Many people are, and have been talking about when and if Mind Mapping will go mainstream soon. After further investigation, I want to give you my thoughts on it (again).
Some of things I hear when my students and I talk about mindmaps are this:
- This is a personal tool!
- Wow, this looks a lot like the way I make notes already
- This method is not clear, I can’t use this. People won’t take me serious!!!
- Can I really use this with my team members?
Different people, different opinions. Some love mindmaps, others get frustrated and really hate them.
Now combine this with things very mainstream like coffee and Windows computers:
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There are a huge number of really interesting, powerful, nice and handy mindmap software solutions. This can be a bliss, but also a burden. Today I want to tell you why this diversity might be exactly what we are looking for in our software solutions.
Last week I saw I huge overview of mindmap tools on a website. Of course I already knew there are many, many tools you can use. In 2002 I created a website that offered about 25 different mindmap brands to people looking for a nice tool. Yes, that’s right, 25 brands, not different versions.
As you can probably understand, that was a lot of work to keep updated and to learn about each tool. While I could find a nearly perfect tool for a person who wanted to do something special with a tool, I thought this had to change.
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Many people don’t like to give a presentation (I wonder why).
When they do deliver a presentation, they use tools which divert the focus from them and their message to a huge amount of (PowerPoint) slides.
In this article, I want to share with you why I feel presentations should be done using mindmaps. Also, you will learn why one of the most overrated and most useless features of a mindmap tool is the export-to-PowerPoint option.
The main reason people use visual aids.
When you present your information, you are the person who has (most of) the knowledge on that topic. After all… you were asked to share your knowledge and insights.
Many people use visual aids to support or even tell their story.
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SHOCKING NEWS: We now have almost ONE million different mindmap software tools, it won’t be long before we are there.
No, of course we don’t have that many different tools, but we are moving in that direction! When I started mind mapping on my computer, there were a perhaps 15 different REAL mind mapping tools available. Things have changed since then…
Is it easier to create a good mindmap because there are so many tools you can use?
I don’t think so. Actually… the real mindmap tools from then are still leaders in this field today. There are 3 reasons why this did not change and will not change… soon.
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I once read a quotation of Bruce Lee. He said he emphasized on the style of no style.
Later on I saw a movie which had a young student of kung fu. He said he wanted to master the art of fighting, without knowing how to fight! When he said that, his master looked at him and shook his head…
Lets stop right here. Wouldn’t it be nice if you could fight without knowing how to fight?
We should bring this into our own life and our mindmaps. Wouldn’t it be wonderful if you could use mindmaps without knowing how to create mindmaps???
Think about that for a moment.
You would be able to use mindmaps like a pro yet you would not have to spend time learning how to create them!
You would benefit from visual mapping while not knowing how to map your thoughts and information!
I believe that is exactly what we need.
The moment your eyes are opened, you agree with me that you don’t want to create mindmaps. You may not even want to use them. You just want the result or benefit you get from using them.
If I could give you a mindmap with the information you gave me, organized and outlined, ready to be used by you: WOULD YOU LIKE THAT? (so you wouldn’t have to create the map!)
Of course you would. You would be able to implement the knowledge from the map and move forward.
That’s what I want to teach people: Knowing how to USE visual thinking without being bound by rules to CREATE visualmaps.
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The are many online tools to create mindmaps. More and more are created everyday. Lets discuss this hot topic today.
The most well-known tools nowadays are MindMeister and Mind42 (at least here in Europe).
How about where you live?
Which ones do you know?
In my opinion, the five most important features a tool should offer are:
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