{"id":618,"date":"2004-10-31T22:12:43","date_gmt":"2004-11-01T02:12:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.theoreti.ca\/?p=618"},"modified":"2010-11-27T17:44:00","modified_gmt":"2010-11-27T22:44:00","slug":"mind-mapping","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/theoreti.ca\/?p=618","title":{"rendered":"Mind Mapping"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>At the Burlington Art Centre I attended a day-long workshop on &#8220;The Art of Change&#8221; where the &#8220;mind mapping&#8221; software <a title=\"Products\" href=\"http:\/\/www.mindjet.com\/us\/products\/\">Mindjet: Mind Manager<\/a> was demonstrated. Mind mapping apparently was invented by Tony Buzan as a way of unleashing the potential of the mind. See, <a title=\"Buzan Centres - Mind Mapping - Mind Map Definition\" href=\"http:\/\/www.mind-map.com\/EN\/mindmaps\/definition.html\">Buzan Centres &#8211; Mind Mapping &#8211; Mind Map Definition<\/a>. The presenter oversold mind mapping and it is not clear that visual thinking software running on a small screen is preferable to a good big peice of software or whiteboard, but at its heart mind mapping seems to be hypertext for thinking &#8211; drawing graphs of ideas. What is is strange is how this business technique has spawned software similar to what has come from the hypertext community, software like <a title=\"Storyspace\" href=\"http:\/\/www.eastgate.com\/Storyspace.html\">Storyspace<\/a>, which bills itself as serious hypertext for writers.<br \/>\n<!--more--><br \/>\nThere is free mind mapping software, see <a title=\"Main Page - FreeMind - free mind mapping software\" href=\"http:\/\/freemind.sourceforge.net\">FreeMind &#8211; free mind<\/a>. Written in Java, works on Macs. Of course, paper may still work better.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>At the Burlington Art Centre I attended a day-long workshop on &#8220;The Art of Change&#8221; where the &#8220;mind mapping&#8221; software Mindjet: Mind Manager was demonstrated. Mind mapping apparently was invented by Tony Buzan as a way of unleashing the potential of the mind. See, Buzan Centres &#8211; Mind Mapping &#8211; Mind Map Definition. The presenter &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/theoreti.ca\/?p=618\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Mind Mapping<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-618","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-visualization"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/theoreti.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/618","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/theoreti.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/theoreti.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theoreti.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theoreti.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=618"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/theoreti.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/618\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3399,"href":"https:\/\/theoreti.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/618\/revisions\/3399"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/theoreti.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=618"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theoreti.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=618"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theoreti.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=618"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}