What is Mind Mapping?

What is Mind Mapping? mind mapping is a powerful technique allowing you to make the best use of your brain power. Using MindMapper, with mind mapping techniques makes you more productive by harnessing the full range of your cortical and creative skills. It helps you convert any random thoughts generated while you are the most creative into the linear thoughts needed most when communicating.

If seeing is believing, mind mapping can help you and your business imagine a universe of ideas. Using color, images, and sounds to bring mere words to life, MindMapper software expedites mind mapping: a graphics-based method of taking notes, brainstorming, and organizing thoughts that helps you relate and arrange random ideas into memorable tree-like diagrams. Unlike the outlining methods you learned in high school, mind mapping doesn't constrain your creative inclinations by requiring you to think sequentially.

A Mind Map uses words, lines, logic, colors, images, and even sounds to stimulate your brain.

1. The subject is represented by a central image.
2. The main themes of the subject radiate from the central image as main branches.
3. Minor themes are linked to the main themes.
4. All the branches are connected forming a nodal structure.

Is Mind Mapping applicable in working life? Mind Maps are used around the world. They are very popular in Asia and Europe. Here in the United States, Boeing Aircraft uses a 25-foot long Mind Map to enable a team of aeronautical engineers to learn in a few weeks what would have taken a few years. An estimated saving of $10 million was realized. In training, British Petroleum and Digital Equipment use the techniques extensively in their staff training programs. If you are looking for a short-cut to improving your performance at work, see for yourself try MindMapper today.

We just recently received a gracious consideration from Hyundai Motors. they are initially utilizing 30 work stations with MindMapper installed. Hyundai Motors plans to utilize this mind mapping software for training, sharing ideas, improving productivity in all area's, and marketing.

Many instructors at universities around the world have purchased MindMapper with the idea of organizing class room study in a structured format. Students soon learned of this wonderful mind mapping tool and they to by the Hundreds have started using MindMapper as well, for classroom study, term papers, tutoring other students, organizing topics, ideas, and more.

More and more companies today are learning how to better utilize the power of networking. For example a recent client, Philips Lighting of The Netherlands has proven that over a network using Windows NT, ideas can be shared with everyone quickly and productively. A mind map can be sent via the Intranet, printer, or the Internet.

A mind map can be used either for note taking, or for note making. It replaces the inefficient method of linear note-taking with a method based on the understanding of how the brain works best. For note making it opens up the creative processes and provides a 'gestalt' of the whole subject which cannot easily be obtained by any other method. You can use any combination of words, pictures, icons or symbols, sounds, colors and any other other imagery you see fit into structuring and organizing your ideas together. The mind map shown is a text-based mind map with few Icons, though some of the words could have been replaced with simple iconic pictures instead.

Go ahead it's free to download and use!