{"id":249,"date":"2008-07-18T00:43:13","date_gmt":"2008-07-18T05:43:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/marcusvorwaller.com\/blog\/?p=249"},"modified":"2008-07-18T00:43:13","modified_gmt":"2008-07-18T05:43:13","slug":"personalbrain-vs-mindmapping","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/marcusvorwaller.com\/blog\/2008\/07\/18\/personalbrain-vs-mindmapping\/","title":{"rendered":"PersonalBrain vs. Mindmapping"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>When I started using <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thebrain.com\/#-47\">PersonalBrain<\/a> sometimes I was unclear about when to use PersonalBrain or when to use a more traditional mindmapping tool like <a href=\"http:\/\/freemind.sourceforge.net\/wiki\/index.php\/Main_Page\">Freemind<\/a> or <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mindjet.com\/\">MindJet<\/a>. Now I think I can break it down pretty simply to this:<\/p>\n<p><strong>PersonalBrain is for <\/strong><strong>research,<\/strong><strong> learning and long-term planning. Mindmapping is for brainstorming.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The two tools overlap and can be used for either purpose, but I find that generalizing helps make the decision of which software to use quick and more intuitive.<\/p>\n<p><strong>An example where I prefer Mindmapping:<\/strong> If I&#8217;m starting a project such as building a website I use Freemind to quickly lay out the potential navigation, what content will go where and even the contact information for the involved parties. The information I need is limited in context and fairly isolated. It&#8217;s useful in the time that I&#8217;m building the website but it&#8217;s likely that I won&#8217;t need to revisit it in the future. It also helps to be able to see it all at a glance&#8211;Mindmaps are great for this.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Examples of where I prefer PersonalBrain: <\/strong>Pretty much everything else :). If I&#8217;m reading a book and taking notes, I use Personal Brain. If I&#8217;m taking notes on an article or planning out my future I use PersonalBrain. Philosophical or political information goes into PersonalBrain. All of this is information I&#8217;m likely to want to go back to and that is likely to connect to other bits of information and help with me be more creative, recognize patterns, and recall what I&#8217;ve learned.<\/p>\n<p>That&#8217;s how I differentiate between what goes where. If you&#8217;ve got another way of doing it, I&#8217;m curious to learn about it!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>When I started using PersonalBrain sometimes I was unclear about when to use PersonalBrain or when to use a more traditional mindmapping tool like Freemind or MindJet. Now I think I can break it down pretty simply to this: PersonalBrain is for research, learning and long-term planning. Mindmapping is for brainstorming. The two tools overlap [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[18,19,2,12],"tags":[34,35,33,31,32],"class_list":["post-249","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-lifehacks","category-productivity","category-software","category-technology","tag-freemind","tag-mindjet","tag-mindmapping","tag-personal-brain","tag-personalbrain"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/ppj2P-41","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/marcusvorwaller.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/249","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/marcusvorwaller.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/marcusvorwaller.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/marcusvorwaller.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/marcusvorwaller.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=249"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/marcusvorwaller.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/249\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":250,"href":"https:\/\/marcusvorwaller.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/249\/revisions\/250"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/marcusvorwaller.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=249"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/marcusvorwaller.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=249"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/marcusvorwaller.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=249"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}