I am looking to export MindManager maps into a Q&A structured document

Alex G.

MindManager Expert

● 5 months ago

Hi Elny,

Can you provide a bit more detail? It’s a bit unclear whether this is a suggestion, or something you want some advice on how to do.

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Einy

New User

● 5 months ago

Hi - thanks for asking. It was suggested by the support team to pose this as an idea as I believe it isn't a functionality of Mindmanager at the moment. Essentially I would like to have my mind maps into a format that allows it to be used as a question and answers survey. Thanks in advance, Einy

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Alex G.

MindManager Expert

● 5 months ago

Perhaps you could provide an example of the format you want - it may be possible to do something in MindManager. For example, I have used the application in the past both to develop questions and also to undertake quantitative and qualitative analysis of survey results.

Having said that I did look recently at software options including MindManager to manage the whole survey experience and ended up selecting Microsoft Forms. This is fairly basic but is very easy to use and is available free if you have a Microsoft suite licence. You can develop the survey questions (with different types of questions available), automatically collect and analyse the results and then produce a simple report all within the web-based app, which obviously you can’t do in MindManager. You can also export the data as an Excel spreadsheet.

I did however continue to find a use for MindManager to supplement Microsoft Forms, which was to undertake qualitative analysis of the results for those questions in the survey which involved text responses, for example requesting people’s opinions on a particular topic. I imported the responses to these questions from the Microsoft Forms results spreadsheet into MindManager and then used text tags to provide a summary of the key points in each response, developing and adding iteratively to the range of tags I was using.

The resulting set of tags provided a summary list of the key points and a count of the number of times each point was raised in the Map Index. Annoyingly, while you can export the list of tags you can’t export the count to enable the stats to be further evaluated and graphed in Excel so you have to do this manually, but the process is still useful (I have already posted a suggestion to add to MindManager the ability to export the tag and icon count).

I know there are applications which could do qualitative analysis and also provide a much more sophisticated and integrated approach to overall survey development than my slightly clunky combination of Microsoft Forms and MindManager, but these are way too expensive and complicated for my relatively simple needs and small survey sizes. If you want more details on the techniques I have developed please let me know.

Perhaps you could provide an example of the format you want - it may be possible to do something in MindManager. For example, I have used the application in the past both to develop questions and also to undertake quantitative and qualitative analysis of survey results.

Having said that I did look recently at software options including MindManager to manage the whole survey experience and ended up selecting Microsoft Forms. This is fairly basic but is very easy to use and is available free if you have a Microsoft suite licence. You can develop the survey questions (with different types of questions available), automatically collect and analyse the results and then produce a simple report all within the web-based app, which obviously you can’t do in MindManager. You can also export the data as an Excel spreadsheet.

I did however continue to find a use for MindManager to supplement Microsoft Forms, which was to undertake qualitative analysis of the results for those questions in the survey which involved text responses, for example requesting people’s opinions on a particular topic. I imported the responses to these questions from the Microsoft Forms results spreadsheet into MindManager and then used text tags to provide a summary of the key points in each response, developing and adding iteratively to the range of tags I was using.

The resulting set of tags provided a summary list of the key points and a count of the number of times each point was raised in the Map Index. Annoyingly, while you can export the list of tags you can’t export the count to enable the stats to be further evaluated and graphed in Excel so you have to do this manually, but the process is still useful (I have already posted a suggestion to add to MindManager the ability to export the tag and icon count).

I know there are applications which could do qualitative analysis and also provide a much more sophisticated and integrated approach to overall survey development than my slightly clunky combination of Microsoft Forms and MindManager, but these are way too expensive and complicated for my relatively simple needs and small survey sizes. If you want more details on the techniques I have developed please let me know.

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Alex G.

MindManager Expert

● 5 months ago

I should also point out that while I agree that it would be great if MindManager could be used to run the whole survey process, based on my experience (as detailed in my previous comment) this would require a range of major changes and improvements to the program.

For example, it would be helpful to be able to analyse and even graph tag and icon counts in the Map Index as well as export them to a spreadsheet. It would also be useful to be able to easily add and/or import each individual survey response as it is received across all the question topics in the survey map, ideally accompanied by an identifying tag. In addition there could be some form of tagging based on key words in the responses and the survey questionnaire should also be easily available via a web link.

These would all be great additions but it would be a lot to ask to incorporate them all at once in a program that is not designed primarily to be a survey tool. However, the ability to export tag/icon counts and to easily add individual responses or other data across the relevant topics in a map would be a good start and would also have wider applicability.

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krsto e.

Power User

● 4 months ago

LLMs already help so.

i saved my conservations with LLMs into mindmanager (this is indeep a good idea, way better than using word etc, as i can "fold" branches up).

some info from LLMs

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you can copy the text, then paste into LLMs and ask it to format into Q and A for you.

you have to engineer your depth of details, exactly format of the Q-A as siblings or parent-child, etc.

actually making suitable Q and A is not easy, some people developed 18 rules for that.

it's another art.

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i only have MM2020.

and, AI is a paid service.

the all you can eat USD20 plan WONT let you automate your workflow;

to automate, you likely have to pay-as-you-go which is the so called "API", and every click counts you money.

so i rather stay on the old style, mm2020 and USD20 web plan.

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krsto e.

Power User

● 4 months ago

oh, someone did could obtain the token from the web plan and use as API.

but someone here say it's UNETHICAL.

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I am looking to export MindManager maps into a Q&A structured document

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