Unstructured and disorderly nature of creative thinking and is more compatibleĪs far as I am aware this manual process was first 'systematised' by Tonyīuzan in some of his earlier books. Related ideas with free-form connecting lines. This would be a big sheet of butcher's paper or white-board) and connect The original idea was toĬapture ideas in an unstructured way on a blank sheet of paper (in a meeting Procedure tends to work against creative thinking. The concept was to unleash creative thinking and discussion by freeing the Mind-mapping was around long before mind mapping software became available. Would like to explore the issue more fully, with your indulgence, to refine Rickenbroc's suggestion of using CTRL+arrow actually gives me part of theįunctionality I wanted, and easily swaps a node and its branches t theīoercher suggested opening a new feature request, but before doing that I Is there a simple way of 'switching' the edge to the opposite side? (i.e. The edge stays connected to the LH side of the node. If I then drag the node to the LH side the 'invisible handle' turns red, but If I create a node on the RH side, the edge is connected to the LH side of Non-obvious links between some nodes causing them to move together. I get there in the end, but there seem to be some I then try to compact these into a more orderly layout by dragging I create a mind-map with, say, six nodes, randomly laid out, but all on Would hate to be struggling because I have missed something simple. It may be that theĪnswer to either or both is 'that's the way it is", and that's fine. Questions I hope someone will be able to help me out with.
I'm finding it very easy to get my head around, but I have a couple of The need has arisen again and I am delighted to come across Freeplane. I used to do a lot of mind-mapping in the early days of Mind-Man (10+ yearsĪgo).