Is it worth it?

Posted by Jack Crawford
Sep 10, 2007 at 11:18 AM

Increasingly, I find mindmappers of only limited value for extended personal use. I sometimes use MindManager for initial idea generation but I find that I soon prefer to export the model to another application for further development.

While they can look good, old mindmaps in particular seem to lose their relevance and usefulness fairly quickly. For me, their value is primarily in that initial idea generation phase. I suspect that I am attuned to more linear thought development such as in a traditional text outliner.

However, mindmapping is an excellent group activity. The limited text and spatial characteristics seem to fit in well with group brainstorming and project outlining.

Jack