[rtebiz]

Originally Posted by lolajl

What is the purpose of mind mapping? I've seen mind mapping charts but just how are these supposed to help you do stuff I'm very visual but I'm not quite getting "it" about mind maps.

See http://www.novamind.com/ and click on the What is a Mind Map? tab below the text with yellow background.

Hope this helps

Bob

[jbkendrick]

That was a great presentation and answered the question, my question too, about the uses of mind mapping. Thanks for sharing it. John

[kened]

i've been a user of novamind on and off for a few years - my typical workflow goes like this

• 'brainstorm ideas' into nova mind
• play around with the mind map untl it looks right or i can't take it further
• export the mind map fom nova mind as an .opml file
• open it up in omnioutliner for further refinement
• export outline to word processor for further refinement

i don't really see how this would involve omnifocus, but i guess the opml file could probably (although i've never tried it) be imported or inserted into omnifocus.

but mind-mapping inside omnifocus? i think that would make it a very strange creature.

[JohnJ80]

I'm not sure my mind is mappable.

J.

[PeterS]

I use Novamind and Omnifocus but we don't need an attempt at merging functionality. The two progs do what they do really well, hybrids are always a compromise.

Novamind has become superb mindmapper, very powerful for developing concepts and getting ducks in a row, and actually identifying next actions and where they sit in a project, I find mapping helps me identify critical areas and flows. I have a visual but cluttered mind.

Peter