Marcus Ingemann, in his Mind Mapping Power Pack, outlines a number of intriguing techniques for visual mapping. One of them is called "The Scale." It can be used any time you need to compare several items or choices with each other. It’s a marvelous way to visualize the advantages and drawbacks of a number of […]

Wallace Tait and I were talking last week about what businesspeople need to know about mind mapping software, and we got on the topic of his T.A.P. process, which makes it easy for newbies and experienced mappers to create effective business maps. So I decided to post this excerpt from my e-book, Power Tips and […]

If you’re using MindManager 6 on the Tablet PC platform, there are a number of things you can do to optimize this popular mind mapping application to give yourself more room to work. Chris Pringle explains how in this blog post.

Recently, Peter Maddern, founder of Speech Empowered Computing, posted a comment to this blog about his use of Dragon NaturallySpeaking speech recognition software to create visual maps in MindGenius. Because I’m a long-time fan and user of both technologies, I just had to know more! Peter graciously consented to be featured in an e-mail interview […]

Nick Duffill, CTO of Gyronix and mind mapping strategist extraordinaire, was recently featured on a Mindjet webcast entitled How to Use ResultsManager to Visualize Outcomes. During his informative presentation, he shared a simple technique for visual planning that he calls the "funnel timeline." Although he demonstrated it using MindManager, it can be done using almost […]

Eric Mack is a personal and workgroup productivity specialist, who systematically applys information, communication, and action technologies to help business executives and teams to become more efficient at what they do. He also writes an engaging blog that is focused on the Tablet PC, business productivity tools and more. He’s a big fan of mind […]

Norah Bolton, founder and president of consulting firm Dynamic Thinking, has written an e-book entitled See What You Think! How to Work Better and Faster with VisiMap, which was just announced today by CoCo Systems, the developer of VisiMap. Its goal is to teach you how to use visual mapping in new ways to manage […]

CS Odessa has announced the availability of version 4.5 of its ConceptDraw MINDMAP program. This update, which is free to existing users, contains a number of enhancements and fixes, including: A spell checker, Improvements to the user interface of the Mac OS X version, and Improved PDF export You can learn more and download this […]

A recent article in a European engineering magazine suggests that you can get more out of mind mapping tools by utilizing them in conjunction with a brainstorming program like IdeaFisher (actually, now called eXpertSystem). This program contains a sizeable library of associated words and phrases, plus a "QBank" with thousands of questions focused on common […]

The latest white paper from Gael Ltd., the developers of MindGenius, describes how mind mapping software can help dyslexics to organize their thoughts and access them in powerful new ways. Christina Sellers knows what she writes of, because she is dyslexic. Here’s a summary of how visual mapping benefits her and other dyslexics: "Many widely […]