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.
The name describes the product well, it shows how your mind works!
MindManager is the basis of all our brain storming and idea generation processes
MindManager to structure and organize info to make better decisions
Often used …
MindManager: A Fifteen year view
MindManager has become an indispensable tool over the years
Amazing software to improve your organization
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Important features to add to MindManager
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.
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Information Visualization Benefits
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Especially knowing where to look for info saves time.
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Information Visualization Benefits
- 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, …
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- Process Mapping
- Information Management
- Task and project tracking
- IT Strategic Planning
- Concept development
- Visualization graphic development
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Popular Features
- Notes and Attachments (5)9.191%
- Drag-and-Drop Capabilities (5)8.484%
- Color and Style Customization (5)7.171%
- Import and Export Options (5)6.767%
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Pricing
MindManager for Microsoft Teams
$105
Annual Subscription
$179
Organizations
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Entry-level set up fee?
- No setup fee
Offerings
- Free Trial
- Free/Freemium Version
- Premium Consulting/Integration Services
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Introducing MindManager: a mind-mapping and project management software
Features
Mind Mapping
These tools help users visualize ideas and make them come to life through charts and diagrams.
- 6.7Cross-Platform Compatibility(3) Ratings
Works seamlessly across different devices and operating systems, allowing users to access mind maps from various platforms.
- 8.3Customizable Templates(4) Ratings
Offers a variety of pre-designed templates for different types of mind maps, such as radial maps, tree maps, flowcharts, and org charts.
- 6.7Import and Export Options(5) Ratings
Enables users to import data from external sources like spreadsheets or documents, and export mind maps in various formats for sharing and collaboration.
- 5.9Real-time Collaboration Tools(4) Ratings
Supports real-time collaboration among multiple users, allowing them to work on the same mind map simultaneously and share ideas.
- 8.4Drag-and-Drop Capabilities(5) Ratings
Provides an intuitive interface where users can easily drag elements like nodes, branches, and connectors to create and customize their mind maps.
- 9.1Notes and Attachments(5) Ratings
Allows users to add notes, links, images, and attachments to nodes in the mind map for additional information and context.
- 7.1Color and Style Customization(5) Ratings
Offers options to customize the color, font, shape, and style of nodes, branches, and connectors to visually enhance the mind map.
- 6.9Presentation Mode(5) Ratings
Enables users to present their mind maps in a slideshow format, with the ability to navigate through the map and highlight key points.
- 8.6Integration with Task Management(4) Ratings
Integrates with task management tools to convert mind map nodes into actionable tasks, set priorities, deadlines, and track progress.
- 8.5Mind Map Revision History(4) Ratings
Keeps a record of changes made to the mind map, allowing users to track revisions, revert to previous versions, and collaborate effectively.
Product Details
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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
- Supported: Mind Map Revision History
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
- Jira Software
- Microsoft SharePoint
- Microsoft Teams
- Microsoft Excel
- Microsoft Outlook
- Microsoft Word
MindManager Competitors
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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(407)Community Insights
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Facilitating Brainstorming: Users have emphasized MindManager's role in streamlining brainstorming sessions and effectively capturing creative ideas, ultimately aiding in the navigation of intricate concepts and fostering collaboration among team members. The intuitive interface and customizable features make it a valuable tool for generating innovative solutions during group discussions.
Visual Information Organization: Reviewers admire the seamless process of capturing and structuring information in a visual layout, enabling them to visualize connections between different concepts easily and enhance overall comprehension. The visual representation enhances communication within teams by providing a clear overview of complex topics and promoting better decision-making processes.
Structured Templates for Documentation: Some users have noted that the structured templates offered by MindManager provide a systematic approach to documenting information in various formats, contributing to a more organized and visually appealing presentation of materials. These templates streamline the creation process for reports, presentations, and project plans, saving time while ensuring consistency across different projects.
Restrictive Templates: Users have found the new templates overly formal and limiting, particularly in terms of spacing and arrangement features, hindering their customization options and creativity when designing mind maps.
Complex Feature Training: Reviewers have noted that the feature set has grown more intricate, necessitating training to fully exploit its capabilities, which many find inconvenient and time-consuming. This complexity can be a barrier for users seeking a straightforward and intuitive experience.
Platform Compatibility Issues: Multiple users have encountered functionality disparities between versions and faced challenges with broken document attachment links when using MindManager across different platforms. These compatibility issues can disrupt workflow efficiency and lead to frustration among users relying on seamless cross-platform integration.
Attribute Ratings
- 8.7Likelihood to Renew22 ratings
- 8.2Availability5 ratings
- 8.2Performance4 ratings
- 7.6Usability16 ratings
- 4.3Support Rating14 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
Reviews
(1-25 of 199)- Keep all information in the same document
- Prioritize ideas
- Inserts usefull graph, Excel, photos
- Provide an output that can be shared with non user. The HTML creation is good but not all interlocutors grasp it.
- Convert a map into a presentation (like Powerpoint) creates slides that are difficult to organize.
- In general, the input is easy, the problem is to share output in a conventional way with others.
- It would be nice to provide Word and PowerPoint templates that convert the input into nicer documents
Then add documentation: tables, notes, hyperlinks to website.
Playing around with concepts helps with better defining the problems. Once the parameters are found, solution is easier to figure.
- organize ideas
- export structure to documents
- convey structures of ideas for others to discuss
- export to power point on Mac
- export to Excel on Mac
Often used to organize notes during meetings or assessments. The flexibility to radially organize and add layers of info such as dates, actions and priorities and colors helps to structure.
A must have tool to organize complex and vast amounts of information
- Meeting management and action lists
- Structured note taking during assessments
- Course development
- Visual appeal, other tools look much more fresh in ui
- Visual appeal of mind maps other tools create more vibrant and mind-map-esqe maps
- I think MindManager is a heavy desktop
- Tool, missing a cloud solution
MindManager: A Fifteen year view
The Six Sigma tool was eventually sold but I've continued using MindManager as a consultant and project manager working on enterprise software change projects. I've been able to capture data and documents from requirements lists to workflows, development and testing objectives, project management, testing and signoff and use MindManager as the core repository for multiple streams of reporting.
- Easy to use and understand
- Allows me to open my laptop any time and immediately facilitate ad-hoc brainstorming , collect user and stakeholder requests, and attach documentation to the event.
- Provides all the templates a project or program manager needs to manage end to end detail with the flexibility to add or change them on the fly
- UI: the web version is clunky, doesn't use the screen well, and the pastels don't work
- Price: I still want to buy a version for a fair price and use it until there's a new version with enough money-making features to justify buying it
- Who's your customer? This doesn't look or feel like a business app anymore
But MM is still more like Six Sigma than anything else in the market and there are still a lot of big companies with SS-like cultures where a strong core tool gets more buy-in.
I think it's less valuable for shorter term projects.
- Brainstorming
- Documentation
- Project plans
- Analysis of pros and cons
- Cloud implementation
- Collaboration with multiple users
- Rolling up any numerical values
Amazing software to improve your organization
- Organizes thoughts
- Creates amazing visualizations.
- Powers the brainstorming process.
- I like the software as it is.
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- 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.
Important features to add to MindManager
- Ideas Clarification
- Show the project in one slide
- Brainstorming
- Convert maps into 3D trees
- Maps should move, interact, and show the branches alternatively... Play mode
- The software should be more proactive. Ask (prompt) the ideas automatically.
- Once the idea is written, it should automatically open to write the children concepts.
- Ask the user if the map should start presenting itself in 3D mode or 2D mode showing all the concepts interactively.
- USE AI to create an interactive map.
Nice presentation of maps - not good (4)
Hard to use (4)
Not interactive (3)
Only 2D (2)
Not using AI (3)
I am using a range from 1 to 10.
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
A lifetime of use
- Project planning and control
- Knowledge management
- Note taking
- Formatting maps
- Design library
- Bounderies
Less appropriate when you need more elaborate formatting.
- 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.
Good but expensive.
- Templates.
- Present information in multiples format.
- Import data to create a map.
- Create a mind map based on a data source.
- 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.
Bitter/Sweet: I love it but I can't share it.
- It helps to give an in-depth view of a problem
- It helps to structure a plan of action
- It gives a great helicopter view of a project
- Its a great tool for research
- Co-editing with colleagues that don't have a mindmanager account
- Co-editing in a google environment (not microsoft teams)
Great software but now upgrades are too expensive.
- Outlining
- Connecting/organizing similar items/ideas, etc.
- Helping me stay focused on the big picture of my novel instead of getting lost in the minutia.
- Helping me move from the big picture to the details when I need to.
- Organizing my daily/weekly/monthly/annual work projects.
- Lower the price!!
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..-
- Colours.
- The ability to re-organise thoughts
- The ability to add notes and pictures
- The ability to work on alternative operating systems
- I cant use Mind Manager 2021 on this machine
- It Does not support my odd ball Video Adapter
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)
- Personal organiser of ideas and projects
- Defining Projects
- Problem-solving
- Creating WBS
- Meeting Preparation
- Brain Storming - Whiteboarding
- Licensing - I want to buy for a decent price without a yearly cost, but with reasonable upgrade costs as needed.
- I would like better tools to convert mind map into a good presentation in PowerPoint, currently too complex with poor results
- Simplify all export tools
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.
- Creating wonderful hierarchies moving from topic to subtopic to more detailed subtopics
- When using radial maps, it does a good job of distributing the topics around the main topic
- A more intuitive way to modify/create themes and templates...and then make the new theme the default.
- Add Main Topics to Free Form. Also, allow Topics and Subtopics to go in any direction.
- Allow manual positioning of topics/subtopics. For example, I may want a topic to branch off a main topic straight up. I may want the next topic to the upper right. Right now--concept maps aside (which don't do sub and sub subtopics)--I can't really do this.
- I'd also like more control over the paths connectors take to get to their topics and subtopics.
- 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.