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Overview

mindmap

Mind map helps you to structure your thoughts. A really powerful tool to summarize relationship between items: Characters, places, objects or factions. Graphical and intuitive way to modelize a story.

Features

  • add/remove Node
  • Link between nodes
  • Node Customization: color
  • Packages
  • Label on nodes, links and packages
  • Automatic spacing
  • Add Image to node
  • Tags to node
  • Permission management
  • Sharing management
  • Dark mode
  • Hide link label
  • Hide empty link label
  • Mini mind map
  • Zoom level

New Mindmap

To add mind map to the workspace, just click on main menu: File > New > Mindmap.

Then set the mind map name.

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Finally, you will see the empty mindmap.

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Add root node

Open the contextual menu by right-click on the mind map

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Click on Add Root, the first item of the contextual menu. Alternatively, clicking on the Add node button from the button grid (more details below).

Demos

Global

Final result:

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Add child node

To add child node, you need to click on the blue vertical bar on the right of the parent node.

Edit Label

Just double-click in the center of the node, to start editing the label.

Hide child

Click on the triangle at the bottom of the node to show or hide all children.

Show Menu

Click in the top-right corner button to show the menu.

Change Color

Click in the top-right corner button to show the menu then select the color you want. The change only affects the current node.

Parenting

Select parenting tool from the grid menu, then click on the parent and finally click on the child.

Reparenting

Select an item, then press Ctrl and drag the item to its new parent.

Add Node to Package

Select an item, then press Ctrl and drag the item to the package.

Grid Menu

In the top right corner, there are many buttons. Let's call that the grid menu.

IconDescription
Undo: undo latest action
Redo: redo latest undo action
Save: save map on file system
Settings: Show settings panel
Add node to the mind map
Add package to the mind map
Add link between two nodes
Delete: delete all selected nodes
Refresh: request refresh data (from server)
Export as PNG
Hide Small map
Auto spacing: enable the auto spacing between nodes

Settings

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Name

Set or change the name of the current map.

UI Mode

You can select the style of document.

Light ModeDark mode
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Hide or show all link label. With complex mind map, it is sometime easy to read the map without link label.

Hide empty label

Hide label when they are empty.

Default style

Define the style used for all new nodes.

Permission

Share the mind map to players. You can specify permission globally or per player.

Search for node. The search is based on name, description and tag.

Node List

List all nodes which fulfil the current search. No search, all nodes are displayed.