Item: MindManager
Rating: 9
Author: Verified User

Overall Satisfaction

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

MindManager is only used by individuals at Infor, rather than a departmental or even corporate wide deployment. I use it mainly to help me capture ideas, manage projects or to develop outlines of papers I am writing. I love the fact that I can attach notes to the mind map and export the mind map into Microsoft Word, where it generates an entire document including formatting based on the structure of the mind map.

Pros and Cons

Pros

Structuring project tasks for simple projects
Capturing ideas in innovation management and ideation
Developing an outline of a more complex paper

Cons

License management support is not as responsive as it should be
New versions tend to be buggy
Most of the additional templates turn out to be not so useful once you use them

Return on Investment

Helps me innovate better as I can easily and quickly jot down ideas, structure them and keep a record of them

Alternatives Considered

I have tried out several of the open source / free alternatives but I find the usability and the integration with Microsoft Office worth spending the money.

Likelihood to Renew

I would like for the license to be easier to use across the multiple devices I have.

Likelihood to Recommend

The product is very simple to use and there is practically no training required. I would like to see improvements around the notes that can be attached to the structure of the MindMap as I use the solution a lot to write more complex documents. I wish it would work more like a text editor and expose a larger text field including more formatting options.

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MindManager - Great Tool for Information Workers