MindMup Review

PROS: I use this tool for managing my content strategy and it has made the task simple and easy. If you’re looking for a tool to create mind maps or organize your ideas, I suggest you give this one a try. Believe me it’s awesome.

CONS: Slows down when there’s a lot of content, which is somehow understandable. Nevertheless, it remains effective and helpful.

PROS: I am able to get my ideas into notes and organize them accordingly. It’s pretty helpful when working on assignments.

CONS: No cons. I find everything it offers nice and effective.

PROS: I think the best thing about using this tool is the ease of navigation and expansion.

CONS: Preparing for map creation can be time consuming.

PROS: I can create and save templates for later use, specifically when doing a client fact finds. It is like taking note of every important thing about our client. We then save the client find facts online, which make it easy to access them when needed.

CONS: There’s no enough variety of colors for me, as well as font choices and customization capabilities. It would be really nice if they’d add more of them. Also, I have a problem with the short cut keys. They don’t work as seamless as I have expected.

PROS: There is a variety of colors and text dimensions available, so is the opportunity to be creative.

CONS: I had some issues with link placement. MindMup is able to recognize a URL places in a text but it will only show the text and the link will be shown as a clickable button. I wish they provide an option to choose a property where to place the link without touching or moving the texts.

PROS: I’m able to organize information and concepts in one place. Categories can be expanded, making it easy to keep stuff in smaller place.

CONS: Sometimes, it is hard to expand the categories.

PROS: It has helped me encourage my students to create mind maps. Before we use this tool, they often get frustrated and don’t really like creating mind maps because they find it hard to structure the maps. Thanks to MindMup, they started to like this activity. And I love that they already want to do it because creating mind maps is actually good for improving their cognitive ability. Now, this tool is already embedded into our Google classroom.

CONS: We are just using the free version so there are amazing features we cannot access. It would be a great help if they would make a way to make those functionalities available for free version users.

PROS: It’s easy to create diagrams! I just drag and drop elements and double click the element when I feel like I need to rename it. It is easy to change the colors to the one I like and customize it to make it look like the way I want to.

CONS: I find the graphical and animation options a bit lacking. Also, it seems like the gold version is more expensive that it should be. But there’s a free version of it makes it up for that drawback.

PROS: I already have a Google Drive so getting started with this app was just a breeze. I love that it offers an option of whether to use it individually or enable it for the whole Google apps domain (I chose the former btw). It has an undo which is mapped to Ctrl-Z and spontaneously attaches nodes when they are dragged around or onto each other.

CONS: If you want to add MindMup to your G Suite as an individual application, be careful not to click the “recommended” get started button because it would install the app for your entire G Suite domain which is what happened to us. This may not be a big deal for end users but for G suite administrators, there’s just many risk. You must examine the product first and know the security implications before enabling it for your entire Google applications domain. Also, there is a limited knowledge base. We are able to find some “Tips and Tricks” buried in the help menu are sparse and static. There is also the guide on how to manage tasks and projects utilizing the progress sidebar but when we click the link, it redirects us to a long html page containing a few features. If you love exploring things, Mindmup would be great because there’s no quick start, introduction, or tutorial available when you get started with the system. We figure things out by ourselves and fortunately was able to learn how this tool works.