On Wed, 2006-01-18 at 16:48 -0500, Seth Johnson wrote: > Mimi Yin wrote: > > > > Hi Seth, > > > > How often do you come back to your mindmaps? How often do yo update > > them? Do you use them to track progress on tasks? Or is it more of an > > idea-capture device? > > > I use mindmaps as my usual information store format. > > If I come across an important document, I convert it to text and > break it down into a branch structure that matches the document's > organization, because that lets me quickly go to it and open up > the part that's relevant, look at it and/or copy it, move pieces > to new branches so I can use information for other purposes. > > I have a To-Do mindmap that I maintain continuously, which > branches into separate project mindmaps. > > It's not just idea-capture; it's idea manipulation facilitated by > non-linearity and branch structure.
Again, Mini, Seth is capturing the essence of the use of these things (or the way I used to do them when I lived in the adult world!). Much more elquently than I could, I might add. I've generally found that conventional diary/email stuff like Evolution not very useful as it doesn't allow the messiness and sheer serendipity that mindmapping enables, and the power that joining them all together with a variety of view modes that can be toggled would be significant. _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ Open Source Applications Foundation "Design" mailing list http://lists.osafoundation.org/mailman/listinfo/design
