Posts Tagged ‘mindmap’

How to Use Bubble.us to Make 2008 Your Most Productive Year Ever

Bubbl.us has been featured on Lifehack before as a top web-based tool for 2007. Now that we’re moving into 2008 it’s time to really kick this app into gear and show you ways to use it to make 2008 your most productive year.

A little background on Bubbl.us

bubbl.us is a flash-based mindmap creator, which enables you to create interactive… » Continue

January 1 2008 | By Steven | Tagged: brainstorming, creativty, mindmap, Productivity | 13 comments»

Rico Clusters: An Alternative to Mind Mapping

I’m not a big fan of mind mapping, though I concede that it does have its uses. Recently, I learned of a different approach to brainstorming that seems both more practical and better grounded in the way the mind works than traditional, Buzan-style mind mapping. This approach, called the Rico Cluster after its developer, Dr. Gabrielle Rico, focuses on the creation of a “web” of related and… » Continue

October 24 2007 | By Dustin | Tagged: brain, brainstorming, creativity, mindmap, outlining, rico_cluster, teaching, thought, writing | 31 comments»

Five Productivity Ideas I’m Not Buying (Yet?)

The body of work on productivity, life-work balance, and personal achievement sits uncomfortably – perhaps perilously — close to the genre of “self-help”. There are good ideas out there, but there are also a lot of hacks, quacks, and worse pawning off half-baked philosophies and poorly conceived analogies as solid advice.

While none of it is all that dangerous in and of itself, I think there is… » Continue

August 17 2007 | By Dustin | Tagged: mindmap, Productivity, self-help, success | 44 comments»

Re-read a book in less than 15 minutes

Stefanos Karagos at Anabubula shows a great way to re-read a book in less than 15 minutes? How is it possible? He invests his time during his reading time by dropping his notes into a mindmap. Mindmap is great to recall on knowledge and memories. Quoted from Wikipedia:

Scholarly research by Farrand, Hussain, and Hennessy (2002) found that the mind map technique had a limited but significant impact on recall… » Continue

January 12 2007 | By Leon | Tagged: book, mindmap, reading | 1 comment»