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Originally Posted by shalym
I'm curious as to why people prefer mind mapping over outlining? For me, I just have a very hard time mind mapping, where outlining flows easily.
An outline is also easier for me to use as a study tool--when I look at mind maps, they just seem like a jumble to me, and I have a hard time sorting them.
Shari
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Well the mm software I've used, so far, converts them into either MS Word, RTF, or LibreOffice outlines, which is convenient.
What I've been doing, is planning for a science fiction novel. And I've been finding the MM software "sorta" useful for the "
Thinky" parts of world building, and character development. Some good ideas sometimes come out of nowhere, and sometimes by looking at the big picture and seeing the gaps and holes in your logic.
For plot creation, it's not working that well for me. The mind maps look and function pretty much like Warnier-Orr diagrams. And there, I think just an outline is probably the better medium to start with Maybe in OneNote rather than in MS Word since annotation could be about as free-form as in a mind map title.