Archive for April, 2006

New OneNote 2007 Beta Features

I have been using the Office 2007 Beta 1 Technical Refresh for a few weeks. I did not expect new features in the system, but I did notice new things in OneNote. I do not know if they are new features or if I just didn’t see them in Beta 1. But, [...]

Mind Map of Office 2007 Resources by Don Campbell

Sometimes it feels like I’m part of a minority using MindManager and OneNote (with PowerToys), so it was comforting to find Don Campbell’s Blog (MS Evangelist for Office) and his post of a Mind Map of Office 2007 Resources.
(via MindJet Blog)

Using the Prizes: Part 2 – Brainstorm and Export

One of the things I like to do with MindManager is brainstorm. It has a “Brainstorm Mode” (Tools -> Start Brainstorm…) which helps you enter a bunch of topics and then group them. Just dump all your thoughts about a subject and then organize it.

So you created a few Mind Maps and have a bunch [...]

Site News: Contest Deadline Extended by 3 Weeks

Due to the high traffic and popularity of our contest, we are extending the submission deadline by 3 weeks.  The new deadline is 5/15/2006 by 11 pm EST.  Now, you really have no excuses!

Using the Prizes: Part 1- Basic Map

This will be a new series of posts titled “Using the Prizes.” It will show some uses for the applications in the MindManager Contest Prize Package. This post talks about a basic mind map.

To start us off I created a simple map of the prizes…

Added hyperlinks to the product pages.
Added Callouts and a [...]

Lotus Notes and MindManager

Eric Mack doesn’t spell it out in this post titled “Mindjet listens. I get my wish” but I’m looking forward to seeing what integration can be done with Lotus Notes and MindManager. He was previously working on properly formatting a Hyperlink/DocLink, but hopefully there is more.
UPDATE: From the MM6 SP1 information…

- Added Lotus Notes Hyperlink [...]

Fifty Ways to Take Notes

I take notes in too many places already, but after reading Brian Benzinger’s post about Fifty Ways to Take Notes I added a few!

Del.icio.us Mind Maps

Blaine Kendell wrote a utility to convert Del.icio.us bookmarks into FreeMind called DeliciousMind. It uses Java to transform an .xml file into a .mm file.
Personally I use MindManager, so I started to look into how to re-create this process in MindManager. After spend too much time looking at xml code, I remembered that MindManager has [...]

Another Bonus Prize for Referrals…

I was hoping to get this done before the MindJet Newsletter comes out today, but sometimes life gets busy…
There is another Bonus Prize for anyone that shows up in our referrals or trackbacks.
Note: It is not the “Getting Real” ebook again. It’s not a software license either.

Site News: Moving Up the Technorati Ladder

I just check out Technorati profile for incoming links when I noticed our rank and the number of incoming links. We moved up a few hundred thousand ranks! All of this success is directly linked to the contest. It has been very popular in the blogsphere. Thanks you everyone for writing [...]