MindManager back for Mac

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Posted by Paul Korm
Mar 21, 2018 at 03:20 PM

Thanks for the great suggestion @satis. I should have mentioned my view that work planning and tracking is not something I’m interested in doing in anyone’s cloud. At all. Ever. Which is why I’m focused on legacy desktop applications, either Windows or macOS. Doesn’t matter.

Posted by bartb
Mar 22, 2018 at 01:59 AM

Really? Hmmm ... ok, so since this is cloud based, then I’m going to assume that all the features available Windows are now available for a Mac user - yes?

Also, can you save OneNote files locally?

Posted by bartb
Mar 22, 2018 at 12:02 PM

Really? Hmmm ... ok, so since this is cloud based, then I’m going to assume that all the features available Windows are now available for a Mac user - yes?

Also, can you save OneNote files locally?

Paul Korm wrote:
Office 365 subscriptions still contain the “full” version of OneNote,
>and not the simplified version installed with Windows 10. (Both
>versions can coexist on the same machine.) I just added a new machine
>to my Office 365 allotment of computers and the full version of OneNote
>was installed.
> >washere wrote:
>>The good old OneNote version didn’t have the clout to be resurrected in
>>the dinosaur corporation. It is well and deeply buried for good. I have
>>the last good version, but what’s the use of investing time in it when
>I
>>know this parrot is dead.
>

Posted by Dr Andus
Mar 24, 2018 at 06:04 PM

@NickG (and apologies for the off-topic post)

Thanks for sharing your experience. It confirms some of my suspicions about it. I’ve only just recently come across Office 365 in a corporate Windows environment, and I also found it clunky.

E.g. I was sent an MS Word file that showed up as an attachment, but when I opened it, it was blank with 0 KB. Eventually I realised that the web-based Outlook version I was using (because I was off-site and accessing my email remotely) was blocking some features for safety reasons, and when I allowed permissions, it turned out that the MS Word file was just a link to a file hosted on Sharepoint.

But in the meantime the situation had already generated some unnecessary interactions, and the sender also didn’t understand why I wasn’t able to open the attachment. In the end a Microsoft product (online Outlook) was blocking its own product (Office 365) from being used properly. Also, the design decision to make a link look like a .docx attachment confused us all.

There were also some long Sharepoint-based URLs in the email that made it look messy. I found that an inferior collaborative experience to Google’s services, where everything works quite seamlessly within its own ecosystem, as long as one is working within a Chrome browser, regardless of the operating system or whether one is onsite or offsite.

Having said that, ironically I’m finding Office 365 quite useful in the Chrome OS environment when I need to deal with MS office files that people send me, wether via the online interface or the Android apps. These of course don’t have all the features but good enough for viewing files and doing basic manipulation.

NickG wrote:
>Hmm. I’m working with an organisation that has just (last July) moved
>from Google to O365. The move has introduced a lot of friction into what
>were previously reasonably smooth collaborative models. Two reasons:
> >- As suggested in the quoted article, collaboration was an add-on to
>Outlook, especially the calendar, and doesn’t reflect how people work
>naturally.
>- Much of the collaboration is built on Sharepoint, which demands *a
>lot* of design and configuration to fit the organisation’s specific use
>cases.
> >The result is that what was quick and intuitive now requires much more
>in the way of work and forethought from the end users. It seems to me,
>as a relative outsized (I’m contracted to a specific project), that all
>the current benefits are to the IT department and it ability to manage,
>administer and control and none are to the users. In fairness, there are
>plans that might deliver end user benefits down the road, but my
>experience is that “down the road” never actually delivers.
> >Sorry - that went somewhat off topic

Posted by Jan S.
Mar 24, 2018 at 08:15 PM

I also thought about using MindManager for project planning / task management etc. I think it’s very useful for that purpose because it basically combines mind mapping with a lot of functions that are more typical for database or spreadsheet applications: Microsoft Office integration, reading from and writing to databases (not sure if only SQL Server or also other types), different types of tags and variables can be assigned to nodes, advanced filtering of views, formatted reports, integration with the Windows file system etc.

It would make a really good dashboard application. But I never took the time to set it up. Also from a productivity standpoint having a “visual” system is probably overrated—many people do quite well with the complete opposite, like org-mode, or are nostalgic about some DOS program.

Paul Korm wrote:
Thanks for the great suggestion @satis. I should have mentioned my
>view that work planning and tracking is not something I’m interested in
>doing in anyone’s cloud. At all. Ever. Which is why I’m focused on
>legacy desktop applications, either Windows or macOS. Doesn’t matter.

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