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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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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 – Visualization Tools and Mind Mapping Software
In this video, TrustRadius goes over some of the best project management software out there - including MindManager.
This 10-minute video provides a crash course in the various functionalities and use cases of MindManager, and a walkthrough of how it helps teams work more effectively and efficiently.
MindManager as solution for everything. Case Study brewery Murau, Austria.
The Murau brewery relies on MindManager and uses the software for everything from meeting management and budget planning to spare parts management for their machinery.
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 |
|---|---|
| Operating Systems | Unspecified |
| Mobile Application | Apple iOS, Android |
| Supported Languages | English, French, German, Japanese, Russian, Chinese |
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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.
Reviewers rate Vendor pre-sale and Vendor post-sale highest, with a score of 9.1.
The most common users of MindManager are from Enterprises (1,001+ employees).
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June 28, 2023
MindManager Adds GPS to Your Maps
- Super easy to use; everyone gets the basics and the power behind mind mapping.
- Incredible flexibility to grow/expand on ideas and then to link them.
- Dashboards and Gantt charts are polished.
- MindManager is easy to use for publishing maps to non-users via browsers
- Multi-monitor support...could be my setup here but I struggle with super large maps and I find using a set of linked smaller maps to be less grief than scrolling around a large map but I would highly prefer seeing the bigger picture. That or some hotkeys to improve using a super large map.
- MindManager automatically adjusts the width of topics while typing...they are working on a way to turn that off; the workaround is either manually setting the width individually or using a 'match width' function.
April 17, 2023
Great value, easy to use and stood the test of time
- Great Templates
- Easy installation
- Guided tour enough to get started
- Perhaps integrate with Outlook or other calendar systems
February 24, 2023
MindManager is an invaluable tool
Score 10 out of 10
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Verified User
- MindManager gives you the easiest and most intuitive way to capture your ideas and use your imagination to visualize and organize them
- Ability to look at your ideas from different angles
- MindManager helps you think visually
- Limited Gantt charts
- Limited icons choice
- Easy to create flow diagrams
- Easy to connect ideas when brainstorming
- Easy to share the projects with other people
- Once we had a problem to save a file and the work was lost
- At the beginning it is not so intuitive the way it works
- I would like to easily access more shapes and colors for the textboxes
June 16, 2022
Why I use MindManager for over 20 years
- Mind Maps.
- Easy organize thoughts.
- Summary of meetings.
- I would love to use it on my iPad too.
March 19, 2022
A really amazing tool for mapping ideas, gathering requirements and documenting work-breakdown for new functionalities!
- Break larger ideas into logically connected sub-ideas
- Add notes for the main buckets of work
- Export the maps and its links as well as notes
- Ease of navigation and map building
- Make it easier for companies to order the tool - focus on institutional sales
- Provides a one page view
- Allows you to identify gaps fast
- Forces more creative solutions
- A one-year subscription is not good for those of us who started using MindManager when it came on a disc. Life changes, jobs change, and devices change. One year on either a PC or Mac does not endear me to MindManager.
- It has logged me out a few times. When this happens and I am busy it is easier to use an alternative piece of tech.
- I would like the Mac and PC versions to be fully matched and interoperable.
March 12, 2022
Expensive price but feature-rich Map Software
- MindManager has an excellent library of templates to choose from they get you started quickly.
- MindManager is more simple to launch and learn versus other mind mapping software that can be quite complex to learn out of the box.
- In a cross-platform company such as ours, having the ability for users to patch him through both windows and mobile at the same time is a very helpful feature.
- Not able to add many different types of multi-media to the map (such as Video files, etc)
- Would like a broader range of Export options
March 09, 2022
MindManager for Innovation Topics
- Automatic layouting when entering more/new items
- Additional information can be added to the items
- Easy handling by automation
- Multiple connections (n to n)
- Export functionality
- More easily co-editing (compare with Mural, Miro, Whiteboard etc.)
January 30, 2022
Cadillac Product. Must Have for Executives and Project Planners
- Project Planning
- Project Management
- Ideation
- Brainstorming
- Customizing icons and colors in more areas is needed
- Making it easier to insert and manage due dates, which is slightly clunky and not as intuitive or "smart" technology-wise.
- Kill sales popups after pro versions have been purchased.
January 26, 2022
Using MindManager in academic research
- I use it often to brainstorm and then arrange the topics into an outline.
- It's a very easy, graphical and flexible way to setup a to do list for both short and long term projects.
- I have also started using the flowchart capabilities to details experimental plans.
- I would like to be able to select several topics and group them, then color them as a group.
- Right when I select a set of topics and select Boundary, each topic gets its own boundary.
- I would like an easier process to customize my maps e.g. with specific fonts, colors, etc. I know that this can be done, but I would like it to be easier.
- In the latest version I'm having trouble linking to Outlook emails. This may be due to a change in outlook, but it is a capability that I really miss.
January 24, 2022
This program helps even the artistically challenged organize their thoughts visually
- The interface makes it very easy to use.
- The fonts and design elements make the maps easy to read.
- Exporting the maps to other formats is easy to do.
- I would like to be able to click and drag some elements to make it easier to read. Some things can get bunched.
- Always looking for templates from other users who are smarter than me.
January 21, 2022
Fantastic brainstorming and collaborative tool
- Brainstorming
- Resource planning
- Collaborating
- Pricing model for 3rd world countries
- Project planning
- Idea generation
- Problem solving
- Decision making
- Consider broadening the template options
- Bring back, as an option the older branching structure
- Continue to increase the video training library
- Consider integrating with Markdown as an option
January 20, 2022
The best mind mapping tool out there
- MindMapping
- Dashboarding
- Being fast
- Weird offline issue where I couldn't use it on a plane because it needed to connect to a license?
- Not crashing on the MacOs
- Legacy support - the older templates were the best
December 23, 2021
Great for this new remote world we live in!
- Very intuitive to use
- Provides the data in various mediums after the fact (export as PDF, Excel, etc.)
- Allows for co-editing
- it would be great if it published out to a PowerPoint
- more pre-defined templates
- more icons
August 17, 2021
MindManager has helped me and my team mindmeld. Truly.
- It captures and structures our information so that we don't lose sight of the important details.
- We are able to connect broad swathes of data and information to help keep us focused on the most important issues at stake.
- We can see at-a-glance where our time and effort need to be allocated.
- To date I haven't found any holes in the solution set—I'm impressed!
August 11, 2021
Engineer's Use of MindManager
- Demonstrates interdependence of individual tasks and technologies.
- Allows faster and clearer reorganization of linkages than a system like Microsoft Visio.
- Improved integration to turn a collection of interdependent tasks into a Gantt Chart schedule.
August 03, 2021
MindManager is the Most Robust Mind Mapping Solution
- The co-editing feature makes collaborating with others a delight.
- Seems to be the most polished and feature-rich of all the mind mapping tools I've tried.
- Very flexible handles many different project types for various needs and goals.
- The pricing is a little high for solo users compared to other mind mapping tools, but the functionality justifies the cost.
- The Android app didn't let me edit my maps last time I tried to use it, would be nice to edit on the go.
- Would be nice if non-paying users could co-edit maps.
- Capture ideas as they are "discovered."
- Relate items that may seem to be unrelated.
- Go from the macro to the micro.
- Most grief is the whole update process. Every year going through it makes me think there has to be a better product.
July 31, 2021
MindManager review
- Collaboration
- Simple to use
- Knowledge management
- Better UI
- Could have a chat feature
- Cloud availability
- Links different type of information very well
- Graphical layout is excellent for organizing the information
- Navigating the Mindmap is very easy
- The graphical layout could include a better way to integrate preset icons and more variety to make more interesting Mindmaps
July 20, 2021
Workhorse of a mind mapping tool
- clean display
- simple to use
- easy to move and modify entries
- The marketing pop-ups to buy the latest version are infuriating. Almost makes me want to uninstall.
July 11, 2021
Mindmanager is easy to use and visualize ideas
- Easy to start brainstorming and build out branches of an idea!
- Great for converting to other file types, such as Word and Excel.
- Great for problem solving and helping keep focus on an idea because it is more visual.
- The export to PPT feature is not great—causes a lot of rework.
- Hot keys were not easy to find or use because so many options exist.
- So many features were available it was almost overwhelming the more I learned.
- Couldn't get collaboration to work.
July 11, 2021
MindManager: Your thinking companion!
- Organizing course materials
- Mapping academic concepts
- Presentations
- Workflow
- Task planning
- At times, it starts to crash for no reason and does so multiple times.
- Add more case studies of creative ways to use it.
- Improve on support.
- Improve on training.