Visual Mind

Above is a picture of a photo merged image of a screen shot taken from Visual Mind

The map is a things to do map that has the listing of my different professors and the assignments that are pending within this week.

Visual Mind is a program designed to help express the mind thought process both personal and for buisness gains. It is a tool that works similar to a bubble spider web but is designed to help the user sort out their thoughts by categorizing and differentiating between tasks through use of colors, text boxes, and notes. This becomes very helpful in the case where templates are predesigned with the user in mind to have them be pre fabricated to be able to express the thought process to others. For example, there is a template for buisness in which a buisness man using this program could write the program using a premade template to show the project ideas and pitch it to a client. The user can have the bubble text boxes collapse to show the main idea but when you look at the bottom of the screen the notes are clearly visible. They boxes extent to show the children categories as well and those also can collapse and expand. The program can be uploaded to the web for others to view and expand the different categories. Unfortunantly, at Texas A and M the internet for personal computers via wireless internet and dorm USB connection have been down and the Computing Center does not allow downloading or uploading of programs. Two screen shots were taken of the program and photomerged in Photoshop. Some of the resolution was lost unfortunantly and in the program I assure you it looks much more clearer. Personally, I would most likely not use this program again because unless it's used for buisness or projects for others to understand for personal use it's a bit tedious to write a program in what can be done in a minute to write a to-do list by hand. That's my personal opinion but it does have a nice professional look to it. If you're skilled enough at it and get quick enough at it then otherwise perhaps I could be proven wrong. For now though unless it's school related or buisness related, I'll stick to paper and pen.

Here is the link from the site directly for a 30 day trial version. Try it out for yourself and prove me wrong. As far as tutorials go there are tips of the day upon opening the program and the program is very basic and user friendly with helpful icons and menus that are clear to understand.

http://www.visual-mind.com/download.html