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 MIND
MAPPING
When I returned from the Caribbean to England, and started working at the Natural Resources Institute,
a colleague introduced
me to the idea of mind-mapping. I read books by Tony Buzan, and found that the technique appealed to
my pictorial mind.
I started mind-mapping lecture notes and articles, and experimented drawing by hand all sorts of maps.
Very soon my friend told
me that mindmaps could be created on a computer, and introduced me to an early version of
MindManager
. I was sceptical,
thinking to that part of the value of mapping was to do it by hand.
However, I soon became aware of the value of using the computer, specially the fact that it was possible
to gradually evolve a
map, without redrawing it. I soon became such an enthusiast, that I find it very difficult to do any
work without starting with a
map.
In this section I have listed some of my experiences and examples in the hope that you will try to use
the technique too. This
whole web site was designed using
MindManager,
and many other subjects were brain-stormed and developed using the same
programme.
If you would like to find out more
about mindmaps, and other software, and good site to start with is www.mindmappingtool.com
and you will find many interesting links to further sites on their map links
page http://www.mindmappingtool.com/mind_map_links.php.
Examples of html reports I have produced with MindManager are listed below:
Design and drafting of Forest Reproductive Material html pages of the FAO
website.
www.fao.org/forestry/seeds
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International Provenance Trials of Acacia and Prosopis (Synthesis and drafting
of a summary html report for FAO/DFSC)
www.dfsc.dk
(click on Arid zone trials)
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Synthesis and drafting of a summary html report for the International Provenance
trials of Pinus Kesiya. (for DFSC)
www.dfsc.dk
(click on Pinus kesiya trials)
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Review of extension material concerned with forest tree seed. Draft html
report posted on the internet to allow comments and contributions (for FAO)
www.dfsc.dk
(click on FAO/DFSC Training and Extension resources in Tree
Seed - new pages for comment)
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Overview of global demand and supply for forest tree seed.
To be placed on the internet
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Conversion of the EU Guidelines for Forest Sector Development Co-operation. I was involved in
the very first stages of these guidelines, and did this
conversion as an exercise in using MindManager for complex documents. This
version is, I think, much easier to use than the book. Try it and tell me!
Go to EU Guidelines
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