Category: Mind Mapping

Mind Mapping Articles and Videos from Tony Buzan

Reading Time: < 1 minute Tony Buzan, the creator of mind mapping, has recently published a number of new articles and videos on mind mapping. Some of these topics include: ‘How to Mind Map’, ‘Creating Your First Map’, ‘Mind Mapping for Dyslexics’, ‘Perfect Presentations’, ‘Problem Solving’, ‘Study Skills’, ‘Improving Memory’ and many more. Articles http://www.imindmap.com/articles/ Videos http://www.imindmap.com/videos/

Social Media Information Flow – The Complexity of the Web 2.0 World

Reading Time: < 1 minute The other day, ReadWriteWeb posted an interesting article on Visualizing Social Media Fatigue. “Our attention is stretched so thin these days that there are times when I have actually tried to register for what I thought was a new service only to realize later that I already had an account — it just got lost…
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MindMap Viewer Plugin

Reading Time: < 1 minute After a little bit of tinkering around, I created a Firefox plugin for the MindMap Viewer. The plugin adds a right-click menu option. Whenever you right-click on a supported mindmap URL/link and select ‘View MindMap’, the mindmap viewer will be launched in a new window. Right-Click Context You can download from here, just make sure…
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The Mindmapping Toolbox: 100+ Tools, Resources, and Tutorials

Reading Time: < 1 minute The BootStrapper Blog recently posted a comprehensive list of mind mapping tools, blogs, and tutorials. I’m happy to say I made the list (#78)! Eric Blue’s Blog: Blogger Eric Blue shares his thoughts and opinions on productivity, mind mapping, creativity, visualizations and more.

MindMap Viewer: Share and Embed Mind Manager Maps Today

Reading Time: 2 minutes Background Earlier in the year, I posted about the need for a common mind map file format. With the proliferation of the next-generation mind mapping applications (e.g. MindMeister, Mindomo, etc.), the need to import/export in a standard way and to share mindmaps easily is becoming critical. As I discussed in my earlier post, I’m a…
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Personal Learning Environments and Knowledge Management

Reading Time: 2 minutes For readers that know me, it’s not a stretch to say that I *love* learning new things. I’ve always been a bit of a self learner (autodidactic if you want to get technical), and a few years ago I started a search (a quest actually) for finding tools to help streamline the learning process. Over…
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Outlining & Mind Mapping for the Semantic Web

Reading Time: < 1 minute This is truly a post that blends some of my major areas of interest: mind mapping, knowledge management, and the semantic web. Mind Raider is a unique and useful tool that brings a semantic twist to an outliner and knowledge management application. From the Mind Raider site: MindRaider is Semantic Web outliner. It aims to…
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Power Tips & Strategies for Mind Mapping Software

Reading Time: < 1 minute I just finished reading Chuck Frey‘s ebook: Power Tips & Strategies for Mind Mapping Software. From Chuck’s ebook website: “I’ve made it my mission to gather the best applications, techniques and resources into one place – a definitive guide to getting the most out of mind mapping software in business. I have talked with leading…
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Mind Maps as Personal Dashboards

Reading Time: 3 minutes Up until now, I’ve used mind maps for a variety of things: brainstorming, study aid, goal setting, note taking, and product research.   Recently, I’ve been exploring the idea of using mind maps to help consolidate all of my information related to time management, task management, and knowledge management into a single place… a personal mind…
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Mind Maps and Notetaking

Reading Time: 2 minutes Brad Isaac from Achieve IT! recently posted an article on LifeHacker on using mind maps for meeting notes. I think its great to start seeing mind mapping becoming more popular, especially via LifeHacker. As everybody who reads my blog knows, I’m a huge mind mapping fan. Using mind maps for taking notes is definitely one…
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