Author Archives: Alex

Freestyle – how to deal with MindManager styles in documents exported to Word

Welcome to the first Sociamind post of 2016. Recently I described my technique for using MindManager (MM) to write blog posts which involved exporting a map to Word and then importing from there to WordPress. I extolled the virtues of … Continue reading

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What happened in Sociamind in 2015?

I would like to thank everyone who visited the Sociamind page in 2015, especially those who made comments or provided other feedback. In this final post for 2015 and with only five days of the year left to go I … Continue reading

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Supercharge web searching within MindManager

Update (21/06/2016): unfortunately the MindManager Google search map part has ceased to operate due to Google deprecating their old search API and adopting a new one. Consequently Mindjet have announced that they will update and completely rewrite the map part but … Continue reading

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Writing news blog posts with MindManager in eight steps

Introduction I’m certainly not the first nor will I be the last person to use a mindmap to assist in writing a blog post, but it was only recently that I discovered how useful they are in writing regular news … Continue reading

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Addendum to exporting a simple task or to-do list from MindManager

A little while ago I outlined a process for exporting a simple flat table of tasks from MindManager using the Gantt chart table. After describing this process I commented that there was one drawback, which was that the copying options … Continue reading

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Follow-up to exporting a simple table or to-do list from MindManager

I’ve been exploring the process I described in my last post to produce simple to-do lists or task tables from MindManager maps by copying the Gantt chart table and then pasting it in Excel or Word. But first, a clarification in … Continue reading

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Exporting a simple task table or to-do list from MindManager

While there are numerous options for exporting MindManager maps to Word, Excel, PowerPoint and other destinations, one thing the program lacks is an easy way to print or export a simple table or to-do list of tasks with just four … Continue reading

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MAP for MindManager – image exporting with the Swiss army knife of mindmapping

The world of add-ins for MindManager has always been interesting, if a bit fluid. MindManager (MM) is one of the few desktop mind mapping programs with an API which allows the development of third-party add-ins and as a result a few great examples have appeared … Continue reading

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Creating collapsible and expandable “many-to-one” relationships in MindManager mindmaps

One of the things most mindmapping programs are not really designed for is showing “many-to-one” relationships and MindManager (MM) is no exception. Like most of its competitors, the essential paradigm of MM is a set of topics branching out from a … Continue reading

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How to create maps in MindManager from directory-style tables

Update: Recently I published a series of articles covering the import of a range of material from Word, outlining some techniques which update the methods discussed below. Part A looks at the import of standard (non-table based) Word documents, Part B specifically … Continue reading

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