Are You 'Watching' Your Mind Maps?
Lately I've been a little bit disenchanted with my mind maps. Not because of content, just because I would create a map and often not look at it again. Also, when you work in mind mapping for a living, sometimes you just don't feel like going back into a map and fooling with looking at it. May sound crazy, yet if you map it right you've committed a lot of it to memory. I'm mostly talking about content maps... execution maps I live in. It's like the fast food employee who burns out on hamburgers. I love fast food. McDonald's is swell.
What I have been doing though, when I want to brush up on a subject, is just going into MindManager 7, clicking on the 'View' Tab, and throwing it into presentation mode. Then I can just watch the map by continuously hitting 'Tab'. It's entertainment on par with Scarface and Nemo.
Maybe all of you are doing this already, yet it feels like an epiphany for me. And I think the term 'presentation mode' makes us think that it's only for when you're showing it to other people. NOT SO. Maybe Mindjet should call it 'Sit on your butt with some popcorn and be entertained mode'. I rule. You can have that one for free Mindjet.
Much love to all of my readers. Now I've got to go watch CP3 face down San Antonio.
If you want to reuse your mindmaps try PMM 6.5 (www.pmm.nl). Each map is a 'perspective' on a set of objects. When you change one map, reused objects change along with it. In the end all maps are related and can be integrated.
Posted by:Ron C. de Weijze | May 17, 2008 at 01:14 PM