MindManager 7 for the Mac raises the bar for mind mapping on the Mac platform.

Pros: 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.

Cons: 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.

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Posted: 19-Oct-2007 03:20:50 PM