THE MIND MAP JOURNAL
Visual journaling for personal growth and happiness.
Mindmapjournal.com is a collection of 1,000+ research-backed methods, short stories, quotes, poems, songs and essays on productivity, learning and self-awareness. The techniques and practices in our library come from proven methods, like the SMART goals framework and Lisa Feldman Barrett’s research on how emotions are made.
The Mind Map Journal offers a free 12-week email course on visual journaling for increased learning, self-awareness and well-being. Each week brings a new theme and ach day delivers a researched method or insight to you with a journaling prompt for practicing your new skill.
How the 12 weeks work
Each issue of The Mind Map Journal takes about 5 minutes to read. Inside every issue:
- A quote that frames the week’s theme in one or two lines.
- A method backed by research and explained in plain language.
- A story that carries the week’s idea into your chest, where methods alone can’t reach.
- A prompt that turns the week’s idea into ink. Five minutes with a pen, no drawing skill required.
- Resources with recommended books, essays, videos and podcasts worth your time.
12 weeks and 12 themes about journaling, sleep, focus, productivity, learning, emotions, mindfulness, gratitude, goals, habits, happiness and you.
2-7-30 Rule to Remember
A simple spaced repetition technique that help you remember more.
Do you know your Latin?
Take the quiz and find out how many Latin phrases you actually know.
The Starfish Story
An old man walked along the beach and noticed a young boy…
Who is this website for?
If you’re a student:
You’re preparing for exams with methods that stopped working the day the material got hard. This website gives you study techniques with evidence behind them like spaced repetition and the 2-7-30 method, plus the focus and procrastination tools to sit down and use them. Start with the procrastination test to find out which procrastinator type you are.
If you’re a knowledge worker:
20+ years into a career, the question shifts from “How do I get more done” to “What is all this doing for?” This website meets that question with self-awareness practices, mindfulness thinking, psychological concepts to reread your work and life, and the sleep and fitness methods that keep the machine running for the decades left.
VISUAL JOURNALING WITH MIND MAPS
Prompts
Daily chosen prompts and exercises to spark your imagination and get your words flowing.
Quotes
Daily chosen quotes and citations to broaden your perspective and make you think.
Stories
Daily chosen stories, articles and studies to inform, inspire and transform your life.
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Frequently asked questions
A website with a collection of 1,000+ research-backed methods, short stories, quotes, poems, songs and essays on productivity, learning and self-awareness, and a free 12-week email course on learning, self-awarenss and well-being. One theme per week and one email per day with a quote, an insight, a story, a journaling prompt, and a shelf of recommended resources on that week’s theme.
Nothing. The newsletter is free and stays free. Paid courses in visual journaling and personal knowledge management will come later, and subscribers will hear about them first with no obligation.
No. The journaling prompts work with any pen and any notebook. Mind mapping enters later, in the courses, and even there stick-figure level is plenty.
Journaling that uses visual structure alongside words. Where a written journal records what happened, a visual journal shows how the pieces connect, which is where the self-awareness lives.
Bullet journaling organizes tasks; The Mind Map Journal works on the person doing the tasks. The two combine well and several methods in the library show how.
The weekly emails continue with new topics, new stories and new methods, drawn from the library as it grows. Twelve weeks is the course, but the journal keeps going.