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What do you think about Multiple Hyperlinks in MindManager 2012 topics?

Friday, October 14th, 2011

I am not keen.  Today I was updating the hyperlinks on a map. It happened that I had set View > Show/Hide > Hyperlinks to off. I was merrily dragging links from my Cabre web site on to a map that already had all the topics I wanted.  It was going to be a visual index on the web site.  Halfway through the process I realised my web page names were causing some problems.  So I changed them and redragged the links to the map.

After posting the clickable web export of the map into the web page I tested it and found it did not work.  I had already been scratching my head a lot today about various web site issues and this one seemed to be an unecessary problem. I have created hundreds of clickable image maps in the last decade and they normally work.

When I looked at the image map html code more closely I saw the problem. The URLs were pointing at a local network URL http://192.168.1.77 etc. Where did that come from?  I went back to the map and set View > Show/Hide > Hyperlinks to on.  No Cabre favicons only a figure of 8 link!  The penny dropped multiple hyperlinks per topic.  The local URLs were from when I tested the site on my local PC.  They were followed by all the URLs I had subsequently dropped on the topic.   The first URL in the list is used by the web export.

This disrupts my long standing and very effective way of working.  Please Mindjet can I have switch in the Options of the next service pack to turn this feature off?

On a more general note I don’t get having multiple links per topic. How do you know what they are without their page title or your topic text?  Some web sites uses numerical page names which have no hint of the content and many are longer than you will be able to see on the Manage Hyperlinks screen even when you mouse over.

I know there are many MindManager users who have been begging for this feature for years. What do you think?

About Andrew Wilcox

Andrew is an experienced user of MindManager who shares his knowledge and advice for free here. And provides commercial training and consulting on how to exploit MindManager and other mind mapping software applications in business, organisations and for individuals at Cabre For more information about Andrew please visit his Google + profile.

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Using MindManager to prepare for an interview

Wednesday, September 28th, 2011
MindManager map of questions and keyword answers for an interviewToday I was interviewed by Chantal Cooke from Passion for the Planet about Mind Mapping and Mind Mapping software for her digital radio station. Chantal sent me an email with an outline of the interview, so I could prepare my thoughts.  I copied and pasted the questions to a  MindManager Map and inked my responses to them in keywords / phrases. Click the map to see full size.

I think this really helped me answer the questions and made my responses sound professional.  I was not looking at the map during the interview.  You will have to wait until November to hear the result and the actual content.

About Andrew Wilcox

Andrew is an experienced user of MindManager who shares his knowledge and advice for free here. And provides commercial training and consulting on how to exploit MindManager and other mind mapping software applications in business, organisations and for individuals at Cabre For more information about Andrew please visit his Google + profile.

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MindManager 2012 – Installation – My Story

Thursday, September 22nd, 2011

It feels like Mindjet always launch their new products on a day when I am already committed to something else.  Today I thoroughly enjoyed hosting a meeting in the Hampshire countryside for  18 “associates”.  It was a virtually “unplugged venue”, in fact someone had to leave because they were so desperate to download a large file from a client and review it!  Today my committment to Mindjet versus my committment to the event was won by the event. Although I did try very earlyy this morning to see if I could find a download.

I have just downloaded MindManager 2012 Professional (11pm). I have MindManager 9 installed and I need it to continue to work as a desktop client for my Mindjet Catalyst workplaces. Let’s see what happens.

  • Microsoft C++ gets an update as well.
  • I better turn off all the Microsoft Applications and MindManager 9 first.
  • It thinks my organisation is HP. My problem: I have just transferred to a “new” Tablet PC, an HP 2740p (touch and stylus). I need to change the organisation in my PC set up somewhere.
  • The install is running.
  • It’s installed. I wish it’s icon was different to MindManager 9 in the Task Bar as need both.
  • Restarting Outlook because the installation said features would not be working until Outlook is restarted.
  • Starting MindManager 2012 Professional.
  • Ah the “Getting Started” pane has appeared.  A new feature for new users. (To be investigated later)
  • The My Maps shortcuts and folder have been imported from MindManager 9
  • My Quick Access Toolbar settings have not.
  • An existing map with a linked Excel range is working.

Enough for tonight, I will add more to my experience of installing MindManager 2012 Professional tomorrow as comment to this blog.  Please add comments about your experience of Installing MindManager 2012 Professional.

 

About Andrew Wilcox

Andrew is an experienced user of MindManager who shares his knowledge and advice for free here. And provides commercial training and consulting on how to exploit MindManager and other mind mapping software applications in business, organisations and for individuals at Cabre For more information about Andrew please visit his Google + profile.

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Overview of Mindjet’s new product launch for 22 September 2011

Thursday, September 15th, 2011

These maps are my notes plus a few personal comments  and questions. Come back again at the end of tomorrow and I will provide some links to relevant information.

My personal recommendation to you is, if you have MindManager 9 and  particularly if you have an older version is order the upgrade now. It’s £79 plus VAT, it will be £99 from the 22nd September. If you don’t have MindManager 9 Windows, buy it now for £199 plus VAT with a free upgrade to MindManger Professional 2012 because from the 22nd it will be £299 plus VAT.  Please contact me for more information on how to order. :)

Click the maps to see full size images:

Overview of the Release

There are two new products:

  1. Mindjet MindManger Professional 2012 (Windows desktop application)
  2. Mindjet Connect (Cloud based collaborative workspace with mobile access)

MindManager Professional 2012

This replaces MindManager 9 for Windows. There are two significant previously paid for add ins: Power Markers and Sharepoint Integration incorporated in the product. Plus the Project JetPack templates, a new brainstorming mode, 2×2 matrix analysis and enhanced task management.

Mindjet Connect

This replaces Mindjet Catalyst. There is a free version offering basic facilities to individuals and collaborative groups. The subscription Business version provides features for larger groups and for storing maps and files in a folder and sub-folder structure with different access rights.

 

About Andrew Wilcox

Andrew is an experienced user of MindManager who shares his knowledge and advice for free here. And provides commercial training and consulting on how to exploit MindManager and other mind mapping software applications in business, organisations and for individuals at Cabre For more information about Andrew please visit his Google + profile.

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Really Simple Project Management

Monday, August 1st, 2011

Perhaps a 15 years ago I attended a project management course. The one thing that sticks in my memory is the really simple project management system we were shown. It went like this:

  • Write all the activities and their owners on to a Post-it® Note.  You could complicated things by using different colour Post-it® Notes for different people.
  • Really Simple Project Management - 4 Zone BoardCreate a board with four boxes:
    • To do
    • In Progress
    • Complete
    • Attention Required
  • Now add the Post Post-it® Notes to the To Do box in the 4 box board.  Do I need to explain what to do next? ……. No.
  • Everything in the top 3 boxes are deemed to be in control.  Whenever an item appears in the “Attention Required” box, everyone in the project team gives it their attention.

Now assuming the Post-it® Notes don’t fall off (best to use the real thing on a suitable surface), you will have a clear overview of the state of the project otherwise known as a dashboard.

Really Simple Project Management Guide
Here is how you can replicate the process with MindManager:Please download this map and read the instructions.There are some hints at the bottom of the map about how you can make the process more complicated if you need to.

Really Simple Project Management Hard StyleIn addition here are two MindManager templates to download for a Really Simple Project Map.

About Andrew Wilcox

Andrew is an experienced user of MindManager who shares his knowledge and advice for free here. And provides commercial training and consulting on how to exploit MindManager and other mind mapping software applications in business, organisations and for individuals at Cabre For more information about Andrew please visit his Google + profile.

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Getting your bullets to Word via the Word Export

Thursday, July 28th, 2011

Microsoft Word Export SettingsThis week I was preparing a quote for some internal MindManager training using my quotation template but the bullet lists in the Topic Notes were arriving without their bullets in Word.  After a couple of emails to Mindjet, it clicked as to what I was doing wrong. It was one of those deja vu, I have been here before moments!

With the Style Mapping for Notes set to Body Text the bullets are not displayed in Word because Body Text does not have bullets.

The simple solution is to change this to:

None (Keep current style)

The alternative approach to producing bullets in the Word document is to edit say the Heading Level 3 style in your Word template to include bullets or to select the List Bullet style. Then all your level 3 topics will appear as bullets in the document.

About Andrew Wilcox

Andrew is an experienced user of MindManager who shares his knowledge and advice for free here. And provides commercial training and consulting on how to exploit MindManager and other mind mapping software applications in business, organisations and for individuals at Cabre For more information about Andrew please visit his Google + profile.

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Gathering Information from Web Pages

Monday, July 4th, 2011

A tip about collecting information using MindManager using the example of Search Engine Optimisation research.

In Firefox you can install the Web Rank toolbar. This gives you information about Google page rank, Alexa, number of pages indexed, back links for the current web page and more.  You can use this to check out the relative position of your web pages versus others in your sector. The results appear on the toolbar but you can’t collect and compare the results except by typing them into another application e.g. MindManager or Excel.

I use the Windows Snipping Tool to copy and paste (Ctrl-Shift-Alt-V) the results into topics in a MindManager map. You could use other tools such as Jing, SnagIT etc.

Windows Snipping Tool

And the result is shown below.  Click the topics to visit the web sites.

SEO Tools Checking Your Position

http://mappio.com/ http://mappio.com/ http://www.mindjet.com/ http://www.mindjet.com/ http://www.cabre.co.uk/index.php http://www.cabre.co.uk/index.php https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/webrank-toolbar-pagerank-alexa/ https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/webrank-toolbar-pagerank-alexa/ http://www.biggerplate.com/ http://www.biggerplate.com/ http://www.applications.cabre.co.uk/ http://www.applications.cabre.co.uk/ http://www.olympic-limited.co.uk/ http://www.olympic-limited.co.uk/

I am sure you can think of other examples you need to research.
Some further thoughts:
  • Date the research
  • Transfer key values to a MindManager or Excel spreadsheet and track what happens.
  • Paste the images in to a table in topics notes
  • Add a topic alert to bring you back to the map in a week or a months time to repeat the research.

About Andrew Wilcox

Andrew is an experienced user of MindManager who shares his knowledge and advice for free here. And provides commercial training and consulting on how to exploit MindManager and other mind mapping software applications in business, organisations and for individuals at Cabre For more information about Andrew please visit his Google + profile.

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Mapping a Skype conversation

Wednesday, June 29th, 2011

Have you ever joined a Skype group chat after the other participants have exchanged several messages? Scrolling down the conversation you get some sense of what has been going on. But the questions and answers are sometimes interleaved and there are multiple threads going on between the participants. Here is my solution for unravelling the spaghetti.

MindManager map of Skype ConversationSelect all the messages and paste them on to a MindManager map. You will get a topic for each message with the Skype ID (writer) and date/time included. Pick a principal statement or question and then drag the responses to the principal creating subtopics. Often responses can be found several unrelated messages later.  Additional marking up you could do:

  1. If topics relate to each other, you can add relationships or colour code the topics.
  2. Search for Skype ids and then mark the topics with an avatar.
  3. Search for keywords and highlight the topics.
  4. Add Call Outs with your private thoughts

This is the map (without the text) from two other peoples conversation that I was not able to participate in yesterday. It gives you some idea of how MindManager can be used to convert a complex stream of messages in to coherent digestable groups!

Click the map to see a larger image.

About Andrew Wilcox

Andrew is an experienced user of MindManager who shares his knowledge and advice for free here. And provides commercial training and consulting on how to exploit MindManager and other mind mapping software applications in business, organisations and for individuals at Cabre For more information about Andrew please visit his Google + profile.

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Mindjet for iPhone and iPad – Version 1.0 – Map of relevant links

Thursday, June 16th, 2011

Mindjet have recently released their own apps for the iPhone and iPad. The map below gives you links to where you can buy the apps and information about them. I have also provided links to Twitter and the search engines where you can begin to see the user’s reactions to these new applications. If you find any real reviews as opposed to reprints of Mindjet’s PR I would be pleased to add them to the map.

You can download the map, add your own links and refresh the Twitter map part to get the latest Tweets.

Mindjet for iPhone and iPad

http://twitter.com/smartshortcuts/statuses/81197755439120384 http://twitter.com/smartshortcuts/statuses/81197755439120384 Extending mapping across platforms with new Mac, iPad & iPhone Products Extending mapping across platforms with new Mac, iPad & iPhone Products http://twitter.com/LizDay1341/statuses/81226942162010112 http://twitter.com/LizDay1341/statuses/81226942162010112 http://twitter.com/Skoda_Yeti/statuses/81069467332919296 http://twitter.com/Skoda_Yeti/statuses/81069467332919296 A Letter to Previous Mindjet iPhone Users The Mindjet Blog A Letter to Previous Mindjet iPhone Users The Mindjet Blog http://twitter.com/DarkSatWorld/statuses/81062844673703937 http://twitter.com/DarkSatWorld/statuses/81062844673703937 10 iPad iPhone tips to get you mapping on the go! 10 iPad iPhone tips to get you mapping on the go! Google Google http://twitter.com/JohannaPPR/statuses/81061752892178432 http://twitter.com/JohannaPPR/statuses/81061752892178432 mindjet iphone OR ipad - Twitter Search mindjet iphone OR ipad - Twitter Search Mindjet for iPhone Mindjet for iPhone http://www.biggerplate.com/mindmaps/cSQJuitA/mindjet-for-ipad-vs-ithoughtshd http://www.biggerplate.com/mindmaps/cSQJuitA/mindjet-for-ipad-vs-ithoughtshd http://twitter.com/nvdmaster/statuses/81118788648583168 http://twitter.com/nvdmaster/statuses/81118788648583168 http://twitter.com/robincapper/statuses/81275979242274816 http://twitter.com/robincapper/statuses/81275979242274816 http://twitter.com/ptext/statuses/81282700488605696 http://twitter.com/ptext/statuses/81282700488605696 http://twitter.com/apps_ios/statuses/81114570940354560 http://twitter.com/apps_ios/statuses/81114570940354560 http://twitter.com/apptoday/statuses/81209184577794048 http://twitter.com/apptoday/statuses/81209184577794048 Bing Bing http://twitter.com/djcromosoma/statuses/81114906954436608 http://twitter.com/djcromosoma/statuses/81114906954436608 Say ‘Hello’ to our new iOS apps Mindjet for iPad and Mindjet for iPhone! Say ‘Hello’ to our new iOS apps Mindjet for iPad and Mindjet for iPhone! mindjet iphone OR ipad mindjet iphone OR ipad http://twitter.com/flipboard_/statuses/81256791975002112 http://twitter.com/flipboard_/statuses/81256791975002112 Yahoo! Yahoo! http://twitter.com/HansIngeS/statuses/81144932345184256 http://twitter.com/HansIngeS/statuses/81144932345184256 Download this map Download this map Mindjet Mobile Apps – Overview Mindjet Mobile Apps – Overview Mindjet for iPad Mindjet for iPad http://twitter.com/betanco/statuses/81097194983276545 http://twitter.com/betanco/statuses/81097194983276545 http://twitter.com/new_susi/statuses/81061671719796736 http://twitter.com/new_susi/statuses/81061671719796736

Please add your comments on these new apps below. How does it compare to iThoughtsHD?

About Andrew Wilcox

Andrew is an experienced user of MindManager who shares his knowledge and advice for free here. And provides commercial training and consulting on how to exploit MindManager and other mind mapping software applications in business, organisations and for individuals at Cabre For more information about Andrew please visit his Google + profile.

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Mind Mapping for Social Work (or general patient diagnosis and care)

Sunday, June 12th, 2011

A friend of mine has asked if I knew of any examples of mind mapping being used by Social Workers to understand complex cases. This arose from his conversation with a Social Worker. My immediate answer is I have no direct experience of it. My second reaction was to search the web. I found examples of social workers using it to study and manage projects but not patients (or even descriptions of how to use mind mapping in patient care). As my friend observed “There would appear to be a prima facie case for mind mapping”.  A statement I find easy to agree with.

Here are some examples of use I can think of:

  • Mapping the patient’s circumstances: Family, Friends, Finance, Illness, Home situtation
  • Asking the patient to map their situation
  • Comparing maps produced at different stages in the case
  • Mapping the assessment, diagnosis and remedies
  • Mapping those involved in the care of the patient and their roles

Perhaps you could suggest other examples.

If you are a social or health worker you could add some comments to this blog about the use of mind mapping in your profession. And if you are willing to put in direct with the Social Worker my friend wants to help please make direct contact with me.

About Andrew Wilcox

Andrew is an experienced user of MindManager who shares his knowledge and advice for free here. And provides commercial training and consulting on how to exploit MindManager and other mind mapping software applications in business, organisations and for individuals at Cabre For more information about Andrew please visit his Google + profile.

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