One of the greatest things I love about MindJet MindManager is the ability for add-ins. Although most of the time these are hardly anything spectacular they do keep power users like myself entertained until the next major software release. I’ve fallen victim many times to the newest and greatest application and often forget about the applications that are still quite powerful but sometimes are forgotten by the flash of the next big thing. Such is the case with OneNote lately. Almost mesmerized by some of OneNote’s hypnotic new features I find myself often trying to do things in OneNote that really are best left for MindManager.

A new add-in is great at slapping my attention back, even if it’s only for a few hours…and MindManager has once again reminded that it can still play ball even with the new kid of the block!

Thanks to Robin Capper’s blog (RobiNZ CAD blog) I discovered this Map Explorer add-in for MindManager. You can read a bit more about it on his blog here!

Basically it ads that famous windows explorer task pane to MindManager. Allowing you to navigate and walk through your maps in yet another fashion. It’s definitely worth the download and although it not on my list of things MindJet should add it is a nice thing to have. My biggest complaint though is that it doesn’t even try to recognize ink! So all my maps that have ink as topics makes the map explorer basically useless, which is kind of disappointing.

Below you can see the MindManager map that the map explorer is refering to. You can see how the topics that are text do show up but the topics that are in ink are blank in the explorer.

I know it’s just an add-in and nothing big but it’s sad to see that the Tablet PC guys are once again forgotten. Other than that it’s a nice little extra tool.