In this strange brain of mine, it’s hard to get things lined up in a very chronological order. Which is why I end up with a lot of half finished projects. I’m not going to call the “problem” I have “ADD”, I’m going to coin a new term here and now called…. uhmmmm, what was I saying? ? j/k, I’m calling it:
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MAD! Multitasked Attention Disorder. (I’ve got five desktops for different tasks, two Firefox windows, and thriteen tabs open). Running wiki searches while typing here.
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Luckily though, through my latest round of devotions to the Penguin, I’ve found some more tools to help me wrap my latest project around my brain instead of the other way around. Like that’s what I need, more tools to learn, keeping me from doing the things I need to be doing. However, if I learn these tools, then I’ll be faster at learning more things in the future when I’m trying to learn a new tool to make my workflow move quicker, but that’s in the future.
Anyway, VYM (View Your Mind) at first sounded like a psychological test, and in parts, it is. It’s a program which allows you to take notes on the computer using Mind Maps. I’m familiar with the term because as a professor I have to attend seminars which teach us how to teach. They inform us to use mind maps as a tool for the students, but I’ve never been shown what a mind map was or how to use one. I wouldn’t have known how to start a mind map if it hit me like a flyswatter popping out of the ground. Hell, I stumbled across this program out of almost sheer narcissism. I thought for sure that I was going to get a map of my brain and it would look like a street map of New Orleans: logically laid out, but you have to look at it in a very twisted way. I got no such pleasure. Instead, I was greeted with a very blasé workspace with “New Map” in yellow in the middle of the page.
…thinking to myself, “WTF, jo0?” So, I took a quick trip over to Wikipedia.org to see what they had to say on the subject
…and their opinion was that it was supposed to look like this rare tropical plant thing from Little Shop of Horrors. Oooookay, so a little quick reading (skimming mostly… I think that I can type faster than I can read and I’m not that fast of a typist) on the topic and I was ready to return to the program to give it another good fair chance. Okay, in my brain dropping moments ago, I alluded to my typing skills being poor. That may be a bit exaggerated, I’m really a pretty adequate typist. Not quite legal secretary fast, but faster than your mother (unless your mum’s a legal secretary). I can also touch type (no hunt and peck typing for me) which helps immensely with this program. It’s not required, but it helps. On with it… arghhhh! Avid pro tools hd 10 3 10 download free.
What this program does is helps you to build one of these “Mind Maps” by utilizing a mouse and keyboard shortcuts. It’s also great for brainstorming exercises and general non-linear notes (categorizing disassociated ideas about a single project for instance). I’m sort of a keyboard pilot, and constantly reaching over for the mouse while I’m trying to type out a brainstorm is just going to kill my buzz by losing the last bulleted idea. Some of the keyboard shortcuts are:
“a” – adds a new branch to the selected item
“s” – collapses/expands the selected item branch (toggle)
“Enter” – starts editing the selected item text. Pdf expert 2 4 (511).
The arrow keys navigate through the tree rather intuitively. Everything else, you can play with it and have some fun making a mind map. I actually used this program the day after I found it to take minutes in an advisory meeting. VYM has a built-in export to XML format for viewing in web pages (or for copy and pasting into Word like I had to do for the technically stubborn) which spit out 8 pages of outlines from a hour long meeting. I had to organize the map a little bit after the meeting, but I was very impressed with the results.
Supposedly it helps you learn better by allowing both sides of your brain to play with your notes instead of just your left side. That being said, this software does not work miracles. It’s fun to play with and although I’m not reticent to taking notes, I don’t use Document Editors to keep structured ideas in order. I find text editors too cumbersome to copy and paste text around with. I’ve never found a good program to work with which can keep up with my random brain ordering. VYM is fun to use (as fun as taking notes can be expected) and an interesting way to work through problems or to work out ideas. It will NOT take your notes for you, a feature lacking from just every other software as well, and it falls short on the “click here to learn everything automatically,” plugins, but VYM is easy to learn given the effort to time ratio.
Get it and play with it. It’s free! It’s Open! It’s….
How to Brainstorm with Mind Maps – Learn Easy Tricks
NancyWe all want a solution to tease out our ideas and learn concepts based on a usable format. Such a step is both important to our daily lives, educational assignments and business. Lists and paper notes can’t always help, so what else should you try? Today we gonna see how to brainstorm with mind maps in the best mind map software.
What Is Brainstorming?
Brainstorming is popular both in professional and educational contexts, and it is a technique generated to assist teams in finding creative ideas in order to solve practical problems. It has already been proved by university researchers that the creative output of groups would be around 55% higher than that of individual members in terms of problem-solving productivity.
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A typical brainstorming process usually includes the following key principles:
- Each brainstorming session should only focus on one particular problem;
- Participants are encouraged to point out as many ideas as possible;
- Don’t judge others’ ideas and welcome unusual ideas;
- Try to develop your own ideas based on others;
Why Should I Use Mind Maps for Brainstorming?
Mind maps have many great advantages for different fields of users in various industries and sectors. Normally, the main benefits of mind maps are:
- It is a productive way to visually organize your thoughts on one topic;
- You can freely use words, colors, images, and numbers to highlight ideas;
- It shows great flexibility and can help you explore more rooted relationships with different ideas or sub-topics;
When to Use Mind Maps for Brainstorming?
Actually, you can use mind maps for brainstorming in nearly all cases such as below:
- Reading assignments in school projects, especially when you are absorbing content;
- Product or website UI design, project management, business reporting, software testing and so on to help you prioritize project tasks;
How to Brainstorm with Mind Maps?
Recommended best practices for a productive brainstorming process are based on the following:
Step 1: Decide Your Central Topic
Open a blank mind map with the easy mind mapping software, click on the brainstorming feature and write down your main topic in the central place. Besides texts, your central topic could be in the form of an image or a question.
Step 2: Set Timer and Rules
Set the total time that you want to spend on the current brainstorming session, and some other reminders and rules.
Step 3: Collect Ideas
Encourage your teammates to freely point out potential ideas or ask questions to break down the central topic. The common way of doing so is to use the 5W1H method: what, who, when, where, why and how. Also, remember to tailor your list of questions to suit the task that you have been given.
Step 4: Identify Relationships to Organize Ideas
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- Review your map when the current session expired. Find and highlight those important ones as branches in your map;
- Go through any other ideas to think about their inner relationships or gaps, which can be in many different types: similarity, contrast, cause and effect etc.
- Connect all these relationships between ideas by using lines, arrows, callouts, summaries, boundaries and more to arrange elements in a logical order;
Step 5: Present Your Result
Present and explain your findings with a laser pen/colored pencil in the full-screen mode, or you can try the slideshow function to auto-create slides based on your mind maps.
What Else Should I Consider?
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- Don’t be afraid if you are not a professional designer: It’s totally OK to have a single-color mind map, or just a black and white style map. It’s not mainly about creating an attractive theme, it’s more about making easy-to-follow content.
- Be sure to share the final result of your team brainstorming to not only every participant in the activity but also staffs from other departments.
Conclusion
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So far, we have discussed why, when and how to use brainstorming with mind maps in detailed and understandable steps. Now you can have a try to do your team project or assignment by using the handy mind mapping software. You may also surprise to find some other useful tips while doing brainstorming!