The Mindjet Blog has just featured an excellent post by Michael Deutch, in which he shows us how he’s developed two mindmapping organisation maps based on David Allen’s Getting Things Done.
Michael’s two mindmaps, which he shares in MindManager format, are called -
- Mind Sweep – a mindmap designed to basically brain-dump everything going through his mind, and -
- Weekly Review – a mindmap developed for that weekly review.
Those who own Mindjet’s MindManager software can download copies of both of Michael’s maps to play with. Those who don’t can still follow a link in the Mindjet Blog article which will take you to the same article within the article base at Mindjet itself. There, the mindmap is available as a Mindjet Player file – this is a mindmap that you can open up and close down just like having the software itself. It will open into Adobe Reader for you.
Michael has pre-populated the two mindmaps with some basic categories that most of us find we think about or need to think about over the course of a working week. As a MindManager user, you are of course free to customise those maps to enter more categories for your own life. Getting ‘rid’ of those little niggling worries that we all hold onto – and into the one document, seems a great way to release ourselves to move on with our own writing.
The Mind Sweep map itself also has some affiliation with that initial planning stage I find myself in, when first coming up with an idea for a story – or indeed, a non-fiction work. I’ll take a look at that at a later date.
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January 27th, 2009 at 7:48 pm
Michelle,
Thanks for passing my blog post to your readers. I look forward to hearing feedback, as well as reading your posts on mapping in the future. I also use MindManager to help plan my writing as well as promote it afterwards! I’ll write about that one too