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Moving to a new city, be if for work, or just a change of scenery, can be both difficult and scary. With every new city comes a new way of getting around it; one often has to learn new systems of public transportation, or new roads and highways, in order to commute from here to there. One can attempt to navigate his or her way around a new location by carrying around multiple maps of the area or public transport schedules. However, there is an easier alternative to maneuvering around unfamiliar terrain — a Mind Mapping software tool. With Mind Maps, one can organize the routes or means of public transportation he or she needs to use in one, spatial diagram, eliminating the need for multiple maps. Moreover, constructors of the Mind Map can make use of visual representations and associative colors to make the map’s components easier to process and recall. Mind Maps can, thus, help those trying to conquer a new city get from here to there more easily.

What is Mind Mapping Software?

Mind Mapping software is any software that is used to create diagrams, pictures, and other graphic visuals in order to show the relationship between ideas or other types of information. With Mind Maps, the key concept or main idea of the information being presented is represented by a central image, located in the center of the map. Any themes surrounding the main idea are shown on “branches” that are attached to the central topic, with subsequent themes of less importance attached by “child branches” or “twigs”. The resulting diagram is a “map” of the ideas and information shown in a spatial, rather than linear, format. Moreover, along with the ideas shown on the map are images, visual graphics, and colors that the constructor of the “map” associates with each of the themes and ideas. Mapping out information in this manner is widely believed to allow the brain to process the information in way that is more consistent with its natural functioning.

Using a Mind Map to Organize City Routes

Imagine that you have just moved to a new city and you have no idea how to get around it. Your new neighbor across hall has attempted to help you out by giving you a stack of maps of the city, but you’re still confused. Hoping to make the process of getting around your new city a little easier, you now decide to organize the maps into one Mind Map. You begin constructing your Mind Map by placing an image representing the city in the map’s center. Next, you divide the map into four sections, which you label “North”, “West”, “East”, and “South”, via “branches” attached to the central image. You divide each branch, via “child branches”, into two sections, one for public transport and one for driving roads and highways. You then begin listing, on “twigs”, the means of public transportation or highways that serve each directional area of the city. On more “twigs”, you list any notes or special instructions about the public transportation or highways. Throughout your map, you use pictures, graphics and different colors associated with specific bus or subway lines, to make the map easier to conceptualize. When you have completed your Mind Map, it might look similar to the attached diagram.

Taking a Trip Around Your New City Using the Mind Map

The day has come for you to venture out into your new city for an interview across town. As you wonder if you should drive or take the bus, you remember the Mind Map you constructed, and you consult it for your answer. Since your interview is on the north side of town, you look at the “branch” labeled “North” on your Mind Map. You see that there is a bus stop labeled “96th Street” on your map, a street two blocks from your interview on 94th. Happily, you decide to take the bus to your interview, relieved that you know exactly how to get there in the most efficient way possible. Had you not organized the city’s transportation routes using your Mind Map, you would have had to sort through a stack of maps, trying to find out the best way to get across town. You can now catch the bus to your interview — and, you remember to take the “Red Line”, thanks to the color association in your map — and get there with time to spare. By using Mind Mapping to show you how to navigate your new city, you made relocating a decision you can now easily live with.