Customer Reviews

Mindjet MindManager Pro 7 [OLD VERSION]

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MindManager is one of the most useful software tools that I have. I use it constantly. It is very intuitive to use. It has a property that I really love about some software; if I'm not sure how to do a certain thing, I do what seems like it should work and most of the time it does. It's very friendly and obvious despite its sophistication. It's the kind of software that you can open up and just get to work with easily, but it also has a lot of depth and functionality to explore. I've been using MindManager for about seven years, including the various flavors of Microsoft Office integration and I have always been pleased with every new version of the software. You can output maps to many formats for sharing, collaborate on mind maps, and there's a really beautiful presentation mode that animates map navigation in an intelligent way for reviewing the information with others. The new version 7 has many improvements and enhancements over version 6, which I also loved. The implementation of the Microsoft Office styled ribbon tool bar is really well done, and the enhancements to mind map navigation and viewing are very helpful. I can very highly recommend this tool to anyone that needs to organize their thinking and planning.

i had recently shifted my career from Project to Product management and innovation. I was exposed to this package earlier in 2004 during a project. It's a way of life. Some people especially hard core techies don't like it when I use this tool all the time. I have used this package IN PLANNING, thinking about life, new baby needs, weddings...u name it. I really don't use MS Word anymore. I draft everything in mind manger and then send it to any application.

This tool is far better than taking minutes of meeting on a stale word document. This really gets people moving and talking real value added content instead of just blab.

I've been using MindManager for more than 5 years to organize projects, information and lessons. In the business world it handled pretty much everything I ever threw at it. In the world of education it lacks an important feature: the ability to enter equations (superscripts and subscripts). Teaching nearly any body of science requires scientific notation or exponents.

I've been passionate about this product for a long time. Go download it and see what it can do for you!

I like MindManager, and use it regularly. However, when I had a severe problem after a powerloss, it took them almosts a week to email me back (there are NO phone numbers for help on the website) and even then, all they sent me was a pro forma message suggesting I reinstall -- nothing at all about the problem or the error message I was getting from their program. So buy it, but be careful if you want any support -- they clearly don't want to support their users.

Unlike some of the other reviewers, I am very new to MindManager and to mind mapping in general. Yet, MindManager is quickly becoming one of my most valued tools. I am a freelance Web designer and developer and I have to juggle with a lot of information. I also need to brainstorm and generate ideas quickly to solve my clients' business problems.

MindManager is helping me organize and manage my projects in a more efficient mannner than I ever could before. I have tried a lot of mind mapping applications before deciding on MindManager and some of the reasons I chose it are that, the data you add to your maps in MindManager is meaningful. Icons have meaning beyond the mere visuals, notes enhance and enrich the core ideas and task data help keep to your real world schedule. But even beyond that, this data can be exported out of MindManager in several other useful formats with all this important information or metadata intact.

You would be surprised at how many mapping applications tout MS Office integration for example when the only thing they can export to a Word document is an image of the map embedded in the document and nothing more. MindManager goes way beyond that and exports the data with styles, icons and images in an outline format. Some of my clients would find it strange for me to give them a mind map as a project planning deliverable but I've had compliments on the quality of projects outlines I have simply exported to Word directly from MindManager.

In short, MindManager was a very sound investment for my creative business and I would recomment it to anyone with similar needs.

Mind Manager 7 has probably received most comments for its introduction of the Microsoft Ribbon. Whilst a great feature the more significant and valuable new features centre around how you can work with topics and filters. New editing features give new ways of selecting and editing topics and it's now possible to break a topic into several sub-topics. More powerful yet is the ability to save filtered views as queries for recall later. Working with a given map over time, creating updates or identifying new task or priorites, just became easier and more powerful.

Overall, this product is fabulous and I can't imagine running an organization without it. It is so easy to easily put together ideas and create presentations that allow individuals to "learn" the material, not just see a presentation. The company, though, is not particularly supportive about users problems with the software. Following a recent upgrade, my software became unusable, and Mindjet has not been particularly helpful.

I know many people swear by this product and other products of its type. I am not finding it particularly useful. I guess it's just me -- perhaps I haven't worked with it enough, but I seem to do as well without it.

I could not make it work with MS Vista premium on my Toshiba laptop. But does work with my desktop XP system. Has no interoperability with OpenOffice. Only with MS office.