• Visualizations: 50 great examples of infographics, interesting examples of infographics
  According to wikipedia: Information graphics or infographics are visual representations of information, data or knowledge. These graphics are used where complex information needs to be explained quickly and clearly, such as in signs, maps, journalism, technical writing, and education.
• Video: I love mindmapping and I map everyday, 27 min video interview
  Robert Scoble (tech blogger) and Michael Deutch (Mindjet Evangelist) on Mindmapping
• Article: The History and Future of Graphic Facilitation by Christine Valenza.
  Article from the July issue of Interactions Magazine can be downloaded in PDF format from box.net.
• Video: TED Talk: Biomimicry in action by Janine Benyus.
  Janine has a message for inventors: When solving a design problem, look to nature first. There you’ll find inspired designs for making things waterproof, aerodynamic, solar-powered and more; 17 mins.
• Internet: Multisearch engine: Sputtr.
  Sputtr is a really clean and simple startpage that you can use to search all your favorite websites such as Google, Yahoo, Facebook, YouTube, Flickr, Twitter, del.icio.us and many more. With Sputtr one can save time since one does not have to visit all the individual sites, it is even customizable.
• Article: Solving Problems with Pictures, an Interview with Dan Roam (author of The Back of the Napkin) by Vern Burkhardt.
  Pictures can be used to discover, develop and share business ideas and have some fun.
• Information and video: GetDocued
  Website which provides links and descriptions to documentaries which are available on the internet and provide them in a convenient way on our platform. GetDocued covers amongst others: culture, history, economics, thinkers, environment, science,  Body & Mind and technology etc.
• Internet: Knowledge Based (smart) Search: Yebol (beta)
  Yebol provides semantic results on searches and it combines different content sources on a single page.

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To create a new Maintopic just press  ↩

To create a sub-topic ⌘ ↩

To create a topic before ⇧ ↩

To create a new parent topic   ⇧⌘ ↩

As soon as you mastered these shortcuts you will notice an efficiency improvement during mindmapping!  With the ‘Outliner view’ one can create an overview of floating topics in the MindManager field. The mindmapview changes into a linear approach of one’s information. It is divided in sub-topics but all from left to right without any visualization. This is beneficial during brainstorm sessions where one wants to type many keywords. Afterwards one can cluster those keywords.

There is also a possibility to set up some “rules” for the map. This allows the user to only see the items which you choose to see.

Pimping a mindmap with colors and styles that suits your needs or company identity will take some extra time. Most of the time mindmappers will ‘pimp’ their mindmaps when the content is ready. It will save up time if you will define and configure a style template. This template can be used over and over again. You can make your newly designed template as default template for every mindmap you create. Using templates saves time and leaves important time for putting together your mindmap.

Set the color and form at every level of topics, so Main, Subtopics and their Subtopics. Once you have set the settings, go to “Format” and “Set as Default Format”. You can export these settings into a style file, which you can import in to a MindManager file, even on another Mac or PC.    As a company you can add your own images to the library to complete your branding. Just add your own images in:

Library/Application Support/Mindjet/MindManager/7/[Language you’ve installed]/Library/Image

The same hold for adding backgrounds or icons into your library.   Well that’s it, some tips and tricks to be more efficient in using MindManager for Mac.
If you got some tips yourself please be so kind to share them with us in a comment.