind mapping and am a very visual learner. It’s also well know that school wasn’t easy for me growing up. Yes, I did well, but there were times I thought Chemistry and pre-calculus were going to be the death of me. Even through undergrad and grad school many things (again Chemistry) didn’t come easily to me. Oh how I wish I knew then what I know now about myself and my brain.
I wonder if I had been helped to hone [...]
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Remember those days in high school when you were learning how to write term papers? My very well-meaning teachers tried to get us to use notecards and create outlines, anything to help us write better organized papers with the correct citation in the bibliography.
And I hated and chafed at every, single moment of it. While having notecards is actually a good organizational tool, my nascent writer’s brain couldn’t latch on to them as anything more than a royal pain. Even then, and probably more so than now, my chaotic, in-the-data-cloud [...]
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You all know that I’m a huge proponent of mind mapping. Once I got the hang of it I couldn’t imagine trying to organize my thoughts any other way.
Books, presentations, projects, websites pretty much anything where I need to take the massive gaggle of thoughts that is my brain into a cohesive whole, I mind map.
You also know that my primary tool for mind mapping has been MindJet’s MindManager. One of the key features for me has been the ability to export mind maps to a Word outline or PowerPoint [...]
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Chuck Frey asked yesterday—How do you define a great mind map? – Mind Mapping Software Blog—while commenters were talking about lots of difference great things about mind maps, my number one thing has always been if someone else looks at it and “just gets it”.
They can follow my train of thought. They understand the point. Even better is when a mind map inspires people to see the idea or problem in a new light. Now that rocks.
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