Mind Mapping Software

How to Change the Font for an Entire Level of a Mind Map

The visual representation of information is much more productive than simple linear transfer because it is more natural for our brain to understand information in the form of visual images. ConceptDraw MINDMAP will help you put your thoughts and ideas across to any audience in the most intelligible and memorable way. Mind maps can be used in a great number of situations involving analysis, learning, research, and thinking. Use them for personal planning, preparing lists, working on projects, as well as analyzing problems and finding solutions. ConceptDraw MINDMAP provides a variety of style and formatting options for your mind maps, that let you add more information to your mind map without interfering with its readability.

How to Create a Custom Library

Why do people use custom clip art to create their mind maps? First, this allows you to create your author's style. Making a mind map is a creative work, and each mind map depicts the personality of its author. More, the custom clip art is needed if your mind map often contains the same set of custom images that are not supplied with the standard software package. ConceptDraw MINDMAP allows you to create a custom clip art library to increase the visual capacity of your mind maps. You can even deploy them inside ConceptDraw MINDMAP so that you can use them through standard interface tools.

How to Use Mind Map Exchange Solution

Using ConceptDraw MINDMAP you can import and export files of Microsoft Project, MindManager, XMind, FreeMind, Microsoft Office, and many other project management and mind mapping applications. You can create your own mind map based on the incoming files of different mind mapping software, and then export the final mind map to any desired format from the list of supported ones.

How to Brainstorm with ConceptDraw MINDMAP

Brainstorming is a way of generating ideas related to a specific theme. Usually brainstorming involves a group of people generating a lot of ideas in a short period of time. The key to brainstorming is putting off the process of evaluating ideas until a later stage. The participants keep a record of their ideas as they come to mind, without thinking them over. Unorthodox and unusual thoughts are welcome, and no criticism or justification is allowed in order to encourage participation. Though one can brainstorm individually, the technique works better in a group, as ideas expressed by one participant trigger more ideas from others, often based on associations, and the participants can benefit from each other’s experience and knowledge. Brainstorming using a software tool has a lot of advantages over the traditional way of capturing ideas like flip-charts or white-boards. The latter have physical size limitations, which constrain the process as the number of ideas grows. Ideas become scattered around the room, making it is easy to overlook important ideas. Further grouping and prioritizing of ideas is inconvenient and requires a lot of effort. ConceptDraw MINDMAP helps to avoid these problems. Read here how to run a Brainstorming session with ConceptDraw MINDMAP

How to Show the Relationship Between Topics

Any mind map contains topics that are arranged in a radial structure. It depicts the relation (semantic, causal, association, etc.) between the concepts, parts, and components of the main idea. In addition to the main connections that make the structure of a mind map, topics can be linked with other lines. ConceptDraw MINDMAP allows you to show the relationships between topics, which belong to different parts of the mind map structure, but also influence each other. Relationships help to show and organize complex interconnections between topics of mind map visually. Such communication is also very important - the mind map, where many topics are not related, tends to turn into a common text!

Kanban Board Tool for Project Managers and Developers

Kanban Board solution provides support for drawing Kanban boards in ConceptDraw DIAGRAM and for making Kanban board mind maps in ConceptDraw MINDMAP with the ability to automatically generate Kanban board charts in DIAGRAM.