Mind mapping

I think one of the greatest drawbacks of mind mapping is its inability to show overtly the relationship between the keywords that it is linking. It is akin to writing down many keywords or subjects in sentences without the predicates that carry the main story of each sentence. This makes the sentences unintelligible and meaningless. The same goes for mind mapping where a mind map may be understandable to the author at the point when it is drawn, but it loses its effectiveness because the meanings or relationships that tie the keywords together are forgotten over time. The author may at the moment of creation of the mind map understand what he is drawing because his mind is constantly processing the links between the keywords, but it becomes unintelligible when the mind forgets these linkages. That is why I always preferred concept map instead of mind mapping. No doubt, the mind mapping process can be very useful while brain storming, but it can become quite lame after this process is over.