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What do you do when you have an elaborate project, assignment, or paper that needs to be quickly organized? Do you fire up Microsoft Word and whip up an outline? Do you pull out a pen and paper and start sketching? What if you could have the best of both options with a free online tool? It’s called ‘mind mapping’ (“Mind Map” is a trademark of the Buzan Organization.) and it’s basically a fun and intuitive way to visually organize your thoughts.

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During the last year, the number of web-based environments for collaborating around mind maps has grown significantly. In most cases, these are online environments created by developers of desktop mind mapping software, designed to enable their customers to share mind maps with their colleagues and team members easily, and to provide a web-based version of their software that people can use without having a licensed copy of the software on their desktop.

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WiseMapping is a free web based mind map product. The goal of this project is to provide a high quality product that can be deployed by enterprises, educational and academic institutions. WiseMapping is based on the same code product supporting WiseMapping.com.

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Do you have a systematic way of determining if your mind map is “done?” How do you know it’s as good as it can be? Here are 10 questions you can use to evaluate the quality and completeness of your mind map – a “report card,” if you will

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Mind mapping works by association. Your brain sees a word in a visual map, and immediately conjures up several or dozens of associated words and concepts, which you could potentially add to your mind map. If you become overly concerned about producing a perfect mind map, chances are you will be second-guessing your brain. When that happens, you may end up clogging your brain with ideas and concepts that you aren’t quite sure how to arrange or that may not be “good enough” to include in a map. This can cause mental constipation, which gets in the way of producing an excellent mind map. To sidestep this mental tendency, remember if you are using mind mapping software that it is designed to manipulate ideas and concepts with greater flexibility than any other type of software. You can easily use it to do a “mental core dump” – capturing all of your ideas without regard to their structure – and then rearrange them with complete freedom until they make sense to you.

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"Isn't 42 the answer to Life, the Universe, and Everything? Well, in this case it means FOR TWO and indicates the collaborative character of mind42. Manage all your ideas, whether alone, twosome or working together with the whole world - collaborative, browser-based and for free. "

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"Freeplane is a powerful and free software for building mind maps. It is a redesigned version of the well known FreeMind, and is created by one of FreeMind's key developers."

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"Cohere is a visual tool to create, connect and share Ideas."

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"This page was exported directly from vym. It shows some of the features vym offers to collect and present ideas and data. Editing the content of the page in vym is really easy and intuitive, just grab something with the mouse and move it to another place."

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"As a hardworking student, you’ve got a lot to organize, including essays, exams, deadlines, and class schedules, not to mention your social and personal life–plus any part-time jobs you may have taken on. In an effort to keep you more organized, we’ve generated this list of 50 useful mind-mapping tools that are designed to help you see your ideas more clearly, analyze and outline research papers, become more efficient when you study, and get inspired to be more creative in your work."

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"Create and share diagrams by writing sentences!"

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Hand-drawn Mind Map Examples for Inspiration and Motivation

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"Here is a list of other mindmap resources online:"

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"What If… Today I want to write something different you can do with your mind or visual map. Can you do this exercise in a normal linear format (to do list style)? Sure you can! The only difference is that by using a map you will be able to have a neat and clear overview on one sheet that helps your entire brain."

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"Idea Mapping is a powerful whole-brained visual thinking tool that enhances memory, note-taking skills, thought organization, planning, creativity, and communication. It uses color, keywords, lines and images to connect thoughts associatively. Idea Maps are the natural expression of the way the brain processes information associatively."

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"The energy that comes from having a group of people getting together to create a mind map for strategic planning ensures a lively discussion and a free flow of ideas and thoughts. At some point in the mind mapping process, take a step back and take a look at your mind map. Look for sub ideas that look exceptionally promising. Take that idea out of the main map, and begin creating a separate mind map around it. Keep doing this until you have absolutely exhausted all ideas. When that happens, you will find that your goals and the paths to reach them are clearly revealed. Besides these uses, mind maps can be used to make your presentations more effective and to help them stand out from the rest. Your speeches are clear and energetic, and your knowledge of your subject is evident to your audience. With mind mapping you can get rid of pre presentation anxiety."

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