Item: MindManager
Rating: 9
Author: Verified User

Overall Satisfaction with MindManager

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

Primary use is for pedagogical purposes in concept mapping. Secondary use is for concept mapping and planning for administrative tasks.

Common Applications for MindManager

Brainstorming
Process Mapping
Education & Training
Project Planning

Pros and Cons

Pros

Concept mapping for book chapters, lecture outlines, PowerPoint Slides
To-Do Lists
Modified flow-charting

Cons

The older versions of MindManager had simpler construction of maps than the current version.

Return on Investment

Mind Mapping saves time in presenting ideas to students and to colleagues, putting information into quickly understandable chunks of information using subbranches, arrows, etc.

Information Visualization Benefits

Presenting complex information to colleagues and students is facilitated by MindManager, especially with increased functionality in the ability to add multiple sub-branches and showing relationships between ideas.

Alternatives Considered

MindMeister

MindMeister is easier to use than MindManager, but MindManager has more functionality -- and this is probably why MindManager is not as simple and straightforward to use as the other.

Likelihood to Recommend

I use MindManager for mapping chapters of books in preparation, for writing lectures, for presenting content in an easily understandable fashion in PowerPoint and other presentation software. The uses to which I put the software work well. I have not used it for any other purposes, so anything less appropriate for its use is unknown to me.

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Excellent and Useful Software