Ked,

Well done. I'm glad you've demonstrated for yourself how useful mind mapping is. I'm sure that the mind maps have developed and continue to develop your personal style.

Flex,

Vera points our that it's easier to find answers and remember things when you put limits in place. That's where analograffiti comes in and a good way to get started with mind mapping.

As with mind mapping you have a topic in the center.

Example - Journalism,
With Mind Mapping you need to decide what to anchor to the word with the stems.

With Analograffiti you have to take a letter from the word and anchor a concept using the letter.

This mean with Mind mapping you have an infinate number of ideas to make a decision about when it comes to adding.

Analograffiti narrows down that infinte selection once you find something that links the decision is made

I suggest playing with analograffiti to get a grasp of Mind Mapping.

Alex