Interesting, Eddie Yes, for more complex projects there is definitely a role for mindmapping, because it allows you to see all the different areas of a project on one screen in 2D rather than in effect in 1D (or 1.5D if you include indentation!). For one thing this let's you see what parts of the project you may not have been paying enough attention to.
HOWEVER for me it mindmapping didnt work well for actual *task management* lists of such projects. I think it was just rather hard to see things like Next Task (nor next 2 or 3 tasks) within all my projects on a single screen. Somehow with larger projects and too many tasks (say over 100 or so) the whole thing starts to melt down! Possibly there is something clever one could do with filters in MindManager but I never discovered it! Regarding hierachies yes, being forced to start in a central point is exactly what I meant. What sounds brilliant on paper is https://www.thebrain.com. There is no central point at all and you just feed in the relationship and a sort of web / network / graph builds up. In many ways this is very much how the human mind works... in theory. However personally I absolutely loathed it in practice. The reason is that I, like many people I guess, actually work in a series of mental pictures. And with TheBrain, every time you add something new, the whole damned thing wobbles & spins around all over the place, and the last photography your brain took is suddenly upside down/inside out/ all over the place. Absolute nightmare! Interestingly enough part of the reason I *do* quite like Mindjet's MindManager mindmapping tool is because as you add new things it only moves things around when it more or less has to. i.e. Things by default snap into intelligent positions, but without being in your face about it. And when it all moves around it still pretty much looks like the previous layout. [By analogy, for anyone how has worked with HTML you will appreciate how useful it is to be able to apply a tool to tidy out the code *when required* - correct formatting & indenting etc - *and yet* it's useful to be able stop the software from messing with your layouts unnecessarily. i.e. Most of the time we want the new version to look as much as possible like the old version so that we can find our way around! MindManager is quite good like that] I'd be interested to hear how you get on with TheBrain. And please do let me know iof you think iMindQ is better than MindManager. (I have invested too much money into MindManager already but I see no long term future with them mainly because they are WAY too expensive for the non-corporates SMEs like moi... so I am on the looking for new a new tool of comparable power and sophistication.) J On Sunday, August 23, 2015 at 8:42:33 PM UTC+1, Majorbillion wrote: > > Hi John: > > To answer your question about strict hierarchy, iMindQ is set up for > project management and ToDo lists, but I would find it cumbersome because > within one Mindmap, there is only one central starting point. So, if I > interpret your question correctly, the answer is "yes." > > That is why can't be a iMindQ or MLO purist -- for now at least. > > But with most big projects I do in MLO, I come to a point where there are > many interelationships and scenarios. MLO becomes abstract and convoluted. > Everything is suddenly crystal clear when I envision it in iMindQ. > > Eddie > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "MyLifeOrganized" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/mylifeorganized. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/mylifeorganized/8929009b-5e8f-4094-b02a-179b4962866d%40googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
