Unlock the full potential of your mind mapping tool with 52 best practices

Use this new guide to significantly improve your mind maps. It’s filled with wisdom – and it’s FREE!

Sometimes, mind mapping feels like a world unto itself, with its own unique set of unwritten rules and best practices. It’s hard to find a collection of them – until now.

I recently compiled and organized the world’s first set of best practices for mind-mapping tools. It’s delivered in a quick-read collection of 52 tips and strategies you can use immediately to improve your mind maps.

It includes sections on these important topics:

• First principles
• Foundation
• Building your mind map
• Elements
• Improvement
• Map sharing
• Applications

How can this new guide help you?

• Best practices for this type of visual thinking tool are hard to come by. A Google search or ChatGPT will only help you find a fraction of these hard-won principles. I’ve been gathering, testing, nurturing and sharing them for almost two decades.
• If you read enough content on this blog, you’d discover all these best practices. But they’re spread out over 17 years of blog posts, reports and courses. This guide gathers them into one place and distills them into tight, one-page summaries of approximately 40 words or less.
• It’s a resource you’ll want to refer to again and again as you face various challenges when building your mind maps.

“Really nicely done. One of the best in its simplicity and straightforward thinking, while still covering a wide range of important information for mind mappers.” – Stuart Zola

“Absolutely worth the read for anyone looking to enhance their mind mapping skills!” – Mario Bosquet, KeenFunnel

What problems does it solve?

• Save you time and frustration when building your mind maps
• Make your mind maps more useful to you, their creator
• Make your mind maps more understandable to others
• Help you express and present your ideas in clearer, more compelling ways
• Help you get more JOY and SATISFACTION out of mind mapping!

But why should you care about best practices?

A best practice is a way of doing things that produce superior results compared to other practices. Best practices offer at least four important benefits to mind mappers:

• They eliminate the inefficiency that comes with creating mind maps by trial and error – which is the way many people learn how to use these tools, I’m afraid.
• They help you avoid mistakes others have made and redirect your thinking and energy toward the most efficient and fruitful path to a successful outcome.
• They reduce the need to rework mind maps or “reinvent the wheel” to make them effective.
• Finally, best practices can decrease your learning curve and help you be a more effective mind mapper, faster.

This guide is full of wisdom – and it’s FREE!

As part of my mission to ensure that businesspeople, entrepreneurs and creators can get the greatest value out of visual thinking tools, I am making the new mind mapping best practices guide available as a free download.