Review: a good idea
Rating: 4 out of 5
Date: 04 4, 2013
I wish that this way of organizing material had been available years ago.  I never related well to writing outlines and always considered them rather fussy and unworkable.  If you think from the top down this is a great way to organize information because you never run out of room for the subtopics (one of my problems with outlines), and you can get the whole picture on one page.  I also appreciated the idea of using color, doodles, shapes, and thickness of lines to further organize and categorize the information--a boon for the visually oriented.That said, I found the book to be a bit shallow.  After the good opening explanation of the concept, the rest of the book seemed to explain the obvious. I gather from the other reviews that better material exists on the subject, but this one gives a good introduction.  I borrowed the book through Amazon prime, so I paid nothing and gained a great idea. I'm glad I read it, and may explore other books on the subject.