Mind maps are the best way to visually and textually organize your ideas, projects, thoughts, and tasks in a way that gives you a structure and sensibly links related concepts.

• Mind maps have many levels. Some calls these branches, as in a tree. 
• In the center, you have the root – the core concept, and then from that center, you branch out. 
• Your first level of branches is your key core branches, the thick ones that you first notice when you look at a tree. 
• You can then go on to create second and third levels to your branches.