Comments on: Mapping all your docs

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Wed, 10 Aug 2005 20:14:22 +0000

Hi – big thanks (great site!).

By: Hobart Swan

Hobart Swan — Thu, 02 Jun 2005 17:30:10 +0000

Roger,
You actually can do that. To search linked maps:
1. Go into Multimap mode (icon at upper right corner of interface).
2. Choose (at upper left of interface) to “Select All”
3. Use the “Search Files” menu item in the center of the top-most menu.
4. A window will open at screen right. Use the “Define Search” to choose the words you want to look for.
5. The results will be displayed in that same window. You can then choose to either navigate directly to that text, or to open the entire map within which that text can be found.

By: Roger C. Parker

Roger C. Parker — Thu, 02 Jun 2005 16:56:09 +0000

The idea of a Master Map, et al, is very seductive.

To make it really effective, though, I think that MindManager’s “Edit>Find” feature should be turned into a “Search” button that would search all linked maps.

I was disappointed to find that “Find” only searches the current map, (although it is fun to see closed subtopics open).

But, think how great it would be if you could Search for a phrase buried in anywhere in a linked series of maps!

By: Kristine

Kristine — Fri, 27 May 2005 19:46:19 +0000

Thanks for taking the survey, Tim! (sorry it took so long for me to write this comment)

By: Ricardo Olmus

Ricardo Olmus — Tue, 24 May 2005 20:18:09 +0000

I discover something new an amazing, that can be done with mindmanager.

Does any one can give me some tips and and ussage suggestion for the outlook linker map parts? It is clear it does more than basic. thanks

By: Ricardo Olmus

Ricardo Olmus — Tue, 24 May 2005 20:13:57 +0000

MindManager as a powerfull information management system. i found something that impressed me a lot. (maybe you already know it. it took me some 2 years to discover it) So I go to windows explorer and open the folder i want to hiperlink. I just drag and drop the folder. select the folder drag it down to mindmanager and place it where i want it. there it is the link to my folder. Now I go to map parts and place the one “folders and files” as a sub topic. and voila all my files now in the map. So my master map was done in a few moments, including all my files. And it updates auto, with f5. That is amazing.

By: Hobart Swan

Hobart Swan — Fri, 20 May 2005 22:27:55 +0000

Doug,
Just so you know, about a week ago I wrote a long (long-winded?) reply to your post about whether MindManager was just a radial drawing of a hierarchy…but I somehow lost it all and am just now getting back to this.

I think yours is a really good question/comment. When I was at CeBIT in Germany a couple of years ago, a few people from the U.K. and then from Germany came up to me at the Mindjet booth and had similar comments. They suggested that while our interface might be considered nonhierarchical at the first level of topics, after that it was simply a visual representation of a traditional hierarchy: One new subtopic appears directly below the one before in what is, for all intents and purposes, a normal outline.

It’s fair to say that a map is a radial representation of a hierarchy. But first there is the process of BUILDING the map.

One of the strongest concepts behind mapping is that it enables users to go from divergent to convergent thinking. In the divergent phase, users just slap ideas up there on the screen–IN NO PARTICULAR HIERARCHY OR ORDER. It is only ideas have been tossed around that it comes times to do the convergent part of the process: dragging and dropping those ideas or plans or whatever into a logical structure (aka hierarchy) deleting some in the process, regrouping them, making some ideas or tasks dependent on others–and so on.

So while the finished map might be seen as a radial representation of a hierarchy, how it got to be that way is another story, which is one of the key differentiators between mapping and simply making lists.

By: Alexander Singh

Alexander Singh — Tue, 17 May 2005 07:53:31 +0000

I think the concept of a Mind Map based organisational system for the Desktop/PC is a very good concept and an incredibly powerful tool if implemented correctly.

Such a system could be a replacement for the existing Windows shell so that it loaded natively every time you booted your PC.

The benefits of such a system are obvious:

-Greater organisation and control
-Extremely efficient and swift creation and redeployment of files and folders
-Excellent extensibility
-Transforming the “Files and Folders” system to something that is dynamic, evolving, and capable of automatically saving and organising files based on set criteria/permissions/filters.
-Powerful opportunities for integration with other applications such as RSS aggregators, Web browser, E-mail client, and information presentation tools.
-Semantic capabilities that allow you to copy and transfer various words, themes, phrases, code, etc. to multiple applications and media efficiently.

If only someone would develop it..Seems like a natural expansion of Mind Jet’s product range.

By: Hobart Swan

Hobart Swan — Mon, 16 May 2005 20:22:41 +0000

Cool idea, Joe. I really like that. What I do at present is to either have my “Main Map” open in the background, or open by using my ActiveWords command. Wherever I am in my computer, I just type in “mainmap” an dhit the spacebar twice, and my main map opens and comes to the foreground. It’s great. But I really like the idea of the main map somehow always open when my computer opens, constantly there hovering behind my various screens and ready for me to refer to it…

By: Joe Cotellese

Joe Cotellese — Mon, 16 May 2005 19:30:18 +0000

Mind Manager as Desktop.

It almost seems like what you want is your master map to live as a “live” background image on your desktop. When you want to create a new document (of any type). You do it on a branch of your master map.