Take a different view of your mind maps

Whether you’re planning your company’s next product launch or a big family reunion, creating a mind map – a diagram in which an overarching idea branches off into smaller ones – can be a powerful visualisation tool. MindNode offers a streamlined way to create these maps, letting you link ideas, gather files and organise tasks.

But when a project grows beyond a couple of nodes (those top-level branches), it can be helpful to look at it from a different view. Here’s how.

MindNode’s new Focus mode lets you hide every node in a document except the one you’ve selected. Simply click the Focus mode button in the toolbar (it looks like a box with a + inside). Or toggle Focus mode with a keyboard shortcut: Command-Shift-F.

Connections are a tool in MindNode for linking ideas that aren’t directly related but might overlap. For example, for your product launch, you could have two branches to plan content, one for social media and another for customer support. But each might share brainstorming sessions or staff.

You hide Connections in MindNode separately from Focus mode. Under the View menu, use the Hide/Show Connections option to better focus on the ideas that matter.

Mind maps are inherently visual and free-form, but sometimes you want a more structured, linear perspective.

To see your mind map in a vertical, hierarchical format, click the Sidebar button in MindNode’s top toolbar to show the Outline view, or press Command-5.

A search box appears at the bottom of the Outline view, with the option to search only tasks that have yet to be completed.

MindNode – Mind Map & Outline

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