Mind mapping is a popular tool for brainstorming and organising ideas. The main advantage, for me, is that it provides a more visual and non linear way of working than if you were to just use a regular page in a word processor. In this post, I’ll talk about how I use mind mapping, and which apps I find most useful for my purposes.
I use mind mapping for a range of purposes to support my academic work:
Curio is the premier brainstorming and project-management application designed to promote visual thinking. Using Curio’s innovative freeform interface and tools, you can intuitively gather, associate, and recall your ideas, while easily managing all the notes and documents associated with your project. The heart of Curio is the idea space. Curio is billed as a “mind mapping, brainstorming and project management software” for Mac OSX. Being that I am very interested in mind mapping applications, I downloaded the free trial to test it out. Create multiple project notebooks, each containing unlimited notes, to-dos, maps, events and idea spaces. Curiota can optionally integrate with Curio, our flagship note-taking, brainstorming, and task tracking notebook app. And, the best part: Curiota is free! No subscriptions. By the way, Curiota is pronounced 'Curio-ta' ('kyoo-reeO-ta').
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On my iPad, I use iThoughtsHD for mind mapping (they also have an iPhone version). iThoughtsHD comes with a variety of features and a clean, intuitive interface (a lot of mind mapping apps are really rather ugly, this one isn’t). You can edit the colours, design and orientation of the mind map, add images, add start and due dates and durations to tasks, add icons, and add links. Here is a screen shot for illustration.
This app also has an additional notes field, for adding additional information to a topic without making it crowded with text:
Another good thing about iThoughtsHD it that it comes with a range of export options. There’s a whole lot of different formats available, and you can also upload to or sync with DropBox, or send your map directly to XMind. XMinds works on both Windows, Mac and Linux, so it’s not a bad alternative if you work in a Windows environment but use a mac privately.
You can also easily email your mind maps. This is a great way to share meeting minutes. There is also a range of options here for how you can present your mind map, but I prefer to have iThoughtsHD automatically generate an outline which shows up in the email, and then attach the map itself as either a PDF or an image file.
Peakhour 3 1 4 download free. The only thing I find rather annoying about mind mapping on the iPad is that the ‘regular’ keyboard shortcuts for mind mapping apps don’t work with an external keyboard. Therefore, you can’t add a sibling or a child by pressing the tab key or the cmd and enter key, and you can’t navigate around your map using the arrow keys. iThoughtsHD does, however, offer two short cuts for external keyboards: press enter three times for a sibling topic, and the space bar three times for a child topic.
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Now, for picking up your work on the mac, I usually upload my iThoughtsHD mind maps to DropBox in opml format – but you can also upload in MMAP format, see the note from George at Curio below. From there, I import the mind map either to OmniOutliner or to Curio (Curio does a whole lot more than just mind mapping, which I will write about more fully in a future post). OmniOutliner is a dedicated outliner app, so here your mind map will be converted to an outline. While colours, images, icons and deadlines don’t transfer, all topic text, notes fields and links will be imported, which is usually sufficient for me when I’m working on writing projects.
In Curio, you can choose whether you want to import the opml file as a mind map or an outline. Dropshare 4 9 – secure file sharing tool software. Text, notes, and due dates will transfer.
Now, converting via opml doesn’t provide full compatibility. For me, it’s not much of a problem as my mind maps are primarily text based. However, if you have other dedicated mind mapping apps on your mac, iThoughtsHD can export in file formats for Freemind, Mindmanger, Novamind, XMind, iMIndmap, Mindview and MindGenius.
Sims 4 pregnant mod. I am sticking to Curio at the moment, because I like the overall support it provides to project management and writing development, and I don’t want to add another mind mapping app into the mix. Therefore, if I start off my mind maps on the mac, it starts in Curio. Some of the features in Curio include:
However, if you are a mind mapping power user, you might want to opt for a dedicated mind mapping app. Curio is more like a project manager with the possibility to work with a range of different documents within the same app, with mind maps as one of several other options. For more information, see my post on Curio.
Curio Pro is the premier brainstorming and project-management application designed to promote visual thinking. Using Curio’s innovative freeform interface and tools, you can intuitively gather, associate, and recall your ideas, while easily managing all the notes and documents associated with your project.
The heart of Curio is the idea space. Think of idea spaces as your whiteboard, notebook, and sketchpad all wrapped up into one. Within a Curio project, you can create an unlimited number of idea spaces where you can place anything anywhere on the page. Brainstorm or organize your notes with freeform collages of text, images, URLs, documents, Mail messages, movies, and sounds. Give the idea space a note paper or graph paper style, or perhaps a linen paper texture. This is your idea space, with your notes and ideas. Make it the way you want it to look.
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