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4 stars
Version: Mindjet MindManager Pro 7
Pros: It's good for meeting, and researching, in general.
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3 out of 3 people found this review helpful
5 stars
Version: Mindjet MindManager Pro 6
"Ther best tool to develop ideas"
Pros: First I recommend reading some material about Mind Maps. Then, buy this software and you will become addicted to developing ideas to its limits.
This software helps me design web pages, business ideas, it also helps me with my day to day tasks... I've even made my Home's "rules" with it.
Cons: The price isn't cheap but what you can achieve with this software makes paying the price an investment worth every dollar.
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2 out of 2 people found this review helpful
4 stars
Version: Mindjet MindManager Pro 6
"Good software for presenting ideas"
Pros: This software is a very powerful tool for developing and presenting ideas in a graphical format.
It is intuitively structured and reasonably easy to learn, with or without the inbuilt tutorials. I found that the more advanced functions are not all that well documented, but most of it is easy enough to figure out.
The ability to attach documents/files, notes, excel spreadsheets and the like enables one to maintain the visual simplicity of the document, while simultaneously including a lot of detail.
The free viewer to enable those without this software to display documents in native format is an advantage, as is the ability to export to a variety of formats, including pdf, html, powerpoint and word (as a text outline only).
Probably the best software for its purpose
Cons: Despite many advantages the software has some rather annoying flaws that make it fall short of five stars. Moving topics around the work space is not as easy as it should be and the software will often re-arrange the position of the topics that you had carefully positioned just where you wanted.
The software is not well adapted to creating cause and consequence type of diagrams. While there are automatic outline styles for structured flow charts (ie. Topic, sub-topics, sub-sub-topics), there is no ready structure for creating causal relationship (ie A and B cause C and C causes D). To create these sorts of flow charts you need to use "floating topics", which requires much more manual handling, pretty much prevents any meaningful export into Word (because the software doesn't recognise the floating topics as part of a structure) and creates problems when exporting to powerpoint and HTML (for the same reason).
The export into HTML is imperfect, sometimes failing to create links to attached documents without manual editing (which is beyond the skill-level of most users).
Despite these criticisms, it remains a very useful software, but a bit of additional flexibility would make it perfect.
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5 stars
Version: Mindjet MindManager Pro 7
"Incremental increase on a great product"
Pros: MindManager 7 Pro is excellent for mapping out products, ideas, writing or projects with lots of details. I've used MM for 6 years and have it running on my machine all the time. I even use it at home for keeping track of lots of details for home projects. MM7's filtering brings huge maps into sharp focus, and the new ability to save and reuse filters and queries only enhances that ability.
There's also a new function to focus down on a selected branch in a larger map, hiding everything else until you want to see the "big picture" again, as well as splitting your screen to view 2 widely-separated parts of a large map at once.
They've also added macro functionality to let an expert user build templates that will prompt newer users when creating a new map with the template. That makes introducing mindmapping and MM7 to new, less-techie users much easier.
Finally, there are new ways to export and save your work, so sharing is better.
If you're a previous user looking to upgrade to the latest, check out the trial version first. There's no new "must-have" features here, just incremental improvements.
If you haven't used MM before, give the trial version a serious look. Mindmapping and MM7 can help you become much more productive at work or home. I introduced it to the fundraising office at my college and it got so popular that they ended up getting a site license so everyone can have MindManager; it's that good.
Cons: They replaced the traditional menus with the Microsoft Office 2007 "Ribbon" interface, which you'll either love, hate or be indifferent (as I am) . If you're already using Office 2007, you'll feel very comfortable. If not, it may take you a couple hours. Be sure to read the help documentation to learn the tricks for using the Ribbon interface well, so you'll have a good experience.
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5 stars
Version: Mindjet MindManager Pro 7.1
Pros: Versatile, light and powerful. Perfect, just what I needed.
Cons: None
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