Absolutely Easy to Use

We believe that a really easy to use User Interface is self-explanatory. MindVisualizer's UI is well-designed so it is intuitive enough to allow you find out how to do what you want easily. Moreover, MindVisualizer is shipped with Tutorial Videos to get you started quickly. You learning curve will be smooth.

Extended Map Node Properties

The visual maps in MindVisualiser are not only mindmaps or concept maps or spider maps, the nodes/branches have been extremely extended for visual information management. Note: You can Click to enlarge the screenshots below.

Text Notes: Edit notes like in MS Word, defining fonts, text size and colors. Embed images or documents like MS Excel spreadsheets into the map nodes. Text notes are helpful to store detailed information for a topic while the visual map give you a brief view.

Icons: The Icon Library allows you mark the mind map branches with professional designed icons, making the maps real visual and pleasing to read, result in better looking presentations. You can also add your own icons from hard disk or from the Internet into the Icon Library to enrich it.

Image: Images are another kind of visual elements for the mind maps, you can choose images from the large Image Library or from the hard disks. You can even draw picture in-place with Microsoft Paint©, the tight integration with MS Paint© program enables you starting editing the pictures by just a double click, saving you a lot of time!

Hyperlinks: You can link the nodes to website URL's, email addresses, disk files, office documents, or even Office Outlook items (emails, tasks, appointments, calendars, folders), and all other kinds of hyperlinks. Opening the links in the maps is as easy as a mouse click.

Attachments: Node attachments are another method for document management similar to hyperlinks while they are slightly different, other than pointing to external stuff, attachments are embedded into the map files, all your information is stored in a single place. Opening and editing of the attachments is painless, click to edit and close the associated program will save it back to the map!

Task Information: Visual mapping is good for to do lists by nature as you can see all your tasks at a glance, very concise and clear. MindVisualizer goes further by allowing you specify task-specific information for nodes. You can specify the task status, task priority, start day, due date, duration, completed percentage, GTD context, etc. Check out the screenshots.

Export Maps and Office Integration

Visual mapping is a great methodology as it works in the way our brain works, but sometimes converting the maps into other documents will help in sharing your work with others. Following is a list of export formats supported by Mind Visualizer. Office document export support Microsoft Office 2000/XP/2003/2007.

• Adobe Acrobat PDF File (*.pdf)
• Microsoft Office Word Document (*.doc)
• Microsoft Office PowerPoint Slide (*.ppt)
• Microsoft Office Excel Spreadsheet (*.xls)
• HTML Web page in outlined style (*.html or *.htm)
• RTF Document (Rich Text Format Document) (*.rtf)
• OpenOffice.org Open Document Text (*.odt)
• OpenOffice.org Open Spreadsheet (*.ods)
• Plain Text in outlined style (*.txt)
• JPEG/JPG Image (*.jpeg or *.jpg)
• GIF Picture (*.gif)
• PNG Image (*.png)
• BMP Photo (*.bmp)

Powerful Printing

Print the maps "as it". Scale and split printing are supported	Print outlined list. MindVisualizer is the only visual mapping software that support this option!

Multiple Central Topics in a Map and Flexible Node Positioning

With MindVisualizer you can have multiple central topics in a single mind map, this is achieved by adding floating topics to the visual map in addition to the default central topic. This allows you visualize slightly independent ideas in a single map. Moreover, unlike other similar software, MindVisualizer allows you place the branches freely without restrictions. Check out the screenshot.

Concept Mapping with Floating Topics

With the powerful floating topics, floating text and floating images support, you can easily make concept maps with MindVisualizer. Concept mapping is also known as Spider Mapping, which is widely used in the world, it is another excellent and usefully visual thinking tool for people.

Microsoft Office Outlook Integration

MindVisualizer allows you drag and drop any kind of Outlook items, including emails, tasks, contacts, calendars, folders and so on, into your maps and it will automatically create hyperlinks to the items. Note the 'MSN notification' style hints on the lower-right corner for advanced options before dropping the items. Outlook will open when you click the linked items.

Supper Drag and Drop Support

• You can easily organize and restructure your mind maps with drag and drop operations, it's quick and intuitive.
• Drag from external:
  Besides you can drag and drop outlook emails into your maps to create hyperlinks, you can also drag and drop files from hard disk and URL's from web browsers like IE and Firefox, to create hyperlinks. You can also drag-and-drop text from any other programs.

Exchange Information with External Programs

• Copy from external programs:
  • Smart indented text recognition: MindVisualizer can intelligently recognize the text you are pasting, one line equals one node, indented line will be treated as child nodes. This allows you copy contents from other mind mapping software.
  • Copy image: You can directly copy images from other image processing or drawing programs and paste it into your mind maps.
• Copy nodes to external programs:
  • Copy as image: The selected nodes in your mind map can be copied as image, in turn, you can paste the image into Word, Excel,PowerPoint, etc.
  • Copy as indented text: When you copy the selected nodes in your mind map, they will be also available in clipboard as indented text.
    
    

Find-As-You-Type and Filter-As-You-Type

• Find. With MindVisualizer you can quickly locating a topic in a map, the implementation idea was inspired by Firefox's search function, as you are typing a string, the match topic will be located instantly. Find options included: case sensitive, search notes, search folded topics. See screenshot below
  
  
  
• Live filter. Allows you easily filter your map by text, input the filter text and the map will be filtered instantly. You can press <Ctrl + K> to access it.
  

Handy Map View and Map Navigation

• Fold/Unfold branches: When you map contains lots of information it will become hard to keep focus on the high level view, in this case you can hide some details by folding the branches; When it comes to show the details, you expand the branches.
• Drag with right button to pan the mind maps:
  This is a very handy way to pan a large map as it's only a single mouse action.
• Quick navigation with keystrokes: Keystrokes are usually the fastest way to do things, MindVisualizer's fully keyboard support allows you quickly perform frequently used tasks, some examples:
  • Scroll vertically: Mouse wheel
  • Scroll horizontal: Shift + Mouse wheel
  • Jumping between nodes: Press Left/Right/Up/Dow/Home/End, etc.
  • Pan the mind maps:
    Ctrl + Left/Right/Up/Down
    Page Up/Page Down
  • Zoom in/out the maps: Press Ctrl + +/-
    
    

Automation Makes Your Life Easier

• Floating Buttons: You can Add child nodes and remove nodes easily and quickly, two floating buttons will appear when you move the mouse near a node.
• Auto branch coloring: You don't need to spend your time in formatting your maps.
• Auto line wrapping: Nodes with long text makes the map unreadable, MindVisualizer will wrap the text automatically once it reaches a certain length. Of course you can set you favorite max. length in the Options window.
• Spelling check: You can easily check all your spelling for the node text and notes, supported languages include English, German, French, Spanish, Italian, Swedish, Dutch, Finnish, Polish, Russian and Hebrew.
  
  

State-of-the-art User Interface

While the UI is well-designed to allow you do things easily and quickly, it's fully customizable. You can customize the windows layout by moving the toolbars and sidebars' positions, docking them or make them floating, you can even save the layouts to disk with given names, this allows you use different windows layout for different working purposes; You can customise the shortcuts; You can change the look and feel styles, these styles including Office 2007/2003, Mac OS X, Crystal, and so on.

Lightweight and High Performance

We are fans of productivity software and are keen to make high productivity software. Unlike other similar software those need you download tens of megabytes of file and rely on large and bloated platform like Java or .Net, the installer of MindVisualizer is only around 10 MBs which including almost 10 flash tutorial videos and a large image library. Also both the startup time and running speed are very fast, some users has been advised it's the fastest mind mapping software in the world!

Portable Version for USB Sticks

MindVisualizer Standard is shipped in both the setup and portable version, while the setup version allows you to install MindVisualizer Standard with only several clicks, the portable version can be installed onto your USB disk so that you can run MindVisualizer in any computer, offering you great flexibility.