In my recent "Hot or Not" survey, the ribbon toolbar was rated the least popular of 19 features. In addition, based on what I’ve read in several online discussion groups, it appears that users have a love-hate relationship with this dramatic new productivity feature, which is available in MindManager and NovaMind.
I’m not quite sure [...]

CJ Cornell, writing in the latest Mindjet User Newsletter, shares with us a simple and very productive technique for utilizing MindManager 7’s Map Parts tool. In a nutshell, if you want to save a map or part of a map for re-use later (as a time-saver or for use as a template for repetitive [...]

Tom Crawford from the VizThink community recorded a video podcast with me earlier this week, where we talked about a number of topics related to mind mapping, including:

What is mind mapping?
Paper versus computer-assisted mapping
The history of mind mapping
The future of mind mapping
Web-based versus computer-based mapping tools
New features in demand by users
How to get started [...]

In my recent “What’s Hot or Not” survey, I asked readers of this blog to rate a series of mind mapping software features on a scale of one to 10, where one equals "not hot" and 10 equals "hot."  Sort of like the popular site that enables visitors to rank pictures of men and [...]

2008 is off to a great start for me, and I’m in a giving mood today.
I have decided to give away one free copy of my popular e-book, Power Tips & Strategies for Mind Mapping Software Second Edition, to a deserving reader. It contains a wealth of ideas, strategies and best practices that [...]

If you’ve spent any time around the various MindManager support groups on the web, you should be familiar with the name of Andrew Wilcox. He is the managing director of Cabre, a UK-based training firm that provides training on MindManager, and is quite active on the Ecademy Mind Mapping Forum and the Yahoo MindManager [...]

Vic Gee, author of the Mind Mapping Blog, envisions a day when there is total interoperability of mind mapping programs. In other words, any program can open and work with files created in any other program. As a first step in this quest, he has created a fascinating visualization that depicts which programs can [...]

Earlier this month, a new version of MindVisualizer was released by InnovationGear.com. New features in version 2.7.3 include:

Support for topic attachments: You can attach any type of existing files to a topic as attachments. You can also create common documents on the fly within the attachments dialogue box - nice!
Support for dragging and dropping [...]

This is the introduction of the Mind Mapping Manifesto, a new e-book that I will be publishing very soon:
In the name of organizational efficiency, chances are you’re now doing more work than ever before – more projects, more objectives, more data, more plans and more deliverables. It’s getting harder to keep up. You’re a [...]

It’s time to have a little fun. A popular website is HotorNot.com, where visitors get to rate pictures of men and women on a scale of 1-10, corresponding to how "hot" or "not hot" they are. I’ve decided to adapt this idea to mind mapping software, to get a feel for what features and [...]