Features

 

Seavus DropMind® helps you clarify your thinking. The flow of your thoughts adds value and creates a perpetual story. Streamline your story in an intuitive and powerful mind map. Stimulate your visual thinking. Seavus DropMind® lets you create meaningful mind maps and have fun at the same time. Type your idea as you think and visualize your mind in a second. Simplify and enhance your visual thinking process. Seavus DropMind® makes the most of mind mapping features with single click navigation and an intuitive user interface.

Our mind mapping software offers a selection of features that provide you with full advantage of the logical way of thinking. Words are not as powerful on their own as when you take the time to turn them into images.

Mind Mapping Software Integration With Microsoft Office Seavus DropMind® - Overview

 


Powerful MS® Office integration

Powerful MS® Office integration

Create, manage and share maps easily. Make you work more understandable and dynamic for your team by creating a productive business atmosphere. Seavus DropMind® is fully integrated with Microsoft® Office. Import maps or tasks created with MS® Word, MS® Project, MS® Outlook, and MS® Excel. Export your map from DropMind® directly into MS® Word, MS® PowerPoint, MS® Project, MS® Outlook tasks. DropMind® supports MS® Office and MS® Project 2003, 2007 and 2010.

Other import/export functionalities

Other import/export functionalities

Create maps using a number of templates. Import maps or tasks created with Mindjet's MindManager®, XMind, and FreeMind. Export your map as PDF Document, Image, Rich Text Document, HTML, FreeMind Map, Mindjet's Mind Manager®, and XML Document. Save maps or map parts and Print them exactly as it looks or customize your printing.

Expand your map easily, Completely organic mind mapping, Visual outlining

Map-in your thoughts

Present your thoughts with clarity by adding as much sibling topics or child topics to the selected topic. Put a parent topic between two topics, or you can select muliple topics and insert a new one which will be parent to all of the selected topics. Additionally, you can add floating topic to draw the attention to the key topic. Describe your topics with callout and associate different topics with external relationships. Group a family of topics by inserting boundaries or add a single boundary to multiple topics from the same level with only one click .
Now you are able to change the order of the topics and subtopics. With drag and drop, subtopics can be re-ordered on desired location between theirs sibling topics. Moreover you can select one topic and with only one click create a new map from that topic and all his branches.

Add attachments, hyperlinks, images

Centralize your information

Add detailed information with mind map notes and hyperlinks to external information. Consolidate and centralize all of your documents with attachments. Add a hyperlink to a topic that will associate it with another topic in the same map. Moreover you can work with the relative hyperlink and save valuable time. When you click on the hyperlink icon in topic, the "linked" topic becomes selected and viewed. Insert icons and images from image libraries or upload your own images. Schedule your activities with inserting date and time or add alerts and set recurrences on daily, weekly, monthly, yearly bases. Besides the existing "Curve ties", now you can use new types of ties: Elbow tie, Angle tie, Straight tie.

Enhance your map with colors, borders and shapes

Arrange your map visually

Boost creativity by choosing between different colors, borders and shapes (or upload your own shape), and apply mind map patterns or background colors. Choose the icon and image placement in the topic. Change the relationship and boundary shapes and format. This will motivate you and help you get clarity of thoughts. You are also able to add a callout to relationships and nodes for more detailed explanation better understanding.

Focus on the details

Make things stand out

View mind map outline and details. Focus attention on a single topic or place the central topic (and the whole map) in the Center of the screen; Expand and Collapse individual topics; Zoom In/Zoom Out and Fit the entire map to see all map objects. This helps you communicate elegantly on meetings and helps you team to get in to the details. Navigator shows the whole available space where you can move the map. The map is shown proportionally to the whole available space. Now you can view your mind map in an extended working area - full screen.
Gain unique experience with one-of-a-kind map layouts Beside existing "Map layout", now you can show complete mind map or map subtree in new layouts: "Right layout", "Left layout", "Organization Up layout", "Organization Down layout".

Presentation mode

Present with style

Present different parts of your maps with minimum distraction. Generate separate slides of different topics by taking snapshots from a particular topic and showcasing them in a slideshow. You can export presentation slides as image list in .zip. Work with a higher slide and schedule the generation of slides upon your needs. Arrange the presentation as you desire.

Search through map

Integrate desktop and online maps

Get the best from desktop and web together. Upload maps created in the desktop version to the web version or download them back to the desktop version.
Synchronize the desktop mind maps with online mind maps. You can work on the latest version of your map, whether you are using desktop or Seavus DropMind™ - Web. Create your online account to enjoy the benefit of using this powerful set of option. The automated synchronization allows you to get the latest changes and be updated anytime and anyplace, without losing any information.
Your current work on a mind map is Auto saved on defined period, which latter can be recovered automatically. Your mind maps are further protected from unautorised use with encryption of map. For this purpose file is protected with password.

Task Management

Gain effectiveness (Task Management)

Manage your tasks easily and quickly. Enter task information to the appropriate topic and determine task priorities. Moreover, you can mark the start date and the end date of the selected task, add duration, % complete, priority, as well as assign resources responsible for working on and finishing this task, assign summary task and track task at risk and overdue tasks and it provides advanced options to set task dependencies.
Now you can gather, organize and display a lot of complex information in an easy-to-understand visual form. The MS® Project integration offers developing and managing you projects and start new ones in faster, more effective and efficient way. Create your map and export it as .mpp file and vice versa.
With MS® Outlook integration you can exchange and synchronize tasks and information between MS® Outlook and Seavus DropMind®. Moreover, you can create appointment in MS® Outlook directly from the topic in the map. Each change made on the existing task or appointment in both applications will be updated. This helps you organize and manage your work better without losing important data.
Stay up-to-date and organized. Get your alerts on the start of your PC without the need to start the application.

Gantt Chart view

Gantt Chart view

With Gantt Chart view, see the whole picture in one mind map for faster and better creation of projects. Start planning your project by brainstorming on project details and see how independent elements come together. Run your project with better time and cost outcomes.

Insert Spreadsheet

Insert Spreadsheet

Have clear picture of your work. Your mind map can be enriched with valuable information. Develop your map by inserting spreadsheet with desired size and layout directly within topic. It is excellent for financial projections, costing, budgets forecasts, sales reports etc.

Custom Properties

Custom Properties

Scale to your specific project requirements. With custom Properties you can add different attributes to each topic, as well as use them as a platform to precisely export and Import data with applications like MS® Excel.

Create WBS charts

Create WBS charts for project initiation

Initiate your projects and lay down all your tasks, thoughts or ideas in an organized structure. Work Breakdown Structure (WBS) is the essential feature of every project. Kick-start your project by;decomposing it into smaller components.

Search faster and save time

Search faster and save time

Search thoroughly through your map using the advanced search function. You can search the selected topic only or you can spread your search on all maps, texts, hyperlinks, notes and attachments. Define you search by exact phrase, word or topic type.

Filter your map by type of icon, priority, percentage complete, start date, etc.