How to Mind Map®
- Turn a large, white sheet of paper landscape, or use a Mind Map pad.
- Gather a selection of coloured pens, ranging from fine nib to highlighter
- Select the topic, problem or subject to be Mind Mapped.
- Gather any materials, research or additional information.
- Start in the centre with an unframed image - approximately 6 cm high and wide for A4 and 10 cm for A3.
- Use dimension, expression and at least three colours in the central image in order to attract attention and aid memory.
- Make the branches closest to the centre thicker, attached to the image and ‘wavy’ (organic). place the Basic Ordering Ideas (BOIs) or chapter heading equivalents on the branches.
- Branch thinner lines off the end of the appropriated BOI to hold supporting data (most important closest).
- Use images wherever possible.
- The image or word should always sit on a line of the same length.
- Use colours as your own special code to show people, topics, themes or dates to make the Mind Map more beautiful.
- Capture all ideas (your own or others’) then edit, re-organise, make more beautiful, elaborate or clarify as a second stage of thinking.