My MindJet customer vignette is up, with a bonus photo of my son playing my guitar.
Check out the whole list of vignettes. An interesting lot, we MindManager users are.
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I don’t know if anyone else has done this yet, but I made these and I find them handy and maybe some of you will as well. They are GTD incompletion lists turned into MindManager templates. What I do is, I start a new mind map, add branches tagged as tasks to the branches in the templates, and then sync with Outlook. I then delete the maps, because I use a master Outlook task map. It is, for me anyway, a nice way to do a brain dump and get everything into Outlook in a visual environment. I use them as a cognitive funnel.
There are separate templates for business + personal, business only, and personal only.
Download: GTD Incompletion Trigger List MindManager Templates
William Gibson’s blog had a post about the music he was listening to. This led me to checking out the Drive-By Truckers on iTunes and collecting some semi-related alt-country albums I want to buy later. I know too well how easy it is to buy everything I see on iTunes, so I often do this kind of mind map so that I can return to the albums and artists I thought I liked late one night and try them out again later. MindManager is perfect for this, because I can preserve all sorts of weird associations that would be difficult to maintain otherwise.
Click on the image for the full mind map.
I have been a huge fan of PigPog’s post about his nowMap templates and method for months. It’s sort of a loose-form concept mapping to help you get it together as you go about your day. I have used them when away from computers and running around, and also while sitting at computers. However, I also like to keep something similar in MindManager. It’s a little different, because MindManager doesn’t do concept mapping. I haven’t found this to be any trouble at all, since I will print these out, with the background, and write all over them while I’m running around or away from computers. Since the information is split between the computer and my written notes, it saves me some data entry time.
Here is what they tend to look like (click for a larger version). The data is falsified, but it should be obvious to anyone reading this that I need a vacation.
I have a template that I use to pop these maps out as quickly as I need them, and a style that I can use to convert any map to this look. I use styles a lot to organize my maps so that I can see at a glance when I switch to MindManager and tab through my documents what sort of thing I’m working on.
I’ve made the template, the style, and a converted image of PigPog’s template that you can try out as a background (though this isn’t a very flexible option … it’s easy to run out of space) available as a download:
You can also try printing the original template first, and then printing your map on top of it, turning off the printing of the background image. I got this idea from a similar topic at the Mindjet forum.
This is nice to have at a higher level of geekery. Now you can have all of your to do items from all of your mind maps exported instantly into a format that is understood by org-mode, a fantastic organizer that runs in Emacs. See the Tools page to download the latest version of the MindManager To Do Extractor.
Nice. I’ve been enjoying the relatively new Map Linker as well.
The Mind Mapping SoftwareWeblog: New Mindjet add-ins for MindManager 7
The development team at Mindjet Labs has been busy during the summer months, writing new add-ins to extend the functionality of the latest version of MindManager. Since August 1, six new applications have been posted to the Mindjet Labs MindManager 7 download page.
The latest version of this handy utility, available in our Tools section, formats the output a bit more nicely & lets you specify a list of files to ignore.
I just added the Tools page with its first entry, a crude tool for printing out the text of all branches in a folder full of MindManager maps that have task information associated with them. Enjoy at your own risk.
Mindjet has released the new DevZone for MindManager 7 add-in and periphery developers. Good news for those of us that have been waiting for it, thought I’m not sure when it actually began appearing because I stopped looking for it a while back.
