Visual Mind 11, Business Edition
Planning and organizing are key elements in businesses and professionals daily life. Visual Mind increases your capabilities and improves your efficiency through simple graphical techniques.
Keeping track of an increasing number of different tasks, and prioritizing them correctly, influence your performance as a business professional. Visual Mind allows you to quickly and easily be on top of your "To-do" list, making sure that you keep your wanted focus, and improve your time management.
Making decisions, minor or major, project oriented or as part of a strategic planning process, tend to follow the same basic pattern. Being able to evaluate the appropriate factors are vital in a decision making process. Visual Mind is flexible enough for minor decisions, yet allows the development of decisions trees etc. for major decisions.
Visual Mind boost productivity beyond personal level. The new Visual Mind Server allows multiple Visual Mind users to work together on the same Visual Mind map in real-time. This makes Visual Mind an intuitive and flexible platform for communication, collaboration and information sharing between team members and co-workers.
Visual Mind helps professionals to:
Improve planning and organizing
Structure decision making processes = Make better decisions
Enable communication and collaboration between co-workers
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| Feature | Benefit | Basic | Academic | Business |
| Basic features | ||||
| In-map editing | Add content by entering it directly into the map. | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| Notes | Write additional information to a branch. | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| Boundaries | Gives you a better view of the individual map parts. | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| Multiselection | Select multiple branches and perform actions on all. | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| Numbering | Automatic numbering of branches. | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| Drag & drop | Easy moving of branches and elements. | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| Export to separate map | Splits a large map into smaller maps. | No | Yes | Yes |
| Import from other map | Imports information from other maps into existing map. | No | Yes | Yes |
| Branch shapes | Shapes are drawn behind the text of a branch. For decorative reasons, or may signal a special meaning. | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| Background & Map logo | Allows you to set a background and insert a logo for the map. | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| Styles | Allows you to set multiple branch properties in one mouse click. | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| Structures | Saves you time when entering frequently used information. | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| Map layout styles | Sets the map layout so it fit your needs. | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| Web Snapshots | Used when inserting links to web pages. A snapshot allows you to see a small thumbnail of the web page. | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| Filter | Allows you to hide/show branches, giving special focus to the branches that interest you for the moment. | No | Yes | Yes |
| Real-time map sharing (client/server) | Allows you to collaborate with other users in real-time. Requires a Visual Mind Server. | No | Yes | Yes |
| Maximum map size | Maximum number of branches in a map. | 200 | Unlimited | Unlimited |
| Additional elements | ||||
| Images | Decorates and gives more information to a branch. | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| Web pages | Gives access to web pages with a mouse click | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| Files | Gives access to files with a mouse click. | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| Folders | Gives access to folder with a mouse click. | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| E-mails | Gives access to e-mail messages with a mouse click. | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| E-mail addresses | Allows you to create e-mails from within Visual Mind. | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| Phone numbers | Allows you to make phone calls from with Visual Mind. | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| Microsoft Excel® Ranges | Allows you to view and edit Excel Spreadsheet data inside Visual Mind. | No | Yes | Yes |
| Calculation Values | By applying values to branches, you can calculate totals for complete subtrees and maps. Ideal for summing up hours, days, costs, etc. | No | Yes | Yes |
| Task information | Be on top of your to-do-lists and project schedules by applying information about priority and completion to branches. | No | Yes | Yes |
| Reminders | Visual Mind can remind you about important appointments and tasks. Just set the date & time, and Visual Mind will remind you in time. | No | Yes | Yes |
| Advanced features | ||||
| Floating branches | Allows you to add floating branches to any location of a map, offering you a more dynamic and flexible way of mapping. | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| Callouts | Ideal for adding remarks or comments that are not a part of the content itself. | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| Spell checking | Keeps your maps free from spelling errors. | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| Map templates | Give yourself a kick start when creating a new map. | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| Document creation | Create new documents (Word, Excel, etc.) directly from Visual Mind. | No | Yes | Yes |
| Multiple views of same map. | Allows you to view and edit multiple places of a map at the same time. | No | Yes | Yes |
| File embedding | Allows you to store file data of related files inside the map. | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| Password & encryption | Protects the content of your maps. | No | Yes | Yes |
| Map explorer | Gives you easy overview of all your maps. | No | Yes | Yes |
| Document tabs | Appear below the map window. Makes switching between opened maps easier. | No | Yes | Yes |
| Search | Find information instantly. | No | Yes | Yes |
| Bookmarks | Access frequently used branches with a mouse click. | No | Yes | Yes |
| News feeds | Allows you to use Visual Mind as a RSS news reader. | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| Print to Visual Mind | Allows you to print to Visual Mind. The result is a PDF document that can be inserted into any location of a Visual Mind map. | No | Yes | Yes |
| Document Information | Allows you to enclose document information (author, date, file name, etc) when printing to paper.. | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| Add-In support | Allows third party add-ins to extend the functionality of Visual Mind. | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| Publishing & distribution | ||||
| Independent maps | Saves a map as an independent exe file to allow people that do not have Visual Mind to view and browse your maps. | No | No | Yes |
| Internet publishing | Publishes a map on the internet to allow people that do not have Visual Mind to view and browse your maps. | No | No | Yes |
| Export | ||||
| To Text files (Basic) | Exports text and notes to text files. | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| To HTML files (Basic) | Exports text and notes to HTML files. | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| To RTF files (Basic) | Exports text and notes to RTF files. | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| To XML Files (Basic) | Exports text and notes to XML files. | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| To Microsoft Word | Powerful export (text, notes, web, files, images, etc.) to Microsoft Word. | No | Yes | Yes |
| To Microsoft PowerPoint | Powerful export (text, notes, web, files, images, etc.) that turns your Visual Mind into a complete Microsoft PowerPoint presentation. | No | Yes | Yes |
| To PDF | Exports the map to a PDF document. | No | Yes | Yes |
| To Microsoft Project | Allows you to export your Visual Mind maps to Microsoft Project. | No | Yes | Yes |
| To Pocket PC | Allows you to export your Visual Mind maps to a Pocket PC device. | No | No | Yes |
| To image files | Exports the map as an image. | No | Yes | Yes |
| Import | ||||
| From Microsoft Project | Allows you to import information from Microsoft Project. | No | No | Yes |
| From Pocket PC | Allows you to import information from a Pocket PC device. | No | No | Yes |
| Mosaic printing | Prints your large maps to several pages in a mosaic fashion. | Yes | Yes | Yes |
