What is Mindmapping?
According to Wikipedia, a Mindmap “is a diagram used to represent words, ideas, tasks, or other items linked to and arranged radially around a central key word or idea. It is used to generate, visualize, structure, and classify ideas, and as an aid in study, organization, problem solving, decision making, and writing.”
Today, however, with the wide array of mindmapping software (desktop and web-based), mindmapping has become a great deal more than the Wikipedia definition.
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People all around the world are now using mindmapping for project management, presentations, strategic planning, brainstorming, content management, and team collaboration.
More and more people are learning about the power of mindmapping and leveraging it for greater success in business, education and their personal lives.
To help you understand mindmapping and the impact it can have on your personal and professional life, I’d like to share three videos with you:
Video 1: Overview of Mindmapping by Gideon King, founder of NovaMind, a major mindmapping software company.
This video gives you a sort of “Mindmapping 101” look at mindmapping. It illustrates many of the core benefits of mindmapping:
Click Here: Video 1
Video 2: How Mindmapping Can Help You Overcome Information Overload by Gideon King
With all of us dealing with large amounts of information everyday, this video illustrates how mindmapping can help you manage information more effectively – no matter the amount. Also, it features successful businessmen and a few national leaders who leverage the benefits of mindmapping, including Al Gore and Bill Gates:
Click Here: Video 2
Video 3: Linear Thinking vs. Visual Thinking by Mindjet, a major mindmapping software company
This fun and creative video by Mindjet, the maker of the top-selling MindManager mindmapping software, illustrates the power of visual thinking and collaboration with mindmaps:
Click Here: Video 3
I am looking for a recommendation on mind mapping software that will allow me to use it on my iPad, iPhone, MacBook and pc – whereby each device will be updated in real time.
Thanks
Joseph
Hello Joseph:
In answering your question it largely depends on what you mean by “real-time”. To my knowledge there is no single program that allows you to simply sync all mindmaps on the iPad, iPhone, MacBook and PC. But with that said, I would suggest iThoughts and iThoughts HD (both available via the Apple App Store) for the iPhone and iPad respectively (see my recent post on iThoughtsHD for iPad). This mindmapping program allows you to easily upload mindmaps from a wide variety of desktop (Mac and PC) mindmapping software programs. So no matter which desktop mindmapping program you choose you’ll be able to upload your mindmaps to your iPhone or iPad via Wifi sync.
Hope that gives you something to work with. —Chance