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Visual mapping software
"Visually map your ideas"
You may find it useful to visually map your ideas, especially if you think you are a visual learner.
The advantage here is that you can rapidly brainstorm your ideas, and organise and categorise them. You can use colours and images to attach to your ideas, and different shapes to link and connect them. The other advantage is that these programs can convert visual diagrams into linear headings, which can be exported to MS Word. You can also add notes behind the visual diagram sections. This can be useful to keep track of your notes electronically.
The Inspiration 
website gives you examples of diagrams in different subject areas.
— Theo
Here are some visual mapping software packages:
- For open source (free) visual mapping software, try FreeMind .
- Inspiration is a well-known visual mapping software
- Inspire Data from Inspiration, is a tool to help visualise data
- Visual Mind TM
- Mindjet MindManager
- To map your thinking, you may like to explore Reason!Able software. It helps you organise your ideas for and against an issue, and evaluate the logic of your arguments.
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