Visual Bubble is a website that has been offering macros and add-ins for MindManager for the last year or so. Recently, they made available a new Visual Bubble Ribbon toolbar for MindManager 7, which adds 9 new pieces of functionality to the mind mapping program: Sum selected topics – This tool adds up the numeric [...]
CS Odessa has announced a new version 5.3 of its ConceptDraw MINDMAP software. It adds the capability of generating visual eBooks from mind maps, a unique capability. What, exactly, is a visual eBook? CS Odessa explains it like this in its official announcement: "(A) Visual eBook is an electronic book where all the information is [...]
MindManager is the leading developer of mind mapping software worldwide. Not surprisingly, an ecosystem of developers has formed around it, building add-ins that extend and enhance the program’s functionality. Here are five of my favorite MindManager add-ins: GyroQ Often when I’m working, an idea will come to me. What can I do with it, so [...]
Marici.com is a new web-based social mind mapping application that says it allows users to share their ideas, thoughts and more in the form of mind maps (click here to read the news release). At first glance, however, it looks to me like it has a ways to go in order to reach that ideal. [...]
Thinking Dimensions, a consulting firm that promotes the KEPNERandFOURIE methodology of problem solving and decision making, offers a MindManager Pro 7 add-in called the ThinkingWorks Wizard that helps users to make better busines decisions using this proprietary process. Utilizing a pop-up dialog box, the wizard walks users through a four-step process that consists of: Stating [...]
MindMeister recently announced the availability of several new "Geistesblitz" widgets that enable users to quickly insert ideas into a MindMeister map. Initially, the developer of the popular web-based mind mapping tool offered widgets for the Mac OS Dashboard and Windows Vista, but recently added them for the following platforms: Yahoo Widgets iGoogle iPhone MindMeister also [...]
Jamie Nast, writing in her Idea Mapping Blog, recently shared a case history of a group of 35 IT project leaders, who would meet weekly to review the major IT projects happening within their organization. Each week, a team of 4 people spent 2 days compiling an 85-page status document. By the time the IT [...]
According to the surveys I’ve done of mind mapping software users, its biggest benefit is helping them to achieve clarity in expressing their ideas and information. The latest issue of Mindjet’s monthly e-newsletter contains an interview with Jerry Manas, author of the book, Managing the Gray Areas, that reinforces this idea. Here are some key [...]
Exploratree is a new website that offers an impressive selection of free visual thinking guides. While not mind maps, they are marvelous tools for visual thinking and mapping of information and ideas. Think of thinking guides as blank templates that you can fill in with your ideas and information. You can download them for free, [...]
Marketing guru Roger C. Parker recently published a great series of tips in his Design to Sell Blog on how entrepreneurs and marketing people can utilize more of the design capabilities of MindManager 7.0 to create visual maps that uniquely reflect their firm’s image. While Roger’s tips are specific to MindManager, you can add your [...]
