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I had a little bit of a problem getting a relationship line to not overlap another map topic the program allows you to drag a handle to adjust its shape, but only up to a point. You can also add relationship lines and boundaries to topics in XMind 2008. XMind’s note functionality includes text formatting, text alignment, indenting, color and note background color – just the essentials. Easy and simple! If you’re working with longer blocks of text, you can click an “edit in notes view” command that closes the pop-up and re-opens the notes in a pane below the workspace. When you’re done typing your note, simply click in another area of the workspace, and the note closes automatically. When you add a note to a topic in XMind, the notes window appears as a pop-up – a much more efficient use of screen real estate than most programs, which open a window pane that extends along the entire bottom of the workspace or to the right of it.
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I really like this simple and flexible approach I found it to be very intuitive. Finally, if you hold down the Shift key while dragging a topic, it will be moved to its new position as a floating topic. If you hold down the CTRL key while dragging a topic, XMind will create a duplicate topic at the same level of your map as the source topic. If you hold down the ALT key while dragging a topic (in Windows), that topic will remain where you drop it. If you want to override that, the program gives you several options. These commands make XMind ideal for recording ideas in a group brainstorming session. And Ctrl + Enter creates a parent topic of the current topic. Shift + Enter creates a topic on the same level, but before current topic.
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Clicking the Tab plus the Insert key creates a subtopic of the current topic. This makes it easy and convenient to add a large number of topics to your map very quickly. If you press the Enter key twice after typing in topic text, the program will save your topic and open another one at the same level of your mind map. The program supports other keyboard shortcuts for quickly adding topics to your maps. If you click on a blank area of the workspace, then XMind displays commands for changing the map’s background, map legend and other making other map-level adjustments.Ĭreating and manipulating map topics in XMind is very straightforward: You can add topics using a toolbar command, the program’s drop-down “insert” menu or using the insert key – the de facto standard for many mind mapping programs. XMind’s dialog boxes are context sensitive if you select a topic, tabs that are appropriate to tweaking the appearance of topics are displayed.
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It can be used to depict a series of activities in a time sequence, and how the whole project is impacted by different milestones on the schedule. The fishbone diagram format makes XMind especially unique to be best of my knowledge, it’s the only mind mapping program that’s capable of producing this type of diagram, which is used for cause and effect analysis. XMind supports a variety of fishbone, radial mind map, organizational chart, tree and logic chart formats. The program is designed with extensive support for right-click commands, which I really like, because you can accomplish common tasks within the map workspace, eliminating the need to make trips to the program’s main toolbar and the tabbed sidebar (please click on the image above to view a larger version of a typical map produced using XMind 2008).
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When you first open the program, you’re greeted by a clean interface that conforms to most of the popular norms of mind mapping software today: a horizontal toolbar above the workspace and tabbed dialog boxes to the right of it where you can handle many common tasks, such as changing topic shapes and colors, adjusting topic text font, style and color, changing the map’s structure. One of XMind’s biggest assets is its ease of use. With the release of XMIND 2008, its developers have created a very impressive mind mapping program that will please newbies to visual mapping as well as experienced mappers with its ease of use and amazing flexibility. In doing so, they created an excellent alternative to FreeMind, the popular open-source mind mapping application that leaves much to be desired, in my opinion. Last year, the developers of XMind stunned the visual mapping world when they decided to offer a free, open-source version of their mind mapping software.