Google blocks sections of the Noble Ape site: Updated 16 November 2007
Unrelated, but interesting. Link to Noble Ape, love Noble Ape, and help Tom get his Google back.
“ The Noble Ape Simulation has been developed since 1996. The aim of the simulation is to create a detailed biological environment and a cognitive simulation. It is intended as a palette for open source cross-platform development on Windows, Mac and Linux.“
“The Visual Mind Software Development Kit (SDK) allows third party developers, system integrators and users of Visual Mind to create plug-in modules that extends the functionality of Visual Mind.”
Nice … MindManager plug-ins are already being ported to visual mind.
My MindJet customer vignette is up, with a bonus photo of my son playing my guitar.
Check out the whole list of vignettes. An interesting lot, we MindManager users are.
Stress: Improve Your Life by Becoming an Imperfectionist - Lifehacker
You can free yourself from stress caused by the “burden of perfection” by embracing imperfection, according to the Daily Cents weblog.
A free webinar from Roger C. Parker. I’ve been fortunate to have taken part in his webinars in the past and can tell you that this will probably both inspire and inform you.
Learn how to use mind mapping to plan, write, promote, and profit from a book!
Attend this free webinar and learn how to use MindManager to Plan, Write, Promote, and Profit from a book that promotes your business and your career.
If you don’t already have Chuck Frey’s “Power Tools & Strategies for Mind Mapping Software,” it looks like this week is the time to buy it.
The Mind Mapping Software Weblog: Price reduced on my new e-book for one week only
In line with that mission, I have decided to reduce the price of my new e-book from $29.95 to $9.95, for one week only. This special price will only last until 11:59 p.m. Central U.S. time on Monday, October 1, 2007.
… this time with a fake palindrome name!
» Stealth: Imindi thought engine - Silicon Florist
Currently in stealth mode but scheduled to launch in the coming weeks, Portland-based Imindi promises to bring the visual aspects of traditional mind-mapping software to a broader spectrum of activities. The aggressive product vision, outlined on the Imindi blog, has the product helping with everything from collaborative writing to collaborative search to social bookmarking.
Note: In case you’re wondering about this series, one of my all-time favorite books happens to be “A Perfect Mess: The Hidden Benefits of Disorder.” It is not about “Chaos Theory” which actually discusses things that are extremely ordered but don’t seem to be so. It’s about how not being so fussy can be good for you. If you haven’t read it yet, do yourself a favor.
The Pursuit of Order Is Making a Mess - Newsweek: International Editions - MSNBC.com
In a small room at the University of British Columbia, students wearing headphones are listening to noise. No, it’s not an indie band’s shred solo blasting through an iPod. The students are participating in an experiment at the school’s Psychophysics and Cognitive Neuroscience Lab, and the noise consists of random static generated by a computer. The question at hand: how badly does a scratchy cacophony interfere with thought?
I don’t know if anyone else has done this yet, but I made these and I find them handy and maybe some of you will as well. They are GTD incompletion lists turned into MindManager templates. What I do is, I start a new mind map, add branches tagged as tasks to the branches in the templates, and then sync with Outlook. I then delete the maps, because I use a master Outlook task map. It is, for me anyway, a nice way to do a brain dump and get everything into Outlook in a visual environment. I use them as a cognitive funnel.
There are separate templates for business + personal, business only, and personal only.
Download: GTD Incompletion Trigger List MindManager Templates
Don’t miss the chance to participate in Chuck’s research. The results will be immensely useful and interesting.
Please participate in my new survey of web-based mind mapping tools
To better understand how people are utilizing these tools and what the potential impact of this type of online tool is likely to be, I’ve decided to conduct a brief survey on this technology.
