1, Introduction: Mind mapping, also known as mind mapping, is an effective graphical thinking tool to express divergent thinking. It is simple, effective and efficient, and it is a practical thinking tool. Mind mapping uses the skills of paying equal attention to graphics and texts, showing the relationship between topics at all levels with hierarchical diagrams of mutual subordination and correlation, and establishing memory links between topic keywords, images and colors.

2. Application field: Mind mapping is an effective and efficient way of thinking. The thinking "map" applied to memory, learning and thinking is beneficial to the divergent thinking of the human brain. Mind mapping has been widely used in the world. Singapore's Ministry of Education has listed mind mapping as a compulsory subject in primary schools, and a large number of top 500 enterprises are also learning mind mapping. China has been using mind mapping for many years.

3. Planning: Mind mapping can be applied to planning, including work plan, study plan and travel plan. The plan can be divided according to time or project, and the complicated timetable can be sorted out clearly.

4. Note-taking: Traditional note-taking records large paragraphs of text, which contains many useless modifiers, and it is difficult to find important knowledge points. Mind mapping takes notes in order to split large pieces of content, find ownership, reduce the number of words, and make it easy to understand and remember.