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There are a number of reasons why writing a MindManager Add-in can be useful.  Most obvious is the desire for intimate control over user interaction, and the ability to manipulate some external system using map data as a guide. Creating an Add-in begins with the IDTExtensibility2 interface.  MindManager loosely follows the same Add-In ...

So I started to think about how to write coherently about creating a C# MindManager 7 Add-in sample.  While the MindManager Add-in model loosely follows that seen in Visual Studio and the Microsoft Office products, there are a number of areas specific to MindManager. I began with creating the attached map.  But ...

In an imperfect world, even perfection is flawed.  Which you would think might make me feel a little better after rereading my last File Explorer Map Part post, but that turned out to be only true in part.  What did make me feel better was compiling a list of further extensions and enhancements to the File Explorer Map Part. Here's ...

The other day, a co-worker sent me a mail like this:Hey Beavis: How come that All Files and Folders map part you showed me only goes two folders deeper than the starting folder?"The story behind this mail is recounted in a previous post in this blog.  The story behind why this coworker calls me "Beavis" is one I can't ...

I had another one of those "how does this work?" moments with MindManager the other day.  A colleague was using MindManager to document a software installation process, mapping binary image locations in the target file system with the install steps that placed the image there.  When I innocently asked "Did ...

"Once more into the breach, dear friends," spoke Henry the Fifth, delivering the line Shakespeare  wrote in 1600 or so.  We're not invading France in the early 1400's as Henry was, but the line seems to fit.  This post delivers the third version of a software development sample, and like Henry I'm growing ...

Originally, I didn't run out and get a copy of MindManager to become a Customer Evangelist.  I don't like to admit it, but somehow I've become one, at least locally and with a very small 'e'.  That's evangelist, sotto voce, not a gadfly Evangelist, or the embarrassing EVANGELIST,  which is followed by ...

So we're back with the second installment of the Table Creation sample, rolling up Part 1 into Part 2 of a description of the MakeTable macros.  Attached to this post is Part 2 of the Table Creation sample in both Word and .CHM formats.  I'm using the rolling update model, so Part 2 includes the Part 1 content, ...

One of the things I've done with MindManager is write software requirements as Use Case behavior descriptions.  Since I wanted to generate another post about creating Map document Notes tables from Topics, it makes some sense to write a Use Case describing what this MindManager MakeTable macro should do. This is an example of step ...

One formatting thing I seem to do a lot in MindManager is fool with tables in Topic Notes.  I often treat a Topic like a file card, and wind up stuffing a lot of information into the Notes attached to a Topic.  But maybe this formatting task is a consequence of the kind of content I'm creating in MindManager. Much of my time in ...