Can your lecture or meeting notes become a mind map?
Turn messy notes into a nested mind map outline with one central topic, main branches and short sub-points. Free to try, with your own terms kept.
This preview shows the first 150 words and does not keep your file.
Need a different result? Turn anything into anything: drop any file, pick what you want out of it.Try it →Notes taken in class or in a meeting are usually shorthand, listed in the order they were written, so the main ideas and how they connect are hard to see. This page turns them into a mind map as a nested outline: one central topic, a few main branches and short sub-points under each. Your own terms, names and examples stay as you wrote them.
What you get
Branches from your notes
The outline has one central topic, 4 to 7 main branches and 2 to 4 short sub-points under each, built only from what the notes say.
Your terms and examples kept
Names, figures and examples such as Na/K pump or p.142 stay as written, so the outline still matches your course or meeting.
Nested bullets you can reuse
Indentation shows which idea sits under which, so you can copy the outline into a document, an editor or a revision sheet.
How it works
- Step 1
Paste your notes into the box, or drop a text, Word or PDF file in. Fragments and shorthand are fine.
- Step 2
Read the preview: it shows the start of the mind map outline, with the central topic and first branches.
- Step 3
Create a free account to get the full mind map, longer files, a different depth, and the same material as notes or flashcards. You also get a drawn mind map you can edit.
Who uses it
Students revising from lecture notes
Lecture notes run in the order the lecturer spoke. A branched outline shows how the topics group together before an exam.
People writing up meeting notes
Rough meeting notes mix decisions, names and to-dos. An outline separates the main topics from the details under them.
Anyone with a brainstorm on paper
Scribbled ideas in a notebook can be turned into one central topic with branches, so you can see gaps and overlaps.
Questions
Does it keep my own wording?
Yes. Terms, names and examples from your notes stay as written, and the outline uses only what the notes say, in the same language as the notes.
Can I drop a PDF or Word file instead of pasting?
Yes. The preview reads up to 5 pages of a PDF (2 MB) or about 6,000 characters of text and does not keep the file. Scanned pages need a free account for OCR.
Is this the same as a drawn mind map?
No. The preview is a text outline with nested bullets. A free account adds a drawn mind map that you can edit.
Can the outline contain mistakes?
Yes, results can contain mistakes. Check the outline against your original notes when it matters, such as before an exam or before sharing it with others.
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See it on real examples
Three actual runs of this tool. Open one to see the input and the whole result.