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When people discuss mind maps, you get the feeling they’re all constructed in the same way: someone places a word at the center of a page and brainstorms for other words and ideas that relate to it, and writes those down so they radiate from that one central word or concept. But in actual fact, that is called a spider map, and it’s just one of several different constructions a mind map user might employ. Some types are just variations of this spider map. The cluster map, for example, gathers words or concepts into thematic clusters around the central idea. But others are quite different from that relatively simple shape, and use slightly different techniques.  Read more... (429 words, estimated 1:43 mins reading time)

Tony Buzan is the man who got the whole concept of mind maps going in the late twentieth century. His first mind mapping tool would of course have come in book form, and he also conducted workshops to teach people his methods and to certify others to teach them as well. But in the last two or three decades, computers and the internet have exploded into popularity, so the next stage of instruction was clearly to develop brainstorming software that was based on these methods. Many developers did just that as the century turned, but eventually Buzan himself brought out his own program.  Read more... (430 words, estimated 1:43 mins reading time)