NovaMind Mind Mapping Software

NovaMind 5 has been announced

NovaMind 5 is due for release in September/October 2009. When you purchase a license key through the NovaMind online store, it will be a NovaMind 5 license key that will work for both NovaMind 4 and NovaMind 5. When NovaMind 5 is released, you will just need to download the new version - your license key will automatically be recognized.

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  • What is a Mind Map?
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What is the Value of Mind Mapping?

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What are Mind Maps?

Mind Maps are diagrams that work the way you think. They make it easy to understand, remember, and communicate complex information.

These days we are bombarded with so much information that it can be difficult to make sense of it all, and we suffer from information overload and overwhelm, which reduces our effectiveness.

Some of the problems we face are:

  • inability to solve problems effectively,
  • lack of creative thought,
  • lack of focus,
  • difficulty giving great presentations,
  • problems organizing your thoughts,
  • poor communication,
  • missing out tasks when planning projects,
  • forgetting important information, and
  • lack of clarity and direction.

If you have suffered from any of these problems, Mind Mapping is for you. Mind Mapping gives you clarity and allows you to:

  • organize your thoughts,
  • remember information,
  • communicate better,
  • solve problems quickly and effortlessly,
  • brainstorm new ideas,
  • increase productivity by 20% or more,
  • see the important issues,
  • make better decisions, and
  • give compelling presentations.

Why does Mind Mapping work?

Mind Maps organize the information in the same way your brain organizes information. This makes it very natural and easy to understand.

Our brains like thinking in pictures. The smooth curves and colorful pictures that are created when MindMapping create powerful images for your brain to remember.

We have two halves to our brains which think in different ways. The left half thinks linearly following direct linkages to related ideas. Our right brain likes to see the whole picture with colors and flow.

A Mind Map caters to both sides of the brain at the same time, which makes it a very good way of storing and recalling information, presenting things to other people, and brainstorming new ideas.

A Mind Map program gives you a lot more than basic Mind Mapping, including things like recoloring of branches, reorganizing the Mind Map, drag and drop images and so much more. Click on the "Your First Mind Map" tab above to see a NovaMind Mind Mapping software video tutorial.

Watch the video above for more information about how it all works.

 

Use these Mind Mapping tutorials to guide you as you create your first NovaMind Mind Map.

Whether you are going to be using Mind Maps for business plans, lesson plans, project management, presentations, or to improve your productivity, the tutorials here and built in to NovaMind will get you up and running as soon as possible.

There are video tutorials here for both Windows and Mac, so just click on the one that you want to watch.

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Testimonials

"This is a must have"

Well - I do not want to duplicate the - true - statements in the other testimonials, just one thing should tell it all: NovaMind set a personal record for me. That is: first shareware ever purchased within 1 hour after downloading the trial version.

After moving from Win XP back to Mac OS (after moving in the opposite direction 5 years ago) the only application I was really missing was Mind Manager and for a while I was afraid I would have to live with outlining tools such as OmniOutliner or Notebook (which are both very good products I do recommend if outlining is what you want to do). But outlining tools do not offer the amount of assistance and visual clarity in developing complex concepts, while being an enormous time saver in being a development, presentation and marketing tool at the same time.

Honestly, I have been involved in several large-scale international consulting projects and the difference between showing decision makers an outline (or presentation) and allowing them to actually "feel" how much effort and thought went into creating "their" solution by presenting a Mind Map is enormous and priceless.

NovaMind offers exactly that while even being easier to use than the Windows counter part. Add to that the reasonable pricing and (compared to many other current Mac OS X apps) broad import/export capabilities... (cannot even think of words to describe my happiness finding out how well the Mind Manager import works having more than 1700 of them at hand) this is a must have. Love it.

Uwe Rueckeshaeuser : Frankfurt, Germany/Bangkok, Thailand

Mindmapping on Vista - with the Ribbon GUI!

Published January 23rd, 2007 in .NET, Technology blog

I am a big fan of mindmapping and a regular user of Mind Manager X5 pro when I was running XP on my system. However, X5 Pro is not compatible with running on Vista. Looking at other mindmap programs revealed a couple of free ones however both required Java (Freemind & Compedium). I have never been very comfortable with Java.

Then I came across Novamind. Not one that I had ever looked at before. Net 2.0 based, lovely GUI and the Ribbon!

Downloading and istalling the 30 day trial was painless (except for the now familiar Vista UAC dialogues). A day after I had installed an update was released, the program notified me of this on launch and offered to download the update and install it. 2 clicks and it was updated to the new version. This was also pretty impressive.

The program has a mind map tutor with step by step tutorial building up to a complex mindmap with all the bells and whistles.

I am very impressed so far. Novamind lends itself to both quick and simple note-taking and brain storming mindmaps as well as complicated maps with graphical background, icons and attached documents/resources. I think I have found my replacement to Mind Manager.

Sumeet Chadha : Birmingham, United Kingdom

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