Your choice of mind mapping software

Posted by Graham Smith
Oct 19, 2006 at 08:47 AM

Stephen
>Does Buzan present a different account?

Not especially, but the wikipedia account doesn’t really explain how Buzan came to supporting this approach through his studies into memory and learning.

Although a bit pseudo-scientific the televison series he did many years ago was impressive where he demonstrated that the more bizarre the mind map (colours and pictures) the better people were able to remember things. However, in that particular example he was using mind maps as a learning tool or a tool for taking lecture notes.

I still think of “MindMaps” in the fairly restrictive manner presentedby Buzan in the early days rather than the all encompassing radial diagramming business tool it seems to have become, even though they may well present the diagram in a mind map style.

Graham