Core Version
Pro Version (Contact me for instructions)
MindNode is no longer marked as beta.
(New) iChat Theater support
(New) Menu items for sending support emails and visiting the website.
(Update) Inspector is now using RMInspector. The Icons are NOT final.
(Update) Root nodes are now drawn as rounded rects.
(Fix) Bug when trying to create a subnode of a node with an empty title.
(Fix) Mirroring bug when creating root node subnodes.
(Fix) A bug caused deleted nodes to reappear when loading from persistant store.
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That’s it. MindNode is feature complete for the 1.0 release.
Release Notes
(New) Copy and Paste Support
(New) “Past and Match Style” for text
(New) Menu validation
(New) Root nodes draw a white background. This should make it easier to select nodes when they are lying on top of each other.
(Update) Intro dialog.
(Fix) Hit testing.
Have you ever noticed that there is a short delay (about a second) when entering the “edit text mode” in Finder, Mail or iTunes? When clicking on an unselected item for the first time, a selection event occurs. When waiting a short period (don’t double click) and clicking again on the text (!), after about a second the text field to edit the text appears.
I’m planning to integrate this behavior into my own application (at this stage I’m not sure if this will replace the double-clicking) and I tried to find an answer to why this delay happens, but so far my search only turned up very wage answers. Through my own testing I found out that it feels “wrong” when the text field appears immediately. A result of being “trained” by Apple that it should appear after about a second?
I spent a lot of time thinking about my application over Christmas and I decided to changed my initial plans a little bit. I’ve already spent so much time developing it and now the time has come to get it into the hands of more people to collect more feedback. I also realized that in it’s current state it’s too early to release it as a commercial product and it’s probably best to start with a freeware application. So this is what I’ll do:
MindNode 1.0 will be released as a freeware application at the end of January. It will contain all the feature that are in the current beta build, except the reconnecting of nodes. Following this release I’ll start improving the core application and incorporate user feedback.
MindNode Pro will be a commercial version of MindNode that will be released a few months after the release of the free version. Both versions will share the same core code and a simple serial key will unlock the pro features. I don’t like buying software that I wasn’t able to test and therefore there will be a 15-30 day trail period of MindNode Pro. After this period MindNode will revert back to the free version and the user will be able to access every mind map he created with the pro version - no user should be punished by being locked out of information because he decided the application isn’t worth the price.
This leaves 2 questions to be answers: how much will the pro version cost and what features am I planing for this version? I haven’t settled on a price, but it will be very competitive. The features will depend on feedback gathered from users of the free version. Reconnecting will be among those features and I’m also thinking about providing new export formats and the ability to drop files and hyperlinks onto the mind map. But as I said before: those features will be based on feedback and so please let me know what you would like to see.
