Matt Reid

I got the top fortune the month I started my own business as a professional organizer. It has been tacked to my bulletin board ever since.  I got the second one about a month ago, just as my business reached…

1. MindMeister: This is my winner. It just looks so clean. It was easy to use. I like that you can set it to flow in any direction, not just down like in Mindomo. The size, shape, layout of the…

I did not invent this. Just came accross this visual of a concept I teach all the time. Thought it may be helpful to see it this way.

2. Mindomo: This is the runner up. I actually like it quite a bit. It is clean, easy to use, pretty flexible and it guides you how to use it effectively and unobtrusively. Plus you can access most of the…

MindMup: This one is okay. The ease of entry is good. The look is clean and organized. Unfortunately with that cleanliness come very little customization. Moving around ideas is not as easy as I would like and there is no…

Since I wrote that blog entry I gave MindMup another try to organize a my son’s science project. I actually like it a lot more now. It’s growing on me. Overall, I would recommend it. See the posting of what…

mindmaps: Straightforward name, not so straightforward app. I can’t get over the default colors, shapes, sized etc. It is also very visually cluttered and would take forever to change everything to make it look cleaner. Also don’t love the buttons. Not exactly intuitive.  Here’s a…

Here are my thoughts on the basic versions, one per post with pictures. 5. Connected Mind: This is such a hot mess, I’m not even sure what to say. It’s so insanely cluttered and crazy I couldn’t even make a…

Believe it or not, this is where I started writing about Mind Mapping. This was going to be a single post about a few programs that I tried out. Turned into a series. I did use a mind map in planning parts of…

At some point I realized that I needed to combine these two disparate ideas in to one process. Since then, I have started with a Mind Map. I think of it as “throwing up my ideas” without rhyme, reason, structure,…