In September 2012, the company combined its existing products into a single product named |Mindjet and changed from a purchase-based model to a subscription-based model. In December 2011, Mindjet reported 350,000 downloads for its iOS app and 1.1 million downloads for its Android-based app. Following the acquisition of Cohuman in 2011, Mindjet launched Mindjet Connect, a cloud-based service for collaborative working. The company's MindManage displayed information in mind maps using colors, words, images and spatial relationships. Until 2012, the company's products focused on mind mapping, collaboration and project management.
Mindjet develops mind mapping and innovation management software for Microsoft Windows and Mac OS, and for both Apple iOS and Android mobile devices. In 2013, Mindjet acquired innovation management company Spigit, and adopted their software product SpigitEngage into their product suite. The company is led by a board of directors including founder Mike Jetter, managing director of Investor Growth Capital, Noah Walley, and former Visio Corporation CEO, Jeremy Jaech. The company's headquarters are located in San Francisco it also has offices in Australia, France, Germany, Japan, Switzerland and the United Kingdom. Īs of December 2011 Mindjet had 270 employees. The acquisition of Cohuman enabled Mindjet to launch a new collaborative working service called Mindjet Connect on September 22, 2011. In 2011, the company acquired Thinking Space, an Android-based information mapping application, and Cohuman, a social task management service. Scott Raskin, the former chief operating officer for Telelogic, was named CEO of Mindjet in 2006. In August 2001, Mindjet received approximately $5 million in venture capital from London-based investment group 3i, which the company used to market MindManager in the U.S. Jetter conceived of the idea for the first product while recovering from an illness in hospital, and began developing the program while living in Germany in 1994, aiming to simplify the creation and sharing of mind maps for business users. I encourage you to read his blog post to learn more.Mindjet was founded in 1998 by computer programmer Mike Jetter and his wife, Bettina Jetter, in order to support the development of their mind mapping software, MindManager. In his opinion, the real sweet spot for this application is its recently enhanced instant meeting and chat capabilities. MindManager Web is getting much closer to delivering an experience equivalent to utilizing a desktop mind mapping tool, according to Alan Yoshioka, who recently wrote a very positive review of MindManager Web on his Mobile Musings Blog.
Clicking on the link in the e-mail starts the download of the software that’s needed to support the instant meeting. If they are not a Connect user, you can invite them to view or collaborate on your map via an e-mail invitation. If the person you’re inviting is a Mindjet Connect user, the invitation will appear as a pop-up window on their screen. You can now invite anyone to instant meetings.
If the file you upload has a different name, you can choose to use either the name of the original workspace file or the name of the uploaded file. All the attributes of the original file are retained, and links to the file remain functional. When you replace a file, the new file is uploaded to the workspace and the original file is immediately destroyed. This gives you a means to replace workspace files (but not maps) quickly and easily. You can edit and replace documents in your workspace. Now you can save a map created within MindManager Web directly as a.MM AP file. In the past, if you wanted to do this, you would need to utilize the Mindjet Connect collaborative workspace tool to pull online maps down to your computer. MMAP files and share them with other MindManager users. I was very pleased with how these keyboard shortcuts give this web application a very desktop software-like feel.
You can use keyboard commands for everything from adding new topic (INS key), zoom in and out, and add boundary to selecting topics, formatting topic text and opening and closing notes and task panels.
Support for shortcut keys (37 in all), which should significantly increase your productivity with the application.
This update includes over 100 usability improvements, such as:
Michael Deutch, writing in the Mindjet Blog, recently announced some significant updates and enhancements to MindManager Web, the web-based version of the popular mind mapping tool.