How to play with various thinking structures in XMind

Users who are familiar with XMind know that XMind supports a variety of thinking structures, and different thinking structures can be mixed. Each branch can be a different structure, allowing you to spread and organize your thoughts freely without restrictions. This is rare in other mind mapping tools at present.

In XMind, you can express your thoughts by mind map, logic diagram, fishbone diagram, matrix diagram, tree diagram, time axis and other structures. They are like sharp blades of thinking, helping you sort out and solve all kinds of chaos and problems in your life quickly.

For those who are familiar with these structures, they can be applied flexibly, and even when your logical structure is particularly complicated, they can be mixed and used. But for beginners, how to choose the appropriate structure is a problem. Today, I will introduce you to the common scenes of various mind map structures in XMind: ZEN.

//Mind Map Structure//

Mind mapping is the most common structure of XMind: ZEN, and it is also the most primitive structure of mind mapping. Divergence from a central theme to the surrounding networks. This structure is suitable for a variety of use scenarios, without any restrictions, especially when brainstorming is divergent.

It is worth mentioning that XMind has no limit on the number of topics, which means that when you are thinking, you can exhaust all the ideas you can think of, and then sort out your thoughts on this basis.

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XMind user guide

Mao Mao's figures

Balance diagram is a special mind map structure. The difference is that the themes of balance diagram are distributed from right to left, and the distribution of themes at both ends will reach a symmetrical state.

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Add hacker reading notes

Damontou

//Logical Diagram Structure//

Logic diagram is one of the most commonly used structures besides mind map structure, and teachers especially like to use this "bracket" to summarize knowledge points in class. Logical diagram can be used to express the basic total score relationship or total score relationship (right/left). Similarly, this structure is also applicable to multiple scenes.

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Capacity required for operation

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Graduation thesis arrangement

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Second half planning

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//Organization chart//

The organization chart is a typical pyramid structure, which can "concisely and clearly show the hierarchy and power, roles and responsibilities, functions and relationships within the organization". It can usually be used to show the organizational structure of a company or institution.

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Pyramid structure

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Pyramid structure

//Timeline (horizontal/vertical)//

As the name implies, the timeline is often used to make a time sequence diagram. You can use this structure when the problems you want to sort out have a certain time sequence or process.

This structure can usually be used to sort out the life of characters, plan online and offline activities, and analyze the life cycle of products.

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Arrangement of Jin Yong's works

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Product life cycle analysis

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Regarding the choice of horizontal or vertical time axis, it depends on personal preference. But you can also choose according to the screen you are used to. The horizontal time axis is more suitable for large-screen reading, and the vertical screen is more suitable for vertical time axis.

Try to give an example of the subject three exam done by monster power. In the scene of mobile phone reading, portrait is clearer than landscape.

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Subject 3 examination process

Monster power diagram

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Subject 3 examination process

Monster power diagram

//fishbone diagram structure//

Fishbone diagram, also known as "causal analysis diagram", is an effective method to find the "root" of the problem. By disassembling the problem layer by layer, the essence of the problem is deeply explored from the surface phenomenon. We can use it for event analysis, causal analysis, problem analysis and so on.

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Cause analysis of poor marketing promotion effect

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Analysis of Enthusiasm and Sports Addiction

Jaspertu

Drawing steps of fishbone diagram:

//Matrix diagram (rows/columns)//

The matrix diagram structure allows you to organize and systematize complex information from multiple latitudes. Common scenarios include project task management, personal time planning, and comparative analysis of different objects.

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Product function comparison

The number represented by o

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Index decomposition of data analysis

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IPhone model comparison

Tuyou Doris

One difference between Word and Excel is that drawing a matrix diagram in XMind does not need to consider typesetting and processing information, but can really focus on the arrangement of ideas. For the application of matrix diagram structure, please refer to the online sharing of @ Son of Lee: the sharp weapon of summary, and the experience exchange of two-dimensional brain diagram application, which we shared online before.

//Free structure//

XMind is a professional and powerful mind mapping tool. In addition to these structures in the software, you can also use free themes and connections to make flow charts, bubble charts, four-quadrant charts and various brain hole charts.

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Dog hybrid map

Detu

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Zodiac map

Jolin diagram

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flow chart

ANA map

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Four-quadrant diagram

This is the end of today's tutorial. More interesting new games. See you next time.