Re: Freemind

Nicola Browne wrote:

"Chris Dollin" <eh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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Also for me a mindmap is important for process rather than
output. While the final map has lots of useful clues on it,
it's the /constructing/ of the map that's useful, and even
a map with squished-in things and long arrows and SEE ELSEWHERE
bits is doing its job.

I don't know if what I do qualifies as mind mapping

Your circle diagrams, you mean?

I don't /think/ they're mind-mapping as specified by the book.
(Not that it matters, since what you do works for you.)

I'd likely feel differently if I was producing mindmaps for
presentations, ie, to show other people.

Yes, though I think that hand produced diagrams have quite an
attractive quality and are often more revealing.
Kids and teachers are often interested in mine because they are
personal - scrawled in different colours of ink with crossings out.
You can see that they are part of a dynamic process and people can
imagine doing something similar themselves.

Yes, that's the advantage of a for-real paper version: it doesn't
look as if it appeared By Instant Magic out of the authors's mind.

I had in mind more using MindMaps [1] as Finished Products to
display the /result/ rather than demonstrate that there was a
Process. One might, for example, use mind-map slides rather than
bulleted lists to show where one was & where one was going in a
presentation, or to show something about the data. I haven't
tried this (yet).

There's a sort of "don't let intermediate results look [too] pretty"
motif.

[1] I wrote MMs and realised that this might be confusing.

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