Recently a MM user asked on the Mindjet forum whether it was possible to make a map with these “hand-drawn” many-to-one floating topics in which such a way that they could be made to appear and disappear in a similar manner to the way in which topic levels in a conventional MM map can be collapsed or expanded without manually removing and/or replacing them. The general consensus seemed to be that this would be very difficult to do, but I think I’ve come up with an approach that makes this possible.įirst, consider the problem. ![]() ![]() – this only works when all the child sub-topics of a given main or sub-topic are grouped together in other words, you can’t group selected sub-topics and not others, or the sub-topic “children” of more than one “parent” at a time. Anything more complicated requires extensive use of other features such as floating topics and relationships lines (which allow topics anywhere on a map to be linked) to, in effect draw the map, as the following example shows: While it is fairly easy to show simple many-to-one groupings using MM’s boundaries and callouts features, as shown in the following map: Like most of its competitors, the essential paradigm of MM is a set of topics branching out from a central topic and not the other way. One of the things most mindmapping programs are not really designed for is showing “many-to-one” relationships and MindManager (MM) is no exception.
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