Mind map: How to.
More videos on the Free Video Course: https://enjoy.thinkific.com/courses/mind-map-for-beginners
Im going to show you how to mind map. Its a quick start overview of how to mind map with five main principles: Central Image, Keywords, curving branches, colour and images.
0:14 Principle 1. I've got a little bike here, and I'm using the bike as a little image to understand mindmapping. You've got a bike with a bike frame, the bike frame is crucial to the bike and so is a central image to your mind map. Starting in the centre of the page and having some sort of image or shape there, with your topic written out, and ideally two or three colours. Unless its a sketch map. So you've got your central image.
0:46 Principle 2. We've got our key words. Here I've got a wheel. And can you see the keys? The idea is that the key words are a single word on each branch. Thats the norm. People often ask 'Can I have multiple words?' Well, ' a sentance?' no not really. The idea is to unpack sentances into keywords. But maybe sometimes you want a quote, thats fine you move it towards the edge and maybe Instagram style it, put it in a box or something like that. What about a phrase? Its rare to have a phrase, two or three or four words, but you can put two or three words if its like a short quote or something like that. Something really important. What about a pair of words? Yes, somtimes a keyword can be a pairing of words. And occasionally thats fine too. Try and avoid multiple words as much as possible. Try and stick to single words on a branch, its a really useful tip and it lets you get more out of the mind map.
1:58 The next question is what order do you put the key words into? What position should they go into? You've stripped down the sentance into keywords, we don't use sentance order we order it according to importance. The really important words move towards the centre like topic words and the key words. And then the details move towards the edge.
2:25 The third principle is curving branches. The idea of curving brances is that it maintains the flow of information and makes it quite attractive to your eye to engage you in reading your mind map. The branches go underneath the words to support them and keep them close. If you don't put your branches under the words and you do a branch and then a word, a branch and then a word at the end of it, your mind map gets very spidery very quickly and falls off the edge of the page.
2:59 We put the branches in clockwise order like this and you do the main branches in clockwise order and then you also do the sub branches in clockwise order even once you get to '9 o'clock' you do it in clockwise order, which can feel a bit counter intuitive at the beginning. Now if you want to do it a different way thats fine as well. But make sure you consistently do it the same way each time. If your showing your mind map to someone who is used to doing mind mapping they will probably expect it to be in clockwise order all the way. Although some computer programs do it from top to bottom, it just depends, but I would recommend sticking with the clockwise order.
3:46 The branches go from thick to thin like a real tree. The thick shows the relative importance of those key words compared to the thin details along the edge.
So those are the three main principles of mind mapping. If you get them right you have a really strong structure to your maps. Obviously you've already got power in your mind map because youve got those key words, theyre crucial. But to make it really memorable and engaging for your mind colour and images really help.
4:22 So lets look at the fourth principle: Using Colour. We colour our branches the same colour. We do that either as we do the branches or you can do it in black and white and then colour each branch system at a time or you can do the whole map in black and white and recolour the whole thing at the end. Each has its own advantages.
4:54 The fifth principle is using images. Use the images for landmark ideas and facts. Landmark ideas and facts are those sorts of things that you know will be important at some point. Now you can mark them in very simple ways. The kinds of images we use are simple, often symbols or doodles. They might develop into something more artistic in the future but don't get too caught up in being an artist.
We've covered five principles of mind mapping and we are going to do into a few of those principles in the next videos.
Free online video course for mind mapping for beginners it has loads more videos: https://enjoy.thinkific.com/courses/mind-map-for-beginners
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/Enjoy-Courses-201077323562581/
Twitter: https://twitter.com/DariusNmN
The little book that started this all off (UK):
https://www.amazon.co.uk/Use-Your-Head-Unleash-Power/dp/1406644277/ref=sr_1_1?s=instant-video&ie=UTF8&qid=1462487766&sr=8-1&keywords=use+your+head
The amazing little book that started this all off (US):
More videos on the Free Video Course: https://enjoy.thinkific.com/courses/mind-map-for-beginners
Im going to show you how to mind map. Its a quick start overview of how to mind map with five main principles: Central Image, Keywords, curving branches, colour and images.
0:14 Principle 1. I've got a little bike here, and I'm using the bike as a little image to understand mindmapping. You've got a bike with a bike frame, the bike frame is crucial to the bike and so is a central image to your mind map. Starting in the centre of the page and having some sort of image or shape there, with your topic written out, and ideally two or three colours. Unless its a sketch map. So you've got your central image.
0:46 Principle 2. We've got our key words. Here I've got a wheel. And can you see the keys? The idea is that the key words are a single word on each branch. Thats the norm. People often ask 'Can I have multiple words?' Well, ' a sentance?' no not really. The idea is to unpack sentances into keywords. But maybe sometimes you want a quote, thats fine you move it towards the edge and maybe Instagram style it, put it in a box or something like that. What about a phrase? Its rare to have a phrase, two or three or four words, but you can put two or three words if its like a short quote or something like that. Something really important. What about a pair of words? Yes, somtimes a keyword can be a pairing of words. And occasionally thats fine too. Try and avoid multiple words as much as possible. Try and stick to single words on a branch, its a really useful tip and it lets you get more out of the mind map.
1:58 The next question is what order do you put the key words into? What position should they go into? You've stripped down the sentance into keywords, we don't use sentance order we order it according to importance. The really important words move towards the centre like topic words and the key words. And then the details move towards the edge.
2:25 The third principle is curving branches. The idea of curving brances is that it maintains the flow of information and makes it quite attractive to your eye to engage you in reading your mind map. The branches go underneath the words to support them and keep them close. If you don't put your branches under the words and you do a branch and then a word, a branch and then a word at the end of it, your mind map gets very spidery very quickly and falls off the edge of the page.
2:59 We put the branches in clockwise order like this and you do the main branches in clockwise order and then you also do the sub branches in clockwise order even once you get to '9 o'clock' you do it in clockwise order, which can feel a bit counter intuitive at the beginning. Now if you want to do it a different way thats fine as well. But make sure you consistently do it the same way each time. If your showing your mind map to someone who is used to doing mind mapping they will probably expect it to be in clockwise order all the way. Although some computer programs do it from top to bottom, it just depends, but I would recommend sticking with the clockwise order.
3:46 The branches go from thick to thin like a real tree. The thick shows the relative importance of those key words compared to the thin details along the edge.
So those are the three main principles of mind mapping. If you get them right you have a really strong structure to your maps. Obviously you've already got power in your mind map because youve got those key words, theyre crucial. But to make it really memorable and engaging for your mind colour and images really help.
4:22 So lets look at the fourth principle: Using Colour. We colour our branches the same colour. We do that either as we do the branches or you can do it in black and white and then colour each branch system at a time or you can do the whole map in black and white and recolour the whole thing at the end. Each has its own advantages.
4:54 The fifth principle is using images. Use the images for landmark ideas and facts. Landmark ideas and facts are those sorts of things that you know will be important at some point. Now you can mark them in very simple ways. The kinds of images we use are simple, often symbols or doodles. They might develop into something more artistic in the future but don't get too caught up in being an artist.
We've covered five principles of mind mapping and we are going to do into a few of those principles in the next videos.
Free online video course for mind mapping for beginners it has loads more videos: https://enjoy.thinkific.com/courses/mind-map-for-beginners
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/Enjoy-Courses-201077323562581/
Twitter: https://twitter.com/DariusNmN
The little book that started this all off (UK):
https://www.amazon.co.uk/Use-Your-Head-Unleash-Power/dp/1406644277/ref=sr_1_1?s=instant-video&ie=UTF8&qid=1462487766&sr=8-1&keywords=use+your+head
The amazing little book that started this all off (US):
Type
mind
in the Atom command palette to open a mindmap view of the current markdown file. The full command name is Markdown Mindmap: Toggle
.By default there is no keyboard shortcut to avoid conflicts. If you want to use one open menu
Edit -> Keymap...
and add this to the file:You can switch between different themes in package settings. Dark themes variants are also available.
The editor allows create mind maps as trees. In opposite to many another mind map editors, it doesn't allows cyclic and multi-root mind maps, only canonic single-root trees. Each mind map node has title but also several extra details like icon, note, file link and link to another topic can be set. Mind map is helpful for sorting out the ideas, while an outline is also a good option before writing starts. Outliner allows you to read your mind map like a list, and you can switch between mind maps and outline with a click. The linear view allows you to go smoothly. Time for the Markdown. XMind supports Markdown export. ConceptDraw MINDMAP is a business productivity software for mind-mapping, brainstorming and project planning.
This extension is built using the markmap component.
Suggestions for new featues are welcome, feel free to open an issue.
Changelog
Vim Markdown Mindmap
0.6.2 (2019-08-11)
- Fix error for newly created unsaved file (#43)
0.6.1 (2018-11-08)
- Forgot to update the markmap dependency needed for the new features
0.6.0 (2018-11-08)
- Keep state of folded/unfolded nodes on update (#20)
- Watch for changes and update nested file trees
- Fix various file links issues
- Add an option to disable link parsing (#42)
0.5.0 (2018-09-10)
- Add support for links across files
- Fix syncing scroll position when using markdown-preview-enhanced plugin #12
- Fix deprecated save dialog #37
0.4.2
Markdown Mindmap Js
- Fix node width for non-lation characters (using canvas to measure text width)
- Add support for markdown numbered lists
0.4.1
- Fixes Block size for capital letters #29
0.4.0
- Make node width dynamic based on content
- Truncate long labels (can be switched off in settings)
- Parse markdown lists and display them as nodes (can be switched off in settings)
- Fix: navigation bug after collapsing and re-expanding nodes
Publishing
Mindmap With Markdown
Notes to myself:
Vscode Markdown Mindmap
- Do not use
npm version
before publishing, just useapm publish major|minor|patch
which takes care of everything. - If the command asks for username and password then personal access token can be used in place of the password.