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
It has become an indispensable information management tool in my …
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MindManager for Microsoft Teams
$105
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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.
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
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MindManager Integrations
- Zapier
- Microsoft SharePoint
- Microsoft Teams
- Microsoft Excel
- MS Outlook
- MS Word
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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(406)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
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(1-25 of 137)MM review
- 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.
Your thought process will be clear and enjoyable.
- 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
- 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.
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.
- Categorize info objects.
- Filter information.
- Visuals Information.
- Many to many object links.
- Export to MS Excel (formatting).
- 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
- Supporting my thinking and creating processes
- Automatically creating maps with a thousand items
- Publishing a map in two mouse clicks
- 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.
Many functions to implement in order to survive
- 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..-
MindManager is a great tool for thinkers
- 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)
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 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.
Life Changing Software For Me-15 years!
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
Mindmanager - Good Enough Most of the Time
- 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.
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 org chart option-especially powerful with filter capabilities!
- Sales stakeholder visualization maps I have built using this are one-of-a-kind
Engineering with MindManager
- 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
Gaurdrails through visual mind mapping
- 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.
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
If you have a professional PM Tool - mindmanager is obsulete for Projekt management
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.
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
MindManager is an invaluable tool
- 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
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.
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
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.)
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.
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.
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.