Back when I first wrote Fuseminder, I surveyed available mind mapping software.
Unfortunately, I couldn't review MindManager because its downloadable trial
installer didn't work. I've tried again; here are some impressions:
- MindManager doesn't give you collaboration a la MindMapper+ unless you spend
the extra $50 for the Business edition. Not critical...
- MindManager is a very nice visual package.
- MindManager's keyboard navigation is lacking for data entry. In Visual Mind
and MindMapper+, you add nodes by selecting the node you want as the parent and
typing. When you hit Enter, a new child node is created. MindManager is much
more complex. Here are the keystrokes required to add three child nodes in
each package:
- VM and MM+: Cart{Enter}Catalog{Enter}Checkout{Enter}
- MindManager: {Insert}Cart{Enter}{Left Arrow}{Insert}Catalog{Enter}{Left
Arrow}{Insert}Checkout{Enter}
- MindManager only has one format for exporting text outlines. In order to use
it with Fuseminder, you'd need to either massage the outline file first, or
bribe Fuseminder's author to support MindManager outlines in a future version.
;>
So, I like MindManager's visual aspects, which are important to Buzan's Mind
Mapping theory, but I don't like its operational aspects, which are more
important for using it in the context of designing Fusebox apps.
- Jeff
On 23 Apr 2001, at 17:16, Birgit wrote:
> Do any of you had a look at MindManager?
> http://www.mindjet.com
>
> I saw that someone had published first steps on a website and would
> love to know if any progress has been made and how it worked out
> with the notes transfer to fusedocs. Hope that person is still on
> the list <g>
>
> Any other developer tried them out?
>
> Thanks
>
> Birgit Pauli-Haack
>
>
>
>
>
>
> > Jeff,
>
> > Have you looked at either Visual Mind (http://www.visual-mind.com) or
> > VisiMap (http://www.visimap.com)? One of the things I like about VisiMap is
> > that it also works with Project Kickstart (http://www.projectkickstart.com),
> > a neat little project management front-end. I'm waiting for VisiMap to come
> > out in a Win32 version.
>
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> >> -----Original Message-----
> >> From: Jeff Peters [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
> >> Sent: Monday, April 23, 2001 11:21 AM
> >> To: Fusebox
> >> Subject: RE: Wireframes
> >>
> >>
> >> You've run into my current consternation with mind mapping and
> >> Fuseminder (and
> >> I WROTE the thing!). FM was written to parse outlines as
> >> generated by Visual
> >> Mind. MindMapper+ is (IMHO) a better mind mapping package, but
> >> its exported
> >> outlines aren't quite FM-friendly. In particular, it doesn't
> >> indent Fusedocs
> >> correctly under their fuse files (Fusedocs should be indented two spaces
> >> further than the filename entries to which they belong).
> >> Consequently, to use
> >> the current version of FM with MM+, a bit of outline massaging is
> >> required.
> >>
> >> Stay tuned, though--the current version of FM is far from the last...
> >>
> >> - Jeff
>
>
>
>
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