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.
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.
Watch idea mapping creator and trainer Jamie Nast explain about the “bloom” and the “flow” and more.
Idea Mapping: Jamie Creates a “To Do” Map - Watch the Live TV Clip
Thanks to the Mind Mapping Software blog, I’ve discovered the latest in a flood of visual mapping tools, Cayra. Read the rundown of features over there and then check out this screen cast I made that shows how Cayra moves. It’s pretty impressive. It looks like Cayra will do a better job than most mind mapping tools of adapting to the context of a particular bunch of information by shifting irrelevant stuff out of the way with smooth animations. It seems to achieve a compelling compromise between the contextualizing and 3d-ness of PersonalBrain and the gestalt of more conventional mind mapping software. It will be interesting to watch this tool grow. Oh, and it’s apparently free, at for now.
The Mind Mapping Software Weblog: Cayra, a new desktop mapping program, is announced
Cayra, which is currently at release 0.8.2. It’s built around the Microsoft .NET framework, and claims to combine mind mapping, concept mapping and topic mapping. The screenshot (above right) looks quite colorful and elegant.
Jamie Nast has been posting some really nice examples of a pilot’s emergency procedure training idea maps. Click on each map for the complete article & links to larger images.
This article, which appeared in Prodigal Son magazine, is a nice, brief overview of the process of mind mapping.
Life: Career:: Mind Mapping
Mind mapping is a technique that organizes your thoughts and ideas into a visual map or diagram that is easier to process. It can be quite useful in brainstorming or problem solving, and some pastors, like Ed Young, use it to organize their sermons. If you would like to learn how to mind map, Innovation Network offers the following 8 easy steps to mind mapping.
It is a reprint of an older article in the Church Relevance weblog. I found another article on Church Relevance pointing to bubble.us as a tool that may be used fororganizing sermons and ideas, with an example of a mind map created in bubble.us. Theres a similar, more recent article about using bubble.us in the context of a church service at the Church 2.0 weblog with a really nice example of how a bubble.us map may be embedded into a web page.
The Church Relevance article mentions Pastor Ed Young, who makes his incredible sermon mind maps available for sale to other pastors and interested parties. He links to some examples in this article from a while back.
It would be nice to see more of this sort of thing. Spirituality, with its vast and endless ontology of ideas, texts, and values is an ideal area to apply visual thinking to.
Here is a nice comparison of computer and hand-drawn mind mapping. The author presents two mind maps that were produced in these two different styles with similar purposes in mind.
Peace of Mind: Style Comparison
This posting includes two maps used to collate recipes.
See also: Peace of Mind: Manage Information Using Drag and Drop
To help fill the demand for Chinese language education for foreign learners with a real competitive advantage, HaFaLa Chinese incorporates mind maps as well as animation and story into an innovative learning package.
Catching the Book Worm — china.org.cn
In collaboration with Mindmap Research Institute (Shanghai) and the Chinese Character Research Institute, the Shanghai-based Taotu Animation Technology Co Ltd has published a series of multi-media toolkits for overseas Chinese-language learners.
Based on the Mind Mapping methodology, the so-called Hafala Chinese learning tool enables non-Chinese learners to acquire 2,500 Chinese characters in a systematic way within months, according to Elizabeth Yu, from Taotu.
William Gibson’s blog had a post about the music he was listening to. This led me to checking out the Drive-By Truckers on iTunes and collecting some semi-related alt-country albums I want to buy later. I know too well how easy it is to buy everything I see on iTunes, so I often do this kind of mind map so that I can return to the albums and artists I thought I liked late one night and try them out again later. MindManager is perfect for this, because I can preserve all sorts of weird associations that would be difficult to maintain otherwise.
Click on the image for the full mind map.
