Mind Mapping While On The Road

Mind mapping wherever, whenever. That sounds really interesting. I want to discuss three ways with you to create mindmaps wherever you are.

Here are first four basic guidelines a tool has to offer me to create mindmaps:

1. Create any type of mindmap
2. Easy to carry around and 24×7 at my disposal
3. Allows easy mind mapping
4. Requires hardly any training to use (when you know about mind mapping)

For me, mobile mind mapping is something that helps me to capture my thoughts and ideas. I am not really looking for a tool that lets me mindmap together with others. When I do that, I want to have a nice big computer screen or white board to use.

Here are three types of mindmap solutions that will help you and me in this.

1. Mind Mapping On Your Laptop/Net book

Of course we can mindmap on a laptop. You have a big screen and you can probably use your favorite mindmap tool. Add to this the advantage of probably using the same license as you have for your desktop and you have a wonderful combination: low cost and your own tool!

However… when I have to carry my laptop around to capture my thoughts… most of my immediate and most powerful thoughts are lone gone the moment I have my tool ready to capture them.

Using a net book is a much better solution. These computers are build to give faster results and need less time to boot. Another advantage is that these computers are smaller and easier to carry around. The screen size is probably not that impressive (10 inch), but still, it gets the job done!