Outlining Documents

Brainstorm, Organize and Present Your Ideas

Mind Mapping is an ideal way to create an outline for written documents such as essays or research papers:

Brainstorm ideas for chapters and sub-chapters in a free and non-linear way.
Use the text editor (the note card) to associate comments and ideas with each chapter.
Cite sources by linking to websites, text files etc.
Visually reorganize your chapters in the right order by dragging and dropping them.
Export to Word as a linear outline.

Attaching resources:
Attach any number of files to an idea. Hyperlink to websites and other files such as PDF, Excel and Word.

The Note Card:
Use the note card for note taking as you would do in Word.

Exporting to Microsoft® Word

When exporting to Word main ideas are exported as main headings, sub-ideas as sub-headings and so on. Use professional templates that let you include a table of contents, choose a numbering scheme, decide how to display attachments and so on. APA and MLA templates are available.

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Re-importing from Microsoft® Word

If, while working on your document in Word, you realize that you have forgotten some key ideas that you would to include, just make the changes, and import your Word document back into OpenMind. Your Mind Map will be updated.

Improve Reading Comprehension and Improve Writing Skills
Improve Reading Comprehension		Improve Writing Skills
	Highlight important ideas		Brainstorm
	See patterns and relationships		Visually arrange ideas
	Categorize concepts, ideas and information		Research and reference ideas
	Facilitate recall and retention		Outline written documents

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