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Today all kinds of functional departments of any size use Confluence, from technical teams and project management groups, to marketing, HR, legal, and finance. All teams get work done with Confluence.
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In my experience, Confluence is the best tool at effectively organizing large volumes of documentation. It's UI is very clean and easy to navigate.
The text based search option for documents sometimes sucks. I do not get the results that I am looking for which is something I dislike about this tool.
It is the best documentation for our organization it help our company to puts all the important notes and future planning at one place.
It's beyond irritating that exporting documents as a PDF is so horrendous out of the box. I also find the concept of Actions vs Jira issues confusing.
I am really happy with the tool. We use it in many different ways and I believe it is really good and important to have it.
I dislike the page editing features and the inability to copy and paste information from Confluence into other pieces of software without the editing causing issues.
This is used as the main collaborative platform in our company, I am excited how it helps to have the best knowledge base and intranet.
Now I need to upload to google docs and import as google doc rather than word. The error messages sometimes are on the level of "something went wrong.
MindNode makes mind mapping fun and easy, allowing me to quickly and easily create visually appealing diagrams that help me to organize my thoughts and ideas.
I'm not currently working but have become terribly reliant on the software at this point as mentioned in the pros above. Other than that, I can't think of anything.
For those of us who are creative but like to/need to have our creativity focused on a topic, it’s very helpful. You can add and delete with ease, change colors, etc. I strongly recommend this.
The iCloud sync sometimes leaves me high and dry when in flight mode. I thought that the file was downloaded but then realize it's still up in the cloud, when I'm up in the air and no way to sync.
Good interface, nice colours and themes, and a simple UX make for a pleasant experience.
After finishing a mind map, printing in a readable format is difficult. Especially if it is a larger mind map.
Mindnode is easy to use and syncs flawlessly across devices. It is beautiful to look at an easy to navigate.
Perhaps allowing me some customizations but those are very specific to what I do so it should be no concern to most.
Casandra M. : My name is Casandra. I am an administrative support manager working for a relatively small company. I think we have less than 20 employees. And the Confluence app, I would say, probably a four out of five rating. Before Confluence, I pretty much was just texting back and forth to the owner of the company. That's who I work directly under. And she's the clinical director, she's the administrative director, she's just pretty much the entire head of the company. And it was texting and emailing back and forth, and the emails and the texts would get lost amongst each other. And it was just very complicated to have to go through and refer back to find emails and refer back to text messages that were sent weeks and months prior to really try to keep track. We tried an Excel sheet, we tried writing things down, and somewhere along the line things would just get convoluted or complicated because she would try to edit things on the spreadsheet, there would be a complication with me being able to share the spreadsheet, or the editing permissions would change for some reason. And so, with the Confluence app, we both had direct access to the app and it was just us two. There was no, she was locked out of it or she couldn't gain access or we needed to get a new password for it. It was just she always had direct access and I always had direct access, and she could edit things, change things right from there without complications. And then I would see those changes and I would be able to check things off as I go. So it was really easy to keep track of and it made our communication and process much more streamlined and much easier to accomplish. We chose Confluence, just kind of winging it and hoping. We were shooting in the dark and just grabbing different apps we researched on Google, apps that could help us. And that was one of the ones that popped up, and it was really just a "let's try it and see what happens." And it ended up working out really well. It was relatively easy. It was slightly confusing at first, but it was very quickly much easier to understand. Just initially, I think, onboarding with any sort of app or new technology is going to be slightly confusing, but it was definitely less confusing than the majority, I would say, than everything else that we've used. And it was easy to get into it. I don't know. It was complicating initially, but not overly complicating. It's just as confusing as any new product would be. But as soon as we got the flow of it, it was fine. I would personally say that it doesn't cost anything and, again, it's not that challenging to figure out. And for me, it streamlined the process, and for the company, it streamlined our processes. So it's not going to hurt anything to try it. And if it doesn't work, it doesn't work. And if it does, great. You're not any worse off if it does or doesn't work. So.
Francois L.: I am Francois. I'm the president of Aliter Concept. We're a small company dealing with human resources needs, conferences, workshops, and trainings, and my rating for MindNode is five. I've been using MindNode for almost a decade now. I can't remember the other names I've tried. But you name it, you've got it. Any kind of software that deals with mind maps, I've tried it. I've tried several before choosing MindNode, and I just can't remember the names. But they were numerous. I used to do mind maps manually, and I always felt constricted by the size of the sheet. With MindNode, there is no size. It's forever. It's infinite. That's one reason. The other reason is I'm not that good drawing stuff, and with MindNode, we can write stuff but organize it in such a way that it's literally a mind map the way that these professional mind mappers do it with drawings. But I don't like drawings. We can use drawings with MindNode. I don't. So I like it. I can move things around. I can start with something very, very simple, and it explodes with something really complex. We use it for projects. We use it for planning. We use it for course design. It's awesome. It's awesome. One of the things about mind map is it's supposed to be easy. And one of the things that I hated with most software is it was not that easy. With MindNode, it's a cinch. You basically write thing, you click enter or tab, and it does it. You can reorganize it very, very easily. In fact, it's so easy that I talk about my MindNode to all my clients. I even show them how I design my stuff using MindNode. And I tell them, "Try it. It is so easy. No explanation necessary. You just open it, type, enter. That's it. It does it by itself. It's really super." Whenever somebody tells me that mind map seems daunting, I tell them, "Use MindNode." Whenever somebody tells me Excel spreadsheets are too complicated and they're not so intuitive, I tell them, "Use MindNode. Whenever somebody tells me they have to design a new PowerPoint presentation and they feel limited by the PowerPoint templates, I tell them, "Use MindNode." Whenever. So, use MindNode. As soon as you need to think, you open a MindNode document. You start writing stuff. It just pops out of your mind. So, it's a very, very, very strong recommendation. Use MindNode. It's easy to use. It's awesome. It's so useful, and anybody can use it, and you can share your documents. This is really an extraordinary product.
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