| I. What’s New in MindMapper 2009 Plus |
| MindMapper 2009 Plus is a free upgrade for MindMapper 2009 customers. |
| A. Improved Display using Uniscribe |
| 1. Easier Readability of text, similar to newspapers and books |
| 2. Multiple font styles in a single topic text |
| 3. Optimized display for better performance and layout |
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| B. Improved Printing |
| 1. Revamped Print Preview window shows printing changes in real-time |
| 2. Support easier layout of your mind map for printing |
| 3. Support printing to actual size |
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| II. Business Oriented Features |
| A. Easy to use Ideation Templates |
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| 1. Radiant Association |
| Select Menu -> Enter Title |
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| Top level topics with 3 sub topics each are generated automatically |
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| 2. Brainstorming |
| This menu let's you easily start and execute a Brainstorming session |
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Select Menu -> Enter Title -> Automatically change to Full Screen Mode
==> Default mapping direction is Rightward.
Ideas can be written using Post-It style notes with various colors.
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| 3. Attribute Listing |
| Select Menu -> Enter Title |
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| ==> Rightward tree contains 3 topics with Nouns, Adjectives, and Verbs. Each also contain 3 sub topics. |
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| 4. Process Planning |
| Select Menu -> Enter Title and first level Topics |
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| ==> Each Main Topic is listed with 5 sub topics |
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| 5. Cause & Effect (Fishbone) |
| Select Menu -> Enter Effect and main factors |
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| Rightward Fishbone map is produced with the Category of Causes as the first level topics. |
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| 6. Backward Thinking |
| Select Menu -> Enter Goal and Descriptions |
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| ==> Leftward Process Tree is create with the Descriptions as the top level topics |
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| 7. SWOT Analysis |
| Select Menu -> Enter Title |
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Strengths, Weaknesses, Opportunities, and Threats are placed under Analysis
Strength Opportunities, Weakness Opportunities, Strength Threats, and Weakness Threats are create under Strategies.
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| B. Post-It style notes for Brainstorming |
| Insert -> Memo Floating |
| 1. Support for Post-It style notes |
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Create Post-It style Memo Notes by clicking Memo Floating button in the Insert menu.
Or press SHIFT + Left Mouse Button anywhere on the background.
Change Note colors by scrolling the Mouse Wheel, or by choosing the initial color in the menu.
Post-it Notes can be created in a Brainstorming session, or on any mind map simply by pressing SHIFT+Left Mouse button.
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| 2. Grouping Notes together |
Create notes, then select multiple notes by dragging the mouse.
To Group notes together, press Shift+Left Mouse Button, then enter a Title for the Group.
Change the location of Group Title by selecting the title then press the Arrow keys to move the Group Title around.
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| 3. Add Group to the map |
| To attach a Note Group to a tree, simply drag the Group Title next to a tree until you see a black arrow appear, then drop the group |
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| C. Improved Scheduling with Dependency Handling |
1. You can define scheduling dependency such that if task1 is delayed, all other dependent task schedules are pushed back automatically. When you export your Mind Map to Microsoft Project, the schedule dependencies are automatically converted as well.
2. Map Example (Map and Schedule View) |
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| D. Detailed Project Scheduling in Hour Units |
1. MindMapper 2008 supported scheduling to within Day units. Now you can schedule tasks and events down to each Hour with MindMapper 2009 Plus.
2. Schedule Options Window |
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| Option Dialog is used for setting default schedule settings. To set details for each schedule, right-click on the schedule bar. |
| 3. Showing the Hour Units in Schedule Window |
| To show the Hour units, right click on the Schedule window and select Scale Down.
The below diagram shows daily hours from 9am to 6pm.
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| E. Count Up/Down Clock |
When you start a Brainstorm Ideation session, the Clock starts automatically. However, the Clock can also be used anytime by using the Clock button in the Ideation tab.
By default the clock counts down, but you can choose Count Up to have a count up clock. |
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The clock will pop-up with the pre-set time.
You can increase or decrease the timer using the up and down arrow keys.
The right arrow key starts the timer, and you can also pause the timer using the same button.
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| F. Enhanced Compatibility |
| 1. PDF Save Integration |
| MindMapper 2009 Plus Professional now includes an option to Save as PDF document. |
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| 2. Save as JPG image using Logical Partitioning |
| Instead of saving your large map into a single JPG image file, you can now logically divide your map and save them into multiple image files. |
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Selecting "Yes" will save file into one image file (as with previous versions of MindMapper).
Selecting "No" will split your map and save them into multiple images that are automatically numbered.
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| III. Enhanced Mapping Experience |
| A. Hand Drawn Style Mapping for Artistic look |
1. Create mindmaps that look like it was intended as drawn by hand
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| B. Color Themes |
1. Color Theme Pallet
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| You can choose a color theme for your map (text, objects, branches, background, etc) and easily change the colors that appear on your pallet. |
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2. Applying Color Theme to your Map
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| In the Home menu, Format Tab, Style button, you can easily change the color theme for your entire map by choosing one of the themes listed. |
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| C. Bi-Directional Tree Structure |
1. New mapping direction, Bi-Directional Tree is introduced.
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2. You create the following sample map
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| D. Automatic Word Wrapping |
| MindMapper will easily line-wrap your long text. Traditionally, you had to type Ctrl-Enter to break a line manually, but now there are 2 automatic methods to wrap long lines. |
1. Drag the text box to wrap text
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2. Set default Word Wrap Option
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3. Word Wrapping and Sizing Operations
| a) Shift Double click any text sizing handles to cancel word wrapping |
| b) Double click left or right sizing handles to remove extra horizontal spaces |
| c) Double click up or down sizing handles to remove extra vertical spaces |
| d) Double click any corner sizing handles to remove all extra spaces |
| e) You can select multiple topics for sizing operations |
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| E. Topic Focus |
| You can now choose to change the focus to the newly created topic after you press Enter to complete creating a topic. The default behavior is to maintain the focus on the parent topic. |
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Keep Focus on Parent Topic:
Input:
How -> enter
Now -> enter
Brown -> enter
Cow -> enter
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Move Focus to New Topic
Input:
How -> enter
Now -> enter
Brown -> enter
Cow -> enter
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| F. My Pen |
MindMapper 2009 Plus includes My Pen feature that emulates highlighted text in your mapping canvas.
Use My Pen Settings to set your highlight color:
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Then turn My Pen On and create a new branch or a text.
Newly create text will display in highlighted mode |
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| G. Improved Speller with Thesaurus |
| MindMapper 2009 Plus includes an updated and improved Spell Checker with an integrated Thesaurus. |
| 1. Improved Speller |
| MindMapper 2009 Plus includes an improved Dictionary engine for overall improvements in Speller quality. Speller is invoked with the F7 shortcut key, or by pressing Spelling in the Organize menu tab. |
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| 2. Integrated Thesaurus |
| MindMapper 2009 Plus also includes an integrated Thesaurus feature. To use the integrated thesaurus, simply select a topic, and then click the Thesaurus button on the left window pane. The Thesaurus pane will open. You can also toggle the Thesaurus pane by pressing Thesaurus button in the Organize menu. |
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| In the Term drop down list, select the word from the topic that you wish to look up. Then select the correct synonym from the Categories list, then double-click the term you would like to use to replace your word with any of the candidate terms. |
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| IV. Intuitive User Interface |
| A. Ribbon Style Menu |
New Ribbon Style menu offers process oriented menu placement for more efficient usage.
Most commonly used commands are placed on the Home tab.
As you reduced your MindMapper Window horizontally, the ribbon menu will also condense, leaving you with the most used or popular commands. Expand the MindMapper Window horizontally to see the full menu set again.
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| 1. Application Menu |
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2. Home Tab
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| Most commonly used features are conveniently located on the Home tab of the Ribbon Toolbar |
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a) Clipboard
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b) Topic
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c) Font
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d) Format
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e) Task
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f) View
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g) Edit
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3. Insert Tab
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4. Organize Tab
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5. Ideation Tab
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6. Schedule Tab
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7. Presentation Tab
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8. Share Tab
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9. View Tab
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| B. Process Oriented Menu Placement |
1. Commonly used features are strategically placed on the Home menu to reduce mouse clicks and improve efficiency.
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2. Sub menus are grouped and placed to maximize business process flow in creating mind maps
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| 3. Different tabs grouping similar features allow more seamless mouse operation |
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| C. Draw Pallet window |
1. New Pallet window to combine all color attributes of fonts, branches, fills and lines.
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D. Intuitive Hyperlink Icons
Hyperlinks now use icons corresponding to the Microsoft Office document that is attached. You can easily spot Word, Excel and PowerPoint links just by viewing the link icons.
All other links, including web hyperlinks, videos, music, and pictures still use the traditional icon. |
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| E. Enhanced Legend Icons |
1. Added 30 more Legend icons for a total of 90
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2. Custom Legends are embedded in the document so they show properly when sent to other users.
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3. Able to re-size Legend toolbar to show 30, 60 or 90 Legends simultaneously
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| V. New Designs and Configuration |
| A. Optimized Graphic Elements |
| 1. Main Topic Branch optimization |
| 2. Fishbone Design Improvement |
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3. New and Additional Clipart Designs
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| a) Additional Clipart designs |
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| b) Additional Arrow Shapes |
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| B. Extended Conversion with MS Office Products |
| 1. Export to MS Word |
| a) Support exporting up to 10 levels deep |
| b) Export images in the Notes windows to Word document |
c) Template selection is in the first option window |
| d) Exporting menu shows the number of levels in the current map |
| e) MindMapper will import Word documents not in a perfect outline format by using logical methods |
| f) You can choose to export the Notes without the associated topic text |
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| C. Insert pictures to Notes window |
| You can now copy an image into the Notes window to add an extra dimension of description to your map. |
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| D. Improved Relation/Tie Lines for Logical flow |
| 1. Use Alt + Mouse click, click to add Relationship and Tie lines |
| 2. New Relationship/Tie lines maintain same color as the starting topic branch color |
| 3. You can set arrow direction also by selecting the text and changing arrow properties |
| 4. Bezier lines can also dragged by clicking the actual line instead of control points |
| 5. Dragging Relationship/Tie text also drags and re-shapes the line |
| 6. Added double-arrow lines |
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| E. Print Actual Size |
With MindMapper 2009 Plus, you can print your Mind Map using actual point size used in the screen. As in previous versions, the default setting is still Fit to Page. However, now you can set Actual Size printing to compare Mind Maps of different sizes to get the actual size printout you desire.
Actual Size options are in Printing Scale control in Print Preview and Page Setup menus:
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| Page Setup |
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| F. Miscellaneous |
| 1. Mouse and Keyboard |
| a) Navigating Multiple Maps |
| When working with multiple maps concurrently, now you can easily move between the first and last opened map with a new shortcut key |
| b) Screen Performance |
| Improved overall graphic performance with Panning the map (with right mouse button) and adding new branches. |
| c) Mouse Control |
(1) Alt + Up Arrow to Roll Up the map now rolls up all the way including first level branches
(2) Alt + Left Mouse to detach a branch from the main tree shows improved cursor
(3) Using Ctrl to stretch a topic size maintains the wrapping property of topic
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