Cognitive Maps for Keeping Track

• I've used cogmaps for brainstorming, but am more familiar with them for tracking your domain.
• I was once told about a very successful researcher who had a big cognitive map on his wall.
• He annotated the nodes of the map with references.
• This enabled him to coherently track the literature he was reading.
• In essence, he was building a map of the domain.
• From time to time I try to do this. It's been a long time since I've tried a large scale version of this.
• I do however frequently make small scale maps.
• It helps me organising papers that I'm writing.
• I also do it with students to organise their research.
• You of course can do it for different things.
• You could do it for an article you're working on, but you could do it while planning your garden.