MindManager® 2012 for Windows®

MindManager’s visual information maps (mind maps) start with a central theme, and then add branches with ideas, notes, images, tasks, hyperlinks and attachments. Easily import from or export to Microsoft Office. Use MindManager maps to capture and organize information, and you’ll quickly transform your thoughts and ideas into fine-tuned documents, compelling presentations and winning strategies. MindManager gives you with a better way to brainstorm, organize facts, plan projects and communicate results.

Accomplish More Faster

Clearly align and organize information, ideas, and strategies to be more productive.

Ensure Project Success

Achieve active participation in project planning and goals setting to fully engage the project team.

Communicate More Effectively

Organize and present in a visual context to ensure understanding and improve retention.

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Accomplish More, Faster

Start your work in MindManager

Gain new perspectives by organizing your work with MindManager. You can step back, see the big picture and then drill into all of the important details.

Capture ideas, information and more…

It’s easy to capture everything – notes, hyperlinks, attached files, spreadsheets and more. Or, simply import documents and project plans. With everything in a single dynamic view, you’ll uncover relationships, draw important connections and reorganize content into clear communications.

Avoid timely rework

Once everything is organized in MindManager, with a click you can export content to Microsoft® Word or PowerPoint®, saving something really valuable, your time.

Ensure Project Success

Define, align and engage

Project success depends on getting things right from the start. Using maps to quickly display and organize input, fosters active participation in project planning and goals setting. Gather requirements, generate new ideas and facilitate collaborative problem-solving via MindManager’s visual brainstorming.

Build accurate project plans

With everyone fully participating, you’ll create more realistic plans and schedules by mapping out your tasks, optimizing resource assignments and defining dependencies and timelines. The new Gantt chart view lets you see the plan take shape as you define it. Track everything in MindManager, or export your work directly into Microsoft Project.

Improve project collaboration

Add Mindjet Catalyst to increase team participation and alignment even more by providing everyone access to up-to-date status and project information in project maps stored in shared workspaces.

Communicate More Effectively

Make meetings and presentations come alive

Conduct your meetings and presentations with MindManager to make the most of everyone’s time. Even if you’ve never used MindManager before, you’ll find it surprisingly simple.

Organize and present everything in a visual context to ensure clear understanding and dramatically improve retention.

Facilitate dynamic meetings

MindManager’s easy-to-use interface lets you navigate through your presentation map one step at a time without ever losing context. Jump to any topic with a click of the mouse and easily respond to questions with all the backup details.

Use the new Slideshow mode to have total control of what to present and how you’d like to show it. Either way, MindManager is the most dynamic way to present information and immediately capture feedback in context. Use it to solve problems, brainstorm ideas, capture action items and easily share your results on the web or with interactive PDF files.

Whats New?

We have what you’ve been asking for: dramatically improved performance, productivity and project planning enhancements that get you from concept to completion faster!

Power Performance

MindManager now opens faster, loads your large maps faster and uses dramatically fewer system resources.

Project Gantt Chart & Resource Planning

Develop accurate project plans. Brainstorm and define your project tasks, assign resources, dependencies, duration and dates. The synchronized project timeline is displayed alongside your map where you can make updates in either your map or project timeline. Resource planning updates help ensure that you optimize your use of critical resources to get the project done on time and within budget.

Slide Presentations

In addition to MindManager’s presentation mode, there’s a new way to present your work with the slide view. Pick and choose topics to present, adjust their order and control exactly how you want each branch to appear.

Dynamic Outlook Dashboards

See related Outlook items, emails, contacts, notes, tasks or meetings, in the context of your map, without having to switch applications. Add dynamic Outlook branches with pre-defined queries or build your own. With a click, update status, review the content or open the original record.

WYSIWYG Printing

Now printing out your maps is easier than ever. Each slide that you create can also be printed, so you can print out exactly what you need printed.

Image & Icon Library

Enhance the visual impact of your maps with new professionally designed images and icons that add context, increase impact and improve retention.

Enhanced Interface & Usability Improvements

MindManager integrates with Office 2010 and adopts many Office 2010 interface best practices to make it easy for Office users to learn and use MindManager. The updated menu (ribbon) interface simplifies access to most frequently used commands. There’s also a new file menu (called backstage) to provide easy access to document commands like print, export, share and more…