Have you used Map Parts in Mindjet / MindManager for Windows? With just a little bit of effort you can be very efficient and effective when working with repeated use of topics. The product comes with some useful ones: Days of the week, Ideas, Issues and Messages. Each Map Part has a parent topic and several sub topics. When you click them they are added to the map at the selected topic. They are very useful in meetings. Someone makes a suggestion, add a map part and start capturing the details within a defined structure.
Map Parts are easy to create. Select the parent topic of the group you would like to be a Map Part and then click Add Selected Topic(s) in the Map Part pane. Your Map Part is now part of the library and can be added to any open map with a click.
I have two Map Parts I use frequently:
Virtual Boardroom
At a monthly meeting with a group of business friends we present an issue for discussion by the group. I use the map part as a template for each person’s issue. As we progress around the table I add this map part for each issue. Then I use the topics as prompts for questions and recording the discussions. At the end of the meeting it is easy to share the map as a whole or relevant sections to the person with the issue.
Signature
More Time Savers
There are more sophisticated map parts which will:
- Search the web, Amazon or eBay for you and bring back the top X results.
- Display the recent topics from an RSS feed
- Add links to Files and or Folders on your PC
Set aside some time to see how you could use Map Parts to make you more effective and efficient with Mindjet MindManager.
There is an Evernote Export from Mindjet Web (was Connect). Select a topic, click the Evernote tool, select the approriate options and you could have a topic, subtopics and links from a map as an outline in an Evernote note and a link back to the Mindjet Web map.
Do you want to share any of the following between team members or versions of MindManager?
Once added the new folders will appear in your Task Panes and Template Organiser. Last week I added a Dropbox folder. Later that week I took some pictures of the Royal Yacht with a mobile phone and saved them in Dropbox. They were available short afterwards to add to a map. For example this is useful for data gathering during site surveys with a mobile device. Then writing a report back at the office using a standard report map template which exports to Word.
I entered into a conversation with Mattias and we came to a solution using the former method. He has blogged the details of the Map Part solution in 
icon on Twitter and Twitter Search pages. You will not find it on Twitter list pages. See the last topic on the map.
