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Am I the only one who thinks that mind maps are great to organize ideas but extremely poor at expressing them?

If I do a mind map I always find myself understanding myself and I use them a lot for personal ideas. But trying to express them using mind maps is like giving someone an uncooked meal.

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Couldn't agree more. The 'notes' field in any decent mind mapping software is a must when you are not just trying to organize your ideas, but actually building a roadmap you'll use in the future.

Sometimes I wish I could find something like a Wiki/Mindmap combination, so that I could see a 'textual' representation (with extra data) for each node in my map. Actually... might as well fork Mindmup and see if I can get something like that started :)

I agree. One of the things we'll do with MindMup is create a story line of ideas, that could be then exported into a slide show for expressing it. I structure my conference presentations using MindMup, but the final version is with slides, not with a map.

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