Talk:MindManager
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Can MindManager's format *.mmap be viewed and/or edited by other software? Tommie 14:13, 25 July 2006 (UTC)
Yes. For instance JCVGantt visualises maps with task information as Gantt charts and edits them. Many other add ins for Mindjet MindManager access and alter the XML database of .mmap file.
You can unzip the .mmap file and you will see it contains several files. One is an XML file which contains the data in the map. There is an open interface to the .mmap file defined in the DevZone: Resources and Information for Developers area of their website. --Ajwilcox 22:09, 2 September 2006 (UTC)
[edit] Importing To MindManager
To follow up on the question about "viewed and/or edited by other software" we have found MindManager to be a very flexible enterprise creativity tool that has allowed us to generate MindManager Mind Maps from our thematic knowledge generation of documents usin gthe MMAP file format. Once a document's thematic knowledge is extracted using our software we dynamically generate an MMAP file that is then opened by MindManager. The MMAP file contains the thematic based Knowledge Signature of the document as well as the Synopsis, the Detailed Summary, the original document itself, and a Document Navigator so that when you click on a Topic Node you see instantly every paragraph that contains that Topic Node's theme.
But there is more to MMAP file format than its ability to import a file's thematic structure and represent it in a MindManager mind map. Once you are in the mind map you can literally reshape the document by moving the Topic Nodes around and then recreate an entirely new document.
The future for using thematically based mind maps is to allow the user to use the map's Knowledge Signature to conduct advanced queries of the Research Accelerator.
All that and I didn't even mention my company once. Wikipedia Editors will be proud.
Arnold Villeneuve 02:21, 17 October 2006 (UTC)
