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.
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MindManager for Microsoft Teams
$105
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$179
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- No setup fee
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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
(51-75 of 194)Great
- Captures creativity and creates a feedback loop.
- Ideas on MindManager canvas help organize thinking and planning and implementation. It makes the whole of any project digestible and manageable.
- Process documentation for product creation clarifies the Who, What, When, Where and Why so our output is quality consistent and value driven for our clients.
- Personal satisfaction ranks high when using MindManager for any occasion.
- I would like to see more instructional videos for new users because when I first began, the beginner videos were not that great and not that many.
- A paid help hotline for users who want that personal help option to answer specific questions. Even if you limited the questions to one a week, it would be a great option to offer.
- You had that service a long time ago but I don't believe you have it any longer.
2020 is great. 2021 they removed the export to Powerpoint. Waiting for 2022 to have the feature restored.
- Visualizing an overview of a recently read book.
- Walking thru a process.
- Importing large MS Project files to see visually.
- In 2021, they removed the export to PowerPoint feature. They were good to provide me a refund. I will stay with 2020 until the feature is put back.
- It seems that after the Corel purchase they have lost their way. I am looking for an alternative product and really like Lucid.
- Ability to import in a Word document.
- Great to segment things out (projects, organizational charts, processes, workloads, etc) and gives you a full picture of the job.
- It is user friendly, simple to use, and powerful.
- MS Office and Teams integration is great. Allows for easy collaboration.
- Great GUI and visuals
- Excellent method for project planning and brainstorming
- It can be difficult to print your mind map in a font that is large enough to easily read.
- Certain features for first-time users are a bit daunting and there is a slight learning curve.
- The help options can be enhanced.
- MM is particularly suited for Corporate and Business Mapping because it taps into a person's visual understanding and its power to standardize learning and education is unparalleled.
- MM is an all-in-one Productivity Tool, possibly the first of its kind. In its early days, it was cited as the sixth member of MS Office and that was a well-stated idea. Imagine being able to visually map out data and content, update it visually, exporting it to MS Word/Excel/Powerpoint, interact with MS Outlook, and interact/work with MS Sharepoint? This is the perfect tool if you use Windows, MS Office, MS Sharepoint, or MS Outlook!
- MM is a personal (Virtual) assistant for me, it allows me to focus on creative thinking, brainstorming, and ideation so I can compete in the Marketplace. I use it to create Worksheets and Cheat Sheets to remember data, crunch numbers, and assess any situation with the most informed decisions.
- The only problem I see with MM is learning how to create Templates and change the "visual" aspects of how a map looks.
MindManager is the tool for team collaboration
- Easy to move ideas around allowing you to group your team's ideas during a meeting.
- De-clutters the meeting room, making it easier to see everyone's ideas.
- For process mapping, the tool makes it easy to add steps to the diagram.
- Stop having advertisements randomly pop up in Window's 10. Annoying.
- Improve notes area, making it easier to see notes without selecting the icon.
- Improve relationships so that you can show relationships and boundaries across multiple icons that are not in the same tree.
- Improve linkage to Microsoft applications so that updates from Excel, Access, or PowerPoint show up automatically.
Simply the Best Visual Organization Tool Out There
- Visual outlining of information.
- Moving and reorganizing information as the project evolves.
- Flexible export formats.
- Backwards compatibility after exporting.
- Document comparison for easy updates and edits after export.
- More outlining and numbering options when exporting.
It's definitely not Visio!
- Interface is ideal for summarizing ideas and knowledge.
- Cross-platform compatibility allows teams in different areas with different hardware to collaborate.
- Information can easily be updated when necessary.
- Users had trouble assigning due dates to tasks.
- Free alternatives like Lucidchart and Pinboard are available.
Great product
- Organize a lot of information easily.
- Track and organize website research.
- Graphically portray information to others.
- Create outlines for writing long complicated documents.
- Tag information on MindManager Snap.
- Ability to print portions of maps.
- Better (targeted and short) training videos and training opportunities.
- Better Help feature.
A mind mapping tool in a class of its own
- Workshop capture and management: a fluid data capture tool that is unsurpassed for planning and recording information captured on the fly.
- Content planning and organisation: the ability to develop large and complex output documents by beginning with an unstructured set of ideas that gradually take on shape and structure as you progress because of the ease in which you can reorganise your thoughts and information.
- Ability to generate output in multiple formats: being able to generate output of maps in a range of formats including Word documents, drilldown maps, table-like structures, etc. means that there is always a way of disseminating the content of maps to any audience.
- Native iOS application.
- Reintroduction of the web-client to allow mapping via a web browser.
- More comprehensive images library.
- Easily links external sources on contacts such as LinkedIn profiles, published articles etc. so that is quickly accessible and all in one place.
- When learning new players in the org, MindManager is the fastest tool I have found to move people around in the org chart, put in topic buttons to call attention to "red flags" in a visual way. Also very easy to link people in a "power base" who are not directly in someone's reporting chain.
- Easy to brainstorm ideas with team members, and share the link out to the team. Brings the white board session easily to the Zoom meeting and so much better than using static documents like PowerPoint, etc.
- I find formatting a challenge. Example, make all the boxes the same format and fonts so when you add a box, it understands the format of the top level box.
- I have played around with some of the templates but find creating my own each time is better route. The project plan template is very good but I find myself deleting boxes and again, takes more time than creating a new map every time.
- I try to get colleagues to use MM but they are intimidated by the UI. I am really comfortable with it but to them it can look more complex than it really is.
Simple creative software to visualize, document, project manage almost anything - without a lot of typing!
- Brainstorming of ideas
- Voting on features
- Quick, fast documentation for those who do not like to type a lot
- Project management - allows a catalog of resources/people that are available across multiple maps.
- Creating mind maps and concept maps.
- Providing an extensive set of templates to create different diagrams for many situations (e.g., strategic, project, and knowledge management).
- Publishing maps that are accessible to anyone.
- Ability to link maps.
- Adding internal and external graphics to maps.
- Ability to turn off auto-connection when topics in a free-form map get too close.
- A more extensive internal graphics library.
- Add a "causal loop diagram" template. It is a feedback diagram in System Dynamics.
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- Brainstorming
- Root Cause Analysis
- Project Planning
- Knowledge Sharing
- More capabilities for project schedule management
- Project portfolio management
- Integration with SharePoint and MS Project
Proven Productivity Tool Produces High Quality Thinking
- It helps us organize our thinking both individually and collectively.
- It allows us to signify (vote up/vote down) key pieces of our thinking and to negotiate the categorizations that we might apply
- The ease of use and the ability to make changes on the fly in real-time allows us to keep the conversation flowing at a pace that keeps everyone engaged - super low friction
- I confess that MindManager already has way more functionality than I use so there are no shortfalls in my experience. Perhaps one area would be the format painter? Sometimes I find that a bit finicky.
- Linking branches on a map is sometimes a bit clunky - I find it difficult to manipulate the handles on the connectors.
- I'm just nitpicking now...fundamentally I have no cons to offer.
- Track and log ideas.
- Find un-seen/unforeseen issues before they become major.
- Quickly clear low hanging fruit for process improvement projects.
- Integration with Office 365 (PowerPoint for sure).
- Multiple users accessing the same map at the same time.
MindManager to the Rescue
- Freeform idea gathering followed by linking for organization of thoughts and software features
- Minimizes repetition of thought nuggets
- Allows for great extended attributes for tasking
- Full support for markdown documents
- More right-click intuitive suggestions for actions you might take having rt clicked on an object
MindManager is the foundation for a successful career!
- Organizing & reorganizing ideas into actionable plans: the mapping workflow makes it incredibly easy to get ideas onto the page, and then group or reorganize topics.
- Integration with Outlook: calendar items are fully linked and searchable. I use the Resource list to find notes related to a specific person instantly, even years in the past!
- Smart filters by tags, icons or label: instantly filter down to specific types of information using a nearly limitless variety of word or icon tags.
- Task roll-up: quickly see progress on multi-step projects.
- Kanban view: needs more work to compete with establish task management apps.
- Cross-map dashboards, to collect specific markers together on master map.
- Flowcharting capabilities: still hard to use for formal flowcharts compared to other tools (e.g. Lucidchart).
- Tech support response time: it took a very long time to get technical support on a recent ticket.
- Plans
- Flexible
- Bowtie diagrams
MindManager is a vital tool in my work and personal life. It enables me to think better.
- Tremendously good at brainstorming ideas
- Great at organizing and outlining plans and information
- Great at tracking details and links to resources
- Brings order and organization to all of your rabbit holes
- The base ideas are very easy to use; some of the advanced ideas require training
- Sometimes you have to watch tutorials on features not often used
MindManager makes mind maps easy
- Ease of use.
- Functionality.
- Integration across teams.
- More layouts for visualization.
- Template Sharing.
It's good enough for simple visualization
- Process flows.
- Icon creation.
- Visualization.
- Project planning.
- Interface looks older than alternatives.
- Data integration is limited.
- Setting up processes can be more automatized.
MindManager is an excellent addiction to take you higher in your performance than you could ever achieved!
- Mind Manager is very well structured.
- It is user friendly and gets explored when used.
- The color and line effect adds to visual effects.
- Can add more icons.
- Make the above Ribbon smaller.
- Make the play area bigger.
Amazing software to improve your organization
- Organizes thoughts
- Creates amazing visualizations.
- Powers the brainstorming process.
- I like the software as it is.
MindManager is great if you give it the time it needs!
- The workflow and process management functions of MindManager are the most valuable tools for us. MindManager does a remarkable job of creating clearly outlined institutional knowledge processes.
- The mapping for planning and strategy is incredibly easy to use and the user interface made it easy to demonstrate and train it across our company.
- The idea of putting things in the “parking lot” (important things we’d come back to) became a term we used around the office. “Let’s put that in the parking lot!” MindManager did a great job of making things visually appealing and easy to use.
- Could be a little grilling at times to build everything. I would love to see some great integrations that would allow for some imports of some (simple) data.
- The MindManager task (or “project”) management was very antiquated and needs to be improved.
- Visually, the icons and graphics are a little tired and outdated.
Awesome for grantwriting, technical reports, and project planning
- Unlike working in a wordprocessing document, MindManager allows the user to easily navigate from section to section and reorganize these as needed.
- MindManager's exporting function allows the user to send the work to other formats, such as Microsoft Word, for final formatting and dissemination.
- MindManager allows easy placement of links and other external content into maps.
- The one area where I'd like to see improvement in MindManager is the availability of tutorials on higher-level functions. There seem to be an awful lot of buttons that I don't know how to use, and the existing tutorials tend to jump into these functions assuming that I know things that I do not yet know. I'd like to be walked through from beginner-level tutorials to more advanced levels.