Wednesday, 6 July 2011

Day 36: To do mindmapping, do you have to have one?

A mind, that is.

Today I started learning a new way of organizing information called mindmapping.  I've read about it a couple of times lately and I wanted to try it out.  There are a couple of free kinds of software for it and I decided to try XMind (http://www.xmind.net/ ).

Mindmapping is a flow-charty way of getting a whole pile of ideas down in a loosely organized way.  By drawing loose connections and adding filters, you (theoretically) can see unusual connections and generate new ideas.

While this doesn't give me a pretty picture to present to you today, I am enjoying trying out something completely new to me.  I hope that this system will be useful in the future. Initially I thought I could 'map' my brain but the free software doesn't make it look likely.  Of course, my brain map might be a pretty scary thing.

I also got a lot done artistically today.  Hopefully there will be something to show soon.

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