Most notes look like lists. They waste time by encouraging or requiring unnecessary noting, reading and re-reading unnecessary notes, and searching for key words. They fail to stimulate the brain creatively. Linear presentations prevent the brain from making associations, thus counteracting creativity and memory. Alternatively, a mind map allows building on previous ideas, attributes, or stepping stone ideas.
Mind maps use pictures.
Images are therefore often more evocative than words, more precise and potent in triggering a wide range of associations, thereby enhancing creative thinking and memory. Sadly, we have a modern emphasis on words as the primary vehicle of information. Harnessing the full range of your cortical skills Hierarchies and categories. A classic study done in 1969 demonstrated the importance of hierarchies in an aid to memory. Linear notes in the form of lists directly oppose the workings of the minde, in that they generate an idea and then deliberately cut it off from the preceding and following it.