Overview
What is MindManager?
MindManager is a mind mapping and project management tool that aims to boost users’ productivity. It is designed to facilitate a wide range of project types, and includes cross-platform functionality and 3rd party integrations.
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Your thought process will be clear and enjoyable.
A lifetime of use
Fantastic product for gathering, organising, updating and presenting information.
Good but expensive.
A good way to structure and visualize your information.
My Swiss Army Knife for years, my digital machine for the future
Bitter/Sweet: I love it but I can't share it.
Great software but now upgrades are too expensive.
Many functions to implement in order to survive
Evaluation Of the Latest Version of Mind Manager that works on my machine
MindManager is a great tool for thinkers
Excellent Product but too complicated to export and share with non-users.
MindManager for Information & Project Management in Healthcare IT Consulting
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What is MindManager?
MindManager aims to bring clarity and structure to plans, projects, and processes.
It helps users to transform scattered ideas and information into dynamic visual mind maps, flowcharts, concept maps, matrices and other diagrams. Users can also take control of their work, synthesize vast amounts of data, collaborate and communicate more effectively.
MindManager is a suite of visualization products that helps individuals and teams think more clearly, make better decisions, and get on the path to personal and organizational success.
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MindManager Integrations
- Zapier
- Microsoft SharePoint
- Microsoft Teams
- MS Outlook
- MS Word
- MS Excel
MindManager Technical Details
Deployment Types | Software as a Service (SaaS), Cloud, or Web-Based |
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Operating Systems | Unspecified |
Mobile Application | Apple iOS, Android |
Supported Languages | English, French, German, Japanese, Russian, Chinese |
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(407)Attribute Ratings
- 8.2Likelihood to Renew21 ratings
- 8.2Availability5 ratings
- 8.2Performance4 ratings
- 7.6Usability16 ratings
- 8.2Support Rating13 ratings
- 6.4Online Training1 rating
- 7.3Implementation Rating4 ratings
- 8.2Configurability3 ratings
- 8.2Product Scalability4 ratings
- 3.6Ease of integration2 ratings
- 9.1Vendor pre-sale3 ratings
- 9.1Vendor post-sale3 ratings
Reviews
(126-150 of 194)Great program but a learning curve.
- Organization
- Clarity
- Detail oriented
- Easy of use for beginners
- Sharing capabilities with those that don’t have the program
- Sharing between users in a cloud based system
PhD = almost done!
- Many formats of maps available
- Reasonably intuitive to "play around" with and figure out
- I'd like to see a function where finalized maps can have all white space in the map be automatically reduced or minimized (good for use when sharing the map in print format)
The Power of Team Mindmapping
- If you have large complex problems or projects where people struggle to see the connectivity between initiatives, the whole picture and where their part fits into it. MindManager can provide a perspective to meet every stakeholder's needs.
- Good problem solving prevents people/teams from jumping to solutions but rather forces a tight problem definition and a generation of all of the possible solutions to that problem and then an assessment of these potential solutions to arrive at the best one to execute. MindMaps is the best way to do this.
- In design thinking you need a tool that can help with both the divergent and convergent thinking processing required by the team. MindMaps is the best tool for all the processes in a design thinking project.
- Any creative problem-solving exercise requires analytical/linear thinking and non-linear thinking - this is where MindMaps excel.
- Learning/Exploring all of the features in MindManager and the best ways of doing things with it.
- All of the templates provided/shown are a bit basic and do not demonstrate the power of the tool for that application (relying too much on knowledgeable users).
- I am actually pretty happy with MindManager that way it is - simple but with endless use case possibilities.
- Presentation options for when presenting to Corporate clients.
Mindmanger Review
- Excellent at helping to brainstorm ideas.
- Intuitive and simple interface.
- Excellent tool to help to provide a more concrete representation of abstract ideas.
- Great integration with MS Office applications.
- Project management capability was a bit weak.
- Template and map creation is somewhat difficult.
However, it does not seem to be extremely effective when using as a PM tool
MindManager is an Excellent Tool!
- Excellent visual tool to quickly assess and summarize a client's financial position.
- Great tool to map and branch processes. This has been a great aid in brainstorming internal processes.
- Easy to update; the process of updating client information reinforces memory and knowledge of our clients.
- It's not always easy to interpret and visualize margins for printing.
The mapping feels less appropriate when we have little information about a client, although we turn this into a positive---time to ask for additional info!
- Excellent at helping to brainstorm ideas
- Outlining an argument or research piece before constructing it
- Makes it easier to weight various scenarios and options in a decision making process
- Some of the formatting could use improvement
- Make some of the controls more user-friendly
Great project management application!
- Project planning, being able to quickly identify tasks.
- Solutioning across multiple departments at a high level.
- Process flow visualization.
- Workflow creation functionality.
Manage Your Mind (and the minds of others) with MindManager
- Very easy to drag and drop map elements to quickly reorganize and reorient topics.
- The interface is insanely intuitive. Even a novice user can be up and running in minutes.
- The ability to open maps in IE for folks who don't have MindJet installed on their machines is a critical feature.
- A cloud version that enables collaboration on any device by any user would be welcome.
- Tighter integration with Google Docs, MS Office, etc. would be a great bonus.
- I'd love to see a tablet optimized version for on-the-go mind mapping.
MindManager makes you be a better manager!
- Efficient collaboration tool and document version tracking.
- Mindjet keeps track of all the versions edited by users, so you can tell who was the last editing the document.
- The way maps and flowcharts are created so easily. The templates library is very handy and helps you organize your ideas in a proper way.
- Helps to organize and prioritize tasks within a medium sized team
- Download documents without the need to open each of the documents
- Copy-paste folders and their contents into another location
- The server went off several times this year
- Organizing workload
- Determine specific tasks for specific people and seeing the overall progress in a Gantt chart
- MS Office integration so you can easily export to whatever format you need
- Annual planning tool
- Not a substitution for your PC filing system
- Not a backup tool (some users may be able to erase files, but there is an option for the admin to recover them)
I don't understand all of those words and lines, give me a picture!
We also use it on a smaller scale to help with brainstorming during meetings. It's so much easier and faster to use it than trying to write on a board. Adding priority and catagorizing on the fly with a nice looking clean interface is great.
- When there's too much going on we'll use MindManager to create a list of things that need to be done, categorize them, prioritize them and assign. When anyone asks what or how we're doing we can SHOW them. It's so much easier for them to see what's going on but when they see the map they can see that we're organized and our approach is well thought out.
- Editing views is a lot easier than other programs we've used. I've sat for countless hours trying to get the right shapes to fit right or to get the lines to go where I want them to go.
- I like the themes. Instead of taking a blank, boring view each time and trying to dress it up later I can start with something appropriate and it looks nice from the start without any extra effort.
- The interface is intuitive. It's easy to navigate and it looks nice. I don't like using programs that look 20 years old.
- More shapes and themes. It has a lot, but more is always better.
MindManager streamline my day to accomplish my dreams.
- Organizational Layout.
- Processes and procedures.
- Long and short range planning.
- None that I can think of.
MindManager is an excellent tool to plan, develop and implement your organization's ideas, concepts and projects.
- Provides an excellent way to visualize your projects and timelines.
- Allows full integration of Excel spreadsheet data (Windows only).
- Allows searching and filtering of complex maps.
- Allows effective icon and task management elements to your map.
- Excellent starter templates and map types.
- MacOS and iOS fully functionality and feature set. Most important request.
- Allow a more integrated and incremental update process. A lot of the time I need to call Mindjet support to get the correct upgrade version.
- Allow integration with cloud services such as AWS, iCloud and IBM.
- Visual planning and tracking.
- Integration of spreadsheet data.
- Excellent HTML 5 export.
- Less effective with accessing and updating external databases and cloud services.
Great for the Professional and for the student to keep track of everything in life.
I use it to lay out diagrams of books that I study for certification exams that are a part of the job I do teaching. It helps give me a good picture of everything I need to know to pass these exams.
- It lays out information in a hierarchy that makes it easy to understand.
- Colors and designs make presentations quite pleasant to look at.
- It has great exporting features to export to HTML so everyone can view a map at their convenience.
- In the org chart, I have not figured out (if possible) to add a side bar (e.g. the president's secretary reports to the president, but vice presidents don't report to her).
- Better printing functionality (I know it's difficult with large maps, but more than 2 page height would be good).
- Sorry, no other complaints. Program is excellent for my uses.
researcher/phd student
- It offers a clear - quick way to create Mindmaps.
- The windows version - with the addition of properties and calculations - offers a visually clear way to work with numeric values.
- Better Mac compatibility.
- Need to implement a Buzan's style map where data sits on curved colorful lines.
- Simpler way of dealing with numeric data.
Great tool for increasing productivity
- Our minds work best when you think visually. MindManager helps create a visual network of ideas, processes and concepts.
- I find the ability to use branching, subordination and networking options in the Mindmaps. These simulate neural networks that make it easy to understand and follow through complicated issues during planning.
- Keeping a track of annual goals, objectives and activities while assigning resources is one of the most productive aspects of MindManager that helps keep a track of progress during the year.
- Need better functionality when using Gantt charts.
- Adding and managing resources is a little cumbersome.
- Sharing and collaborating on maps is still a bit complicated and I have not been able to achieve it with single-system licenses. In the times of cloud computing, this level of collaboration should be made available to everybody irrespective of a specific type of license.
University Researcher's Review
- Visually helps understand how each tasks depends on another.
- Provides a project timelines for all project members to follow.
- Allows major ideas/tasks/deliverables to be all in one place.
- Allow for more flexibility with adding topic lines to anywhere on a topic box.
- Provide more flexibility with color coding topic boxes, lines, etc.
- Provide the ability to collapse/expand all subtopics at once.
It is not well suited for meeting notes/minutes.
Easy-to-use way to capture, organise and share ideas, with useful additional functionality
The functionality of MindManager has developed significantly over the past 2-3 years (the 'training webinar' programme is helpful in introducing these). There are opportunities to continue to develop the application further (e.g. more intuitive, Help function) for a simpler user experience, and this might require more of a step-development than steady improvement - but this is a possible direction for the future rather than a limitation of the current version.
- Enables clear, logically-structured visual articulation of ideas, with easy re-sorting of the structured visualisation
- Tags and flags are useful in categorising and filtering information
- Task management is good, e.g. linking (and synching) tasks with Outlook, Gantt charts, progress reports), so MindManager is useful in organising and implementing non-complex projects
- More intuitive menus / functions
- Better Help function (more fully integrated within the application)
- Capturing and organising ideas / outputs from workshops
- 'Walk-through' presentation of ideas / arguments
- Brainstorming sessions (particularly write-up of ideas - might not be as quick/spontaneous to capture ideas during the discussion compared to whiteboard, flipchart or paper
- Sharing maps with others
- Managing tasks in a structured way (including link with Outlook)
- Useful templates (e.g. matrix)
- Organising and managing simple projects (not well suited to more complex / extensive projects)
Strategic analysis and work breakdown made easy!
- Integration with Microsoft Office. I can import emails easily and I can export maps in multiple formats to PowerPoint and Word. It works great as an outline building tool for Word documents, as it is a more visual way to work.
- Presentation mode is great. I can walk through a map easily and communicate to my audience more interactively. Livens up presentations.
- Map linking to other maps. This helps greatly in work decomposition so that I can maintain a master map that links to other more detailed maps. Good way to organize my work and still provide a good overview of the entire project.
- Adding icons and tags is very easy, and MM provides a good list of built-in icons to use.
- Free-style layouts would be nice. I'd like to move sections of my map around freely to create a less symmetrical map (i.e. not-balanced).
- Integration with Visio beyond just image export. Many of my colleagues create diagrams in Visio and it would be useful to exchange information without having to resort to exporting a static image. Useful when using some of the new types of diagrams available in MM, such as flowcharts and venn diagrams.
Taking the complex and making it simple
- Easily facilitates organization of thoughts in a visual manner. The visual mapping triggers additional ideas and questions to be pursued to assist with creating a more holistic approach to strategy development or prioritization.
- MindManager provides multiple avenues for quickly converting maps to different media such as powerpoint or word documents to best present the pertinent information to whatever audience necessary if map presentation itself is not the most effective approach.
- Ability to link to other media/documents within the maps and apparently unlimited ability to "nest/link" to other maps allows management of fairly complex and intertwined strategic and tactical components in a logical fashion that allows whatever level of simplification is required for targeted audiences.
- MindManager support personnel make themselves available for tech support and offer visits to your site to assist with making the most of the tool without being a nuisance by repeatedly contacting if you do not need the support. However they drop an email once a quarter or so to let you know they are available if needed. Good approach.
- Able to save maps as a .PDF to minimize file size for sharing digitally.
- Biggest problem has been not being able to allow other board members and/or staff without mindmanager software on their computers to edit existing documents. Typically have to save as pdf and forward to larger team for view and comment. Nowhere near a show stopper but would be great if software was as universal as powerpoint or excel.
- I do dislike the "MindManager upgrade" message I tend to receive over and over. My existing version of the software is more than adequate - one reminder each year that a new version is available is sufficient.
Not so well suited for discussion with a larger group (too much detail) but the "one-button" translation of maps to powerpoint works well with the larger groups.
Use of MindManager for College Course Design and Delivery
- Biggest feature is the ability to quickly publish a map for use in collaborations with students.
- It is also possible to directly collaborate on maps with others, though the capabilities of that feature are somewhat limited.
- Very easy to organize every dimension of one's ideas. Throw everything out there and then hook stuff up. That's the best way, for me, to write or organize virtually any project.
- Only one... There should be an easy way to quickly backup up to the local drive all maps in the online mindjet map depository. An easy add for your brilliant engineers, I'm sure. :)
MindManager Manages Your Mind
- MindManager is well suited for project management for someone who is juggling multiple tasks. It allows for visual organization, status checks, and attachments of pertinent files to specific tasks for easier accessibility. MindManager maps can also be shared with other people who have MindManager, allowing for collaboration within a group or company.
- is great for creating flow charts to visualize organizational flow.
- MindManager helps me keep my tasks organized and keep track of the status of certain projects.
- A great feature is that MindManager allows attachments of files on my computer to specific task points, making it easier to find relevant data for a project.
- MindManager is not very user-friendly and can be difficult to learn how to utilize the entire program.
- The interface appears outdated compared to other mind mapping programs out there.
- MindManager is still a little pricey for what it is.
We use it all the time in meetings at work
- I like how there is no limit to page size or levels of ideas that you are able to create.
- I like how the program easily creates nice clean PDFs.
- I like that you can automatically balance the mind map so that the objects are evenly spaced.
- For new people some of the key combinations could be hard to remember for shortcuts.
- Maybe there could be some sort of one page explanation on how to get the most of out of the program.
- Reminders on how to use certain features could be useful every once in a while.
Excellent software for Creative non-business types.
- MindManager allows me to plead my case for more resources, show when there is scope creep, illustrate how complex a topic is, or to present high-level documentation that can be expanded to give the most granular steps/details.
- MindManager can be leveraged to take the detailed notes of an analyst inside the basic visual overview that upper management cares about.
- MindManager can export all the diagrams you build into HTML maps that will contain all the documents, images, graphics, and structure created in the tool. This eliminates the requirement of a proprietary tool needed by the recipient of the mind map to see your exports. Anyone can see the maps in the same way you built them.
- MindManager is excellent in purveying complex scenarios in easy to understand diagrams.
- Dashboard Wizard - There is a bit of a skill set required and knowledge of conditional formatting. A wizard would help you set this up with examples and guided questions to get the content you want on the map.
- New sheet from a topic - Xmind has the ability to have a topic open in another tab as a central topic. All the maps in Xmind are within the same file, no linking to external maps. MindManager allows you to import a map as a topic but with it you need to either import the content from the map which will be forced to take on the attributes of the parent map, or just link to the other map. Multi Tab maps in MM would be awesome. It is one of my most used features in Xmind and keeps everything in one place.
- Re-Ordering of topics in a flowchart for presentation in HTML5/PowerPoint/Word export - One item, in particular, that would put this product over the top is being able to re-order the topics in a process flow so it can be used more effectively in a presentation. Process flows are constantly changing when you get new information. If you edit the map by adding or putting a topic in between two earlier topics the presentation mode will not focus on that topic until the end of the presentation. If you put a topic at the end of the flow the presentation will jump ahead and then go back. It would be nice to omit parts of the flowchart from the presentation as well. Additional export types for the output of a flowchart would also be handy. The export to HTML5 is excellent, and so long as you manually click from topic to topic it is functional and impressive. But it is lacking the fine-tuned polish and sub-features that would really put it over the top and make it useful for distribution to people other than those intimately familiar with the material.
- More documentation on how to create Macros.
- Outlook HTML formatting support without a plugin. The reformatting of email in MM can make things more confusing.
- Record or attach audio to a topic. – Sometimes training or narration need to be a part of a map. Many tools implement this natively nowadays.
- Play video from within a topic or in an integrated window. – Video is also commonly used now to eliminate the need for documentation. It would be nice to watch and add notes or just include in a map.
- SnagIt Support – I thought I remembered this in earlier versions. I cannot seem to create a link between MM and SnagIt anymore.
- Start with a truly blank map (a sandbox) and be able to place any type of topic on the screen and build anything. Xmind Zen is essentially doing this now.
- Filter using images/icons.
- Create image/tag/color legend on map. When legend item is clicked focus on the topics that have the Legend item properties. Would be great in HTML5 output.
- Un-filter a filtered HTML5 export using a toggle on the HTML Map. When sending out a couple example maps to people unfamiliar with the usage they did not know that there was more content available and made assumptions based on only what they saw. An alert notifying the map is filtered would be nice on the output.
- Flowchart to Visio Export
- Exporting to Word/PowerPoint - If you could bring the same level of control to these exports that you did to your HTML5 exporter you would have all the bases covered. Unless I define my own word template the output from a map to work has a messy feel. I really like to do business analysis with maps. I bring in map parts when defining evidence types, scope statements, and requirements. I drag the map parts to the map and define all the info my branches ask for when I include evidence. I would love to be able to export my maps to Microsoft Word and have a great output for my Issue Analysis, Requirement Documents, Traceability Matrix, etc. While I have found ways to make this work and quicker for me I have talked to others that would like to see things perfectly laid out on export that do not have the time to do the tricks and tweaks I have become used to over the years with word templates. It would be nice to have strong export support for Word and PowerPoint documents. Something more visual perhaps that lets a user preview how their export will look before they execute it.
MindManager Review
- Ease of use creating compelling visualizations
- Easy to deploy for IT
- Both PC and Mac compatibility
- Gant charts missing from Mac version
- Mobile support
- Cost
Go to solution for initial High Level project brainstorming.
- Provides a great visual to full team including stakeholders of the high level look and feel of solution.
- Expansion and contraction of stories are simple to follow.
- Connecting arrows help see interaction between actors in a project.
- More Agile development friendly, example quick way to set project management streams for Backlog, in Progress, Done or Blocking.
- More variation in template options.
- Good for conceptual views but could improve on implementation options of project planning.