Uses for Mind Maps – Mind Maps: Quicker Notes, Better Memory, and Improved Learning 3.0

How often do you use mind maps? There are many uses for mind maps that are unfamiliar to you. Some of which are surprising. I learned so much from reading Mind Maps: Quicker Notes, Better Memory, and Improved Learning 3.0 by Michael Taylor.

You can find many free mind mapping software and apps that you can use to create mind maps. Read Mind Maps: Quicker Notes, Better Memory, and Improved Learning 3.0 to get innovative ideas on how to effectively use mind maps.

You can create mind maps while taking notes when you are reading books to get the 10 skills needed for future jobs. This is one of the many uses for mind maps.

Below you'll find a summary and my thoughts on Mind Maps: Quicker Notes, Better Memory, and Improved Learning 2.0 by Michael Taylor!

Initial Thoughts: Uses for Mind Maps – Mind Maps: Quicker Notes, Better Memory, and Improved Learning 3.0

Can another book on mind mapping really help me?

I have mentioned before that every day I visit the Digital Books Today website to see which new books are on offer for free. I recently came across Mind Maps: Quicker Notes, Better Memory, and Improved Learning 3.0 by Michael Taylor. I thought that I already read a good book on mind maps, Mind Mapping for Kids: How Elementary School Students Can Use Mind Maps to Improve Reading Comprehension and Critical Thinking by Toni Krasnic.

But the book was there for free so I downloaded it. Michael Taylor writes about things that affect me now in Mind Maps: Quicker Notes, Better Memory, and Improved Learning 3.0, so it is very useful to me.

For instance, the main reason that I am interested in mind maps is to use them in books reviews because not everyone likes to read. I wondered how best to create mind maps for book summaries. Should I create a mind map based on the chapter titles, or themes, or the five big ideas in the book that I am summarizing?

Have you read?

Mind Mapping for Learning: Mind Mapping for Kids by Toni Krasnic

What is Mind Maps: Quicker Notes, Better Memory, and Improved Learning 3.0 About?

In Mind Maps: Quicker Notes, Better Memory, and Improved Learning 3.0, the author shows with mind map examples a variety of ways to create a mind map for books. This reminded me of the power of show, don’t tell!

But, I also noticed that the process to create a mind map of a book summary or review, follows speed reading techniques such as skimming through the book, reading the table of content, all the headings in the chapters, anything that is bold and italicized. By doing this, you will know what the main topic and sub-topics are. Finding the right keywords for your mind map will go a long way to capturing the essence of what the book is about.

I have never thought of creating mind maps for research, or for when I am reading syntopically, to learn a new topic. Additionally, it wasn’t on my radar to use mind maps to capture the information you hear in speeches and lectures. And the amazing thing is that the techniques used to mind map a book, research, lecture and speeches are not necessarily the same. But the good news is that Taylor walks you through the processes.

For instance, when mind mapping a lecture, you cannot go back to refer to the lecture – unless it’s online and recorded – so you have to pay attention and guess the main ideas and subtopics, but most times the presenter gives you an outline so you can use that to decide your main idea and sub-topics.

I have stated many times on The Invisible Mentor blog that one outcome from my informal liberal arts education, is a book, and Mind Maps: Quicker Notes, Better Memory, and Improved Learning 3.0 has a section where it explains how to use mind maps for writing books.

Uses for Mind Maps: How to Use a Mind Map to Write a Book

1. “Create your book outline based on the main topic and subtopics of your Mind Map.

2. Pick a subtopic to start writing — you don't need to write them in order. Sometimes it is easiest to start at the end of a writing project and work backwards.

3. As you write, check off subsets on your Mind Map that you have addressed.

4. When all the subsets of a subtopic are checked off, you have finished that subtopic.

5. Write a conclusion for that section of your project and move on to the next subtopic.”

Should You Buy a Copy of Mind Maps: Quicker Notes, Better Memory, and Improved Learning 3.0 by Michael Taylor?

I hope that by now you've discovered some of the many uses for mind maps! There are examples of how to use mind maps to brainstorm, problem solve, and prepare presentations. To become proficient at creating mind maps, you have to create at least 100 of them. Mind Maps: Quicker Notes, Better Memory, and Improved Learning 3.0 by Michael Taylor is a nice complement to Mind Mapping for Kids: How Elementary School Students Can Use Mind Maps to Improve Reading Comprehension and Critical Thinking by Toni Krasnic.

Yes, get a copy of Mind Maps: Quicker Notes, Better Memory, and Improved Learning 3.0 by Michael Taylor. (Update: The book is no longer for sale.)

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