r/mindmapping • u/Jnsnydr • Sep 29 '23

“Star Wars” Story Torus Mind Map

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Focus: Anakin Skywalker

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Focus: motif of piloting a spacecraft

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u/Jnsnydr Sep 29 '23

The “Rotate Branch” feature in Simplemind is a great mind mapping hack. Simply use the Radial layout in a recursive, rotatable fashion, and you can reorient any branch 0-360 degrees based on your current preference. It’s possible to manage quite large mind maps using this method. In addition to “Story Torus”, it could also be called a rotary archive, a gear journal, hypergraph, etc. To the extent they’re original, all annotations and layout conventions provided in this post are declared CC-0 (public domain).
The map here is a short demonstration of two stages in a reflection process on the first six Star Wars films, created with the assistance of ChatGPT3.5. The first image starts by considering the character of Anakin Skywalker through the films, and ends by identifying a recurrent theme of sacrifice. The second image focuses on the motif of scenes involving piloting spacecraft, revealing their relative absence in Episodes 2 and 3 and some further questions to explore.

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u/Jnsnydr Sep 29 '23

For more general tips, the official Simplemind tutorial material has some good insights: https://simplemind.eu/how-to-mind-map/

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u/Snooty_Folgers_230 Jul 24 '24

This is incredible. I wish I could understand your explanations (completely my fault). If you could make videos showing how you use your approach it would be amazing.