If it's a subject that can be delivered by textbook, then I'll build mindmaps using FreePlane: https://www.freeplane.org/wiki/index.php/Home https://www.freepl

If it's a subject that can be delivered by textbook, then I'll build mindmaps using FreePlane: https://www.freeplane.org/wiki/index.php/Home https://www.freeplane.org/wiki/index.php/Home The way I author the mindmaps is to form trunks of major subjects which then distil down to the details. I'll add questions to myself into the subtrees. When it comes to revision, I'll "contract" the entire map (there's a button in FreePlane to do this), then I'll take each branch in turn and try and answer (on a piece of paper) the questions I've left for myself. As you progress through the mindmap, you are expanding all the branches out. This works for me for 2 reasons: - reinforcement learning through the questions I've left myself - remembering places / locations is something the human mind is very good at, and fits well with the current theory of the mind (reference frames, etc).