Hand-Drawn Mind Map, Cleaned Up by Sketio
A mind map starts with one idea in the middle and grows outwards. This one plans a website redesign: four themes around the middle, and two things to do under each.
Mind maps are written quickly and in no fixed order, which is what Sketio is for. Here is what was drawn and what it became.
Generated handwriting. The handwriting on this page was generated by a script that imitates hand-drawn strokes. The cleaned-up diagram is Sketio's actual output, unedited.
What was drawn
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- An oval in the middle with Website redesign written inside it.
- Four words around it (Research, Design, Content and Launch) and two words beyond each of them, twelve words in all.
- Twelve lines, each one a single stroke: four from the middle to the themes and eight from the themes to the things under them.
- The board's reading mode was set to general.
What Sketio made of it
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Counted from the recording of this board:
- 1 shape (Website redesign)
- 12 words kept as text (Research, Design, Content, Launch, Interviews, Analytics, Wireframes, Style guide, Audit, Rewrite, Redirects, Announce)
- 12 connectors: 12 joined to a shape or icon at both ends, 12 with an arrowhead, 0 dashed
- The oval became an ellipse with Website redesign as its label.
- All twelve words were read correctly and kept as text. Sketio estimated each word's size from the height of its handwriting, so the sizes vary a little.
- All twelve lines were joined to the shapes or words at both ends, with an arrowhead on the end each was drawn to.
What it did not get right
- Every branch got an arrowhead, because Sketio adds one whenever a line is joined to a shape or a word at either end. A mind map normally has plain lines.
- Because each word's size is estimated from its handwriting, some words come out bigger than others in the same ring even though the script wrote them at one size.
- Everything sits where it was drawn: Sketio did not lay the map out for you.
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When to use it
- Brainstorming: write the ideas as they come and keep the clean map.
- Planning a project, a talk or a document from one central question.
- Taking notes on a topic that branches.