OpenMind

A useful, powerful and visual learning tool that was designed to help you develop and organize ideas MatchWare OpenMind is a useful, powerful and visual learning tool that was designed to help you develop and organize ideas. Based on the proven Mind Mapping theory, it enhances creativity, clarifies thinking and improves memory. Use if for prewriting, drafting and outlining documents.

OpenMind has been optimized for planning and organizing websites or multimedia projects. Choose from a variety of ready-to-use templates, easy-to-use wizards and professional clipart to improve your layout.

Export your completed Mind Map to Microsoft Word, HTML, Mediator or Microsoft PowerPoint.

What is a Mind Map?

A Mind Map is a highly effective way of getting information in and out of your brain - it is a creative and logical means of note-taking and note-making that literally "maps out" your ideas.

All Mind Maps have some things in common. They have a natural organizational structure that radiates from the center and use lines, symbols, words, color and images according to simple, brain-friendly concepts. A Mind Map converts a long list of monotonous information into a colorful, memorable and highly organized diagram that works in line with your brain's natural way of doing things.

One simple way to understand a Mind Map is comparing it to a map of a city. The city center represents the main idea; the main roads leading from the center represent the key thoughts in your thinking process; the secondary roads or branches represent your secondary thoughts, and so on. Special images or shapes can represent landmarks of interest or particularly relevant ideas.

The Mind Map is the external mirror of your own radiant or natural thinking facilitated by a powerful graphic process, which provides the universal key to unlock the dynamic potential of the brain.

The five essential characteristics of a Mind Map:
The main idea, subject or focus is crystallized in a central image.
The main themes radiate from the central image as 'branches'.
The branches comprise a key image or word drawn or printed on its associated line.
Topics of lesser importance are represented as 'twigs' of the relevant branch.
The branches form a connected nodal structure.

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