Years ago, my Writing 121 instructor required a thought-map for some assignments, and once I tasted the ease of moving from map to outline to page I never wrote papers any other way.When naming products or companies (or characters, pets, kids – okay, TMI), the thought map is still my tool of preference.
Bubbl.us and MindMeister are two online tools that bring the AJAXy interactivity I mentioned in the yesterday’s post to a “thought mapping” interface – where you can actually construct these things as big as you need as you go, letting the linked nodes bounce around and rearrange themselves for you.
I find Bubbl.us more consistent with my own creative process, but MindMeister allows more detail per node and I can see some people would probably like it more. Color-coding the nodes is enough for me. I have a few other “ThoughtMap” links in my Del.icio.us.
Update: Just ran across the Bubbl.us page "about us" - drinkin' the cool-aid is nice. Great use of their tool, too.
justapersona
1 comments:
I am so glad you dropped by my cr8buzz profile and left a comment. Otherwise, I wouldn't have discovered your blog.
I have been a big fan of freemind, but that is a standalone app that seems to never be on the laptop I am trying to free my mind on! LOL.
Mindmeister looks great. Checking it out now.
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