You can now use Mindjet Research Accelerator to search through EH forums and blogs. Research Accelerator is a plug-in to allow people search for information using different web services from inside of MindManager, MS Office applications and IE. You will need to download and install plug-in, and then add Community Server Research Service.

I'd like to thank Michael Scherotter from Mindjet for inviting and adding us to the list of supported websites.

It's nice that Mindjet is working on providing wider support for finding and importing data. It can make you more effective at finding and integrating additional information with your documents.

It would be really cool if imported information could be updated dynamically. However, integrating updates and doing version control in an application where you can edit data is hard. The problem is similar to what source control programs (SourceSafe, CVS, SubVersion, etc.) try to solve. Information in them can be changed in several places and it then needs to be merged in one place.

There are many applications specializing at gathering information from many sources (news aggregators, for example). Most of them are web-based and can gather and show news, blogs, etc. on a single page. Yahoo is probably the most popular service. The problem is usage. These applications can gather information, but they don't allow user to edit it, customize it (add custom notes) or connect several related articles. MindManager is now one step closer to supporting such scenarios.