MindJet is a Versitile Note Taking/Brainstorming/Visual Outlining Jack of All Trades
November 23, 2018
MindJet is a Versitile Note Taking/Brainstorming/Visual Outlining Jack of All Trades
Score 9 out of 10
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My team uses Mindjet to collect and organize notes during discovery, gap analysis and other systems architecture-related meetings in order to best organize and present summaries of discussions, document features lists and next steps
It's also used to document proposed system specifications, org charts and occasionally process timelines
It's also used to document proposed system specifications, org charts and occasionally process timelines
- Brainstorming
- Process Mapping
- Education & Training
- Knowledge Management
- Meeting Management
- Problem Solving
- Task and Project Management
- Project Planning
- Presents outlines in an easy-to-digest format
- Can reveal structure and relationships that other tools (IE: Excel, Word, Visio) cannot
- Takes large problems and logically breaks them down into less-intimidating bite-sized tasks
- Mindjet for MacOS is relatively slow and buggy compared with its Windows big brother - which is too bad. Our organization (medical school; medical research) is largely Mac-based - educators and business communications professionals are largely Mac users. A feature-identical client for MacOS would be welcome.
- I would be able to install 20 seats if this product were in the $50 - $80/seat range - where it is priced (even for education) right now I am able to maintain 3-4 seats.
I’m not sure
- Improved business communications - mindjet is a visual outliner that can present lots of information in a compact format perfect for consumption by business peers & senior leadership
- Better note taker: items in meetings often come out incomplete, disjointed and unorganized. grabbing everything in Mindjet and then taking time later to organize into groups/hierarchies and make notes of relationships, add in links to external resources (etc.) is something I haven't been able to do in any other single tool
(already described in detail previously)
Mindjet is great for documenting business systems, business process steps at the checklist/SOP level, cataloging related information and then rearranging later.
Mindjet is great for documenting business systems, business process steps at the checklist/SOP level, cataloging related information and then rearranging later.
I actually use all these tools for different purposes. OneNote isn't ideal, but it's on my Mac, PC and iPad and all the notes are seamlessly available everywhere. Mindjet is better for documenting things that can be grouped or put into hierarchies. Visio is (for me) a cross-functional diagram tool. Have't warmed up to OmniGaffle - difficult interface and it has a habit of rearranging my drawings between save/close/open...