[Design] Buzan type mindmapping somehow??

[Mimi Yin]

Hi M. Blackmore,

Yes, more visual interactive displays of data are definitely  
something we're interested, although sadly probably not in the short- 
term. We recently had a thread about this: http:// 
lists.osafoundation.org/pipermail/design/2006-January/003753.html

We've also thrown other ideas around:
+ Plotting data on maps (ie. contacts, anything with lat/long, gps  
information)
+ Plotting data on a timeline/calendar (not just events!)
+ More generic graphical presentations with user-definable x and y- 
axes (ie. plotting tasks with respect to urgency and importance)

Can you speak in a little more detail about when it is you find  
yourself preferring more flexible mind-manager style displays of  
information versus more traditional table or list views?

For example (these are just some random examples):
+ When I'm brainstorming, coming up with unstructured ideas versus  
tweaking a final plan.
+ When I'm dealing with family projects versus work projects.

etc.

Thanks,

Mimi

On Jan 17, 2006, at 5:11 PM, M.Blackmore wrote:

> Just a thought, but when I did a lot of writing before the kids were
> born (I early retired to be a middle aged housedad from academe,  
> though
> had had a "varied" life before the ivory towers, hence the late family
> start) I found mind mapping worked wonders for my messy dyslexic  
> thought
> processes.
>
> I'd have killed for an easy way to integrate the then burgeoning and
> fascinating new facility of email into that - we discussed a lot of  
> the
> globalisation and new technology stuff (yes, it was that long ago)
> around "the world" via this new fangled email, and a lot of the ideas
> now current were hacked out in these formless written conversations.
>
> Emails, discussions, drafts, quotes typed in (not much on the web  
> then,
> even predating web) revisions bandied around, reviews - all became a
> tangled mess of files. Then in the late 90s I discovered Mind Manager
> under Windows (I think that was the name) ... revelation. Not had any
> call to use anything like that for the last 6 years, but all the  
> same...
>
> If some way had been possible to organise this mass of data into flows
> and maps it would have been great.
>
> As I said, just a thought, but one that can be of possible benefit to
> writers and informationally dense (err...) workers dealing with
> disparate threads.
>
> A mind mapping facility wouldn't go amiss if it could /integrate/  
> other
> information flows in the program/package/suite whatever you call it!
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