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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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MindManager for Microsoft Teams

$105

Cloud
per year

Annual Subscription

$179

Cloud
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  • No setup fee
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  • Free Trial
  • Free/Freemium Version
  • Premium Consulting/Integration Services
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Product Details

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.

MindManager Features

Mind Mapping Features

  • Supported: Cross-Platform Compatibility
  • Supported: Customizable Templates
  • Supported: Import and Export Options
  • Supported: Real-time Collaboration Tools
  • Supported: Drag-and-Drop Capabilities
  • Supported: Notes and Attachments
  • Supported: Color and Style Customization
  • Supported: Presentation Mode
  • Supported: Integration with Task Management

Additional Features

  • Supported: Excel Data Mapper
  • Supported: Dynamic Views: Gantt, Kanban, Schedule view, icon view, tag view, map view
  • Supported: Project cost tracking
  • Supported: Jira integration
  • Supported: SmartRules and formulas
  • Supported: Microsoft Teams Integration
  • Supported: Content control
  • Supported: MindManager Snap
  • Supported: Map Roll ups
  • Supported: sync with online storage
  • Supported: sticky notes

MindManager Screenshots

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MindManager Videos

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.

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MindManager Technical Details

Deployment TypesSoftware as a Service (SaaS), Cloud, or Web-Based
Operating SystemsUnspecified
Mobile ApplicationApple iOS, Android
Supported LanguagesEnglish, French, German, Japanese, Russian, Chinese

Frequently Asked Questions

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.

Xmind, Ayoa, and iThoughts are common alternatives for MindManager.

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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March 20, 2024

MM review

Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
Understanding complex interrelationships between seeming unrelated issues. Creatively imagining, capturing and then logically arranging verbal data to document concepts. Taking concepts and making them into planning categories. Looking at risk and approaches to mitigate it. Showing progress to plans. Integration with Excel and PPT to develop and communicate ideas, plans, etc. to a broader community.
  • Linking ideas to together without logically grouping them together
  • creating general concepts or exploring approaches to a complex task
  • developing hierarchies from concepts, such as plans - goals to WBS
  • I don't care for the forced formality of the new templates - I cannot always use a "Snap-to" style arrangement feature - there is very little flexibility for allowing different spacing between things within a template.
  • The feature set has grown so now training is absolutely necessary to get beyond surface capabilities. I need flexibility to find out how to do something now, not when a seminar comes along.
  • IRT the above, where are the example files used in training seminars located? Why do I have to ask about that?
  • there may be solutions to my issues, but where do I find them now, not later.
Use it when you wish to arrange and rearrange concepts, plans, steps, ideas, so they make better sense - in some particular context. Ideally everyone would have some idea of how MM works so that visual editing in a large group would be easier - trust would be higher that all this brainstorming etc. is going somewhere.
Stanislav Kalenyuk | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
I utilize MindManager for creating mind maps and facilitating decision-making processes. Moreover, it serves as a valuable tool in overseeing the projects for which I hold responsibility.
  • Convenient interface
  • No mistakes
  • It's constantly evolving
  • When I open two fairly large cards at once, sometimes it collapses
  • Perhaps some AI features could be useful, such as predicting sentences when they have already been used in this file
Making mind maps and preparing decisions, as well as controlling projects.
Peter Ives | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
I have used Mindmanager for a variety of uses over the last 20+ years including developing a Sales Strategy, adherence to Solutions Selling Processes, Project Management Gant Charts, developing international conference presentations, Documentation outlines, Developing Course Outlines and Training materials, defining Tender Response Strategies, Developing Operational Workflows for complex Border Clearance Solutions, Detailing guidelines for Biometric Consulting projects and Security Risk Management and finally developing timelines for material presented to win court cases.
  • It allows for brainstorming and the easy capture of ideas.
  • It allows for great visual presentation of material allowing you to dig down to whatever level of detail is required for that particular audience.
  • It provides an easy graphical tool for re-arranging ideas to make a logical sequence.
  • Mindmanager has many existing templates that help you document information in the most appropriate manner for the use case.
  • Mindmanager allows you to link to images, documents, and even hypertext links to make sure your mind map stays up to date.
  • I have previously had to purchase multiple licences to just be able to use Mindmanager across different platforms such as Mac OS and Windows with the different versions not always supporting the same level of functionality.
  • If you used Mindmanager on different platforms the links to document attachments were broken.
I have found it a great tool for presenting information visually, which I find an extremely useful format to stay organised. I have also found Mindmanager over the years to be extremely versatile with the templates available to use it for many varied disciplines from international sales to project management, to teaching and consulting. I have also been able to develop some of my own templates including one used to overlay the Solution Selling process onto a Mindmap and then incorporate all the traditional Opportunity Management documents that need to be updated to keep track of the sales progress.
It has been a bit of a challenge when you want to use Mindmanager across multiple operating systems as the versions that ran on the MAC O/S didn't have the same functionality as did the Windows version.
Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
Strukturen of complex data/info.
  • Categorize info objects.
  • Filter information.
  • Visuals Information.
  • Many to many object links.
  • Export to MS Excel (formatting).
+ It’s good if You want to visualize data from different views. Like categorized or filtered information. + It’s good for making smaller project plans direct from brainstormed ideas. + It’s very good for structuring a big document with different chapters. - It’s lacking when you want to visualize multi-relations between different objects.
Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
I use MM to organize my work, starting from the annual planning to detailed activity list to organize my own knowledge management and R&D to work on publications incl artwork to create landing pages for my workshops to create interactive data visualizations (automated) to collect data via Snap
  • offering a lot of functions to visualize data
  • offering a macro language to automate map creation
  • offering a one-step function to publish an interactive mindmap in the Mindmanager cloud
  • splitting up maps when required
  • generating a complete word-document
  • generating a complete website when required
  • MM should be able to handle RTL text just like LTR text
  • MM should never stop solving little inconsistencies
  • MM should give more information on macro creation
  • MM should come with at least one new theme and marker list a year
  • MM should move from being an advanced hand-tool alone, to being a digital plotting machine as well
  • MM should come with a light weight entry edition for developing countries for free
Well suited:
  • Supporting my thinking and creating processes
  • Automatically creating maps with a thousand items
  • Publishing a map in two mouse clicks
Less suited:
  • Apart from the hierarchical mindmap, MM now supports a range of other (related) map types; that is candidate for improvements.
  • Instead of powerpoint slides, MindManager now supports creating its own slides; that also is candidate for improvements; it is a handicap that these slides only can be played from MindManager itself
  • IMHO the published HTML5 map could compete with some so-called Dashboards; so pity that the filter option only works fine for mutually exclusive marker types.
José M. Guerrero | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
Well, I use MindManager for everything, for example, 1. Konwledge management 2. Summaries creation 3. Decision making 4. Planning 5. Organization 6. Task and project management 7. Preparation of articles and books I am going to publish 8. Analyzing information 9. Database design 10. Website design
  • Organizing information
  • Analyzing information
  • Preparing academic information to publish
  • Brainstorming
  • Work with academic information related to mathematics, geometry, physics, chemistry.
  • Include symbolic manipulation of equations using LaTeX or otherwise
  • Embed SQLite databases as attachments or otherwise, This could allow to store different versions of maps and many othe possibilities.
  • Finish onece for all the documentation of the MindManager API
  • Allow the possibility of working with the documented version of the API using Python
  • Add AI capabilities to MindManager
  • Automate the generation of mind maps from PDF files.
  • Acces to Large Language Models from MindManager
  • Include in MindManager the possibility of analysing YouTube videos using AI
  • And many others..-
Less appropriate - Academic work (because of the problem of not being able to manage equations or maths and physics in general, formulae in chemistry) - Very high problematic automation of mind maps using the API
Aniruddha Dāsa | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
MindManager is used for project planning, document creation, strategic planning, brainstorming and process management.
  • six thinking hats problem and solution analysis
  • document creation from outline to detailed section and paragraph completion
  • project management
  • connection of tasks to Microsoft Planner like what is provided for Outlook
  • export slides to .pptx files (it used to do this, didn't it?)
  • the brainstorming feature can't be blown up unlike the previous iteration (not practical for group work)
MindManager is great for brainstorming in groups but the new iteration of this fucntion can't be blown up when projected on screen.
Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
Over the last 15 or so years I've created over 700 MindManager maps.

It has become an indispensable information management tool in my consulting practice in Healthcare technology and Cyber Security. I have also used it to generate online promotions to promote fiction on the Internet, leveraging a "progressive illumination" approach.

We envision making much more use of the tool to generate interactive web pages for public consumption in support of Home & Home-based Business cybersecurity on our new site.
  • MindManager can be used to create hierarchical information management resources that can be used locally and shared on shared network drives, SharePoint repositories, Intranets, and on the Internet.
  • MindManager includes excellent search capability, supporting search across all open maps.
  • MindManager provides good export capability, supporting the generation of PDFs and interactive web pages.
  • Support attribute-based filtering in HTML exports
  • Allow customization of page widgets in HTML exports
  • Stop requiring occasional logins to work on local maps
For Information Management MM has proved invaluable in organizing information sources to support consulting engagements in the field of healthcare information technology and architecture.
For Project Management it is currently proving to be very useful in supporting the development of content for cybersecurity eBooks. Chapters and topics can easily be chunked and status-tracked, and linkages to artifacts, resources and primary sources can easily be managed.
Bruce Greene | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
First, MindManager helps me manage my mind which goes 100 miles an hour some days and 2 miles an hour other days. I've been using it 15 years so it's part of my life now. I used it in retail management for a large corporation and it helped me achieve 3 promotions and grow my network, while "balancing" my personal goals and daily life. There's just something about being able to dump all your thoughts out as fast as they happen and being able to bring them all back into a cohesive visual structure that's mentally liberating! 5 years ago I stepped out of corporate retail management to become a licensed building contractor at 60 yo and MM has been critical to my startup and execution plans. Now I use it to roll up my actual sales and projections and manage jobs, but once again it's helping me keeping my personal life in balance as best I can. Today I can still see where I've been over the last 15 in MM because your team has made it so everything comes with me on my journey...and I can see my future plans What else can I say?
  • brainstorming
  • incredibly flexible and easy formatting, graphics, structure, DRAG and DROP anything!
  • The new math / formula functionality
  • The only thing that bothers me is it crashing. I know I push it to the limit so I don't really care because I don't lose anything now, it recovers it. I lost some things back in the day.
I think MM can be used in any industry or personal setting which is what's AMAZING about this tool, but there are only certain types of individuals that will be able to see the potential in using it.
Mark Williamson | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
Originally, I was in Human Resources and used MindManager to track organizational layout (and changes), projects, unions, legal cases, and (in a smaller company) individual employees. In the smaller organization, I used the notes feature to track evaluations, discipline, and performance issues (essentially a graphic contact management system). I'm now retired from HR and write fiction, using MindManager to plot stories and make timelines, as well as manage my personal financial activities.
  • Organization charts (with the ability to quickly expand and condense detail, and make change)
  • Notes field is intensely useful for tracking items over time
  • Due dates and progress indicators (in the ResultsManager add-in) are a life saver
  • Planning story structure and timelines
  • Giving a (virtual) 3D perspective - "Yeah, that's over in the top right corner"
  • The toolbar on the latest version is blue & white, tiny, and a little hard to see in my opinion.
  • It's getting complicated, and I only use the features I need, so I may miss some things.
I've used it for 20 years for everything (personal finance, projects, and work). When I first started, the topics couldn't even collapse so the maps got very big very quickly. The newer versions have, obviously, eliminated that issue and I've used it very effectively for years managing HR in a 250-person utility. Because I was so familiar with it, it was very easy for me to use. The learning curve was pretty steep, though, so I had trouble getting other people to use it though they were always impressed by the maps I used.
Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
Brainstorming, diagramming, and social network analysis.
  • templates
  • customization
  • exporting to various formats
  • Smart Rules
  • MacOS version needs to have the same capabilites as Windows version
  • Pro: Templates and customization allow me to create what I want/need.
  • Con: Does not have the same capabilities as my previous decade-plus experiences with MindManager for Windows.
Jeff Sandy | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
Creating project plans and training materials. Creating status presentations. Development design. Workflow design.
  • Organize presentations
  • Provide clear work flows
  • Help with concept development
  • Creating PowerPoint presentations. Did that until MM 2019. Removed. Their presentation manager is difficult and looks horrible. Not a substitute for PowerPoint.
  • Zapier. Doesn't work at all since you can't create a MM online account to link it.
  • Macros. No documentation or recorder.
Excellent for developing task lists and capturing and organizing design ideas. While can use to organize a presentation, the results needs to be recreated in PowerPoint since there is no linkage. Good substitute for project management for small-medium projects.
Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
Org charts
Flow Charts
Brainstorming
Meeting prep and management
Process Design
  • Building sales processes
  • Collaborative planning
  • Organizing detailed projects with work breakdown, costs, dependencies and assignments
  • Add integration for MS Office and Apple ical (and other project management apps) for managing project milestones.
- best flowchart app on the market
- best org chart option-especially powerful with filter capabilities!
- Sales stakeholder visualization maps I have built using this are one-of-a-kind
Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
  • Weekly Planner and Journal;
  • Project planning (light Gantt);
  • product Bill of Materials;
  • estimate of time to produce and optimization (not Kanban);
  • business dashboard;
  • meeting plan and post-meeting report.
  • Brainstorming
  • Discipline in organization
  • visualization of the enormity of the task
  • unbounded white board
  • capability to parse sub-topics into standalone maps
  • precise sequencing and timing of events for resource allocation
  • ability to take email from gmail and post to MindManager in like manner as outlook.
  • ability to take google contacts, calendar info and post to MM in a like manner as Microsoft products
  • ability to add task progress groups to specific topics (having more than one task progress group per mm0
MindManager (MM) is best suited for unstructured accumulation of information, i.e., pulling articles off the net, pictures, charts, spreadsheets, and docs. Head to head with PowerPoint is tough except for experienced users. (I use it - Walk Through)
Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
I use MindManager for brainstorming and organising ideas during consulting projects.It helps me create project plans, define tasks, and set deadlines. I rely on MindManager for strategic planning, evaluating options, and making informed decisions. I use it to manage and document knowledge, including meeting notes and linked resources and presentations to stakeholders. The feedback I receive from peers and customers is that my presentations provide greater context, and flow better than typical powerpoint presentations.
  • presentations
  • timelines
  • requirements gathering and notes (I love the export to HTML page for exporting my notes to customers)
  • look and feel, 23 refresh was ok, but still feels like it needs a refresher.
  • dragging nodes to another area on the mind map can be a bit clunky
  • power filters are nice, but I seem to constantly have to set Options so the entire tree isn't hidden when filtering against an paricular icon.
Well Suited: Idea generation and organising thoughts / notes during requirements gathering sessions or meetings. Presentations to effectively communicate ideas or visualising project charters Facilitating strategic planning and decision making through visual mapping. Creation of timelines, centralising information with linked resources - which is useful for escalations Less Appropriate: Real-time collaboration requiring simultaneous editing of a single mind map - always found authentication was a bit to cumbersome to setup when stored in SharePoint. I haven't tried it any other way. Project management, imo it's better to open up Project or more specialised tools for visualising things like dependencies and allocations. Technical diagrams and modeling best left to specialised tools, but the 23 update somewhat address' this with more functionality in this space.
Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Mindmanager is used for Brainstorming, Project Management and Organisational stuff.
Perfect to visualize, to present and /or to focus on items or tasks.
Collect a lot of information in the MindMap with links to Sharepoint and Internet.
Comparison of different solutions and Use cases in one overview.
  • Visualisation
  • Easy set up of maps
  • Templates
  • Excel Import - Re-Import destroys layout
  • Gantt Chart - Calculation
It is a multitool for every problem in business live...
If you have a professional PM Tool - mindmanager is obsulete for Projekt management
Thomas Kleinschmidt, CIM(R) | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
MindManager is used for brainstorming, info management, tasks and task tracking. MindManager's features of creating templates, especially "themes" and "marker lists" make standardization easy enough. When maps get too 'big' we create a new MM from a branch and link both maps together automatically. The use of filters to see specific info/tasks/branches is done via our well thought out use of "markers" so that all maps big and small are able to be used/filtered in the same manner. We're looking forward to now use dashboards!

Next application for MindManager is that we're creating assets using MM instead of Excel, Lucidchart, MS Project.

Last, I'm quite happy that MindManager has now significant backing for developing this wonderful software!
  • 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.
Brainstorming
Note taking
Complex projects and tasking
Information / knowledge base
Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
Starting using the tool back when the company was MindJet. Downloaded MindManager about a year ago, and recently with a job change I found this to be critical to not only my professional plan but also my life plan. I think its a great software and it was easy to integrate and use. Also love the templates that layout all kinds of ideas along with business books. Recommended A++
  • Great Templates
  • Easy installation
  • Guided tour enough to get started
  • Perhaps integrate with Outlook or other calendar systems
Certainly a must for brainstorming and other discussion-lead scenarios. Pretty strong for planning purposes and calendar work in general. I can't speak to the network version or the team version yet, but I like the persistent license vs. cloud costs of the past.
Andrew Starodubtsev | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
The first time we heard about mind mapping software, we thought it was weird and unnecessary. But after a few minutes of using it, we were hooked. It allows you to organize your thoughts and tasks in a way that makes sense to you. It also helps you to think of unanticipated ideas and connections between your thoughts and gain valuable insights. MindManager is ideal for workgroups, teams and individuals to capture, organize, and share information, manage the tasks that come up with your business or your personal life and to create actionable plans.
  • 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
MindManager is an awesome mind mapping software that helps me organize my thoughts, keeping them in the proper perspective for the tasks i am working on at any given time and allowing me to efficiently track and manage my goals in a single, visual environment. Using color-coding and labels is a great way to visually keep track of everything I have going on and then to easily visualize what needs to be done next. It helps me take control of my agenda, achieve more in less time and become more productive.
Jay J. Keller | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
I've been using MindManager for more than 20 years. Most of the time I used MM to draw mind maps during meetings and to this day, I can almost remember any discussion I had in that meeting with other participants. Even highly complex meetings I can capture with ease and if I have to write meeting minutes, it is easy to do even after days passed. This tool is that powerful. Occasionally I use it for other things too but that is not why I bought the product so many years ago.
  • Mind Maps.
  • Easy organize thoughts.
  • Summary of meetings.
  • I would love to use it on my iPad too.
This is my go-to tool for sorting discussions via Mind Maps. The visible way of organizing discussions is just the best. I could not do it without a tool like this. Even if I read a book and I want to summarize it, I use a Mind Map and stick it in the book. Online presentations where I need to get the gist of it noted down I do with Mind Maps. I love it!
Andreea Chirindel | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
We have used it for multiple use cases - the main one is to map information into defined "buckets" hierarchically organized. The best thing about the tool is its ability to add notes for the components of the map as well as its pdf export functionality. Awesome! The departments that I worked after did not have the tool so I tried using some other solutions unsuccessfully. None out there is as great as MindManager.
  • 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
MindManager was used in Sprint 0 Agile planning sessions to track workflow steps and important details on them. MindManager was used in mapping a large amount of information into organized, hierarchically connected "buckets" MindManager was used in mapping user requirements and documenting the work breakdown.
Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
In our organization, we use MindManager as an alternative tool/method to display interdependences. This helps on one hand in understanding complex topics and on the other hand, gives structure and indicates gaps. The automatic layout function saves a lot of time especially when the full picture (because of the complex topic) is not known in the beginning.
  • 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.)
The MindManager tool is very useful for complex topics as it grows dynamically with the maturity of work. It shows enough flexibility as the full picture is not known at the beginning. More templates like Kanban charts would help in broader usage of tools. More flexibility in export functions would make it easier to integrate into our business processes.
Freddy Cardoza | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
I use Mind Manager for large-scale project planning that involves numerous staff, organizational teams, support resources, and due dates. I also use Mind Manager for ideation on big ideas, masterminding my career, creating to-do lists, and even for making presentations to my team. Finally, I use it for training students in graduate school and doctoral projects, and classroom instruction.
  • 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.
Most Useful Scenarios: brainstorming explaining processes project planning to mastermind complex ideas or plans Less Useful Scenarios: Items needing to be tracked by calendar date, customization in certain areas of the program should be expanded for more attractive visual appeal, and some intuitive features are lacking-- a new look at the layout may be advisable... even so, Mind Manager remains best in class.
Score 9 out of 10
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Verified User
Incentivized
I run an academic research lab. I use it to plan my days, weeks and quarters e.g. I have a map called "Today" that keeps me on track along with a new map for each week that tracks more goals. I also have maps for the overall lab goals. I often use maps to help brainstorm and outline new grants and papers that I'm writing.
  • 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.
I think it is clearly the best way to make a to-do list. My weekly list is essentially my dashboard for the week. Every Monday morning I spend a few minutes updating the previous map and it gets me on track for the coming week. I've not found the Gantt chart functions very user-friendly. It would be great to improve this.
Dan Ryan | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
My use of MindManager is not in any way problem specific. I find it helpful for working with any complex problem. In my experience, it helps me to clarify and refine my own thinking and organize my thoughts and express them visually so that they are more easily understood by others as well.
  • 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.
This is the single best tool to help visual learners express themselves on complex matters in my opinion. I have tried and used other programs that have certain elements, but this is far and away from the best option for me. The more complex the problem, the more that using this pays off. I tend to start in almost brainstorming mode and then move to group items and either arrange them in terms of process flow or simply organizationally.
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