If not, please check back as I review many other planning tools in the days to come. Ultimately, this may not be a tool for everyone, but it is my hope that this review will enable you to make an informed decision as to whether this or another planning method will work best for you. MindNode has recently released a major update, and added many new features, which I will be taking a look at below. In doing so, I discovered the popular mind mapping app MindNode, which, to my surprise, was not only usable, but accessible as well. Still, I decided, better to take a look to see what was available rather than conclude out of hand this wouldn't work for me.

In some annoyance, I came to the conclusion that this was a strategy I would need to adapt, rather than being able to use. So how did I even start exploring this largely visual method? In researching choiceScript, an indentation based programming language used to write the popular choice of games, I discovered that most successful writers used mind maps to plot their branching, nonlinear games before starting the actual writing. They are often used to brainstorm ideas, or to illustrate dependencies, but until now have been a largely visual planning tool. or be less linear with multiple layers of connections doubling back on one another to illustrate how ideas much later can connect to those presented earlier. Mind maps can have only one layer of connections, showing for example that one idea is the direct result of another, etc etc. Mind maps are visual representations illustrating the relationships between ideas or concepts, called nodes. If you're like most totally blind students, you may have represented this concept with indented text, or were possibly just confused by the entire concept. I'd like to take a look at a rather unconventional planning tool In school, you may have encountered a situation where your instructor assigned mind maps to the class. For others this might be just the first sentence jotted down in an old notebook. For some, this can be an elaborate list of notes and places and characters, and how themes fit together.

FAST INSTANT DOWNLOAD.īefore ever putting a word to the page, many writers prefer to do some form of planning.

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