What is a fishbone diagram? A fishbone diagram is a common name for an Ishikawa diagram or cause and effect diagram. Mindomo offers fishbone diagram templates in the library, making it easy to create your own fishbone diagrams. Ishikawa diagrams were popularized by Kaoru Ishikawa as a quality tool for problem solving. The head and spine of the fish represent a specific problem. The main ribs represent categories of causes. The smaller bones represent individual…
Online note taking brings together the old and the new. Note taking is a traditional skill for studying and for getting the most from college, presentations, and meetings. The scope of note taking has been expanded by note-taking apps. Digital online tools let you create shared notes that are searchable and available on any device at any time. Recent trends in note taking apps have been towards simple collection or whiteboarding. In this article, we…
Have you heard about mind mapping, but are not sure whether you should spend your time looking deeper? Are you looking for a trustworthy and reliable explanation? To keep mind mapping simple, we will look at the three things that it does best out of the hundreds of potential uses. These are not just marketing slogans but are the experience of thousands of mind mappers. Three things mind mapping does for you These three elements…
Mindomo has powerful features for communications and collaboration. It provides a way to keep information about a project in one place where everyone can access it. But there is much more to collaborative mind mapping than technology. Many collaboration tools and even unified communications solutions focus on features and forget that collaboration is about real people. In Nesbit and Adesope’s 2006 paper on the effectiveness of visualization in learning, they make some interesting observations: While…
The terms “Spider Diagram” and “Mind Map” are used interchangeably. But are they the same thing? If not, how do they differ? And do the differences really matter? In this article, we’ll discover that a Mind Map is a special type of Spider Diagram. The differences between them are small. The more important question is why you would use visual tools to organize concepts and ideas. We’ll try to explain the differences between visual diagrams…