Transferring/Eporting and Importing individual maps to other programmes such as Microsoft Word or Excel is a breeze, with them transferring across and remaining in format that is appropriate for the programme. One of the best features of MindView is it’s transferability. It also boasts multiple calculation features, allowing you to use several built-in functions to add etc numerical values, and this can also be set to transfer through branches so that higher branches represent the sums of lower branches revealing not only the total of all the sums but the individual breakdowns of the numbers in a concise and visually-appealling way.

As well as the basic different “styles” there’s also a multitude of templates to choose from so that you can also create not just mind maps but progress charts and breakdown graphs, using the Gantt view, which are especially helpful in an office situation so that progress of jobs or projects can easily be shown visually for all employees to access and understand. There are also many map “styles” to choose from, as seen below, meaning you can alter the map to a style, in both shape and colour scheme, that works best for you to help the information best transfer. You can also attach any of the 1500+ clip art to act as picture prompts or any other forms of multimedia including your own. With MindView you can create collapsable “branches” of your mind map which could be helpful in hiding information so you can test yourself on it and then check. For a student, it’s a great revision tool, and with MindView being so intuitive it goes way beyond simply creating an electronic version of a hand-written mind map. All in a way educational/informative but with different applications. MindView is such a useful tool for many purposes and environments. As it was first developed on Microsoft, that is the most extensive version of the software with the most features in comparison. It’s available online, and as downloadable software on Microsoft and Mac. It’s a great and straightforward way to organise and layout ideas of a brainstorm, and so therefore is a really useful educational tool. With it, the user creates visual maps as such, known as mind minds or spider diagrams, to lay out summaries of subjects split into multiple subcategories with small snippets or prompts of information that is important. MindView is a mind mapping software developed and sold by Matchware.

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