Category Archives: MM21

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

Posted on 31 January, 2023 by Alex

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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MindManager Gaps and Tricks 3: Preserving line breaks and other formatting when exporting topic text to Word

Posted on 2 January, 2023 by Alex

In the third article of this occasional series looking at some of the gaps in MindManager’s extensive feature set and a few “tricks”, or workarounds, to deal with them, I’m offering some options for dealing with a question that gets … Continue reading →

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MindManager Gaps and Tricks 1: Exporting and printing topic notes

Posted on 23 October, 2022 by Alex

MindManager is one of the most comprehensively-featured mind mapping applications around, but there are a few things it doesn’t do well or at all, despite some of these features being available in competing products. However, MindManager’s versatility means that you … Continue reading →

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Setting up alternative checklists in MindManager

Posted on 30 September, 2021 by Alex

MindManager’s dedicated set of progress symbols provides a versatile tool for measuring how a task is proceeding. The default quartile progress levels (0, 25%, 50%, 75% and 100%) can be supplemented by including additional markers for 10%, 35%, 65% and … Continue reading →

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MindManager – “reverse mapping” and exporting the Map Index

Posted on 4 July, 2021 by Alex

If you use MindManager to categorise information the resulting groupings in the Map Index are often just as significant as the topics themselves. This is especially the case if you use MM’s tag feature as a basis for research, a … Continue reading →

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Turning URL lists into mindmaps: MindManager 2021 update

Posted on 30 May, 2021 by Alex

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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Logic, time and money: some MindManager formula surprises (Part 1)

Posted on 28 March, 2021 by Alex

A lot has happened since my last post in May 2020, starting of course with the huge and continuing world-wide impact of COVID. Back in April last year I wrote an article for the MindManager blog with advice of non-government … Continue reading →

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