[...]... of ways you can get information MindManager handles both the acquisition of the information and the organization of the information Infor­ mation quickly gets added to a MindManager map using news feeds and search tools News feeds How much information is easily available? A bunch The question then becomes how to organize all the information sources that are out there Once again, MindManager has a solution... Groups 315 Yahoo MindManager user group .315 MindManager User to User Forum 316 Chapter 24: Ten (Or So) Shortcuts 317 Keyboard Shortcuts: Fast, Fun, and Fastidious .317 MindManager map documents 318 MindManager screen management 318 MindManager objects .319 Editing the MindManager map 320 Formatting the text ... .15 Microsoft Project or other MPX project tools 16 Presenting MindManager Map Information to Others .17 MindManager presentation mode .17 Export to Microsoft Word 17 PowerPoint presentations 17 xii MindManager For Dummies Chapter 2: Making Your First Map 19 Switching on MindManager 19 Scoping Out the Workspace 21 Finding... Adding an Action Item 356 Aligning Topics 358 Index 361 xvii xviii MindManager For Dummies Introduction W elcome to MindManager For Dummies, your portal to levels of produc­ tivity and creativity that you have only dreamt about! You’ve heard of thinking outside of the box? MindManager doesn’t even know where the box is Open this book to any page and you will find ideas... We used MindManager extensively as we wrote this book We’ll use some examples of MindManager s simple brilliance to explain how this book is organized There are five parts to the book Part I In the first part you learn about visual organization and the basics of MindManager You set up the screen interface the way you want and get comfortable moving around in the program 3 4 MindManager For Dummies. .. dynamic Links can be formed between news ser­ vices, search engines, and third party vendors to feed information into a MindManager map Does it stop there? No! The MindManager map is shared and reviewed between colleagues Comments are captured and added to the informational content of the map MindManager integrates with other programs such as Microsoft Outlook and Microsoft Project The MindManager map takes... Getting Outlook tasks into MindManager 284 Sending MindManager tasks to Outlook 288 Synching MindManager and Outlook 290 Using the MindManager- Outlook Mind Meld 292 xv xvi MindManager For Dummies Chapter 22: Linking with Microsoft Project 297 Sending Your Map to Microsoft Project 298 Bringing Your Project Back to MindManager 302 Importing and Exporting Maps... program does exist — MindManager X5 Pro Throughout the book, I refer to this version of the pro­ gram simply as MindManager MindManager is a unique software product The MindManager map is the visual interface The structure of the map is designed to integrate icons, graphics, and other visual elements with text material The layout of the map presents your information visually A MindManager map would... workspace 129 Chapter 11: Adding Supplemental Information 131 Topics Floating in Space .132 Informing with Callout Topics 134 Becoming Legendary 135 Reviewing the Map 137 xiii xiv MindManager For Dummies Chapter 12: Putting the World at Your Mouse Click 141 Putting Pointers to Information on Your Map 142 It’s on my map ... ideas You use the Brainstorm mode in MindManager to capture all the ideas, and a MindManager map is then created The generated ideas become MindManager topics Refer to Figure 1-1 The topics are grouped together and new topics are added as headings A productive brainstorming session can gen­ erate hundreds of ideas and, therefore, topics MindManager makes it easy for the team to organize, reorganize, . Publishing logo, For Dummies, the Dummies Man logo, A Reference for the Rest of Us!, The Dummies Way, Dummies Daily, The Fun and Easy Way, Dummies. com, and. i MindManager ® FOR DUMmIES ‰ 01 556533 FM.qxd 3/3/04 4:08 PM Page ii 01 556533 FM.qxd 3/3/04 4:08 PM Page iii MindManager ® FOR DUMmIES ‰ by Hugh