Brain Rules #4 ATTENTION Mindomo

I have two words to describe my experience with Mindomo -- EPIC FAIL!!

This was my first time using this tool and I generally disliked it. It was confusing to use and my cursor kept disappearing and these shaded gray boxes for formatting kept getting in the way of my subtopic bubbles. Another annoying aspect was the tendency for the zoom controls to have a mind of their own. I would be in the middle of passionately typing some information and all of a sudden my diagram would disappear.

I even did my research prior to selecting this tool. I was torn between Mindomo or Mindmeister. The blogs said Mindomo was more user friendly and very similar to Office 2007. If that was my experience with Mindomo I am very relieved I did not try Mindmeister. That experience really left me frustrated this evening and it got in the way of my note taking.

On a positive note I can pull some relevance out of this tool for my students. This tool like many digital technologies can be beneficial to the tactile and visual learning. You are probably wondering how can the tactile learner benefit from this tool. When I was engaging the tool I felt like I was building this concepts and strategically placing topics and subtopics to make relationships. This is visually appealing because the information can be categorized and those Office 2007 formatting tools are available.

I would never use this for personal reasons. I'm not a visual learner anyhow and charts and diagrams or annoying and useless to me. If I ever need to be frustrated I will turn to Mindomo.



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