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My teachers were right, outlines help, but maybe not how I was taught

by Tris Hussey on December 19, 2009 · 4 comments

in About the book, Cool tools, Create Your Own Blog, Daddy Wears Slippers to Work, Featured, Mind Mapping, Teaching, Technology, Tips and Tricks, Using WordPress

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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MindView 3 for Mac better than MindManger 7 for Mac? Looks like it

by Tris Hussey on February 26, 2009 · 2 comments

in Mind Mapping, Random Bits

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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Tweetdeck getting funding isn’t crazy, it’s the next move forward: stuff that works

by Tris Hussey on January 16, 2009 · 1 comment

in Internet Life, RSS, Web 2.0

Yeah I love TweetDeck , it’s open all the time and one of the first things I installed on my netbook. TweetDeck is the only way I’ve found I can get much out of Twitter at all. Iain is a very talented guy and eventhough I didn’t “get” TweetDeck at first, now I do.
Om Malik thinks Iain getting $500k in angel funding is a sing of Twitter insanity, I have to strongly disagree.

[From Tweetdeck Funding…a Sign of Twitter Insanity]

TweetDeck freakin’ works. Everyone who I’ve turned on to it [...]

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Great mind map? When people “just get it”

by Tris Hussey on September 16, 2008 · 1 comment

in Mind Mapping

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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