All:
I posted in
another thread that I used
CueCard,
Mnemosyne, and
Freemind to help me study for the CCIE. So,
liquid6 asks: How does one get started making a mind map?
Good question. A mind-map supposedly allows you to organize information in the manner in which your brain organizes it. I'm not 100% certain what that means, or if the mind-map I made is really a proper mind-map. I did, however, use Freemind to make a very useful map of information I felt I needed to organize and put down in the pursuit of my CCIE.
I can tell what wouldn't be very useful. It wouldn't be useful to make an outline of facts from a CiscoPress book in Freemind. The map would be absolutely massive and you would be duplicating information that is already put down elsewhere... the source you are copying from.
Instead, the information I put in the map was explanatory notes for things I particularly had a hard time remembering or sorting out in my mind. Essentially, by the time you go take the CCIE lab, your mind-map will literally only be very useful *to you* if you were to do what I did. It would only contain notes and tidbits for things that you, yourself, need a little extra help dissecting. Others might look at your mind-map and think its rubbish.
For instance, I really had a hard time with multicast helper maps. A lot of people do because it is so poorly documented. So after I sat down and bit-by-bit whittled this feature down to only the most essential commands, I made a small hierarchical map of facts and notes that explained to me, in my own words, how each command worked and where it went on a small conceptual diagram. I then drew little links between items that were related to each other.
I attached a couple of meager examples of this.
Derick
CCIE #15672
