User:Paulv45/Legume Diagram

Legume Diagrams use text in interconnected simple shapes to represent complicated interrelated ideas. Information is typically shown on multiple interlinked pages. Links to web locations and to files are used to access supporting information. A "Navigation Arrow" indicates a preferred order of accessing the information.

Legume Diagrams start with a single page. As information grows in the diagram, additional linked pages are added. The fundamental nature of the information representation for a Legume Diagram is an information network where any node can be associated with any other node. Legume Diagrams treat an information hierarchy (branches from node to node move further down the hierarchy) as a subset of an information network. Legume diagrams are multi-modal with the identical information made available in web, eBook, and hardcopy from.

The seminal work defining Legume Diagrams is the Legume webBook Simply Powerful where the concepts are described in detail.

The foundation for Legume Diagrams is similar to that of Mind Mapping, a technique pioneered by Tony Buzan in the 1970's and continuing to grow in popularity. Mind mapping is implemented in a variety of software products. The aim of both Legume Diagrams and Mind Maps is to represent information is a manner similar to how the brain stores information thereby creating a natural relationship between the diagram and brain function.