The Mindjet Labs

Last year I created and uploaded a demonstration project to Popfly that converted a Word 2007 Document to a WPF FlowDocument.  The best example of a FlowDocument can be seen in the New York Times Reader , an instance of Syndicated Client Starter...(read more)

I just posted the recording of the webinar that I did today showing a Word 2007 Add-in that creates WPF Flow Documents (using the FlowDocument class): https://www112.livemeeting.com/cc/microsoft/view?id=74SMQS Here's an example of where I've used it to...(read more)

One of the challenges with creating online documentation is readability, especially with long documents.  Most of the time, we end up printing out documents instead of attempting to read them online.  One we print them out we lose the ability to easily search for text, one of the great aspects of online documents.  Creating a great ...

As many of you might know, before I joined Microsoft this past Spring, I worked for Mindjet as an technical evangelist (one of my many titles) where I demonstrated the power of the MindManager Solution Platform through the Mindjet Labs.  One of the coolest demonstrations that I built (with the help of Vivek Vishist, a star solutions engineer) ...

A new map created by MindSystems ThemeReader that shows the main themes in one of the documents that comprises the Office Open XML Specification.

This is a map of the themes in the Office Open XML Part 1 Specification document from the ECMA website.  It was created using MindSystems ThemeReader.

One of our partners has some pretty cool technology for using MindManager to understand the main themes in a document.  As part of my need to understand the Open XML file format, I used the MindSystems ThemeReader to extract the main themes from a 166 page specification document that you can find here.  In just a few clicks and a ...

On the Mindjet Labs MindManager Jobs Forum, Dennis Günnewig posted a query about building an Open Document Format (ODF) export plug-in for MindManager.  A few other people have been asking me about ODF and someone on the MindManagerDev Yahoo group even wrote an OpenOffice Export for MindManager.  Because it is kind of ...

On Tuesday, January 30, Don Campbell from Microsoft and I will be giving a free technical webinar on how the Word 2007 Map Editor for Mindjet MindManager works.  Here's the description:Join Don Campbell, Technical Evangelist for Microsoft, and Michael Scherotter, Solutions Platform Evangelist for Mindjet, to see a demonstration ...