Free Mind Mapping Programs

A nice list of 11 free mind mapping applications was just posted at Lifehack.org.

If you've never heard of the concept, you can check out this thorough introduction by Dennis Kennedy.

Personally, I find that if I'm dealing with a lot of issues at once -- as is frequently the case in business litigation, multi-defendant personal injury cases, or cases involving a lot of documents -- there are few better ways to get everything in your brain down onto paper in a coherent form.

There are only really two secrets: 

  1. Mind mapping requires too much of an investment of time to use all the time, so save it for when you start having trouble juggling issues in your head; and,
  2. Don't worry about making it perfect. A perfect mindmap is a bad thing, as it usually means you've missed something.

The end result should be coherent enough to help you organize your thoughts but flexible enough that it doesn't hinder those same thoughts by forcing a rigid structure on them.

The first time you make it work you'll wonder how you ever lived without it.

Posted on September 2, 2008 by Maxwell Kennerly
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