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Nick Duffill is one of the leading experts on mind mapping and the use of mindmapping software. I noticed in the Andrew Wilcox Daily that he conveyed some key advice recently at the Bigger Plate conference in the UK, captured in the video below. He makes some extremely important points here in this video on [...]

1. Create an Excel file with the map title in the 1st cell and the subsequent main topics and sub-topics in subsequent rows and columns and save it to disk. 2. After you have installed the Map2Excel add-in for Mindjet, click on the "Import" button in the "Map2Excel" tab: 3. Select the Excel File: 4. [...]

By popular demand, I finally hunkered down and added code to reverse the Map2Excel process to allow you to import a Microsoft Excel Spreadsheet into MindManager ("Excel2Map") to create a new map. This comes with several limitations: It assumed the spreadsheet is in the format of the "Outline with Details" export At this point it [...]

It has been a busy year so I haven't had much chance to evaluate MindJet Connect. Most of my experience is with the legacy MindJet Catalyst, which I find very powerful for collaborative and simultaneous co-editing of maps from multiple desktop users. This morning I took a look at Connect (or the web portion of [...]

Mindjet launched Mindjet 11 today. I compiled a new Map2Excel add-in for Mindjet 11 and fixed a few bugs, so I'd recommend downloading the latest version (1.0.0062) for your version of MindManager regardless of what version of the software you are using. This version also has a license key field in the options menu that [...]

Map2Excel, a utility for exporting Mindjet MindManager maps to Microsoft Excel 2010 has been upgraded to version 1.0.0054 with several new features. Text retains MindManager colors Icons are exported as columns Custom properties exported as columns Images exported in comments enlarged New option to overwrite previous export (avoid accumulating excel sheets) Column widths better fit [...]

I just wanted do a quick "two-minute action" post on some updates to add-ins on the site over the past few weeks. Most have been discussed in the comments but merit an announcement. Post below if you have questions or are experiencing any problems or just want to let me know you still use the [...]

Mindjet has a new mindjet.uservoice.com site where users can suggest and vote on new features for MindManager. I learned of this after Andrew Wilcox posted a suggestion on the mindmanager yahoo group for adding an option to disable new multiple hyperlink feature. I added a suggestion for adding a "Left Map" map layout option. This [...]