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Rebecca Holden's avatar

Awesome, Erika! Fetching pens and paper RIGHT now..... thank you for the inspo!

I'd never heard of beetle galleries - I'm fascinated. 🪲

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Erika Tovi's avatar

You’re welcome!! Happy creating! 🗺🖊

It’s almost unbelievable the amount of details and designs those beetles can create. 😳 Just wish it wasn’t their plan of attack!

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Nic Jasper (she/her)'s avatar

I actually did a mind-map recently inspired by a previous post of yours:). Thanks for the creative juice and also for including my poem in your list - honoured!

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Erika Tovi's avatar

Oh I LOVE that you recently mind mapped after reading one of my posts. What a compliment!

And super happy to share your work with my readers. 😍

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Kayla Stark's avatar

Thank you for the shout out! 💛 And Lian too! (my picture book pal!)

I have seen those tree bark mazes and didn't beetles were behind it!! Wow!

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Erika Tovi's avatar

Of course! And I know, aren’t those designs wild?! Maybe they can provide some illustration inspiration
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Mika's avatar

Gosh
I haven’t done mind maps in a long time! I do love to visually make sense of lots of ideas
so my go to is a table. However, I think I would love to give mind maps ago!

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Erika Tovi's avatar

I think you could be surprised by what connections show up! Have you ever tried Miro? I haven’t used it in two years but it’s an online software for mind maps and it’s pretty powerful too!

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Mika's avatar

Never tried miro, but Canva has a "whiteboard" which seems quite similar. I like it when I do brainstorming with Branding clients. There's no limit to space which I love! (I also don't lose the notepaper or notebook!)

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Erika Tovi's avatar

The infinite canvas is awesome!

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Leah Gallear-Ouimet's avatar

I did a mind map for the first time after reading one of your earlier posts, too! I noticed Nic also said that below, so I had to chime in. I definitely want to do another one soon! It was a good way to dump some of my mind out onto the page.

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Erika Tovi's avatar

This makes me really happy! My mom has started doing them too! 🥳

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