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Book summary mind map template
A book summary mind map with the core argument, chapter notes, quotes, ideas to act on, your objections and a verdict, so you can recall a book in one page.
Who it is for
- A student summarising a set text for a class or a book report.
- A reader who wants to keep the lessons of a non-fiction book after finishing it.
- A book club member preparing talking points before the meeting.
How to use it
- Open the template and put the book title and author in the central topic.
- Fill in one branch at a time while you read, adding chapters as you finish them.
- Export a PNG to share with your group or a .xmind file to keep adding to it later.
The outline
Every topic in the template, as it opens in the editor.
Book summary
- The book
- Title, author and year
- Why I picked it up now
- What I expected before page one
- Core argument
- The whole book in one sentence
- The question it sets out to answer
- The evidence it leans on most
- Chapter by chapter
- Opening chapters
- The problem as the author frames it
- Middle chapters
- The strongest example or scene
- Final chapters
- Where the argument or story lands
- Opening chapters
- Quotes worth keeping
- Exact line and page
- Why it stopped me
- Ideas to act on
- One habit to try this week
- One belief it challenged
- Where I push back
- A claim the evidence does not support
- What the author leaves out
- Verdict
- Score out of five
- Who should read it, and who should skip it
- Book to read next
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