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Tony Buzan, Inventor of the “Mind Map”, Has Died

by RiderOfGiraffes on 4/16/19, 7:32 PM with 12 comments

• by tunesmith on 4/16/19, 9:25 PM

  I am curious how other people have found mind mapping useful.

  I only find it useful if the edges mean something logical, like cause/effect, or hierarchical like "A is the boss of B". But when it's merely drawing lines that imply some sort of fuzzy "is related" relationship, or "A makes me think of B", it only leads to a bunch of nodes and lines that are a jumble.

• by HNLurker2 on 4/17/19, 6:34 AM

  His books sounds like snake oil to me. Never found mnenmonics useful , only tricks to impress teachers and friends.

• by Starwatcher2001 on 4/17/19, 6:45 AM

  I love mind maps and still use them regularly. I find them particularly good for marshalling my ideas at the start of a project when it's just important to get things written down somewhere and bash them into a sensble order and heirarchy. I also use them as quick single page summaries for revision of topics.

  RIP Tony.

• by cutler on 4/17/19, 12:37 AM

  Takes me back to my first year at university in 1979/80 when I used mind maps to take lecture notes. A valuable contribution to learning technology.

• by rahuldottech on 4/16/19, 9:54 PM

  Aw man. I've used them all through school. We were taught to, since like 2nd grade? Cool stuff.

• by perilunar on 4/17/19, 1:41 AM

  Had completely forgotten about mind maps until the recent reference in Sex Education.

• by agsilvio on 4/16/19, 9:46 PM

  Rest in peace, sir.

  Shameless tribute plug: my mind map project - jumproot.com