Category Archives: Import

MindManager Gaps and Tricks 4: How to include hyperlinks and task and topic information when importing a Word document (MM21/22 update)

In this occasional series I’m looking at some of the gaps in MindManager’s extensive feature set and describing a few “tricks”, or workarounds, to deal with them. In MindManager Gaps and Tricks 2 I described how to import a table … Continue reading

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Turning URL lists into mindmaps: MindManager 2021 update

Surprisingly, MindManager (MM) lacks a facility to easily import and map a list of URLs. These can be all sorts of things, for example, bookmark or favourite lists exported from web browsers, website page directories, product lists on commerce websites, … Continue reading

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Search all files in MindManager – with a little help from Windows

A recent question on the MindManager (MM) forum got me thinking about MindManager’s search capabilities. These are reasonably comprehensive when it comes to searching MM’s own files, with the ability to search topic text, notes, properties and a variety of … Continue reading

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Mind Mapping the World-Wide Web, one page at a time

It’s been a little while since I last updated this blog. I was going to mark my return to regular posting by reviewing some of the new features in the latest MindManager 2020 release, but first I’ve decided to take … Continue reading

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MindManager Shortcuts: 6 –Import and Export Options (part 1: Microsoft Word)

As part of an occasional “series within a series” I’ll be looking at shortcuts to help manage MindManager’s relationships with other programs. With a few significant exceptions MindManager (MM) does not provide a wealth of ways to exchange information with … Continue reading

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The Ins and Outs of MindManager Word Importing – Part C: Task Lists

This is the third in a series about importing Word documents into MindManager (MM), relying in part on the program’s ability to recognise its own Word formatting to recognise specialised fields. In the first part I covered how to import paragraph-based documents … Continue reading

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The Ins and Outs of MindManager Word Importing – Part B: tables

This is the second in a series about importing Word documents into MindManager (MM). In the first part I looked at the options for importing paragraph-based documents and retaining the heading structure in the topic hierarchy of the resulting mind map. In … Continue reading

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The ins and outs of MindManager Word importing – part A: standard Word documents

Background In my last post I discussed in detail a process I have developed to import a task list from Word into MindManager (MM). This process uses a unique feature of MM – when it sends a document the other … Continue reading

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Sending tasks from Word to MindManager (with a little help from Excel)

Update: I have published an updated and simplified method for importing task lists from Word which does not rely on splitting the table into rows as described in the post below. This is Part C of a series of articles on importing … 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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