![]() Summary tasks appear in the GANTT view as brackets, while individual tasks are displayed as gray bars. I created an exception day its date on the monthly calender immediately changed color to indicate it’s a restricted day. You can mark non-working days in the calendar, such as holidays, and input details about them. ![]() For companies that have people doing shift work or flexible time arrangements, these customizations will be quite welcome. These are accessible via a “working time” command, which displays a dialog box that enables you to first select one of the three the base calendar types and then lets you designate days as working, non-working, exception and non-default work weeks. In iMindQ 6 you can now manage and set working hours according to your project’s needs by using the 3 new calendars that are included in iMindQ 6: Standard, night shift and 24 hours. It’s nice to see a mind mapping program that gives you this much control over presentation settings and which uses the “fly around” presentation mode I mentioned at the beginning of this review. I played around with the default mind map that opens automatically in iMindQ 6 and found the presentation view and controls to be very easy and intuitive to use. You can let the program create a set of scenes for you and then tweak them to meet your needs, or you can add your own using the process I just described for mind maps. Whether you’re working with a mind map, flow chart, concept map or GANTT chart, the process works exactly the same. READ: Diagramming software: Key tools to make sense of structured information A “show panels” button can be used to display them so you can tweak your presentation, or they can be toggled closed to give the screen a cleaner appearance, ideal for thinking about how you want to present your ideas. Once you’ve adjusted the scene’s properties, you can preview it in the presentation view of your mind map in the middle of the screen – it’s nice to be able to do this without having to play your presentation. The animations panel to the right of the program’s work area displays each step in the selected scene’s animation at the top of this panel controls to adjust the animation type, effects and timing are located at the bottom. You can also manually create new scenes by dragging and dropping one or more map topics onto a blank scene. In addition to an automatic mode for generating presentations, iMindQ 6 enables you to manually “roll your own” using what the developer calls “Smart Presentation Mode.” You can use iMindQ’s default settings to generate “scenes” (the equivalent of slides in PowerPoint) and then tweak them to suit. Child topics “pop” open with a pleasing animation. ![]() As you progress through the child topics of your map, they are highlighted in a different color, making it easy for the audience to follow along. You can advance to the next topic using either your mouse or the space key. To access the presentation mode, simply click on the “from beginning” button in the “present” tab of the program’s ribbon toolbar, and iMindQ 6 immediately launches a full-screen view of your mind map. Rather, it uses the superior model of “flying” around it, which helps the audience better follow your flow of ideas and information. Best of all, Seavus hasn’t followed the lead of many mind mapping programs in moving to a slide-based presentation view, which displays topics in isolation and makes it hard for audiences to follow where you are within the structure of your mind map. This new version of iMindQ offers a rich presentation mode that enables you to present your ideas with style. Here’s what’s new and notable in this new release: Rich presentation mode The latest release of iMindQ, version 6, was launched in mid-October. ![]() It continues to add new functionality to this well-designed visual mapping tool, while also maintaining its ease of use. But its developer hasn’t rested on its laurels. When iMindQ was launched only three months ago it was an impressive mind mapping program, worthy of your attention. The new iMindQ 6 from Seavus features a well-designed new presentation mode, enhanced project management tools and other improvements clearly aimed at the needs of busy business people.
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