The Mindjet Labs

I am a MindManager fanatic.  I will always be one because I love the product and how it has transformed the way that I think and work.    Over the past four years at Mindjet, I have had a few roles, but my favorite one has been the one of technical evangelist, promoting the MindManager solution platform with the Mindjet ...

One of my favorite parts of running the Mindjet Labs is responding to all of the emails that people send me about ideas, problems, and suggestions for improvement.  I love hearing from our customers; it keeps me grounded in reality.  I am in the middle of reading Ben McConnell and Jackie Huba's book Creating Customer ...

The Mindjet Knowledge Base has an extensive list of keyboard shortcuts. Following are a few other handy shortcuts that can accelerate your mapping: CTRL-SHIFT-INSERT (& CTRL-SHIFT-DELETE) - these shortcuts allow you to create (or delete) a subtopic below the current one and automatically move all of the existing content below the new ...

A number of users have told Gyronix (the makers of ResultsManager) and us about problems with MindManager when both ResultsManager and the Map Explorer add-in are installed and running in MindManager.  ResultsManager is a great add-in that creates action-oriented dashboards for MindManager.  The Map Explorer is a sample solution on ...

As many of you already know, I went to architecture school and in architecture there is a well-know activity called a charrette, "an intense periods of design activity."  I would like to start having some charrettes at the Mindjet Labs that are both live (at our San Francisco Headquarters) and virtual (via web ...

I have been talking recently with senior management at three large multinational organizations about how they use MindManager in their sales departments. I have to say that a few months ago I was not particularly clear on the value our software brings to this side of the business. But I have to say that what these people had to say pretty ...

Have you found that you love some of the Mindjet Labs solutions but they aren't in your native language?  We would like to enlist your help in globalizing the solutions so that you can use them in your native language.  This is something new for me, but I would like to give it a shot because many people have asked if solutions like ...

I’ve been with Mindjet just over 5 years now and worked in: Customer Support, IT, Marketing, Business Development and R&D. Based on my experience, I’d like to use this blog to share my opinions of the best practices for using MindManager in business and in life.  In the future I hope there will be an “Elements of ...

There's a good article in the 9/25/06 issue of Computerworld on interface changes that will come with Office 2007 and Vista. The main idea is that everyone recognizes that as the number of features available in any given application grows, it becomes increasingly difficult for the user to access what they need. The answer, according to the ...

This new blog marks my second attempt to maintain my own blog. I started the first "Hobart's Mindjet Blog" back in March of 2006 as part of our internal campaign to get Mindjet to create a corporate blog. We succeeded--as evidenced by the fact that we now have the official Mindjet blog (http://blog.mindjet.com and now that fantastic ...