Effective Mindmapping and Learn the Mindmapping Tips

What is mindmapping? How to make a mindmap? What are the benefits of mindmapping? For the uninitiated, mindmapping is a tool or diagram that is used to represent ideas, tasks, words or any other items that is linked and arranged around an original idea or a word. IF you are looking for aid that you can use for study, for decision making, for problem solving, then mindmapping is often used to generate, structure and classify ideas. Some even go on to say that using effective mindmapping process, an invention can be born.

And so the next question will be, how do you make an effective mindmap. The idea of effective mindmapping is to use normal paper and using several color pens, this would make the ideas stand out and do not look boring. Let us see how this can be done, Here are some mindmapping tips.

1. Use one A4 size paper and make sure it is a plain paper. Turn your paper to landscape.

2 Draw a word or idea, this being the starting or core word/idea, using at least 3 colors. Make it into a picture. As you may probably knows that a picture speaks a thousand words.

3. Start to generate ideas or words that would link to your starting word/idea. The trick here is to start writing what comes to your mind. This is important as often, brilliant ideas come in an instant. Use branches to link up the starting word/idea using key words or images.

4. By now, you would have plenty of branches that start to spread out from your starting word/idea. Now begin to add details with more key words and using color pens throughout. The idea is to make your plain paper look as beautiful as possible.

5. Remember to write your words clearly and only use one word per line.

6. And if you have more ideas, linked them together using arrows.

7. Finally, when you are finished with your piece of art(ideas!), you have to start carefully study all the connections that you had made between your ideas. Try to relate them and make sure they make sense to you.

When you are done, you will be looking at a piece of colorful paper with loads of words/ideas.


Mindmapping tips

Do not get stuck in one area. Let you ideas flow by itself. If you find that some of your branches start to make less sense, do not despair. Simply return to your starting word/idea and work your way out again.

You may need to add more paper to contain all your ideas. Do not get stingy with paper! Attach more paper if needed.

Your paper may be filled with many branches. It would be wise to use one color for one branch and the other branch, different color. This would make your paper more readable.

Of course, as mentioned before, picture speaks a thousand. Let your creativity flow with pictures that can represent words.