Seavus DropMind&trade v2.2 new features

New Features
Description

MS® Excel Import/Export

Share your plans, outcomes and ideas with your team. Now you can export your Mind Map as a Microsoft® Excel spreadsheet and import a spreadsheet as a Mind Map.

Spreadsheet

Make you work more understandable for you and others. Insert spreadsheet with desired size and layout directly in the selected topic.

Custom Property

With Custom Property you can add different attributes to topic element, with custom name, and choose between several types: Boolean, Number, Text, Date, Time, Date and Time. You can use them as well as a platform to precisely export and Import data with applications like MS® Excel.

Improvements
Description

Improved Export to MS® PowerPoint

Besides exporting as text, now you can export generated slides in PPT presentation slides as pictures.

Task Management improvement

Improved flow and functionality of the task management feature.

Import MS® Word Improvement

Now it is possible to import MS® Word objects into mind map.

Import MM6, MM7 and
MM8

Extended importing features to versions MM6, MM7 and MM8. All import/export functionalities are updated with all new features.






Seavus DropMind&trade v2.0 new features

New Features
Description

Seamless integration

This feature enables you to get the best from desktop and web solution together and have both Seavus DropMind™ - Desktop and Seavus DropMind™ - Web versions of mind maps with their last changes. The automated synchronization allows you to get the latest changes and be updated anytime and anyplace, without losing any information.

Task Management

Task Management feature is used to manage the topics Task Info and allows you to automatically calculate and update task information on the map. Besides the basic task info, such as: start date; end date; duration; priority, % complete and resources, it provides advanced options to set task dependencies, assign summary task and track task at risk and overdue tasks.

MS® Project integration

The MS® Project integration offers complete overview of the project. Importing .mpp files in Seavus DropMind™, allows information to be shown as task info in every topic. Exporting Seavus DropMind™ mind map allows Task info to be shown in MS® Project file for further developing of the project.

MS® Outlook integration

With MS® Outlook integration feature you are able to exchange and synchronize task information between MS® Outlook and Seavus DropMind™ without losing any important data or notification.

MS® Word export

Now you can export your created mind maps in MS® Word with advanced layouts. The exported map in a MS® Word document gives complete overview of the inserted topics and all other visual elements created in Seavus DropMind™.

MS® PowerPoint export

Now you can create and export MS® PowerPoint presentations with advanced features and predefined slide layouts.

Four directions mind map layout

Gain unique experience with one-of-a-kind map layouts. Experiment with your map space and have fun while topics are automatically arranged left, right, above or below the central topic.

New subtree 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".

Drawing of ties

Beside existing "Curve ties", now you can use new types of ties: Elbow tie, Angle tie, Straight tie.

Auto Save and Auto Recover

Your current work on a mind map is Auto saved on defined period, which latter can be recovered automatically.

Full screen

Now you can view your mind map in an extended working area to maximum on your screen. You can execute all mind mapping functions in this view and have direct access through the tabbed menu.

Export to Mindjet MM 6

Now you can view your mind map in an extended working area to maximum on your screen. You can execute all mind mapping functions in this view and have direct access through the tabbed menu.

Link to topic in a same map

Add a hyperlink to a topic that will associate it with another topic in the same map. When you click on the hyperlink icon in topic, the "linked" topic becomes selected and viewed.

Navigator

Navigator shows the whole available space where you can move the map. The map is shown proportionally to the whole available space. You can move the around your mind map with drag and drop in the navigator.

Switch Subtopics

You can change the order of the topics and subtopics. With drag and drop, subtopics can be re-ordered on desired location between theirs sibling topics. By clicking on the drag and drop space, every subtopic in the map can be moved from current location to another.

Map Security

Your mind maps are further protected from unauthorized use with encryption of map. For this purpose file is protected with password.

AutoScroll

You can drag and pull topic out of the actual view. Seavus DropMind™ will automatically scroll the actual view to desired location.

Topic size

Topic size with large amount of text can be changes as desired.

Font size

This text format changes text size to desired point size.

Clear formatting

This action clears all formats to selected text or topic.

Improvements
Description

Languages

Besides the existing languages: English, German, French, Japanese and Spanish, now Portuguese users can work and brainstorm in their own language with all of the new and powerful features.

Scroll up and down by using keyboard

You can scroll horizontally and vertically on the mind map view using Ctrl + arrows.

Start Alerts service on start

Get your alerts on the start of your PC without the need to start the application. Stay up-to-date and organized.

Presentation mode improvement

Work with a higher slide and schedule the generation of slides upon your needs. Arrange the presentation as you desire.

GUI design

Work with the new, attractive and smooth menu design. Have a variety of new and improved icons to enrich your mind map visually.






Seavus DropMind&trade v1.1 new features

New Features
Description

Task properties

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, as well as assign Resources responsible for working on and finishing this task.

Filtering

Filtering is a way to view only a subset of the topics on a map. This eliminates the need to delete topics that are not currently of interest, but remain valid map content. To filter some topics select a set of topics and then press on show or hide button, or filter topics based on their properties: icon markers, notes, hyperlinks, attachments, key topics or alerts.

Map parts

Save part of a map you’ve created as a Map Part for easy re-use. The map part is saved in ‘Library’ and you can easily apply this actual part to other place in the map, or totally different map.

Alerts

Use alerts to set a reminder to open and work with a specific map at an assigned date and time. You can set an alert for any map topic.

Export to XML

Open format for importing in other mind mapper. Write all included elements in .dmm mind map format.

Export to Freemind

Exports current DropMind map in the Freemind format.

Numbering

Numbers will be added before the topic text. Topics will be numbered from the selected topic. You can choose the numbering scheme from a predefined set of options and depth to which the numbering will be applied.

Topic styles

Create a new style from the selected topic and add them in the topic styles ‘library’. Afterwards you will be able to choose from different topic style and apply them on topics. These include the topic font, shape and color, alignment, size and margins, and subtopics layout.

Summary

Summary is a type of Boundary that allows you to put callout on the group of topics/subtopics.

Language support

Seavus Dropmind™ speaks your language now! All Japanese, French or Spanish users can work and brainstorm in their own language with all of the new and powerful features.

API

Seavus Dropmind™ API is a programming interface which should provide the following functionalities to other developers:

   * Developing of add-in libraries;
   * Creation of DropMind map documents without starting of Seavus Dropmind™ application. This functionality will allow creation of map documents using object model. With this third party application will be able to create document without knowing exact format of the file.

The following Seavus Dropmind™ classes/resources should be accessible via API: Icon, Image, Shape, Style libraries and their items; Creation, opening, saving of the document.

Positioning of the topics

With the newest layout implemented, you can avoid the space explosion problem. The needless gaps between topics when you add subtopics are gone now. Keep your topics as compact as possible. As you add subtopics, the space between the main topics is kept to minimum, so you can utilize the whole map space and avoid the lame gaps.

Speed improving

Speed improving when creating and editing map. Optimization of application for large maps and large number of Main topics.

Multiplatform support

Multiplatform support: Windows XP, Windows Vista, Windows 7; Mac OS, Linux Ubuntu.

Improvements
Description

Integration improve

Better integration and synchronization with Seavus Dropmind™ web application.

Platform dependent features

Adjusting platform dependent features on Mac OSX and Linux Ubuntu.

Import/export

Embedding of all new functionalities in import and export features.

Insert Floating

Improvement in usability during editing and inserting Floating topics.

Windows 7

Test and compliance with Windows 7.