Mind Mapping is the Next Step
So a few months later and I am back to product creation with Partnership to Success. Weeks 11 and 12 introduce you to mind mapping. To me, this is a more organized way to approach compiling your thoughts and ideas for your product.
You start out with an idea and branch out to general topics to cover within that idea and then again each topic can be branched out to more specifics. I have written out outlines and ideas on paper and that works as well but I think for me, doing it on the computer will help keep me a little more organized. And couldn’t most of us use a little more organization in our lives?
I tried using one of the sites mentioned in the lesson. This site is called ‘Free Mind’ . As the name implies, the site is free and seems to be easy enough to use, at least for basics. There are a lot of different options in the toolbar that I have not tried yet but the early basic use is easy enough, even for someone mostly technologically illiterate like me.
If you own and ipad, it is suggested you might want to get ‘iThoughts HD’ to use as your mind mapping program. I can certainly see the usefulness of having a tablet to use for mind mapping. It is portable and easy to keep with you but then there could be the issue of misplacing it. It would probably be a good idea to keep a copy of your mind map on your desktop as well.
I had already started a product and have gone beyond the mind mapping stage but have a couple of other ideas rolling around in my brain and put one of them down on the mind map. This will be good so that when I have additional thoughts about it I can just add them to the mind map and not worry about losing the piece of paper that I might have jotted it down on.
My husband tells me I should make lists and write things down so I have been trying to do so. Unfortunately I seldom can find where I wrote it down so I think using the computer to mind map will be a good thing for me. I haven’t yet lost or forgotten where the computer is!
Happy mind mapping, Jenny Wren
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Interesting read Jenny as I am just about to start week 11.
As well as using the computer I have bought myself a notebook where I write my ideas down together with a ‘to do list’. Once a week I go through it and update any ideas and the ‘to do list’
Good luck in your product creation
Panicos