Idea about integrating spaced-repetition and mind maps

[Jason Axelson]

Hi,

Do many of you here use mind-maps? The wikipedia article is pretty
good [1]. It's basically a way of structurally organizing information.
Oftentimes I have very similar information in mind maps and flash
cards which makes it difficult to keep in sync.

What I would like to do is to have flash cards automatically generated
and linked when I create special nodes in a mind map. I would like to
know if other people on this list think that it is a feasible or
worthwhile endeavor.

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mind_map

Thanks,
Jason

[Oisín]

2010/1/13 Jason Axelson <boston...@gmail.com>

Hi, 

 

Do many of you here use mind-maps? The wikipedia article is pretty
good [1]. It's basically a way of structurally organizing information.
Oftentimes I have very similar information in mind maps and flash
cards which makes it difficult to keep in sync.

What I would like to do is to have flash cards automatically generated
and linked when I create special nodes in a mind map. I would like to
know if other people on this list think that it is a feasible or
worthwhile endeavor.

Hi Jason,

I've used mind maps as my main (lazy) notetaking technique since around 1997 or so when I picked up one of Tony Buzan's books at a library after school. I find them pretty useful in that they're reasonably quick to add to (Freemind is quite good, or "SimpleMindX" on my ipod is passable) and quick for reminding you of the bigger picture and a few details about what you studied. However, I'm having trouble thinking of a way to automatically integrate mind maps with flashcards. Are you thinking of some kind of cloze deletion?

Individual nodes on a mindmap are usually quite meaningless (often just a single word) without the context of the map itself or at least the path to the node (e.g. in a map I have open now, "keyed args" is kind of useless, but the path "Ruby -> Hotcocoa -> selectors -> keyed args" is not).

Maybe you use mind maps in a more detailed and clever way than I do, or embed some kind of meta information to nodes, e.g. Freemind's attribute system? I'd like to hear what you're thinking of?

Oisín

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mind_map

Thanks,
Jason

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