Posts Tagged ‘mind mapping’

Free Your Mind with XMind

Mind-mapping is a popular tool for brainstorming ideas, outlining projects, and organizing information. While some people feel most comfortable mind-mapping with pencils or pens and paper, others enjoy the ease and accessibility of software-based mind-mapping, and there are a variety of tools designed to help make, share, and store mind-maps on your computer. Some, like MindManager and iMindMap are powerful, enterprise-level programs, with price tags to match; free… Continue reading

February 24 2009 | By Dustin | Tagged: brainstorming, creativity, idea, mind mapping, mind-map, xmind | 21 comments»

GTD Refresh: Getting My Head Together

The last year was a hard one for me, in virtually every area of my life. Even my successes -- and there have been several -- have come at the cost of greater stress and a more and more difficult to balance schedule.

While I have managed to adapt and develop ways of keeping everything on track and moving forward, each new pressure -- whether on my time… Continue reading

February 16 2009 | By Dustin | Tagged: areas-of-focus, david-allen, getting things done, gtd, gtd-refresh, making-it-all-work, mind mapping, mindmap, mission, personal productivity, system, vision | 19 comments»

11 Free Mind Mapping Applications & Web Services

Mind mapping is a way of taking notes, capturing ideas, exploring concepts and breaking down information into a more readily understood format. It's a place where visual representations and written representations of things merge to create something that is more natural to the mind; it works with and represents the way we think, where as paragraph-based text is not representative of the thought process at all.There are a million and… Continue reading

September 1 2008 | By Joel | Tagged: mind mapping, notes | 43 comments»