One of my new favourite things....iMindMap

Any tips or tools that can make my life more efficient and easier (while still having fun!) are greatly appreciated.  During the Colloquia in Minneapolis, Minnesota, I lived a wonderful session on concept mapping with Dr. Czelusniak.  During this session, we learned about different software to help us create (and save) electronic concept maps.  However, for the life of me, do you think I could remember the name of these technological products when I sat down to create a concept map for my internship project this week....NO!  After a frantic search of Google using a plethora of different word combinations of “mind map”, “concept map”, and “free software”, I happened upon one of my new favourite things....iMindMap.  Woot!  Woot! and Snaps are given to this fun, free (limited options) software that has made mind mapping fun AND, most importantly for me, pretty.  I would hand draw my mindmaps because I did not like the linearity of computer mind maps.   I would then take a picture and save a copy – a picture of the mindmap did not do it justice (a bit of bragging here!)  However, I wasted a lot of time drawing and erasing with my “hardcopy” mindmap.  My iMindMaps are continually a work in progress that I am adding to and adjusting as I continue to learn and reflect in my internship.  And, it is a lot easier to carry around all my mind maps in my laptop than in my book bag.  Over the next few months, I will share some of these mind maps.

Link to iMindMap:   http://www.thinkbuzan.com/en_ca/index/welcome