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MindManager Changelog

What's new in MindManager 13.0.180

Apr 29, 2020
  • NEW! Gantt and More:
  • New tools for project managers:
  • Gantt charts are widely used by project managers for the detail and visibility they provide. We’ve added Gantt functionality and many more new project management features into MindManager for Mac to easily plan, coordinate, and execute your projects.
  • Add, edit, and view project elements, and track general project costs within Gantt view
  • Easily adjust your view based on project size or timeline
  • Move projects, remove slack time, roll up tasks, view critical paths, set milestones, and more
  • NEW! Project Cost Tracking:
  • Get a more complete project picture:
  • Whether your project budget is massive or modest, keeping costs in sight is the key to successfully managing it. Our new Project Costing tool lets you quickly add individual costs into your project maps, easily update them, and sum totals with a simple click, for instant visibility into one of your project’s most critical elements.
  • Define and view general costs and resource costs within maps
  • Tailor maps for budget-focused conversations by rolling up costs
  • Manage exceptions and ensure budget adherence by creating SmartRules that trigger when costs exceed set amounts
  • NEW! Tag View:
  • Keep your projects on track:
  • Projects succeed when they stay in forward motion. Tag View gives you a clear picture of a project’s overall progress towards completion, and where each individual task is in the process, so you can make the right changes to keep things on track and on time.
  • See and update the status of tasks & action items in a progressive, Kanban-style columnar view
  • Instantly identify backlogs, bottlenecks, and resource issues
  • Define processes with custom column tags that are automatically applied in Map View
  • NEW! MindManager Snap:
  • Snap up great content the moment you find it:
  • Inspiration and ideas can show up at any time. With MindManager Snap, you’ll be ready to grab them! Capture map-worthy content in seconds when you’re away from MindManager, then drop it into your maps the next time you open it up — so no on-the-go brainstorm or 2 a.m. ‘aha!’ ever slips through the cracks.
  • Capture images, links, and text notes any time, from anywhere, through your Chrome browser or mobile device
  • Expand, enrich, and improve your maps in exciting new ways
  • Snapped content stays safe and secure in a cloud-based queue until you’re ready to add it to your map
  • MindManager Snap Chrome extension available in the Chrome Web Store:
  • Capture via mobile device requires the MindManager Go mobile app
  • NEW! MindManager Go
  • Take your maps places your Mac can’t go
  • Your thinking doesn’t end when you walk away from your desktop. Now your maps don’t either. Our fully-redesigned MindManager Go mobile viewer app lets you review, show, discuss, and even capture content for your maps anywhere and anytime you want to.
  • View and navigate MindManager maps on your iPhone or iPad
  • Filter maps on tags, icons, priority & progress to easily focus on the information you need
  • Send images and text notes to your MindManager desktop with the NEW MindManager Snap capture tool
  • NEW! Tools for Mac:
  • Built natively for Mac users:
  • Mac and Windows machines are not created equally. That’s why we’ve created this version with Mac users in mind. In addition to our existing Dark Mode option, MindManager for Mac now comes with added enhancements.
  • Store your maps and access them from anywhere using your iCloud account
  • Extend or mirror your desktop on your iPad for meetings and presentations with Sidecar support
  • Touch Bar support now includes tag functionality
  • ENHANCED Flowcharting Tools:
  • Keep processes flowing smoothly:
  • Clear, well-defined processes lead to smooth, glitch-free workflows. Our new flowcharting enhancements enable you to quickly build visual flows that bring shape and clarity to complex processes, are easy for others to understand and follow, and are easily adapted as needs change.
  • Define topic relationships clearly with improved relationship control and styling
  • Work more efficiently with improved line placement precision
  • ENHANCED Visualization & Productivity Tools:
  • Make a bigger impact faster:
  • It’s now easier than ever to build and navigate MindManager maps and diagrams, bringing greater value to your day, work, and world.
  • Make your diagrams richer and more engaging with NEW image thumbnails
  • Better manage and make sense of complex maps with powerful NEW sorting capabilities
  • Improve project management efficiency with NEW resource management options
  • Quickly access most-used key features and functions with ENHANCED ribbon control
  • Organize and update topics fast & intuitively with ENHANCED drag & drop functionality
  • Manage your diagrams more effectively with ENHANCED shapes and SmartShapes!

New in MindManager 12.0.161 (Feb 21, 2019)

  • SmartRules:
  • Conditional formatting changed the stories your maps could tell. Now the next chapter is here. SmartRules™ extends and goes beyond conditional formatting, empowering you to automatically trigger changes in actual topic data – reducing repetitive tasks and transforming maps from simply representing your processes and workflows, to driving and accelerating them.
  • Write rules that change topic icons, tags, properties, progress & priority markers, based on specific triggers
  • Apply SmartRules to individual objects or topics, select branches or full diagrams
  • Automate content updates to task lists, project plans, flowcharts and more, saving time and igniting productivity
  • Objects & Smart Shapes:
  • Shapes direct attention and enable understanding in a way words never can — and we’ve added 12 powerful new shapes to our object library. Group topics or process parts within shapes to distinguish areas of importance, or combine customizable Smart Shapes to build new templates and diagram types that support your unique objectives.
  • Enrich, clarify and expand map content with 12 new shapes including stars, arrows, brackets, funnels and many others
  • Easily group content within shapes to define processes, illustrate concepts and more
  • Create custom diagrams quickly and easily with new smart funnels & matrices
  • Match Width:
  • Too much visual variety can distract people from what you want them to see. Our new topic-adjustment tools help you easily eliminate inconsistencies in topic alignment, so your audience will immediately focus on your presentation’s content, instead of its structure.
  • Standardize topic width to create more readable & engaging presentations
  • Adjust topic width manually or with a single click
  • Apply changes to individual topics or entire maps
  • HTML5 Export & Publish Filtering:
  • Clear directions keep everyone on the right path. With new filtering and linking capabilities built into our HTML5 Export and Publish tools, recipients of your shared maps can more quickly and easily find the information you want them to see, moving projects and conversations forward.
  • Make shared maps easier for people to navigate, understand and respond to
  • Exported & published maps can be filtered on icons, tags, resources and saved queries
  • Create direct topic links to visually guide recipients to the content you want them to see
  • Dark Mode Support:
  • Send your maps into the dark… and bring your best thinking to light. Dark Mode fans can now work in MindManager within their preferred Mac environment, creating rich content with minimized eyestrain, enhanced focus and a dramatic visual vibe.
  • Enjoy a MindManager experience seamlessly adapted to Mojave Dark Mode
  • Optimized menus and icons keep map content the center of attention
  • Automatically-adjusting mode can also be changed manually in Mac settings
  • Touch Bar Support:
  • Step away from the mouse and put MindManager at your fingertips. Dynamic Touch Bar controls let you work more efficiently and intuitively than ever, with fewer clicks, easier updating and menus that anticipate your every move.
  • Context-specific menus automatically surface the appropriate options for the most popular MindManager commands
  • Predictive text saves typing time and speeds map building
  • Add themes, export files and much more with a single touch
  • Theme Designs:
  • First impressions influence everything that follows. Our new visual themes feature fresh colors, modern fonts and personality-packed designs that set an immediate tone for your presentation, and instantly convey subtle yet significant messages about your brand, style, and content.
  • Choose from 40+ stunning new visual themes, from polished to whimsical to dramatic
  • Transform any map’s look, feel and tone with a single click
  • Effortlessly switch themes to engage different audiences and support different goals
  • Imports:
  • The right conditions can grow old ideas to new heights. Now you can enrich content created in XMind and FreeMind applications with a whole new degree of depth, meaning and value, using MindManager’s best-in-class mapping and diagramming tools.
  • Convert XMind and FreeMind maps to MindManager files and evolve them leveraging the full breadth of MindManager features
  • Import files directly into MindManager
  • Maintain map structure and content from the original applications, with no loss of data

New in MindManager 11.1.160 (Jul 19, 2018)

  • Fixed issues:
  • Issue: Drag and drop a file to create topic attachment does not work.
  • Bring focus on MindManager first by clicking on it, then drag files, and drop it inside map to add as attachment.
  • Issue: Dragging and dropping multiple files in the map is not working as expected.
  • Issue: Task duration in minutes is not exported to Microsoft Word.
  • Issue: Background Object disappears while dragging and dropping them along with Map topics.
  • Issue: Empty 'URL' field is displayed for links placed inside notes.
  • Issue: General Tag group under ‘Marker’ tab from Maps created in MindManager for Windows are not displayed in MindManager 11 for Mac.
  • Issue: Transparency value for background objects are changed to '0' when fill color is selected.
  • Issue: Holidays are not being considered in Task Calculations.
  • Issue: MindManager crashes while adding a Text Box Object to a map that was created using older versions of MindManager for Windows.
  • Issue: Maps containing topic links fail to export to Microsoft Word.
  • Issue: Keyboard shortcut “F2” to edit text followed by “Esc” key erases text of the topic.
  • Issue: Task duration is displayed in days in a map when week(s) or month(s) unit is selected.
  • Issue: Creating map using custom template with dependency is crashing MindManager.
  • Issue: Text Boxes inside Business Model Canvas Template are not wide enough and hence causing text to appear in multiple line.
  • Issue: Performance issues observed while adding map rollup.
  • Issue: MindManager is crashing while copying a topic within an unlocked background object.
  • Issue: Filter rules with markers are not working.
  • Issue: MindManager crashing when opening a map that was saved to Mindjet files using MindManager
  • 10 for Mac.
  • Issue: Branch hierarchy /layout is not displaying correctly while selecting topics to insert in map rollup.
  • Issue: Exported document contains 'Percent Complete' and 'Priority' fields even when topic do not
  • contain these markers.
  • Issue: Custom footer is not exported to the Microsoft Word document.
  • Issue: Topic Styles from Maps created in MindManager for Windows are not displayed in MindManager 11 for Mac.
  • Issue: Some of the topic shapes are not available while formatting a topic.
  • Issue: Delimiters to separate First Name and Last name of resources are not working.
  • Issue: Notes with bullets in tables are not saving.
  • Issue: Change capitalization: Sentence isn't working as expected.

New in MindManager 11.0.143 (Feb 20, 2018)

  • NEW! Expanded Template Library - Visualize new paths to achievement, growth and profit:
  • See your tasks, ideas, plans and possibilities in whole new ways with more than a dozen inspired NEW and improved templates, each designed to empower sharper thinking, smarter decisions and better outcomes.
  • Timelines, workflow diagrams and concept maps illuminate correct paths and drive efficient action
  • Venn, onion and swim lane diagrams give you a clearer understanding of relationships and intersections
  • Customizable matrices empower you to correlate ideas and quickly assess risk, reward, value, urgency, priority and more
  • Enrich diagrams leveraging the full breadth of MindManager features and functions to create robust portraits of concepts, strategies and plans
  • NEW! Digital Architect - Your vision. Our tools. Endless possibilities:
  • Customize existing templates with shapes, swim lanes, text boxes, images, dividers and more, to clarify relationships and accountability. Or create whole new structures to organize and understand your world. You have free rein over the way your map looks, the story it tells about your business and the results it helps you achieve.
  • Create custom business process models and strategic plans that are beautiful, meaningful and easy to execute on
  • Visualize a plan, proposal or your entire business in new ways that can expose risks, highlight opportunities and reveal unexpected new paths to goals
  • Add logos, headlines, images, and other design elements for a branded look and feel
  • NEW! Interactive Presentation Export - Make your point with REAL power:
  • Introduce a new level of polish, professionalism and impact into the viewing experience with the latest evolution of the HTML5 Interactive Map Export. Present the exact content you want recipients to see, exactly the way you want them to see it, with clear, simple controls that make navigation effortless for map pros and novices alike, and keep them focused on your map’s substance, not its structure.
  • Maps can be viewed and navigated as easily as PowerPoint, removing the barriers between your content and your audience
  • Choose Standard or Presentation mode to control the viewing experience
  • Maps can be easily shared on websites, intranets, or as files
  • NEW! Publisher - Send your maps on a journey of their own:
  • Some maps are too good to keep to yourself. Our new Publish tool lets you quickly and easily share maps with colleagues, show proposals and plans to customers, or simply put your masterpieces “out there” for others to learn from, be inspired by and build on.
  • Share maps via link, or embed directly into blog or social media posts
  • Publish content customized with your company or product logo for a branded experience
  • Viewable by anyone with a web connection and browser – no license necessary
  • Multiple Topic Links:
  • Enrich map topics with multiple external links, for instant access to all the resources that give support and context to your map content.
  • View Link Titles:
  • Clear, concise hyperlink text shows the destination page title, or your own custom wording, so everyone knows exactly where they’re going, before they click.
  • Map Roll Up:
  • Pull together and summarize selected data from other maps into a single dashboard map that keeps key information visible, up-to-date and top-of-mind
  • Manage Tasks:
  • Track task effort, task milestones, calculate summary tasks using task roll-ups, manage task dependencies and utilize a project calendar to track working days.
  • Multiple Tabs:
  • Quickly switch between diagrams by merging them into a single tabbed application view. Drag tabs to reorder diagrams or open them in separate windows.
  • Topic Count:
  • See how many subtopics a main topic contains without having to expand it, for an immediate sense of its depth and detail.

New in MindManager 10.5.133 (Dec 28, 2016)

  • Refined Interface:
  • New look-and-feel – streamlined design shared across platforms. The new toolbar icons, with their clean design, are more legible on the high-resolution screens of the latest generation Macs. And they give you access to MindManager for Mac’s most commonly used features.
  • Quick Add tabs – now available on the topic frames, they let you quickly add new topics to topics, callouts, and boundaries with the click of a mouse. Click on a topic Quick Add tab to add a parent topic, topics at the same level (siblings), or subtopics (children). Click on a boundary Quick Add tab to add callout topics. You can also hide the Quick Add tabs in MindManager Options, under Edit.
  • Simpler color picking menu – with a quick add selection of color choices for Fill, Line, and Fonts.
  • Smoother Mind Mapping Across Platforms:
  • HTML5 Export – share your maps with the latest standard in web compatibility, supported by every modern browser. Your correspondents without MindManager will get a faithful, read-only, view of your mind maps.
  • Interactive display – the branches of a map exported as an HTML5 Viewer file can be expanded and collapsed at will so your friends and colleagues without MindManager can view the information you share with them on their terms.
  • View flowcharts – recently introduced on MindManager for Windows, flowcharts can be viewed in MindManager for Mac, with more capabilities on the way.

New in MindManager 10.3.605 (Feb 11, 2014)

  • Our new name - Mindjet for Mac:
  • Mindjet for Mac is the new name for our Mac desktop product (formerly MindManager for Mac). Mindjet for Mac is part of the new Mindjet software suite for desktop, mobile and web.
  • Mindjet lets you visually capture ideas, organize information and create plans that you can share across a team using our apps on Mac or Windows desktop, iPhone, iPad, or Android devices.
  • More collaboration features:
  • Integration with Mindjet Files (formerly Mindjet Connect) in the cloud gives you anytime, anywhere access to maps from any Mindjet desktop, mobile or web app, as well as the ability to share maps and other files. You can invite anyone to view edit maps; your "guest" editors don't need to purchase software to interact with your maps.
  • In this version of Mindjet, we've added the ability to open and save maps in Mindjet Files online using commands in the Map window's File menu.
  • Use the improved Open and Save As commands to streamline your workflow with maps in the cloud. Additional commands for using online content are still available in the Mindjet Files window.
  • Want to check out a document you already have checked out on another device? No problem - this version of Mindjet lets you transfer the checkout to your desktop system. See the Help for Mindjet Files and Tasks online for more information about checking out maps and files.
  • Now you can send topics from you map to create new Mindjet Tasks online.
  • Topics are linked to their corresponding new tasks, so task name, dates, resources and progress stay in sync whether you make changes to the task in Mindjet for Mac or from another Mindjet app.
  • Improved performance:
  • We've optimized the performance of the Slides view to make reorganizing your slides faster and smoother.
  • In Map view, we've improved the way topics expand and collapse.
  • Support for OS X Mountain Lion:
  • This version of Mindjet is compatible with the latest version of OS X (Mountain Lion). You'll see updated commands for using Messages (formerly iChat), Calendar (formerly iCal Events) and Reminders (formerly iCal To Do's).
  • Users of earlier versions of OS X can still use the Calendar and Reminder commands with iCal.

New in MindManager 9.5.416 (Jul 24, 2012)

  • Integration with Mindjet Connect:
  • Create a Mindjet Connect account to store maps and files in the cloud.
  • Collaborate by sharing your content with other users. Access your account anytime, anywhere, using MindManager on your Windows or Mac desktop, on youriPhone or Android device, or in your browser.
  • New Slide Presentations:
  • Present your work in easy to follow slides. Pick and choose topics to present, adjust their order and control exactly how you want each branch to appear.
  • Display your slides in a MindManager slideshow, or export them to create a Keyonote or PowerPoint presentation.
  • WYSIWYG Printing:
  • Now printing your maps is easier than ever. Choose to print the entire map or only select slides, so you can print out exactly what you need.
  • Improved Interface:
  • Find exactly what you are looking for with an improved organization of menu options and enhanced user interface.
  • New Map Gallery makes it easier to get started by choosing a template or resume working on an existing map.
  • Formatting toolbar – gives you access to commands for formatting and editing map elements quickly.
  • Improved Inspector – Inspectors have been modified for improved usability. Open multiple Inspectors to get quick access to the options you use most.
  • Improved Notes – Topic Notes can now be formatted in-context in the Notes window.
  • Local, Expanded Import and Export Transformations:
  • No longer do you need an internet connection to import or export files. Now you can take advantage of in-product compatibility with MS Office Mac 2011 and iWork 09.
  • More export types let you export your map or slides in a variety of formats.
  • Now you can easily import your Freemind maps into MindManager.
  • Improved Filtering and Select:
  • Filtering and selecting map elements is more intuitive with helpful tool tips, and easier creation and use of saved rules.
  • Quick Entry Mode:
  • Quickly enter and organize ideas into a map for an improved brainstorming and mapping experience.
  • Improved Imagery, Styles and Templates:
  • Choose from a selection of new business-oriented icons, images, templates and styles designed to enhance presentations and provide more context to maps.

New in MindManager 9.0.194 (Sep 13, 2011)

  • New Slide Presentations:
  • Present your work in easy to follow slides. Pick and choose topics to present, adjust their order and control exactly how you want each branch to appear.
  • Display your slides in a MindManager slideshow, or export them to create a Keyonote or PowerPoint presentation.
  • WYSIWYG Printing:
  • Now printing your maps is easier than ever. Choose to print the entire map or only select slides, so you can print out exactly what you need.
  • Improved Interface:
  • Find exactly what you are looking for with an improved organization of menu options and enhanced user interface.
  • New Map Gallery makes it easier to get started by choosing a template or resume working on an existing map.
  • Formatting toolbar – gives you access to commands for formatting and editing map elements quickly.
  • Improved Inspector – Inspectors have been modified for improved usability. Open multiple Inspectors to get quick access to the options you use most.
  • Improved Notes – Topic Notes can now be formatted in-context in the Notes window.
  • Local, Expanded Import and Export Transformations:
  • No longer do you need an internet connection to import or export files. Now you can take advantage of in-product compatibility with MS Office Mac 2011 and iWork 09.
  • More export types let you export your map or slides in a variety of formats.
  • Now you can easily import your Freemind maps into MindManager.
  • Improved Filtering and Select:
  • Filtering and selecting map elements is more intuitive with helpful tool tips, and easier creation and use of saved rules.
  • Quick Entry Mode:
  • Quickly enter and organize ideas into a map for an improved brainstorming and mapping experience.
  • Improved Imagery, Styles and Templates:
  • Choose from a selection of new business-oriented icons, images, templates and styles designed to enhance presentations and provide more context to maps.

New in MindManager 8.0.201 (Jan 28, 2010)

  • Share your maps with everyone
  • Create standalone, interactive versions of your maps online that anyone can view and interact with using a standard web browser. Distribute links to your shared maps using email, instant messaging, or by posting on a blog or your favorite social networking site. If you grant permission, other MindManager and Mindjet Catalyst users can download copies of your maps and edit them.
  • Create topics from calendar items
  • Create topics from existing calendar items (events and to-do's), or create new items and topics on-the fly. The items can be edited in your map or in iCal, and are automatically synchronized with your calendar. Add smart calendar topics to show calendar items that match criteria you specify (item type, timeframe, and calendar).
  • Import map resources from your address book
  • Import contacts from your address book to add them to list of available map resources, and optionally attach the list of imported resources as a vcards file to the central topic of your map. You can set an option to automatically import resources from a specific address book group for each new map you create.
  • Convert files
  • Convert your maps to Pages or a Word documents, or to Keynote or PowerPoint presentations. Convert Pages or Word documents to maps.
  • Send maps to iChat Buddies
  • Send your maps to buddies using iChat file transfer, without leaving MindManager.
  • Use the built-in MindManager browser
  • Display web pages from map hyperlinks using the built-in browser, or use the browser independently to view web pages. Copy links and page content directly from the browser onto your map.

New in MindManager 7.0.537 (Mar 24, 2009)

  • Outlining:
  • View maps in outline format
  • Select by Rule
  • Quickly select based on a combination of saved rules to show only the important information that you need.
  • Power Select
  • Quickly select based on a combination of criteria to show only the important information that you need.
  • Export
  • Export to OPML, text outline or HTML outline format
  • Timer:
  • Add a timer on map to manage meeting and presentation durations
  • Printing
  • Enhanced the printing functionality for ease of use
  • Map Background:
  • Provides map background tilting and scaling options
  • Hyperlinks to Web Sites or Files
  • Link to any web site, map, or file, including graphics, spreadsheets, documents, PDFs and more. Keep all your important information in a map for easy retrieval.
  • Insert Attachments
  • Add data to maps to build context around your ideas. Attach multiple files to map topics or insert hyperlinks to the web or your local network.
  • Search Using Spotlight
  • Mac OS X Tiger's built-in search utility, Spotlight, indexes topics within your maps.
  • Layout Formats
  • Choose from several layout format styles to organize your information.
  • Map Markers
  • Communicate information with markers that make your maps more visually rich and easier to understand.
  • Floating and Callout Topics:
  • Annotate information on your map using Floating and Callout Topics.
  • Boundaries
  • Visually group related topics or information for emphasis.
  • PDF Export
  • Publish maps as PDFs for platform independent distribution.
  • Image Export
  • Export maps in JPG, PNG or TIFF formats then paste into other programs.