Swiss Army Brain ~ Uses of Mind Mapping

Everytime I speak to people about Mind Mapping they ask ‘…………so what can I use it for……………?’ Like many others before I have produced a Mind Map to show some of the different uses.

 

For those of you you use iMind Map or similar software who may be interested in the ‘Swiss Army Brain Image’. I created this myself but if you would like a copy then thats fine, however in return for the image file for your own use I ask that you donate some money to Guide Dogs for the Blind UK.

I ask this because a family friend has just lost their wife to cancer, but on top of all the other health issues the young woman was also blind. As a family it has been decided to raise as much as possible for GDBA, a very worthy cause.

In return for a donation, I will send you image file which you can use in your Mind Maps. To get this going if you are interested then please email me (tim.fulford@btinternet.com) with how much you are willing to donate to this wonderful cause an I will in return send you a PP invoice which once paid will generate an image file for you.

I will display a running total on this page.

Thank you in advance.

Tim

Basic Order Ideas (BOI) How to make them effective

Basic Order Ideas (BOI) are something which Tony Buzan makes constant reference to in his books and talks on Mind Mapping technique. They literally form the first level structure of the Mind Map. They are the structure that will support everything else on the map, get them right and the map will be very effective, get them wrong and the map becomes really difficult to understand it does not convey the information effectively as the mapper might have expected or hoped.

The BOI are the associative links to ‘lever’ the brain into making the links from one area to another.  I am a great joke teller and I can recall jokes just be remembering one or two things about them. This is a great example of associative links. There are some jokes which require one image or word to enable a complex joke to be recalled.

The Mind Map here shows the a summary of the important ‘questions’ or ‘prompts’ to consider when trying to decide on what should and should not be  a BOI.

created in iMindMap v3