MindManager® offers a visual, highly intuitive interface so individuals and teams can easily capture,
organize, and share ideas and information—then quickly take action. From facilitating creative
ideas to managing roles and tasks, from revealing the Big Picture to accommodating all the details,
Mindjet MindManager enhances strategic thinking, accelerates project and process planning and
boosts productivity.
The TPAssist method can be achieved using the intuitive MindManager interface to capture your
goals, projects and activities. MindManager even has some built-in integration with Outlook items
so you can link your mind map topics to Outlook tasks and visa versa.
One MindManager approach is to use one very large map to manage your activities. The main
topics would be your goals, the next level map topics would be your projects or operational aspects
and subsequent sub topics would be used to track your activities. This method becomes
problematic very quickly in that it is not suitable for managing more than a few goals and 5-6
projects.
An alternative approach is to create one mind map per goal and then structure your projects or
operational aspects as main topics with-in those mind maps. This method is very scalable but has
the added complexity of managing multiple maps.
In using MindManager alone to drive the TPAssist method, there are a few areas that you will find
limiting:
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MindManager supports task capabilities with-in topics (i.e. priority, percent complete, start-
date, due- date, resources and duration), however these properties are localised, therefore
status with-in a particular project or even goal is not easily tracked without manually updating
each topic in the hierarchy.
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Whilst MindManager supports Topic notes these are also localised, therefore you can't easily
see what you have been doing on each activity at a project or goal level.
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As the maps grow in number and size it is difficult to appraise overall activity status, therefore
diminishing your ability the to see where you are going and what you have achieved.