Comments on: Mindmapping

By: Dennis

Dennis — Sat, 23 Jul 2016 15:44:17 +0000

Clark, granted, mind mapping tools are very helpful. I may have been over reaching. Our technology is an enterprise-class tool, so it is not fair to compare the two technologies. We use a mind mapping tool to drill down on our patent application points. Best wishes, Dennis

By: Clark

Clark — Sun, 15 May 2016 16:39:30 +0000

In reply to Dennis. Dennis, despite the pitch, I think it is important for others to see the larger picture. I also remember SemNet, now Semantica, but it's more than a mindmap, it's a concept map (e.g. labeled links). Powerful tools for representing knowledge, but I'll challenge your last statement: a mind map is representing human thought. Perhaps not as robustly as a concept map, but capturing relationships nonetheless.

By: Dennis

Dennis — Sat, 14 May 2016 11:39:15 +0000

Nice article, to the point. IQStrategix (http://IQStrategix.com) has an enterprise-class product that provides highly complex mind maps that model structural, behavioral, functional, and analytic thought to any level of granularity, and delivers that content on-demand. It’s the big, big, big brother of these handy apps mentioned. The goal of the enterprise is not to just transfer knowledge, but at its most sophisticated level, to leverage the knowledge of the organization. Creating a mind map is one thing, representing human thought is another.

By: Barbara Fillip

Barbara Fillip — Tue, 08 Mar 2016 18:35:50 +0000

I’ve used many different tools over the years, but CmapTool is my tool of choice. Note that while Cmap Tools was developed to do concept maps, what I do with it aren’t strictly speaking concept maps. I call them insight maps. You can see what I mean with some samples on my website: http://www.fillipconsulting.com/p/insight-maps.html. I’m a knowledge management practitioner, so I spend a lot of time helping teams reflect on their experience and identify insights or lessons based on that experience. The mapping is a way of documenting those insights and lessons without losing the context.

I also recently created a short class to explain the process for developing such maps to support individual reflection. You can access it (free) on the Skillshare platform: http://skl.sh/1Vx3R2u.

Sidenote to comment 2: Tiddlymap is very interesting as a way of combining a wiki approach with a visual mapping component, but you have to be familiar with TiddlyWiki as a first step, which isn’t for everyone. I personally love it… but I have yet to come across a mapping tool I didn’t like.

By: Clark

Clark — Tue, 08 Mar 2016 15:56:05 +0000

Thanks for sharing your thoughts, tools, and processes. Great stuff!

By: Jim

Jim — Tue, 08 Mar 2016 14:15:11 +0000

I have been Mindmapping for years now. As a professional Sales and product trainer for an insurance company, I can give a an entire day CE class based a 1 page mindmap.

It allows me to anticipate questions and to allow me to go deeper on a subject. I actually use a type of mindmapping in my powerpoints that allow me to present on any subject matter at a click of a “hotspot” within all my PowerPoints. That hotspot takes me to a mindmap slide that allows me to go to ANY PowerPoint I have.

I use Mindjet to save my maps but my preferred method is to use a whiteboard just to get it out of my head and see the flow. I then shoot a picture on my phone of the map, think about it for a day or two and then “make it pretty” in Mindjet.

Just my thoughts,

Have a great mind dumping day!
Jim

By: Claire Rodkey

Claire Rodkey — Mon, 07 Mar 2016 20:08:11 +0000

I have been mindmapping for 25 years and agree with Clark that it excels as a creative tool. I can’t brainstorm without it! Mindmanager is an effective product.

By: Linda Davis

Linda Davis — Mon, 07 Mar 2016 19:55:29 +0000

I use NovaMind for these tasks. Great library of icons, shapes and other visuals.

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By: Peter Miller

Peter Miller — Thu, 03 Mar 2016 18:39:25 +0000

You might like to try TiddlyMap via http://tiddlymap.org/ ; it’s a plugin extension for TiddlyWiki. If you have your data chunked (as tiddlers) in TiddlyWiki, it’s fun to see it mapped.