Category Archives: Project Management

Check out the Mindmapping software blog for my series on mind mapping and strategic planning

Posted on 30 March, 2017 by Alex

With the kind cooperation of Chuck Frey I have started a series of articles titled Mind map your way to a successful strategic planning day on the Mindmapping Software blog. These posts commence by explaining the advantages that mind mapping has … Continue reading →

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New tricks with MindManager HTML 5 exports and dashboard maps

Posted on 17 February, 2017 by Alex

In the first couple of posts in my series on MindManager 2017’s new features I looked at HTML 5 export and dashboard maps. I’m going to look at a couple more new features shortly, but first I wanted to add … Continue reading →

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Addendum to the dashboard maps post – a dashboard map example

Posted on 19 January, 2017 by Alex

I have received some very positive responses to my previous post on the new dashboard map facility in the latest update release of MindManager, version 2017.1, including a request that I make available the map I used to demonstrate how to set up … Continue reading →

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MindManager 2017’s new features in action – 2: dashboard maps (2017.1 update)

Posted on 17 January, 2017 by Alex

It seems that MindManager 2017 is a work in progress. Normally Mindjet makes incremental changes between major upgrades – and these are sometimes as much about taking out features, or fixing problems with previous additions as they are about adding … Continue reading →

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Using MindManager dashboard maps with Outlook: part 4

Posted on 22 January, 2015 by Alex

Having described how to sync MindManager (MM) tasks with Outlook and then how this relationship could be used to create an interactive dashboard as well as some of the limitations and issues involved in this approach in my earlier posts, … Continue reading →

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Using MindManager dashboard maps with Outlook: part 3

Posted on 21 January, 2015 by Alex

In my previous posts I covered how to sync MindManager (MM) tasks with Outlook and then how to use this relationship to create an interactive dashboard which can provide a basic snapshot of progress across multiple projects and maps. Once … Continue reading →

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Using MindManager dashboard maps with Outlook: part 2

Posted on 19 January, 2015 by Alex

In the previous post I demonstrated how MindManager (MM) tasks could be integrated with Outlook categories when tasks are synced between the two programs. In this article I’ll show how a single dashboard map can be created to provide a … Continue reading →

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Using MindManager dashboard maps with Outlook: part 1

Posted on 19 January, 2015 by Alex

Do you use MindManager, and have you always wanted to have one map to rule all the other ones? This series of posts outlines an approach that can be used to provide such a map, or at least one that would give … Continue reading →

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