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For people that are visually oriented they are great working tools. Tony Buzan, the "inventor" of mindmapping, has a number of presentations available, see for instance https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MlabrWv25qQ&list=PLofaHHP7uY.... I especially like: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LnYVJKxyRPM although it's a bit dated.

There are a number of really good software implementations:

freemind freeplane xmind SciPlore