Any quest begins with preparations… nowadays any preparation starts by asking the Internet for answers, right?!
So what happens when you google “visualize thoughts”?
The 1st hit is http://www.successconsciousness.com/. That’s a website about self improvement and creative visualization… “Creative visualization is the ability to use the imagination, see images in our minds and make them come true” (a quotation from the the site’s homepage).
The 2nd hit is http://repositories.cdlib.org/ced/places/vol2/iss4/DigerudLundberg/ which is a repository of papers called Places and serves as Forum of Design for the Public Realm. This exact page is a link to a paper called Thoughts on Visualizing Thoughts. This paper is really no more than a page with few paragraphs about the value of sketch in architecture. Other 7 pages are sketches…
The 3rd and 4th hits are a press releases (22 May, 2007) as published in ThomasNet News Room (http://news.thomasnet.com). The press release is about a new version of software application called Visual Mind 9 (TM). Now you’re talking!
The company’s name is Mind Technologies. They have a cool software and 30 day trial version. I just installed it. See a simple output at the end of this post.
The 5th hit is a website of company (http://www.p-spe.eu/index.php) that gives workshops in various themes (management, sales, or project management) for personnel development. They claim to have a method called MindGraphic that allows “abstract thoughts [to be] translated into images…” (http://www.p-spe.eu/pspe/mindgraphic.php). Now that sounds interesting too. I have to check this method.
The 6th hit is about changing the subconscious (http://www.justvisualizeit.net/powerfullthoughts.html). Wow… It’s called You Are What You Think About. Started reading… seems to be a waste of time — just another New Age website…
The 7th is an advertisement for another visualization tool called Inspiration 8. It’s hosted at Educational Technology Store (http://www.knowplay.com/). After a small extra search I found it has 3 different version (varied by age of user). All have demos. Add to my cart…
The 8th hit is an advertisement for a visualization tool for Palm OS called MindManager. I managed to find a path to the company’s site (the company is called MindJet). They have a Demo. Need to check it out too.
The 9th hit is about “New Thoughts on Chemical Visualization and Molecular Modeling“… It’s really a post in a blog called it’s a puzzle (http://geoffhutchison.net/about/). That’s not what I’m looking for.
The 10th hit is an article hosted in Project MUSE, an electronic journals collection made available to subscribing libraries. The article is about “Clinical Therapies, Readerly Mentalities”… what the hack?! I couldn’t read the article (as I’m not a subscribing library) but the word visualize didn’t appear in the abstract…
10 hits is enough. Who looks beyond the 1st page of search results anyway… Well I did. But that’s for the next blog.
Instead of summarizing with words I decided to summarize it visually.
Here it is:

Pretty simple. Tell me what you think.
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