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Suppose we want to understand 
a really difficult topic. 

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We have lots of notes, and ideas,

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or references and abstracts, 
or paragraphs 

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or other kind of text snippets.

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And we have to read them again 
and again

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to find the relevant connections,

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again and again.

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Which is cumbersome because 

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they are spread all over the place.

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We wish to pull them all together 
as closely as possible.

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We might try to break them up 
into smaller parts

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and put them in neat categories 

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-- into pigeonholes. 

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But this is sometimes dangerous --

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if we disrupt and ignore 

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important cross-connections. 

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This little think tool pulls everything 
together:

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All connections,

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and all detail texts. 

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Please watch how the texts 

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are already there

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in the right pane 

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when you flash your eyes 

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that way.

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Perhaps it is only a quarter of a second 
faster 

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than a good hyperlink,

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but this is time where the brain

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needs to switch 

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into a "wait" mode

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until the response has arrived,

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and this probably disables our 
big picture overview. 

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We throw our eye saccade directly 
to the fixed corner

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and the text is already there.

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All texts are already there 

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when we touch their handles 
on the visual overview. 

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And it enables an densely packed 
concentration

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of details and overview. 

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I do not know any existing 
mapping application 

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that enables such immediate detail view, 

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except some that don't work reasonably 
with non-hierarchical 

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floating topics,

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or some that don't allow imports. 

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How is such a map produced? 

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Well, first we simply paste text 
into a window.

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Each paragraph shows up as an icon. 

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We can highlight text.

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We can label the icon.

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We can paste text into the label field.

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And we can combine bold highlighting 
with labelling. 

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We can move an icon, 

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 and when the topics are related 

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we can draw a connector line.

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Just hold down the ALT key 

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while dragging the mousepointer.

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The highlighted words suggest

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that this topic of "Phasellus"

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is related to Lorem ipsum. 

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and this is related to Pellentesque.

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This as well. 

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Another one related to Phasellus

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Number 8 is related to both 4

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and 5.

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Fortunately we are not forced

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to pigeonhole it! 

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Now we see another commonality:

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both talk about Curabitur.

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Let us tag them accordingly

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using a new icon: 

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Rightclick the background 

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Finally we can rearrange the network 

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 to minimize overlaps.

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and when you are lost,

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rightclick the background.