Comments on: A Legend For Mind Maps – Keeping It Short And Sweet

By: How I Keep Things Moving Merrily Along | Serene Journey

How I Keep Things Moving Merrily Along | Serene Journey — Tue, 09 Mar 2010 13:59:59 +0000

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All The Updates You Can Handle In One Easy Post | Serene Journey — Fri, 31 Jul 2009 13:59:58 +0000

[...] A Legend For Mind Maps – Keeping It Short And Sweet Update: Gwynn recently came across XMind, an open source (free) mind mapping program. It’s really easy to use and allows for team brainstorming as well as personal mind mapping. The post I wrote earlier was part of the Keeping it Short and Sweet series I was doing here so it is very high level and brief. If you are looking for more information Marelisa of Abuncance Blog at Marelisa Online has recently written an article on mind mapping and goes into great detail, definitely worth checking out. [...]

By: Sherri

Sherri — Mon, 06 Apr 2009 12:13:46 +0000

@ Miguel de Luis – I’m glad to hear mind maps worked for you as well. Thanks for the tip on using the index card technique for more substantial memorization.

@ Ian – I’m glad it works for you too! I really do find that being creative like that instead of structured and ordered let’s the ideas flow. I actually get a lot more out of my head this way it’s really quite neat!

By: Ian | Quantum Learning

Ian | Quantum Learning — Mon, 06 Apr 2009 10:26:03 +0000

Sherri I've long been a fan and user of mind maps, mainly for creative inspiration. I don't think our brains work in a linear fashion and mind-maps are much closer to how they do work. Thanks for sharing this! Ian | Quantum Learning’s last blog post..The secret of love, life and being happy

By: Miguel de Luis

Miguel de Luis — Mon, 06 Apr 2009 09:27:04 +0000

Hi Sherri I did use mindmaps in college, well sort of, not in my regular Law School, but later when I enrolled in the Seminary. It works great for complex matters such as Philosophy and Theology, and even Bible studies; not so much for long series of concrete data that you have then to memorize (like foreign language words). For that the index card is way better. Miguel de Luis’s last blog post..I did not do any drugs

By: Sherri

Sherri — Fri, 03 Apr 2009 16:33:08 +0000

@ Nadia – It’s funny you say that because when I initially started out even my mind maps were linear, ordered and structured I’m really trying to let that go and be a little more creative.

By: Nadia-Happy Lotus

Nadia-Happy Lotus — Fri, 03 Apr 2009 13:24:19 +0000

Hi Sherri,

I am not a linear thinker so mind mapping is what I do naturally. Kind of funny to see the map because I am can imagine that to a linear person it looks messy!

Nadia-Happy Lotus’s last blog post..The Thing About Love

By: Sherri

Sherri — Fri, 03 Apr 2009 12:05:20 +0000

@ Vincent – Glad you liked it. I’m happy to know that something similar works for you!

By: Vincent @ Yinnergy

Vincent @ Yinnergy — Fri, 03 Apr 2009 06:42:46 +0000

Very creative way of organizing ideas and thoughts Sherri. An example similar to mind mapping is that instead of taking "cue cards" with me on speeches. I just project visual bubbles of thoughts/outlines of my presentations and then "pop" each one in order after finishing each idea/outline during my presentation. Your visual drawing totally reminds me of my visual bubbles. Vincent @ Yinnergy’s last blog post..Thoughtful/Thankful Thursdays

By: Sherri

Sherri — Fri, 03 Apr 2009 02:40:49 +0000

@ Daphne – Why thank you! The ones I usually do are definitely messier with scribbles, doodles and drawings but for readability I thought I would do one in Power Point. It still works though and I agree with you that it is easier to work off of when it’s not cluttered!