To use ResultsManager effectively, you do not need to be a MindManager Black Belt - but you do need to be able to create and edit maps without the technology getting in the way of your thinking.

We recommend that you are comfortable with the following basic features in MindManager. If you already know these, then this section is not for you. If you are new to MindManager, then at least try these a couple of times until you can do them without referring to the Help file. (Reading Help files is usually a final act of utter desperation anyway). The animated tutorials in MindManager are highly recommended too.

The list below looks worse than it actually is. The quickest way to learn MindManager is to use it. The following should take between five and ten minutes. Of course, this is only a fraction of MindManager's capabilities, but is enough to get you productive with ResultsManager.

MindManager essential skill	Hints and tips
Creating, saving and closing map documents	Click the MindManager Button then click New to start a new map Click the MindManager Button then click Save to choose a location for a new map and save it Click the MindManager Button then click Close to close the current map If you have more than one map open, click the tabs attached to map window to switch between them
Selecting Topics	Click on a Topic to select it A blue border appears around the selected Topic Ctrl+Click on other Topics to add them to the selection
Adding Topics to a map	Select the Central Topic or any other Topic Press the INS key to insert a new subtopic
Adding Main Topics	Double-click in the background where you want the new Main Topic
Deleting Topics	Select any Topic (except the Central Topic) Press the DEL key to delete it You can't delete the Central Topic
Renaming Topics	Select any Topic, then start typing The text you type will replace the current Topic text When you are done, just click in the map background to deselect the Topic and commit the new text
Editing Topic text	Select any Topic Click on it once again to enter "edit" mode, or press F2 to select all the text Position the cursor in the text and make changes Click away from the Topic or press F2 to close "edit" mode
Moving Topics	Click and hold on a Topic, then drag it to another part of the map The red preview marker shows where it will drop when the mouse button is released Note that subtopics get moved too if you move a whole tree
Adding Icons to Topics	Click on a Topic to select it, click the Home tab and click Icon Markers Click on the required Icon from the drop-down selection
Removing Icons from Topics	Right-click on the Icon image in the Topic, and select Remove
Adding Hyperlinks to Topics	Click on a Topic to select it, click the Home tab and click Hyperlink Click the Existing File or Web page button if not already selected Click the file Browse button  to browse for a file Click the folder browse button  to link to a folder
Launching a Hyperlink	Click on the Hyperlink Icon  in the Topic. The Icon will depend on the type of the linked file. For MindManager maps, it is
Adding Notes to Topics	Press Ctrl+T to view the Notes pane Click on a Topic to select it. The Notes for the selected Topic can now be edited in the Notes pane When you click on a different Topic, its notes are displayed in the Notes pane instead
Changing the level of detail in view   Just view the part you are working on	Only relevant for Topics that have subtopics! Select a Topic and press Ctrl+D a few times until you see the required level of subtopics, or Click on the  or  blobs at the end of Topic to expand or hide subtopics Select a Topic and press F3 to focus on it
Pan and Zoom the map   Maps quickly grow bigger than the screen	Click and hold in the map background until the pointer changes to a hand Move the mouse to pan the whole map Click on the View tab then use the Zoom buttons  in the View ribbon to zoom in and out
View Callout Topics    You will find it useful to view and hide Callout Topics when working with ResultsManager Dashboard maps	Click the View tab Click Show/Hide Click on Callouts to enable or disable the display of Callouts In MindManager 7, there is no way to add this command to the Quick Access toolbar