That’s encouraging, although it doesn’t tell me much about overall structure. Carlo Pedretti’s introduction to the Codex Arundel has some notes on the structure: unnumbered loose sheets, usually one page per thought. Reaching further back, parts of Leonardo da Vinci’s notebooks are online, and Prof. There are plenty of mindmaps at Biggerplate, but they look more like templates rather than thoughts-in-progress. Do you know of anyone who’s doing something similar to this? This kind of visual thinking isn’t quite like the visual recording that most sketchnoters do. I’d like to get to the point of having a smooth workflow for drawing, scanning, publishing, organizing, browsing through, and following up on these thoughts. Freeplane supports lots of export formats, so maybe I’ll be able to process XML or HTML and make something that’ll help people browse too. Sorry! In the future, I’d love to make a version of this that omits private URLs and information. I included private notes as well, so the map works only for me. The arrows are hyperlinks to either my blog posts or my Evernote entries (using evernote:// URLs from Copy Note Shortcut).
#Freeplane keyboard commands update#
It’s much easier to reorganize things in a map instead of editing each item, although I should come up with some kind of bulk interface so that I can update the categorizations. I’ve split the categories in my blog index a few times, and I’m long overdue for splitting some of the others. I don’t have a lot of topics in my sketchbook yet, but if I find myself with more than twenty or so items in a single category, it’s probably time to split that. To make this, I added each item in my current public and private sketchbooks to my map, creating nodes when necessary. filtering lets me focus on a selected branch.customizable keyboard shortcuts let me tweak the interface.the GTD add-in lets me quickly get a list of next actions.So far, I like Freeplane the most because: I’m testing Mindjet MindManager, Xmind, and Freeplane. In the meantime, I’ve been experimenting with using mindmaps to organize hyperlinks and next actions.
#Freeplane keyboard commands how to#
Evernote and OneNote have been around for a long time, so I’ll probably be able to find people who have thought about how to organize lots of information using those systems. Most note-taking systems focus on indexes for paper notes, either with straightforward tables of contents or mindmaps that refer to pages by IDs.
Neither tool is good for overall non-linear organization. Flickr is good for exposure and a little discussion, but it’s not as easy to search or back up. Evernote is great for personal notes, but even though it has public notebooks (see my sketchbook and my sketchnotes), people aren’t used to following or discussing new notes there. I haven’t quite found the perfect tool yet. Once I get the hang of doing that, I can start adding older entries like my blog posts. Instead of getting intimidated by the task, I’ve decided I’m going to start in the middle, mapping out things I recently learned and things that I’m learning next. I’m still trying to find a good set of tools to help me do this. I’ve been working on mapping what I know. Combining these strategies can help you get around mental blocks. Alternatively, you can start from the top (an outline) and then work your way down to the specifics. To map what you know, you can start from the bottom level (detailed notes answering specific questions) and work your way up to overviews. Your maps can also help other people learn.
This helps you review your notes, identify any gaps, see how far you’ve come, and connect ideas (and discover interesting relationships you might not have come across before). One way to practise mapping is by mapping what you know. Mapping helps me look ahead, and it also gives me a framework for connecting what I learn to what I’ve learned before. For example, this is a rough map of topics related to taking notes: I also have a few other maps at lower levels of detail. Mapping is about organizing topics so that I can see the relationships, find the gaps, and keep moving forward.įor example, I mapped out what I wanted to learn about learning, and I frequently refer to it while planning my next steps. My sketches, blog posts, and Evernote entries are great for remembering things, but I also want to see overviews so that I don’t miss the forest for the trees. I want to learn about more than I can fit into my working memory, so I need to take notes and I need to relate those notes to each other.
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