Mindomo

Mind-mapping has always been a useful tool in fleshing out detailed sets of ideas and focusing vague plans in some sort of workable direction. This is particularly appropriate for this assignment. I used Mindomo to brainstorm various ideas for my production project and have uploaded the mind-map below. It isn't meant to be any sort of complete summary of the topics or tools. It is me laying out in two sections, the tools I have found most useful out of which I will use a few for my production project, and the main general topics I find important and will refer to in my creations.

Although Mindomo is fairly simple, and its video tutorial is of great help, it is still a program which provides some frustration. It has some unusual quirks in its interface but the main problem I find is that as a presentation format it lacks the open spatial dimensions of traditional hand-drawn mind-maps. I'm used to the idea of mind-maps as spider style, with legs coming off in 360 degrees around a centrepoint and creating something quite circular. Mindomo is very linear though, it doesn't allow you to freely put things wherever you like and as a consequence it can often get crowded and complicated.

The image my map is it may need some zoom to read closer because of these difficulties.