Mindmapping

Posted by Alexander Deliyannis
Nov 18, 2008 at 09:29 PM

Jim wrote:
>My thinking style is very visual, yet I haven’t yet been
>able to get into mindmapping.

You are not the only one; I myself use it mostly for presenting information to others than for brainstorming or organisaing things on my own. I think that Stephen Diamond provided an interesting view on this in a past post http://www.outlinersoftware.com/topics/viewt/230/35 reproduced here for convenience:

“One thought I’ve had is that the “visual thinker” angle is
misleading. Consider that the virtue of *any* outline is that it uses
consistent visual cues to indicate the relationsips between parts and
wholes. The difference is that in a mind map, the visual cues are
more prominent. I think it may in fact be those who are NOT visual
thinkers who benefit most. If spatial visualization is not a
strength, the mindmap provides a visible spatial structure, perhaps
substituting for less conscious and inexplicit visual structuring
that the _low_ visual thinker might find harder to generate.”

Alexander