MindManager vs Smartsheet

• The ability to apply it to almost any situation that requires the organization of ideas, concepts and/or facts.
• The ease with which a map can be changed, almost totally if necessary, without the loss of any content.
• The ease with which the tool is implemented to its full conceptual power.
• The ease with which ideas are communicated to others who did not do the map building themselves.
• The potential for collaborative efforts in developing thoughts, plans, etc.

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• Formulas. While not as robust as Excel, the formulas offered in Smartsheet are quite good.
• Team collaboration. Multiple teammates can access and work on the same sheet at once.
• Templates. The standard templates meet all my needs, and are a great guide for what Smartsheet is intended for and the problems it is best suited for solving.
• Project management. It is great for creating, assigning, monitoring, and tracking tasks and projects.

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• I would like to be able to readily select groups of topics and apply formatting e.g. circle three topics and have them collectively outlined or colored
• Would be nice to have a small collection of the icons that I use most frequently in a group on the top bar so I can easily drag and drop
• Its a bit cumbersome to generate custom formats
• I've had trouble configuring this latest version to attach emails from Outlook which was a really useful feature for my dashboard

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• It would be helpful when importing an Excel spreadsheet if the format would remain the same; such as the color of the rows and columns.
• Sometimes when viewing rows on the mobile app, they don't align properly when scrolling across.
• I would like to see more in-depth training videos.

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• Most recent example: Initiated a committee to set direction on how to most effectively assist the working poor and at-risk populations within our five county region. Mind mapping allowed the team of 10 - 12 people to absorb the ALICE (Asset Limited Income Constrained Employed) data for the region and determine which groups were most at risk and which groups State and Federal funds my be able to most effectively assist. Three to five maps allowed adequate data absorption by the team to set the 1 to 3 year strategy within a relatively short period of time and start implementation.
• Have used the tool in the past for strategic planning for corporate business teams in areas of profit management, quality performance, business reliability, safety improvement with varying degrees of success. Typically the mapping process has contributed greatly to both defining the strategy and implementing.

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• It has allowed us to get easily organized and share the progress of projects with the team and some of our internal customers allowing us to deliver information much quicker, and reduce some of the meetings times and back and forth.
• It has allowed us to easily collect process and procedure documentation, and tack updates. Previously we had several hundred documents in many different file folders. This allows us to catalog this information quickly add in additional fields/data points for sorting/details/primary users/additional info. We can easily find and share this information, and overall we are much more efficient.

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