Storyboards (as defined by Wikipedia) are a series of illustrations displayed in sequence for the purpose of previsualizing an animated or live-action film. In recent year, businesses have adapted them as a means to plan ad campaigns, visualize business processes and many other applications. So it’s not surprising that mind mapping software can be used [...]

ActiveWords Systems, the developers of the popular ActiveWords software, have recently launched an add-in for MindManager. ActiveWords lets you set up word “triggers” which, when you type them in any context and press a trigger key, carry out the action you associated with the trigger word. What does this mean to MindManager users? Using the [...]

A developer who is a big fan of the social bookmark application del.icio.us and the open-source mind mapping software program FreeMind has created a "mashup" of the two called DeliciousMind. It enables you to easily import del.icio.us bookmarks and display them in the nodes of a visual map, complete with hyperlinks. I’m not a user [...]

Linda Dessau, writing in her blog, recently posted an interesting post on 10 ways that mind mapping can help creative minds. She is speaking specifically about its benefits for writers, but there are lessons here for the mind mapper in all of us (with my comments added): Connection: Mind mapping provides a visual guide to [...]

I don’t know how this one slipped by me, but in early February, Inspiration Software introduced version 8 of its well-regarded Inspiration mind mapping software. As usual, this program continues to be focused primarily on educational users, but still offers much for business users to like. New and notable features added to Inspiration v8 include: [...]

NovaMind Software has recently announced the release of their new Universal version of NovaMind, and completion of the transition from NovaMind 2 to NovaMind 3. NovaMind 3 can run natively on both a PowerPC-based Mac and on Apple’s new Intel machines. In addition, the developer has incorporates a number of other improvements, including: A Universal [...]

ResultsManager is a personal planning system from Gyronix that integrates with MindManager. It follows the principles of David Allen’s popular Getting Things Done (GTD) system, and is a powerful tool that can help you to continuously track you commitments, responsibilities, projects, tasks and ideas. So it should come as no surprise that someone has developed [...]