{"id":283,"date":"2011-04-17T17:06:04","date_gmt":"2011-04-17T23:06:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/idubbs.com\/blog\/2011\/onenote-needs-mind-mapping\/"},"modified":"2011-04-17T17:06:04","modified_gmt":"2011-04-17T23:06:04","slug":"onenote-needs-mind-mapping","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.idubbs.com\/blog\/2011\/onenote-needs-mind-mapping\/","title":{"rendered":"OneNote Needs Mind-Mapping"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I recently saw a post about a Microsoft-hosted event called the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/education\/uspil\/USIEF\/default.mspx\" target=\"_blank\">2011 U.S. Innovative Education Forum<\/a>, which reminded me of something I\u2019ve been meaning to post \u2013 a request to Microsoft:<\/p>\n<p>Please add mind-mapping functionality to OneNote.&#160; <\/p>\n<p>That\u2019s it.&#160; <\/p>\n<p>It really should be there \u2013 here\u2019s why:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Kids are using it \u2013 It just makes sense to them because it\u2019s the way we all think.&#160; My second grader came home from school and showed me his \u2018research paper\u2019 that included what he called a \u2018web\u2019. It was a mind-map. Kids are already being trained to use this method for learning, organizing their thoughts and working from them. Fantastic.&#160; <br \/>Now, bear in mind that our kids to to a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mn-stem.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">STEM school<\/a>, so all public schools might not be using mind-maps yet, but they should. They used a tool called <a href=\"http:\/\/www.inspiration.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Kidspiration \/ Inspiration<\/a>.&#160; They weren\u2019t sure which one.&#160; <br \/>I picked up the <a href=\"http:\/\/office.microsoft.com\/en-us\/home-and-student\/\" target=\"_blank\">Home and Student version of Microsoft Office 2010<\/a> which includes OneNote and the kids are all over it \u2013 they love it.&#160; Adding the mind-mapping capability just seems to be the next step.&#160; <br \/>Kids today are the future of your software market.&#160; Yea, I know it\u2019s a clich\u00e9, but it\u2019s true and there are more of them than there are of us \u2013 so it\u2019s a good investment.&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160; <\/li>\n<li>College age students would use it too \u2013 I can\u2019t imagine how different my note-taking would have been with a mind-mapping tool and the right hardware that\u2019s available now.&#160; <\/li>\n<li>Adults are using it \u2013 More and more I\u2019m seeing people in meetings using some sort of mind-mapping software to take notes, which I think is fantastic.&#160; I use a tool on my iPad right now called <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ithoughts.co.uk\/iThoughtsHD\/Welcome.html\" target=\"_blank\">iThoughtsHD<\/a> which is pretty good and is supposed to sync with client apps, though I don\u2019t have one yet. In the meantime I just use the e-mail method which sends a list view of the content along with an image of the map.&#160; <br \/>For the same reason that it works for kids, it works for adults too \u2013 it\u2019s a tool that\u2019s consistent with the way we think.&#160; <\/li>\n<li>It makes sense and is an extension of the other note-taking that people want to do.&#160; Let\u2019s get it in the right tool.&#160; If you step back and think about it, the core functionality seems to align with what\u2019s already available in Visio for managing shapes and relationships, but the user scenarios are more aligned with OneNote.&#160; Students and kids aren\u2019t going to buy Visio.&#160; <\/li>\n<li>Once it\u2019s built into OneNote, let me have the other Office integration features that we\u2019re used to: create tasks that link to Outlook and SharePoint.<\/li>\n<li>Let me add people as nodes \u2013 people pulling from my Outlook, the SharePoint Profile Store or Exchange.&#160;&#160; <\/li>\n<li>While you\u2019re putting that together &#8211; make an iPhone and iPad version of it that syncs to the Cloud\u2026&#160; <img decoding=\"async\" style=\"border-bottom-style: none; border-right-style: none; border-top-style: none; border-left-style: none\" class=\"wlEmoticon wlEmoticon-smile\" alt=\"Smile\" src=\"http:\/\/209.95.55.158\/~idubbsco\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/04\/wlEmoticon-smile2.png\" \/>&#160;<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Please.&#160; <\/p>\n<p>Oh, and meanwhile, Kid #1 comes up to me one morning and asks \u201cHow can I get access to my OneNote at school?\u201d.&#160; Smart little bugger. Now I need to get them set up on <a href=\"http:\/\/www.live.com\" target=\"_blank\">Live<\/a>\u2026 <\/p>\n<p>Thanks for listening.&#160; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I recently saw a post about a Microsoft-hosted event called the 2011 U.S. Innovative Education Forum, which reminded me of something I\u2019ve been meaning to post \u2013 a request to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[3,8,9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-283","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general","category-mobile","category-office-2010"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pgWQ1-4z","jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.idubbs.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/283","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.idubbs.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.idubbs.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.idubbs.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.idubbs.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=283"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.idubbs.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/283\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.idubbs.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=283"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.idubbs.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=283"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.idubbs.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=283"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}