Finally, I wonder if mind maps is the best way to document and manage ideas? I can see that one might be able to find relationships and synergies by exploring a map. This is a case where I have consistently used text files to log ideas and related links, text, etc. I now have hundreds of these files. It's at the point where the directories that contain them are impossible to view and get a sense of what is there. This meaning that you can't see 300+ file names and easily understand and/or explore the concepts within them and relating them. Do you (or anyone reading this, of course) have any experience managing such information using mind maps?
I used to log ideas and interesting texts, too, but I don't have hundred of them despite working two months on them. I have about 25 sections. This is because of my focus on rewriting them over and over again in the intention of developing them into essays or projects. They are at: http://kibabase.com/articles/notes-and-thoughts
Thanks for sharing this. I can relate with the idea of rewriting over and over again. I dislike how blogs make the idea of editing content once it's posted feel "dirty" since posts are supposed to be temporal. I'm working on something that solves this problem for me: http://converspace.github.com/ConverspaceSpec/
I feel similar about the omnipresent blog format: why should everything be final once posted, and everything have to be temporally organized? Old-fashioned "websites" felt better when you don't update often, and you post about more timeless topics.
But for the reader there's a definite advantage: you know exactly what has changed, and whether a site is updated regularly. I have a small blog, and on some entries I maintain changelogs manually. I suppose the best would be for Wordpress and the like to offer the ability to link to cleanly-formatted diffs (ala revisions in google docs).
I used to log ideas and interesting texts, too, but I don't have hundred of them despite working two months on them. I have about 25 sections. This is because of my focus on rewriting them over and over again in the intention of developing them into essays or projects. They are at: http://kibabase.com/articles/notes-and-thoughts