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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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.
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Whenever you are looking for great ideas, new insights or you are just looking for answers, you should consider using a mindmap for getting results. Of course there are other forms of visual mapping you could consider as well. Let’s focus on the mindmap today. I’m confident you can apply these thoughts on different mapping methods as well.
There are two things you have to consider when you are capturing and overviewing your thoughts. Here they are.
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As you probably know, the traditional mindmap should be created using lots of colors. Use at least 3 to 5 different colors.
The centre of the mindmap is especially important. Tony Buzan writes in his books that the centre needs special attention. You should at least:
- create an image of your topic
- use 3 to 5 colors to draw the image in the centre
A question
My question for you is: Do you do this as well?
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There is a lot of information available on different mind mapping software solutions. I recently wrote a piece on how to choose the right tool. Many people since then asked me which software tool or tools I use most of the time. Today I tell you more about that and I tell you WHY I use these solutions (much more important).
At the end of this page you find a link to download most of the tools.
For every tool I wrote the percentage of my time I use this tool. Remember, this is just how I use various tools. For me, this approach works best. For you, there is probably a different approach. If you have any questions, please feel free to connect with me.
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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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