Saturday, October 13, 2007

Mindmapping Books


Mind Mapping is a visual modelling concept where related ideas and tasks are arranged around a central idea.

I often come across people talking about using mindmaps for the books they read. It makes more sense for non fiction books of course, and is a great way to summarize the book. The summarization can be done to any level of detail - the more fine grained you are, the more nodes your mind map will have.

I tried it on a book I read recently - Edward Luce's In Spite of the Gods. I did not have the patience to go to a very fine level of detail, so it's very very brief. Nevertheless, creating one is a good way to keep the central ideas of the book in focus.


3 comments:

Anonymous said...

Hey nice work!
And you are into reading political/history books too these days? Umm quite some change since the college days when you would probably scorn at such books :)

Howz this book anyways? Me too was tempted to buy it but havent so far.

A said...

Thanks!
Yes my reading tastes have been inclined in those directions, more generally towards contemporary non fiction works, for sometime.
The book was good - the primary differentiating point with the hordes of similar books you see these days being that the author has a really different perspective which can be attributed to his non-Indian origins.

Techwriter said...

About the Positive thoughts stuff..

Start with saying "I will speak only positive things" instead of "I will not speak negative things".. :)

cheers,
@mit
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