iPad's MindManager

As most of you are aware of, iPad has turned out to be a universally wide deployed mobile device, also its applications are commonly used these days. We have talked a little bit about mindmapping on iPad by using iThoughtsHD. This time I'll take about the Mindjet's MindManager version for iPad. It's simple, cute, easy-to-use, efficient, multiplatform (iPad and iPhone).
If you are used to work with MindManager on your desktop or laptop, this is an application, you should give it a try!
Branches creation turns out very simple, you just tap and hold, and define the direction where the branch should go and it's done!
It also has Dropbox integration, WiFi transfer and also most part of all visualization fearures already existing in other MindManager versions.
In the coming days I am going to give it a deeper try and I´ll show you the results.

Novamind 5´s interesting layout feature

I guess most of you know or even have used Novamind, it is a very interesting and useful mindmapping software.
In this particular entry, I'll talk a little bit about an innovative solution for a common problem, whenever you use a mindmapping software...the huge amount of empty and unuseful spaces in large maps.
In the following Youtube video, it is explained by Gideon King, how Novamind 5 tackles this particular issue, which I would say it is extremely good.

iPad's Discovr Apps

Surfing different webpages and the Apple Store, I came across a very funny and useful application. It's called Discovr AppStore.
Here you see a snapshot.
Is its look familiar to you? ---)))

MindMapping for grammar learning

During this vacation season I have gone over my old german grammar lessons to polish it up.
Of course I have taken advantage of mindmapping in this revision --)))
Advantages from my point of view:
1.- More deeper analysis when you are making the map
2.- Easy to review, easy to remember.

MindMapping and "The Five Habits of highly Innovative Leaders"

I apologize for these months without posting. Important things are happening in my professional and personal life and they´re taking all the time I've got.
Today I come across a very interesting article in Forbes.com´s blog. It is an article about habits in very highly innovative leaders.
If you take a look at the article and you focus on the fifth, you´ll see the importance given in the article to the Associatonal Thinking, describing the need for drawing connections among different concepts, ideas from unrelated fields and sources.
This is the point where mindmapping techniques show up with and suitable and extraordinary methodology to speed up this fifth habit capabilities.
Have you ever taken a chance on a mind map and haven´t you found different and weird ideas popping up about one particular topic?
If so, perhaps you´re on the way to be a Highly Innovative Leader.

5 iMindMap5 copies to give away

Courtesy of ThinkBuzan Ltd, we have the opportunity to give away 5 iMindMap5 copies to our esteemed readers.

If you want to get one of these, please send a hand-made mindmap to me(it has to be fresh new and unreleased) about a very important topic (the Spring season).

We will go into the different maps, selecting the best ones to get the award.

Hands on DropMind

I want to take this opportunity to talk a little bit about a software I am using lately (DropMind).

First off I want to thank Dropmind people and specially to Emel Karakash for passing me the testing code.

As stated in his webpage, it is a less expensive (from 5 to 10 times) alternative to MindManager.

DropMind is an intuitive, multiplatform and user-friendly mindmapping application which offers:

- Integration with MS Office, Google Aps, MS Projects and others
- It allows and works comfortably in several different platforms (desktop, mobile, iPad)
- It also provides a DropMind web account, so you can upload your maps and make them available everywhere you go, as far as sharing your maps with partners, colleagues and friends.

Testing it in my iPad I must say it is really simple but complete, easy enough to be used and to make your maps quickly available on the web (in my opinion, in the Apple iPad environment simplicity is a must).

Summing up I must say it is a really cool application, easy to use, with many possibilities and cheaper in comparison with other applications existing on the market.

DropMind is a really good alternative either if you are thinking about stepping in mindmapping world or if you are a daily user.