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Mindmapping is the process of drawing up diagrams that show relations between various ideas, tasks or information. For many of us this shows to actually be a way of taking notes that can be more useful than just writing down keywords or sentences like we do on a to-do list.
W orried about having to master an unfamiliar kind of software? Don't – Freeplane is easy to install and much more intuitive to use than most word-processing or spreadsheet software. Using two mind maps With these ingredients, you can tackle a problem by using two mind maps: one 'tool map', prepared in advance and containing a large collection of tools, and one 'work map', where you work out a solution for a given problem. While working on the problem, you can use the tool map in different ways:
This quote really says it all. Let’s take the hypothetical case of a person who built a website because he had an idea. Then he downloaded and even bought tools that helped him build the site, generate graphics, analyse traffic, and so on.
I’ve been meaning to add Freeplane to mind-mapping.org for a while, but its alpha status was holding me back. Now I’ve heard from Ryan Wesley, Freeplane’s project manager, that overall it is pretty stable. They are putting out a call for more contributors and more users, so let’s look at Freeplane: It is an open source and free mind-mapping program that resulted from the forking of the FreeMind code base 18 months ago. FreeMind developers had different ideas about how that software should develop, and the result was a split. Freeplane has a 6-member team and registered at Sourceforge in November 2007.