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What’s interesting about MindManager is that its maps are not static. The visual diagram includes actionable data, live hyperlinks, along with collaboration tools such as word processor, spreadsheet, presentation and e-mail. The idea is to keep users within MindManager so they don’t have to leave to access other services.
For example, MindManager 8 features a number of new perks, including a browser window so you can view Web pages and PDF documents without leaving MindManager. Users may view and edit attached Microsoft Word, Excel, Project and PowerPoint files from within MindManager’s embedded browser, Mindjet CEO Scott Raskin told eWEEK in a recent interview.
Various Web services can also be triggered directly inside a map with one click. Users can search Google, Yahoo, Amazon, Facebook, MySpace, Microsoft Live Search, eBay and StrikeIron. Also, maps and attached documents created in MindManager are searchable by most desktop search apps. MindManager 8 also now includes task management features.
The crown jewel in Mindjet’s new release is easily the Mindjet Player, which allows users to take the interactive mind maps they created with MindManager 8, turn them into Adobe PDFs or Flash .SWF files.
These files can be shared with anyone with a computer. Or, if you don’t want to share the mind maps, you can publish them in blogs or embed them in Web pages.
“The idea is that I could send a PDF to somebody, they could open it up and what they would see instead of just a picture of a map, a fully functioning MindManager map with all of the content and links to external information,” Rasking said.
MindManager 8 for Windows is available at an academic discount price of $149.
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