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Legume Diagrams use interconnected simple shapes to represent complicated interrelated ideas. Information is typically shown on multiple interlinked pages. 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.

There are three major differences between Legume Diagrams and Mind Maps. (1) Legume Diagrams represent information on multiple pages. The most natural form for a Mind Map is a single page that gets bigger as the amount of information grows. As information grows in Legume Diagram additional pages are added. (2) 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. The natural form for information in a Mind Map is a information hierarchy with branches from a node of the map moving further down the hierarchy. A Legume Diagram treats an information hierarchy as a subset of an information network. (3) Legume diagrams are multi-modal with the identical information made available in web, eBook, and hardcopy from. When Mind Maps are made multi-modal, they are typically non-identical.

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