Mind Mapping For Dummies

Three kinds of branch

If you click on Draw in the symbols bar, you will notice that iMindMap distinguishes between three kinds of branch, shown in Figure 11-4:

Organic branches: These look like they’ve been drawn by hand, but iMindMap helps you with positioning the branches.

Freehand branches: You’re completely free to determine the shape of branches, just as you’d draw them with a stylus on the screen. iMindMap doesn’t provide support here but allows you complete creative freedom.

Box branches: These let you write several lines of sentences on a branch. Information is placed in a text box. Clearly the designers of iMindMap realised that many software users don’t stick to the one-word rule but want to use more than one keyword per branch. This is possible with box branches.

Although you should only insert one word per branch when Mind Mapping, text-field branches can be useful, for example, for quotations or inserting larger chunks of text.

Figure 11-4: Three kinds of branch.

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