I’ve been talking a bit about my experience with the 31 Days to a Better Blog Challenge and I thought I’d share a little bit more about how I’m implementing some of the ideas. On day 11 we worked on coming up with 10 post ideas; basically taking previous posts and expanding upon them in future, planned posts. This is commonly referred to as mind mapping and it’s something I do on a regular basis for not only my blog, but other areas of my life as well.
Apparently it’s genetic, because when my father was here in June, I noticed him doing the same thing, but on his iPhone. Intrigued, I asked him what he was doing and he told me about the app he was using. It sounded great, so I asked how much it was.
It’s free.
I immediately downloaded it for the iPhone and it works beautifully on the iPad too. It’s called Simple Mind Xpress by Simple Apps and it’s a free download in the iTunes App Store. It works exactly like you would expect it to, exactly the way I used to do it on paper. Except it’s prettier. You can choose from different color schemes and drag and drop all over the page, making room for new ideas or putting similar categories closer to each other.
You can save your map to your desktop, save to your camera roll, cut, copy, or export to the paid version of SimpleMind which is only $6.99 and I might just upgrade to support the development of this kind of app. I just love it. There’s also a desktop version that I haven’t really explored…
And then I put them into one of my favorite plug ins, “Post Ideas” and when I’m in the mood to write, theoretically (if I’m following my own advice), I’ve got quite a few relevant topics to choose from.
*This is my opinion only, I received no compensation, monetary or otherwise, I just liked the app and thought you might too.
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