Over the last several weeks, we’ve been moving the household from one place to another. It’s a lot of work. I’ve written a little about this before, including painting the house, starting over again, and getting some technology for the new place .
Keeping all of this organized into a “to do” list has not been easy. There are literally hundreds of little things to be done. You can’t keep all of that in your head.
Helping all of this has been MindManager, a “mind-mapping” program from Mindjet. Essentially, create a topic, subjects around the topic, and then put in subtopics from there. Mind mapping is very stream of conscious in that you can add items to any topic or sub-topic at will.
In my case, I took a subject — the move of the household — set up topics around it — what we have to do in each room to be complete — and then added and subtracted tasks associated with each room. Hundreds on a single mind map. Because that’s how many things you have to do to move.
For writers, mind mapping can be used to create topics and writing sub-topics for non-fiction books. For fiction writers, the program can be used to define characters, build out action scenes, or create different sections of a plot. The little snapshot at the top is my topics associated with a non-fiction book I am writing.
Mind maps are living documents and can capture your creative thoughts quickly and then organize them into topics.
Scot
