I find mindmap’s a fun way of half-organizing my thoughts. I often do it when I have to do a presentation or a lecture. Doing the mindmap I start with the most important terms, organize them arround some central theme, start connecting them, add additional leaves to the tree, and whenever I’m stalling, I start to add colors and draw little pictures... This doodling helps me to get started again.
Boring mindmap for work. Notice how I stuck extra paper to one of the pages in my notebook in order to extend the mindmap:
Interesting mindmap I did about myself a few years back when I was unsure of whether I was getting my priorities in life right. So I needed to figure out what my priorities are, and what I was spending my time on, and how to get from here to there... It was interesting. 😄
I must be a “yellow” kind of person, whatever that means.
Typical map for the introduction to a talk. It has an “arc” for the general storyline, and various branches for the main topics.
Lousy quality because I just take a picture with my digital camera using a flash. 🙁 If you know how to fix this using The Gimp, please let me know.
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i was too busy to post a timely comment; sorry.
diagramming is interesting, but most examples i’ve seen didn’t appear too useful; although their creators may love them. i would think your diagramming is better than what i’ve seen before, so i regret that i can’t make out the details of your mindmaps. do you have any fairly detailed mindmaps that are readable? i understand the contents may be too private to put on public display, so so feel free to ignore this query.
– GregScott 2004-10-27 18:40 UTC
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I’ll try and remember to post good examples here. And next time I’ll use a scanner instead of my lousy digital camera. 😄
– Alex Schroeder 2004-10-28 08:57 UTC
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The way you draw mindmap is a bit different than I do... but then it’s similar in lot many ways too. I like to draw small pictures as well. But I don’t fill in colors in the blank space. What the heck, your mindmap looks nice.
PS - I liked that squinted gnu... 😃
– V 2004-10-28 14:42 UTC
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Are you aware of FreeMind mind mapping softare?
– hh 2004-10-31 16:44 UTC
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No I didn’t. Thanks for the link. I’m not a big fan of using a computer, however, because the physical act of drawing and doodling is important to me.
– Alex Schroeder 2004-10-31 21:33 UTC
