Michael Scherotter recently posted a screencast in his blog at Mindjet Labs that demonstrates how to create a custom topic shape in Visio, export it in a MindManager compliant format, and how to load it into MindManager as a reusable "map part." Pretty cool! Michael, who headed Mindjet Labs and was the evangelist for the […]

Here’s an intriguing mind mapping contest: The author of the eDragonu Blog, Dragos Roua, which covers David Allen’s Getting Things Done (GTD) personal organizational methodology, is holding a contest for the best and most creative resume – in visual map format. The prize is a free license for MindManager 6. I normally wouldn’t highlight a […]

Mindjet recently announced that Eric Mack will present a webinar on March 27, 2007 on how he uses MindManager. A consultant on e-productivity and knowledge management, Eric is one of the savviest users of mind mapping technology that I know of. He’s also a true believer in utilizing MindManager on the Tablet PC. In fact, […]

Eric Blue recently wrote a very interesting post in his blog that describes, in detail, how to use mind mapping software to achieve your goals. It includes a step-by-step procedure that you can follow, plus some instructive screen captures that show his goal-setting visualization technique in action. Thanks for the heads up on this post, […]

Marcus Ingemann, in his Mind Mapping Power Pack, outlines a number of intriguing techniques for visual mapping. One of them is called "The Scale." It can be used any time you need to compare several items or choices with each other. It’s a marvelous way to visualize the advantages and drawbacks of a number of […]

Wallace Tait and I were talking last week about what businesspeople need to know about mind mapping software, and we got on the topic of his T.A.P. process, which makes it easy for newbies and experienced mappers to create effective business maps. So I decided to post this excerpt from my e-book, Power Tips and […]

If you’re using MindManager 6 on the Tablet PC platform, there are a number of things you can do to optimize this popular mind mapping application to give yourself more room to work. Chris Pringle explains how in this blog post.

Recently, Peter Maddern, founder of Speech Empowered Computing, posted a comment to this blog about his use of Dragon NaturallySpeaking speech recognition software to create visual maps in MindGenius. Because I’m a long-time fan and user of both technologies, I just had to know more! Peter graciously consented to be featured in an e-mail interview […]

Nick Duffill, CTO of Gyronix and mind mapping strategist extraordinaire, was recently featured on a Mindjet webcast entitled How to Use ResultsManager to Visualize Outcomes. During his informative presentation, he shared a simple technique for visual planning that he calls the "funnel timeline." Although he demonstrated it using MindManager, it can be done using almost […]

Eric Mack is a personal and workgroup productivity specialist, who systematically applys information, communication, and action technologies to help business executives and teams to become more efficient at what they do. He also writes an engaging blog that is focused on the Tablet PC, business productivity tools and more. He’s a big fan of mind […]