MindManager 7 Mac

There was a lot of excitement in the Macintosh community when Mindjet, Inc. released the first version of MindManager 6 Mac last June. Many dedicated MindManager users who had used the application on the Windows side were delighted to know that their favorite application was now available on the Macintosh. With its cross platform file format users of both the Macintosh and the Windows could now easily open and share their favorite mind maps with one another. And is the case, many Mindjet MindManager users continue to use both platforms to create their mind maps. With the release of MindManager 6 for Mac last June users now had a very capable mind mapping application at their disposal. While MindManager 6 Mac did not have all of the features that were available on the Windows side, Mindjet, Inc. had built a strong foundation for future releases of this fine product. In less then a year from its debut Mindjet, Inc., released MindManager 7 Mac with many of the features that users had asked for.

One of the features that users had asked for that is now included in the MindManager 7 Mac is the ability to view your mind map as an outline with a click of the mouse. This is easily accomplished now by going to the View menu and selecting Outline View. It is also now possible to export the outline as a HTML as well as in the OPML(Outline Processor Markup Language) file format. One of the really powerful features that has been added to the latest version of MindManager 7 Mac is the ability to select topics by rules that you create. These rules can then be used not only to select the topics but can be a way for you to filter information on a large mind map that you have created. For example if you are using MindManager 7 Mac to manage a project and you assign different people to a variety of tasks, it is now easy to sift through the mind map by using the custom filters and search for all instances of a task that has been assigned for example to Brian. Once you have used the filter you can now save or print the view and give it to Brian so that he knows what tasks to work on. Creating the filters was very straight forward and easy to use and I know that this will be one of the new features that many users will come to enjoy as they create their mind maps.

MindManager 7 Mac has added some other nice features to the latest version which I’m sure users will enjoy. You can now find a count down timer that can be positioned on the screen which is a great tool when you are brainstorming. Likewise, users can now search the picture database for a specific image that they are looking for instead of having to manually search for them. MindManager 7 Mac now handles background images more elegantly and users can now set up and print headers and footers more easily. So what is missing? I for one would like to see the Presentation mode added to MindManager for the Macintosh since I often use this feature on the Windows side when I am teaching. All in all, there is a lot to like with this upgrade of MindManager 7 for the Mac and once again the bar has been raised for mind mapping on the Mac platform.