MindMapping Over 100 Online Tools for Freelancers
I came across an excellent resource providing information on 100 different online resources and tools for freelancers.
I wanted to internalize the information in a way that I could rapidly work with in multiple settings in the future if I ever needed to find the right tool for the job. So of course I mindmapped out the tools listed, plus I added in the tools suggested in the comments and I added a bunch of my own.
Now I have a great starting point for the future whenever I need to build up the list or find something I need quickly. I linked back to the original article from my MindMap Central topic and I created sub maps for each of the categories identified. This kept each category of items viewable at a single glance.
I’ve provided snapshots of these maps below. For more details about each of the tools I suggest a quick visit over to the site yourself as it really does have a great deal of information.
In the meantime, I did this experiment in part to internalize the info as I mentioned, but also in part to find a more rapid way of mindmapping this type of information from primary sources on the web. I hope to find more efficient ways to achieve this goal in the future.
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May 18th, 2007 at 10:04 pm
Wo! That’s a whopper of a posting–great information that obviously took a lot of time and effort to compile. A very good way to organize one’s thoughts and ideas in a way that could preserve them for some time.
May 18th, 2007 at 10:48 pm
Thanks for the comment!
The credit really goes to the authors of the original article
see http://www.cogniview.com/convert-pdf-to-excel/post/the-freelancers-toolset-100-web-apps-for-everything-you-will-possibly-need/
Mindmapping is to text what pivot tables are to tables of data in excel or in a database.
The only hard part was converting the text into a mind map tool like MindManager.
So this was a bit of a manual pivot table, but in MindManager form it does have some power. Of course the primary concept of mindmapping is to take a linear list of information and put it into a format that is easier to remember and more importantly draw a useful connection to that information.