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6 most commonly used mind maps to help you get started quickly in 3 minutes

ProcessOn-Skye
2024-09-14
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Mind maps, also known as brain maps, mental maps, use both pictures and text to express the relationship between things, understand the relationship between events and establish memory links, and develop the unlimited potential of the brain. Today, I will introduce the 6 most commonly used mind maps: bubble map, bracket map, bridge map, tree map, basic flow chart, and timeline (time axis) .

6 common forms of mind mapping

1. Bubble chart

Bubble charts are used to expand topics, descriptions, and associative details. Generally speaking, bubble charts are composed of two or more circles. The middle circle is the central topic, and the outer circles are branch topics.

There are many forms of bubble charts, including single bubble charts, double bubble charts, data bubble charts and other types. They are suitable for a variety of scenarios, such as teaching, reinforcing concepts, deepening understanding, describing activity concepts, etc.

Product Manager Competency Model Bubble Chart

Bubble chart of life expectancy and output value added in Asia, America and Europe

2. Bracket diagram

Bracket diagrams are generally used to split up things as a whole, revealing the relationship between the whole and the parts, simplifying and concretizing things. That is, to break down and understand a thing as a whole, thereby revealing the relationship between the whole and the parts, and forming a clearer understanding of the microscopic structure of the whole thing.

Soft Brace Map Style Template

The bracket diagram can also be used to break down the specific actions under each goal, so that a seemingly unattainable goal can be broken down into specific small events that can be completed. For example, project application sounds difficult to achieve, but we can break it down into three aspects: customer training, project document preparation and guidance, and financing guidance. Customer training is divided into project application, review and defense, and acceptance report. Project document preparation and guidance is divided into feasibility report, business plan, various project application materials, and various project acceptance materials. Financing guidance is divided into business plan and financial and tax planning guidance.

Project Application Assistant Responsibilities Bracket Chart

3. Bridge diagram

The bridge diagram is generally used to describe the similar relationships between things, to describe the conceptual relationship between two unfamiliar things, and to make things easier to understand by making analogies between known concepts and very unfamiliar concepts. It mainly relies on analogies and metaphors.

Bridge Type-Basic Style

4. Treemap

A dendrogram is a graph that looks like a tree. The theme is the trunk, the categories are the branches, and the categories are the leaves. Each branch theme from the trunk to the upper right or lower right affects the subsequent result formation.

A tree diagram is a graphic that visualizes data hierarchies. As a concise and clear structural diagram, it has unique advantages in displaying hierarchical relationships and organizational structures.

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