I thought that MS had taken the time to right all the wrongs of their previous attempts, but clearly that is not the case. Yes, there is a lot of power there, but I've used better user interfaces, and even basic things like the scrolling behavior and window ordering are still screwed up just like they were in the previous version.

Really nice outliner. Some things are a bit non-obvious (like splitting some text into two items), and sometimes it just doesn't respond to my typing for a number of seconds at a time. Also, If find the hoist function confusing. Apart from that, it's well designed, and easy to use, and quick to create outlines.

I tried - really tried to get this to work because I have to deal with people using Mind Manager on Windows from time to time, but was frustrated with the constant crashes on Lion, so went looking for something that would allow me to import and export Mind Manager files, and found NovaMind. Wow, what a brilliant product! Their layout options and design flexibility put Mind Manager to shame, and their support staff are very helpful. And now I'm finding that quite a few of the people I am doing business with are trying NovaMind for Windows and several have switched there too. I had used NovaMind 4 in the past, which was OK, but with v5 they have raced past Mind Manager.

I understand that Mind Manager have patched the instabilities in their product, but for me it was too late - I had already switched to NovaMind, and am not intending to come back.

Love this app! This is my most used productivity tool. I've tried them all (iMindMap, Mind Manager, XMind, Freemind, etc etc), and this has by far the most powerful features, and yet is still very easy to use.

The redesign they have done for v5 is excellent. They have taken a really good application and rebuilt it as a truly fantastic app.

Love this app, and the new version is such a big improvement over an already excellent app. I find the new callout functionality to be great. I've used lots of different video editing and screen capture software, and this is by far the best for creating video tutorials. Much better than Camtasia.