10 Productivity Tips for Working with Large Mind Maps by Roger C. Parker.
From the post:
A while ago, I wrote a series of posts helping individuals get the most out of their mapping efforts. Today, I’d like share 10 productivity tips and best practices for working with large mind maps.
As illustrated by the image above, mind maps can become substantially difficult to work with when the number of topics exceeds 60. At this size should you try and use MindManager’s Fit Map view, the type size decreases so much so that it becomes difficult to read. If you Zoom In to increase the type size, however, you lose context, or the “big picture” ability to view each topic in relation to all the other topics. So, what do you do?
A number of useful tips while constructing graphical views of topic maps. Or even for construction of topic maps per se.
Except for suggestion #7:
7. Search for duplicates before entering new topics
Inserting a duplicate topic is always a problem. Instead of manually searching through various topics looking for duplicates try using MindManager’s Search In All Open Maps command – it will certainly save you some time.
You should not need that one with good topic map software. 😉