This is separate from the process I use when beginning a project, where I have a very good idea what the main areas are going to be. This is for starting a map with nothing but a central topic. It focuses on a finite portion of my overall mind mapping strategy. I start with the random flickers of ideas related to whatever the central topic is.

As those flickers become map nodes and start to pile up, groupings start to become apparent, and I sort the ideas as they do. Once those initial groupings are in place, I can focus within the more finite scopes of the group to generate new, related ideas. And as those groups fill out, I can more easily see where the blank spots are. And I can, at any time, flit between groups as unrelated ideas strike. Sometimes a node comes out that’s completely unrelated to whatever groupings have already materialized. That’s actually one of my favorite things about this process, these outliers that constantly make me reassess what I’ve created so far.

Do I take everything I currently have and squeeze it into a new top-level branch, then start working on a whole new one with this node? Does it change the way I’ve categorized what’s already there? Or is it such an outlier that it belongs on its own floating topic, to be dealt with another time? These decisions can be left until later, but I usually find it conducive to the process to answer the questions in real time.

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