Stay Organized With Mind Maps

in Self Improvement, Tools by Thomas Skavhellen on December 4th, 20087 Comments

It’s time to stay organized. If it’s one thing I have learned from my mentor so far it’s planning and organizing. Before I could easily just buy a domain from a good thought I just had and start putting up an website without really having a plan for the project. After a few days the problems started to show, the project took longer time then it should and in the end I didn’t really know what I was using the domain for. $10 domain and $10 a month web-hosting plus hours of work spent with no plan.

That’s not going to happen anymore. In additional to my yearly, monthly and weekly goals and todo-list I’ve started to make small mind maps to get the bigger picture of the end results and where I am in the process. If you haven’t heard of or used mind maps before it’s not that hard to get started. You just put the name of your project in the middle and the various parts of your project like marketing, list building, blogging, video making or what ever you need for your project around it. Then you break them down to the next level and then one or two levels more.

I started this out on paper in the beginning but you soon figure out that that takes a lot of paper. One tiny mistake and you have to throw it away and start over. Frustration!. That’s why I went on a search for a software. I ended up with something even better, an online application named MindMeister.com. This application is totally free for up to 6 mind maps. And if you need more of the cool features you only pay $4 or $6 a month or you can go for the big package and save tons of money for only $15 a year. That gives you a lot of organizing for the money.

I’m in the works now for planning a great new list building coaching program with my mentor Alex Jefferys at the moment. Just some tweaks here and there in my mind map and it will be up and running by this weekend. I’ll let you know. In the mean time.. happy mind mapping!

www.mindmeister.com

Thomas Skavhellen

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Responses to “Stay Organized With Mind Maps”

Nadeem Ahmad 5.12.2008 um 4:34 am
Thomas,

I really agree with you! I was tampering with Mindmeister what a great program!! There is only so much organization you can do on a piece of paper or draw diagrams etc…Since Alex told us about it in the first Mod. I’ve been playing around with it.

And by the way, I absolutely love your site, your blog and the content. Very well laid out. Sure seem that you know your stuff and I look forward to your list building coaching program!

Regards,

Nadeem Ahmad
http://affillions.com
Dave Dunn 8.12.2008 um 7:41 pm
Hey Thomas

Great site mate. Your right about the mind mapping It really does help. I’ve been using another program called FreeMind. Its, well, free and there are no limits to how many maps you can create. Also link direct to html pages and other documents online or locally. You can even encypt mind maps or nodes so you can store sensitive info in a map. Check it out if you can. I found mindmeister a bit restricting by being online ans chargeing for it.

added you to twitter

dave

http://www.davedunnonline.com
Thomas Skavhellen 12.12.2008 um 5:40 am
@ Nadeem: Thanks for the great comments about the site. I’m really happy with the new layout and I try my best to provide valuable content. I’ll give it my best to keep the updates more frequently.

@ Dave: I’ve been playing around with FreeMind too. The best thing is that I can take mind maps from FreeMind from my home computer and upload them to Mindmaister when I’m on the road with my laptop. And still play with it online. It also goes the other way around of course.
maeva 12.12.2008 um 12:35 pm
How could we verify the effectiveness of such a possibility?
Thomas Skavhellen 16.12.2008 um 7:24 pm
maeva: Mind Mapping is a powerful but simple way of using diagrams to show information in the same way you think. Mind Mapping makes it easy to understand, remember, and communicate complex information. This dramatically increases your productivity and effectiveness, and leverages your time to maximum advantage.

Does it not make sense? :)
Tom Lustiondodo 18.12.2008 um 10:34 am
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