My Swiss Army Knife for years, my digital machine for the future
Updated July 18, 2023

My Swiss Army Knife for years, my digital machine for the future

Pieter van der Hijden | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User

Modules Used

  • MindManager Professional
  • mindshift

Overall Satisfaction with MindManager

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
  • giga time saver over the years
  • improved consistency in whatever I do
  • the ideal tool to make you impact oriented instead of output oriented
  • Strategic Planning
  • Brainstorming
  • Process Mapping
  • Education & Training
  • Knowledge Management
  • Meeting Management
  • Problem Solving
  • Task and Project Management
  • Project Planning
  • MM helps you structure your information on the spot. You then can easily restructure it afterwards.
  • MM is a great support in writing. In stead of starting to write, you start entering single words in a mindmap. Every day you work further on your mindmap. Only when you are completely happy with it, you start converting the leaves to sentences, the sentences to paragraphs, etc.
  • With the right macro's you can completely invert a mindmap within seconds.
Occasionally I look at other mind mapping software. Sometimes I see bells and whistles that I think are "nice to have". But in terms of robustness, completeness and, last but not least, a macro mechanism (including programming language and API) they lose it all.

Do you think MindManager delivers good value for the price?

Yes

Are you happy with MindManager's feature set?

Yes

Did MindManager live up to sales and marketing promises?

Yes

Did implementation of MindManager go as expected?

Yes

Would you buy MindManager again?

Yes

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.