We are starting our summer season with style!
DropMind Desktop 3.5 and DropMind Web 3.0 are out live with some awesome new features and lots of improvements.

DropMind's new 3.5 version is live, introducing WBS charts

Here are the key features implemented at our Desktop version:

Work Breakdown Structure: WBS is the essential feature of every project that helps you present data, products or ideas in organized structure decomposing your project into smaller components.

Session manager: This feature helps you organize your work with multiple maps at the same time. Provides possibility to open, edit or clone maps and gives users complete control of their mapping workspace.

Exporting Gantt chart as image: Now you can export your project schedule as image, print it or transfer your Gantt chart as image in other project documents.

Initial planning WBS chart

In the web application, we managed to improve the map syncing and the balanced layout .

You can find out more about our new stuff by visiting our site. Enjoy the DropMind mind mapping experience and write us your comments, ideas or suggestions. We would love to hear your thoughts.

Have a great summer,

DropMind team

We are excited to announce the latest release of DropMind on iPad. This innovative and unconventionally useful app which allows users to capture, organize, and store ideas and information in a revolutionary visual way, is available in free and paid iPad version.

Our team worked on developing improved mind mapping experience for iPad fans, bringing new features for the full DropMind on iPad, as well as DropMind Lite version.

The full version 1.6, allows users to clone map, using their previously created map as a template and save a lot of time and effort in redrawing and rethinking the whole process over and over.

This feature is useful when you are working with already defined map such as SWOT analysis, Pros and Cons lists or industry specific template.

In addition to this, both versions has PDF quality improved allowing vector graphic format to be stored in .pdf format.

Finally German and Spanish users can practice mind mapping and creative thinking in their native language, with the new German and Spanish versions.

Don’t forget that maps saved on the iPad can be synchronized with the Web DropMind and published on web. You can access them from any Browser, from any location.

Feel free to propose other suggestions and feature you will find valuable, and will make your mind mapping more productive. Until then enjoy empowering your ideas accurately and fast using DropMind.

iPad lovers can finally enjoy their favorite mind mapping application for free. After great customer feedback on DropMind for iPad, we decided to surprise our users with the Lite version which has been officially released at the beginning of December 2011.

A wide range of features will help you enjoy mapping your personal and professional tasks and ideas.

What is great about DropMind Lite?

• It is free of charge;
• Allows 3 different views such: list, thumbnail and full screen view.
• Mind maps can be easily created and shared as email attachment in the following formats: .dmmx file, as an image and as PDF file.
• Facebook and Twitter integration are also available.
• You can also select more than one map and apply one action on all selected tasks. This allows you to complete tasks more quickly.

With more than 5000 downloads for just one month DropMind Lite is establishing its position and credibility in the mind mapping world. This fact is great motivation for our team to work harder in order to provide excellent mind mapping environment and set DropMind as one of yours must have applications.

If  you are still not convinced in the advantages that mind mapping can bring to your work environment, here is another relevant proof. A recent survey made by Chuck Frey,a recognized mind mapping expert showed how mind mapping software can influence productivity and time savings.

Here are the results:

Certainly, this survey is just a step forward to revealing true value of mind mapping software and its application in the business world. We think that this is just the beginning of the mind mapping evolution.

We would be more than glad to hear your opinion on the topic.

Whether you are working on a school project, marketing campaign or budget planning, mind mapping can always be helpful in finding the way to finish your assignments easier and in a more organized fashion. But sometimes in order to complete the picture, we need additional information other than our ideas, suggestions or the facts we know. Of course the best source of information is his Majesty, the Internet. A new study has determined that for the first time, search engines and Internet have trumped printed yellow pages for searchers looking for information. But not always the information we are looking for is easy to get to, a lot of effort and time are needed, piles of web pages are opened and closed and still nothing. Why?

Statistics say there are:

-4 billion searches per day
-175 million per hour
-2.9 million searches per minute
-1 trillion pages of content on the net
-150 pages content per person alive

Therefore in this article I will share with you several useful tips that will help you get the best research results and map them into your project or assignment.

Start with what you know

The first thing you need to do is visit your favorite websites related to the research topic. You already know the way they are organized and you can easily navigate and search for the relevant content. Also you can ask your friends to recommend their favorite websites; people have different habits and perspective when it comes to information exploration.

The internet is more than just Google

We often make the same mistake over and over again, we think of Google as the first and last place for data search. But the experience shows that although major commercial search engines often return similar results, they work differently enough that you should use several search engines for every research project to help you uncover different resources.

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