MindManager
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Edgar R.
Verified UserMuseums and Institutions · 201-500 employees
Brain Storming for Pros
You wouldn't believe me if I told you that every big project in our organization starts as a mind map, and Mind Manager works best for us. But mind mapping is only the beginning, with its new templates including Kanban boards, timelines and process mapping, your main idea just keeps on growing.
- I've tried many mind mapping softwares but no one is as simpler as Mind Manager
- The main problem I've found is the correct organization of ideas (and reorganizing them as you go along), but navegation and idea organization is quite simple and intuitive
- The ability to export your mind mapping to Office apps like Excel and Powerpoint make report making a simpler and faster process
- With the years its development has made Mind Manager a lot faster and intuitive
- It would be great if selecting items and copying them into other apps would give you the option to paste as text, image, or even vector
Switched From
Price and ease of use. Exporting options across MS Office apps is flawless.
Tegid G.
Verified UserE-Learning · Self-Employed
Kanban and Mind Manager
As a task manager it is awesome and also helps in ideation sessions.
- The functionality is incredible
- If I have an idea, it has a function or feature to help me realize that idea
- From kanban boards to integrating with Kira (through a third party integration tool)
- It feels a little dated and you can't scroll using the work space this means having to use the scroll bar constantly
- Using the mouse wheel to zoom would also be useful
Why they chose it
"For the time being, imindmap is no longer being developed and Ayoa is not quite there in functionality."
Verified Professional
Automotive · 10000+ employees
Organize Your Mind to Control Your Brainstorming
Structured Brainstorming is key for engineering work, this tool allows you to do that.
- This allows you to make brainstorming more organized and structured
- Creating linkages and flows allows you to see interactions as well
This directs you to do brainstorming too much sctructured and sometimes you lost in the charts etc as creating charts etc not easy and you are losing motivation to use
Ilia T.
Verified UserInformation Technology and Services · 501-1000 employees
About MindManager
Overall super positive as everything seems to work.
- I was fortunate enough to have installed MindManager on my workstation
- Initially the idea was to use it for Flow Charts as I dislike using Visio and wanted an alternative
- I don't regret my decision
- Mind Manager is fairly intuitive, the design is clean with large icons (the layout in Visio was one of the reasons I wanted to try something else)
- I also like the fact that it integrates with Microsoft tools such as Teams and Outlook
- I don't think that I've used it enough to uncover any particular issues
- The only problem I had was learning how to use it quickly enough and that was helped by the tutorials which can be accessed within MindManager itself
Switched From
I disliked the design and the layouts. I prefer larger icons and a clean look and feel.
Steve E.
Verified UserArchitecture & Planning · 2-10 employees
Instant ROI for the Mercedes Benz of Mind Mapping Tools
Education, facilitation, planning, team management, and sharing of meeting results/next steps.
- The look is great and the integration with Microsoft couldn't be better
- MindManager 21 even integrates with MS Teams (beyond the already tight integration with the other MS Office tools)
- This tool has been something I have used for 20+ years, every version, and it has helped me tremendously for any planning, facilitation, or management project
- I always recommend it highest in terms of a Mind Mapping tool
- I think the Cloud channel and synchronous collaboration possibilities there need to be much better explained
- Plus, live help on the MindManager site would be a big plus, as I often have questions and it can sometimes be hard to connect with them
- Finally, their invoicing system is terrible and must be fundamentally upgraded
Why they chose it
"MindManager has the best look and the best relationship with Microsoft."
Ganjar W.
Verified UserHigher Education · 51-200 employees
Jumbled ideas? No need to worry anymore!
Mindmanager is essential for me. It helps me to explore ideas before writing it as scientific journals or before preparing the idea for a classroom seminar.
- Have you ever felt that you have lots of great ideas but they are too tangled
- That instead of feeling excitement on delivering these ideas, you are feeling overwhelmed instead
- Well, fear no more
- Mindmanager is there for you to help with this issue
- Mindmanager allows users to create a mind map of an idea
- It is very easy to use and has a simple, smooth user interface which allows users to straight away delve into the business: creating pathways to explore and express their ideas
- Mindmanager allows users to add icons or change colours to boxes, making it easier for users to highlight certain parts of ideas
- It also allows drag-and-drop to organise ideas collected through brainstorming sessions
- You can also tag ideas and present them collectively in tag view
- The best part is that you can convert your mind map into presentation slides, making it easier for you to communicate your ideas to wider audience
- Mindmanager is a commercial application, which requires users to pay
- You can use the free, 30-days trial version to test whether the application suits your need before paying the price of the application
Alistair M.
Verified UserE-Learning · 2-10 employees
Far more expensive than it needs to be
It's a great planning tool but loads of the features are completely irrelevant for my needs. The one online training event I attended was so complex I left half way through. When the current version needs updating I'll be going to a rival offering better value.
- Ease of import and export to and from Microsoft Word
- Basics are easy to use (but there are cheaper ways of doing the basics
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- It's more expensive than rivals
- It nags me for upgrades even after paying hundreds of pounds for a licence
- Although it's easy to publish a map so others can view it, if you want people to collaborate and edit the map you have to pay a significant additional licence
Torgrim S.
Verified UserComputer Software · 11-50 employees
The best knowledge manager and planner out there
MindManager is my preferred tool for tackling the day, and it's the first program I start each day, and the last I close before bedtime.
- The ease and speed of entering and visualising my information
- And the ease and speed of restructurering and making sense of my information
- No sync of preferences, my (daily maps) panel, etc
- between my computers (office and home)
Andreas L.
Verified UserTelecommunications · 11-50 employees
MindManager - Get your muddled-up thoughts and visualize them
It was the whiteboard to our business plan when we started our comapny and had a great friend to map out what was in my mind inorder to visualize my growth strategy
- The most intuitive piece of software I have used when tryingto map business ideas into an exectable action plan
- Able to add files and hyperlinks easily
- Share the document with users and even print the diagram in larger formats
- Great for our SWOT analysis to visually understand where we stand
- Takes a bit to get used to the many ways to annotate the diagram
Nairoby D.
Verified UserTelecommunications · 5001-10000 employees
The relationship between value and price speak of it
In my experience the use of the SW has made the work much easier, especially to make it more visual or for a presentation of a project
- I love using MindManager for mental maps and individual or group brainstorms, it is exactly like drawing on a sheet of paper with a pencil, with the great advantage of having shapes and icons to add and make the work more visual and attractive
- Organize ideas in a clean way
- It is relatively easy to use
- Privative tool, only for windows, I have not been able to update the version since I can not pay for it, the cost is high
- There are functions that I still do not learn to use and there is not enough documentation or forums in my opinion
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