Welcome to MatchWare® MindView™, the perfect tool for businesses, educators and students who need to organize information! Easy to learn and easy to use, MindView is a highly effective way of brainstorming, developing and structuring ideas visually. Ideal for use by individuals, small teams or large groups, MindView generates illustrated mind maps® which you can use in presentations, reports, web sites and more. With a comprehensive range of export options to Microsoft® Office applications, HTML and other formats, MindView is an effective and versatile concept development tool.
Mind maps are illustrated frameworks of organized, prioritized, linked ideas that develop or relate to a subject or concept.
Mind maps have been demonstrated to help individuals and businesses achieve higher levels of performance by increasing productivity and organization skills.
Using the Mind Mapping technique makes it very easy to outline your written documents such as meeting agendas, proposals and marketing plans. MindView allows you to brainstorm ideas for your main topics in a completely free and non-linear way. One of the great benefits of using MindView, as opposed to brainstorming on a piece of paper, is that MindView allows you to reorganize your ideas in the right order by dragging and dropping them in the mind map once you have finished listing them.
When you export your mind map to Microsoft® Word, you can choose from a variety of creative templates designed to give your document a professional look instantly. Main ideas are exported as main headings, sub-ideas are exported as sub-headings and so on. All the text notes, comments, pictures and other elements which you have placed on the mind map are also exported. This means that you can actually start writing your report while brainstorming in MindView, as the complete text is included in the exported Word document.
Once you start developing your document in Word, you may realize that you have forgotten some key ideas that you would like to brainstorm in MindView first. All you need to do in that case is to import your Word document back into MindView, add the new ideas to your mind map, and then re-export to Word.
The Calculation module of MindView allows you to add numerical values to the branches of your mind map, for example sales numbers, costs, exchange rates and so on, as well as formulas to carry out calculations on the values. Built-in functions allow you to display values automatically rolled up from lower sub-branches to higher ones. You can also insert text values to add important information to your branches.
If for instance you have created a mind map to track worldwide sales, you can then export it as an Microsoft® Excel spreadsheet in order to continue working directly in Excel.
Conversely, you can also import an Excel spreadsheet in MindView. Numerical values and formulas (provided they are supported by MindView) will be preserved in the mind map created by this process.
Use Mind Mapping to brainstorm, visualize and organize your tasks. Then convert your mind map into a detailed implementation plan by adding task information such as dates, resources, priorities and completion percentages.
Task lists can be created in an instant and displayed in the Outline view or exported to Microsoft® Outlook. You can also import task lists from Outlook and synchronize information between MindView and Outlook to eliminate redundancies.
The MindView Gantt view is a specialized view, dedicated to the creation, editing and management of project plans according to the rules of project management.
MindView lets you build, view and manage complex project plans in the Gantt view. Setup deadlines, milestones and dependencies while keeping an eye on the critical path to ensure your team delivers on time every time.
If necessary, you can easily export your project plan to Microsoft® Project to take advantage of its advanced project management capabilities. You can also import existing project plans directly from Microsoft Project or via the Microsoft Project XML format if you prefer to use the easy-to-understand, visual MindView interface.
The MindView Timeline view is a great way of displaying time-related information such as company history, marketing plans, production plans and historical data. Simply add dates or times to your branches and switch to the Timeline view to see the information displayed along a horizontal time axis. Different timescales (for example standard, weekly or daily) let you tailor the timeline to suit your needs. You can zoom in or out, expand or contract the timeline scale, and condense empty stretches of the timeline by inserting break marks.
MindView has been optimized for storyboarding and planning web sites and multimedia presentations, which you can then export to Microsoft® PowerPoint or HTML:
When storyboarding presentations,
an idea in your mind map represents a slide (PowerPoint) in your presentation, a sub-idea represents
a sub-slide
and so on.
You can attach files
to branches (ideas) in the mind map, such as Flash files, pictures, text,
sounds and videos. These files are included when you export to PowerPoint or HTML and displayed on their respective pages.
MindView lets you create
hyperlinks, branch connections and other interactivity that is also included
when exporting.
The Export Wizards include
a range of ready-made templates with built-in navigation, which you are
free to customize and save for further use.
MindView allows basic
web editing during the HTML export. You can for instance place the various
elements where required on each individual page. No coding or scripting
necessary!
Once exported, you can
import your PowerPoint
presentation back into MindView if you need to storyboard more pages or
slides.
MindView provides you with detailed business templates for use in the standard Mind Mapping views, as well as ready-made project plans specific to the Gantt view, covering a range of common business activities.
You can base your own documents on any of these templates, and customize them as required to meet your particular needs. Comments and suggestions for expansion are given in their notes and pop-up comments.