You probably create your mindmaps yourself. You may even be working together with others on mindmaps. Bottom line: You are working on the mindmaps you need and use.
Here’s something to think about.
Do you remember creating book reports when you were in school? I do and I know that I didn’t really like to create them. I love(d) to read books, yet writing a report on them while and after reading… not the most interesting thing to do for me.
So what did I and many others in my school do? We exchanged our reports and re-wrote them in our own words (if we had to hand them over to the teacher).
We basically used the reports of others to create our own.
Why shouldn’t we do this in using mindmaps?
I know that a couple of years ago there was a person selling summaries of (business/management/marketing/self-help) books in mindmap format. This idea is really great! You don’t have to read the book. In fact, you don’t have to read an entire summary of a book that is usually a couple of pages!
You just take the mindmap on a single sheet and you read and study that! Any thing not clear? Just read the chapter or paragraph in the book then.
From that one sheet, you learned about the entire book content.
I have not yet seen mindmaps of study books that often (online). I know students I work with are creating them. The only thing is that they usually keep them for themselves. There is not yet a good deal of mindmap-exchange-traffic between students. Probably because the mindmaps are personal pieces and not written to work that well for others.
Would you use the mindmaps other people created on reports or books they read and use them?
Why (not)?
One step further: Would you hand over a important report and have someone else create the mindmap for you?
You would basically be out-tasking your mindmap creation this way.
Who has any experience with this?
I would love to hear your experiences and thoughts on this.
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Yes, for book summaries I think that is a good, not excellent idea.
If you read someone else’s map, you’re likely to pick up something. If you create your own, you’ll internalize the information with greater depth and understanding.