Power Markers "Roll-up" feature

MindManager's Map Markers are great for adding information and meaning to your maps, with icons, colour or extra text. You can clearly identify tasks, people and statuses, and create a visual connection between topics by giving them the same Map Marker. For example, you might mark important issues with a highlight colour, which stands out well. But as your map grows, there is a good chance that these highlighted items could be hidden a couple of levels down, and not always apparent, out of sight, out of mind?

You could find them with MindManager's Power Filter, but that means (a) remembering to look, and (b) creating a filter which expands the tree down to the filtered topics, and hides other information. An alternative to the power filter, Power Markers rolls up selected Map Marker groups to the Main Topics, so that you can always see the navigation route to important information in your map without filtering, even when the topics themselves are hidden:

Power Markers rolls up selected map markers to the Main Topics...



... making it easy to drill down to critical areas

The Power Markers Roll-up feature lets you create at-a-glance dashboards that show you whether the map contains critical information, even when it is folded so that only the Main Topics are in view. You can roll up any kind of marker - tasks, priorities, resources, labels, icons and colours. You can even have Power Markers prioritise them so that the "worst" or "best" markers are rolled up, giving you instant insight into the status of your map.

Power Markers "Hot List" feature

Another popular way to use MindManager's Map Markers is to mark topics or actions with a named Resource, so that responsibilities are clear, and your map can be used as an action plan, but how do you get a fast overview of what responsibilities exist in a map, regardless of where they are hidden? Again, you could use the Power Filter, but that doesn't give you an overview grouped by person. To solve this, Power Markers adds a Hot List task pane to MindManager, where you can see the topics in your map grouped by selected Map Markers:

The Power Markers Hot List shows topics organised by Map Marker



You can see at a glance who is doing what. In the above example, you can immediately see that ABC Carriers are responsible not only for the things already in view in the map, but a few other things elsewhere as well. To select a topic in the map, you just click on it in the Hot List pane. You can even export the Hot List to an email, to create a quick follow-up after a meeting. The Hot List can be used to group topics by any kind of Map Marker. For example, you can use it to see at a glance what open action items exist in a map, regardless of where they are, whether they are in view, or perhaps even filtered out.

The Hot List can organise topics by any Map Marker, not just Resources. Topics can be grouped by icon, fill colour, text colour, percent complete, priority and text label.