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Draft Results – Mind Mapping Software, MindMananger & User Groups Survey

Friday, August 27th, 2010

Just to keep the appetites wetted while I take the long weekend off to play cricket, commentate on cricket, drink refreshments, eat cake and run another MindManager License competition! Here is a draft map of your survey comments and inputs. There is a lot more to process and react to particularly individual comments people made, which I will be responding to personally.

Click the little map to get the bigger draftier map.

Map linking to draft survey results

Thank you for taking to the time enter the competition and complete the surveys.

The winning answer was 6527 and the winners have been declared here.

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Special Message for Blog email Subscribers

Friday, August 20th, 2010

You have not been receiving the emails for blogs since February this year. The RSS feed location in WordPress seems to have changed and Feedburner was not picking up the blogs! I have revised it and you should get this email! Thank you Richard Parsons for alerting me.

Here is a digest of recent posts. Click to view.

Applications of MindManager

http://www.applications.cabre.co.uk/2010/08/a-review-of-the-mindmanager-9-release/ http://www.applications.cabre.co.uk/2010/08/a-review-of-the-mindmanager-9-release/ http://www.applications.cabre.co.uk http://www.applications.cabre.co.uk http://www.applications.cabre.co.uk/2010/08/strengths-and-weaknesses-of-mindmanager-9/ http://www.applications.cabre.co.uk/2010/08/strengths-and-weaknesses-of-mindmanager-9/ http://www.applications.cabre.co.uk/2010/08/upgrading-to-mindmanager-9-from-previous-versions-tips/ http://www.applications.cabre.co.uk/2010/08/upgrading-to-mindmanager-9-from-previous-versions-tips/ http://www.applications.cabre.co.uk/2010/08/a-overview-of-mindmanager-user-groups/ http://www.applications.cabre.co.uk/2010/08/a-overview-of-mindmanager-user-groups/ http://www.applications.cabre.co.uk/2010/08/being-a-veteran-user-and-revised-features-for-task-managment-in-mindmanager-9/ http://www.applications.cabre.co.uk/2010/08/being-a-veteran-user-and-revised-features-for-task-managment-in-mindmanager-9/ http://www.applications.cabre.co.uk/2010/08/mindjet-mindmanager-roadshows-2010/ http://www.applications.cabre.co.uk/2010/08/mindjet-mindmanager-roadshows-2010/ http://www.applications.cabre.co.uk/2010/07/mindmanager-9-license-competitions/ http://www.applications.cabre.co.uk/2010/07/mindmanager-9-license-competitions/ http://www.applications.cabre.co.uk/2010/08/win-a-mindmanager-9-windows-license-survey-and-question/ http://www.applications.cabre.co.uk/2010/08/win-a-mindmanager-9-windows-license-survey-and-question/ http://www.applications.cabre.co.uk/2010/08/mindmanager-9-windows-video-and-related-videos/ http://www.applications.cabre.co.uk/2010/08/mindmanager-9-windows-video-and-related-videos/ http://www.applications.cabre.co.uk/2010/08/things-to-do-post-installation-of-mindmanager-9/ http://www.applications.cabre.co.uk/2010/08/things-to-do-post-installation-of-mindmanager-9/

Note the map was created automatically with the Map Part -News Feed {right click the News Feeeds folder} (which no longer seems to be a refreshable part).
The Notes icons were hidden in the View > Show/Hide.
The map was exported to the web using the Clickable Image template.
I uploaded the resulting gif file (In Customize > Advance Settings > Turn off the map background) to my WordPress server.
The index.html.txt was pasted in to the blog and the ing src pointed at the uploaded gif.

Easy when you know how. I could do it quicker in MindManager 7 because the Web Export could be added to the Quick Access Toolbar :(

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Strengths and Weaknesses of MindManager 9

Friday, August 20th, 2010

Back in October 2009 I created a MindMeister Wiki Map (anyone can edit) about the Strengths and Weaknesses of Mind Mapping Software.  Soon after a sub map for Mindjet was added.  Today I have added a new node to that map for MindManager 9, plus some initial thoughts.  Please add yours. 

My other thought is why don’t Mindjet have a free wiki map tool?

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First Anniversary Index of Applications of MindManager

Thursday, February 12th, 2009

Its been bugging me for a few days that I can’t see an index of my blogs. I am hoping that someone will point me to a useful Blogger add-in after this posting. In the meantime I have constructed a few with MindManager by dragging and dropping titles and links via a Google search.

Applications of MindManager Index Map

You can view the index:

  1. As a large clickable image map
  2. By downloading the Mindjet Player PDF
  3. By viewing the Mindjet Player Flash Page
  4. As a text linked outline
  5. And I only just thought of this, you can download the MindManager map.

The clickable image map shows the original map full scale but I replaced the standard jog file with a gif so it loads faster.
The PDF file alters the formatting and produces a very large file.
The Flash is also big which is why I put it on a separate page.
I need to write a version of the outline template so it is fit for the purpose of adding linked text to a blog. The styles and structure make it too complicated at the moment. Use view source to see what I mean.

The easiest way has got to be publishing it as map and letting you download it. It is also bar far the smallest file size.

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The First Part of a Book Review – Time Management for Dummies

Monday, September 29th, 2008

time management for dummies hyperlinks links to applications and web pages mentioned in the textTen days ago I sat down with Clare Evans at the Guoman Tower Hotel. We have been living parallel lives on Ecademy occasionally interacting but never really getting to know much about each other. Now we have 90 minutes of face to face insights and I have volunteered to publish some maps of her new book Time Management for Dummies.

Its a comprehensive book covering a wide range of time management issues. There are a few helpful chapters focussed on home workers and small businesses. I recently exchanged messages with an ex-Lehman Brothers employee on Ecademy. More and more of us will be running our own business or at least considering our employed position as our personal business.

The book is full of useful tips “Focus on important tasks not just urgent ones” and processes such as the Wheel of Life, for improving your time management.

Here is the first map, the links mentioned in the book plus some extras. I am trialling the scary: Rescue Time, it records and graphs the web sites and applications you are using on your PC!

Time Management for Dummies – The Links

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