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Aug 18

Image Mostly Map

Idea Map, Uncategorized Tagged mapping, mind map, MindManager 1 Comment »

I promised a map using MindManager this post. I was going to use one of my regular MindManager maps, but recently, I made a map that I hope to use as the dashboard for a large writing project I’ve been working on.

For the last 12 years (sporadically), I’ve been collecting, digitizing and organizing over 16,000 files representing my father’s 70+ year career as a commercial and fine artist in Western New York.

This map is one way I may organize data. I hope you’ll be able to see the images by zooming into he map .

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Jul 30

Did the Same Person Draw These Maps?

Idea Map Tagged Getting Things Done, GTD, iPod Touch, Jamie Nast, mind map, Omnifocus No Comments »

Here are 2 maps done in a very different way. Do you think the same person drew them?

Answer: Yes. I did these, but under different circumstances and for different purposes. The yellow one is an example of a kind of map I do every day when I get to the office. It’s a “quickie” done to capture things in my iPod Touch from Omnifocus. I use this program as my GTD (Getting Things Done) system, but because it’s a database and the iPod version has to open and close each time you access it, it takes too long to open it frequently. So I make the map to lay out what I’ll do. Then at some point in my work session (end of morning) I’ll go back into the iPod and update that system.

The second map was done while attending Jamie Nast’s IdeaMapping seminar last April in Florida. I’d done the “exercise” of mapping Steven Covey’s 7 Habits, and decided to try and find a different way to express the information. So this is more of an artistic map.

Next post, I’ll show how I use Mindjet’s Mindmanager, which I also use every day both personally and professionally.

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May 03

Better Late Than Never

Uncategorized Tagged Add new tag, Getting Things Done, Idea Mapping, MindManager, Time Management 1 Comment »

Bet you thought I’d dropped off the face of the earth. It’s been such a long time since I last posted. Well, there’s lots to report and share.

First off, I’ve started working in a financial planning practice (my husband’s) and replaced his long-time assistant (due to harder economic times). I had a few weeks to learn her job before she left. What better way to capture a lot of notes and procedures, than with Idea Mapping. I did some hand-drawn maps and a lot of MindManager maps. I hope to share some of these with you, but I have to “sanitize” them for confidential client info. I’ll do my best to get that up on the blog soon.

For now, let me say that I would have been lost without mapping. We did a top-down review of all tasks that the assistant has done in the past, from collecting mail, email, voice messages, filing, tracking the progress of various new business, bookkeeping for the practice, and… a million other things. We also did some breaking down of tasks that recur into annual, quarterly, monthly, weekly and daily. This was very helpful for me. I did most of the synthesis of notes in map form. Although I have LARGE maps, I also began breaking them into smaller maps that I use as a template for what I do each day, week, month, etc.

I started these maps on a Mac using MindManager 7 for Mac. Because of security/confidentiality issues, the practice can only run on PCs that have certain encryption protocols. Suffice it to say that I am using a Dell laptop now, and this week I downloaded MindManager 8 (trial version for the next 30 days). My maps came right in without a hitch. Not so with my learning curve. I have much to learn about how the PC version “thinks.” But, by using one of my existing maps as a template, I get around some of the “don’t know how to do this”-itis.

It’s hard to say how invaluable my maps have been, and the whole process of mapping. I couldn’t work without it.

Once final thing (I promise to end this long post), I am a dedicated convert to the Getting Things Done (GTD) system of time management. I decided on a low-tech use of GTD (mostly Post-It notes and a modified DayTimer), but mapping goes hand-in-hand with GTD.

More later, when I can figure out what maps to put in here. Thanks for waiting such a long time for a new post.

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Sep 08

Daily Mapping

Idea Map Tagged Vanda North No Comments »

For me, mapping is a part of my life everyday. I make a map first thing to plan out my day. It takes the form of a map with a date and day heading and a timeline with the hours spread across the map at the bottom. I then plug in the things that I hope to accomplish and appointments and use the timeline to report when those things happen. The next day, I might go back and fill in the times for things when they actually happened (if they weren’t appointments or set times). That way, I see how my time was spent, and I can, perhaps, anticipate what my day might be like (over-booked, extra time…). I find that the act of creating this first map (the system was developed by Vanda North a few years ago) helps focus me, and the soothing nature of creating the map begins my day in a gentle way. Here are two images: The first is a map from yesterday that I completed this morning by plugging in the actual times for the branches on the map. The second is today’s map made first thing. As you can see, I have only “ideas” of things to do, but they haven’t occurred yet, so the timeline is largely unfilled.

Thanks for tuning in. There’s more to come when I get the chance to put things I think you’ll enjoy.

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Sep 08

Business Card in Map Form

Idea Map Tagged Jamie Nast, mapping No Comments »

After refreshing my mapping skills with Jamie Nast in May, and fresh with the enthusiasm she creates in her classes, I decided to design a business card that not only shows what I do, but shows it in the form that I do it in. So, here’s my business card. (There is a larger image in the “About” tab).

Jamie has a class coming up next April (2009). For more information click here.

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Jul 12

Celebration of Life-Lynda Goodremont

Idea Map Tagged Celebration of Life, Idea Map, Lynda Goodremont 2 Comments »

I was contacted by a colleague of Lynda’s who wanted to have something to share with her family and friends to celebrate the incredible life she had led. Lynda was in hospice care when John Mayer contacted me (thanks to a referral from Jamie Nast) and he provided information about Lynda’s many accomplishments. It seemed appropriate to use a tree as the central image, and to hang the various main ideas off the branches. The actual map is 8.5″ x 11″ and done with ink and colored pencil.

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Jul 12

Welcome to the Legacy blog

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It’s taken some time to get started, but it’s finally here!

Thanks for waiting while the grey matter in my brain got organized. I hope you’ll enjoy seeing some of my idea maps and reading about what inspires me. Maybe it will inspire you, too.

Please visit the “About Legacy” page for a brief introduction to who I am.

As soon as I figure out how to post images to the site, I’ll begin sharing maps.

Thanks for tuning in.

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