MindNode Pro 1.1
MindNode Pro 1.1 is a free update for all MindNode Pro users!
Change Log
Major improvements to zooming
MindNode Pro now supports zooming to any factor between 10% – 400%, allows zooming with multi-touch trackpads and mouse wheel ([CMD]+[Mouse Wheel up/down] and supports Fit Mind Map and Fit Selection. Furthermore the zoom factor button next to the horizontal scroll received a major facelift and now looks and behaves similarly to pop-up-buttons used in the iWork suite.
Filled Nodes
Nodes can be drawn filled and with a border. It’s also possible to change the background color of filled nodes.
Multi-touch support
Additional to the two-finger scrolling, MindNode Pro now supports pitch to zoom and three-finger-swipe to change the selection on all new multi-touch trackpads.
Link Support
The support of links changed a lot in this release. Besides Hyperlinks and Filelinks, MindNode Pro now also supports mail links. The way how links are handled now reflects the way Apple handles them in iWork applications (a blue rectangle around a link indicates that the entire links is being edited, compared to only editing the current selection as before). Filelinks can now also link to folders.
Other Improvements and Fixes:
- Print settings are correctly saved with each document.
- Improved handling of canvas resizing. It decreases automatically when folding and moving nodes. The canvas no longer has a visible border.
- When editing a left aligned node, the canvas no longer moves around.
- When printing a document with folded node the application will no longer print empty pages for folded nodes.
- Correct handling of title-size-knobs.
- Changes default main node thickness to 2 pt instead of 3 pt.
- Root nodes are now called main nodes.
- Improved the handling of the scale value text field in the printing options.
- New style preference for changing the default value for decrease branch thickness.
- Correct saving of branch colors.
- Fixes a drawing bug when adding a new line character at the end of a node.
- Correct handling of paper sizes.
- New style preference settings for fill color, decrease branch thickness, allow branch color variations (instead of repeating colors MindNode varies colors).
- The selection style of mind node changed to allow easier changing of fill colors.
- When editing a title the application no longer draws a white background. This enables the use of white and similar colors as font colors.
- Increased spacing between nodes when using auto rearranging.
- Improved behavior when entering the edit mode. The application now inserts the insertion marker at the point of the click and no longer selects the entire node.
- The color of the selection rubber band changed.
- Main nodes are ordered by their canvas location when exporting to RTF, HTML, FreeMind and OPML.
- It’s no longer possible to create a main node when double clicking the canvas.
February 10th, 2009 at 6:08 pm
Any news on cross connecting nodes, meaning the ability to connect one node to more then one other node? I haven’t bought pro mainly due to the lack of that feature. I’d be willing to pay twice what you’re asking now if that feature was implemented though… and I’m fairly confident it would improve the selling points of your pro version too.
February 10th, 2009 at 7:30 pm
My plan was to include this functionality in this version, but implementing it is more difficult than expected and to help get 1.1 out the door I pushed it back to 1.2. I’m planning to release a first alpha version of this feature in a couple of weeks.
February 10th, 2009 at 8:35 pm
Great news on cross-connecting nodes.
Is there any possiblity of being able to control the direction that new nodes are created from the central node.
ie, right now, the first two come out on the right, while 3 & 4 go to the left. If it was possible to just go left to right, it would make them narrower and easier to print. For now, I’m using the free version, but if you add that feature, you’ve got me. I would probably purchase a family pack.
Also, would it be possible to add a automatic-reformat option, ie. a feature that would take into account the different nodes and their children and reformat the nodes with proper spacing?
Thanks.
February 10th, 2009 at 10:55 pm
Thanks for fitting in the export fix that takes into account the order of nodes on the screen! That’s really great.
One other thought to throw in regarding RTF exports: maybe include a preference setting for how the outlines are displayed in an exported document? When I edit my notes into an outline after the fact, I have to manually delete every bullet point and then tell my word processor to re-bullet because it doesn’t recognize the points as an outline. Essentially, it would be great if I could somehow export with just indentations and no bullets.
Anyway, thanks again for your superb work with this application!
February 11th, 2009 at 2:55 pm
Arpan,
there is currently no way to change this. If I understand you correctly you would like to see that the first node appears on the right side, the second on the left, third on right and so on?
There is a menu item in the pro version that allows to reorder the branches. It’s not perfect and I’m planning to improve this.
Doing this automatically is on my toto list, but at the moment I have no idea how to do it the right way. My main issue is that I still want to give the user the freedom of freely arranging nodes on the canvas.
Cheers!
Markus
February 11th, 2009 at 3:00 pm
Tim,
Thank you again for making me aware of this issue!
This could be solved by a hidden preference – I don’t think this should go into the UI . But I’d prefere to solve this so that your word processor is able to identify the output as a bullet list. Do you have background knowledge about this? Is there a RTF command to identify a list as a bullet list? Perhaps I’m doing it the wrong way.
Cheers.
Markus
February 13th, 2009 at 9:47 am
Yesterday I DL’d MindNode and MindNode Pro. I haven’t used mind mapping software before, but I’m impressed at these program’s functionality. I’m going to send my money to you for getting full use of the pro version.
For now, I would really like the possibility to share nodes to different mindmaps, to allow the use of graphics as nodes, and to use nodes as links (not sure if this is already possible). Great work till now, but please continue further development.
Huub
February 13th, 2009 at 8:26 pm
Huub,
Thank you for your interest in my application. Adding images to nodes is a planned feature and I currently target to release it with version 1.3. Creating hyperlinks is already possible in MindNode Pro. To add one you have to enter the edit mode of a node and select the third tab in the inspector.
I’m not sure what you mean with “sharing nodes to different mindmaps”. Can you please explain this in more detail? Thank you.
Markus
February 15th, 2009 at 6:50 pm
Markus,
what I meant was that I would prefer to have all the nodes on a single side, ie, all on the right, none on the left.
I just realized that in 1.2 it is possible to pull all nodes to one direction. This is what I wanted. Is this a new feature in 1.2, or was it there before? So, I guess in the next couple days, I’ll download the pro version and checkout the re-ordering system as well.
Thanks.
February 15th, 2009 at 9:03 pm
Arpan,
You can simply move all the nodes to the right side. This is possible in all MindNode versions. If you create a new node from the main there is still the possibility that it will go to the left side. You need to manually move it. Auto-reordering will honor the direction of a node so you can use it safely.
Markus
February 18th, 2009 at 10:04 am
Markus,
when I first saw mindnode on the apple download page, I was still riddled with tiger. But that was the moment when I knew that I needed to upgrade my OS soon.
Yesterday needed to transform a handdrawn scribble to something on my computer and mindnode came to the rescue. Within 20 minutes I had downloaded the free version, and finished my project. Your programme is so intuitive. I could not have been so quick with freemind!
So my next click after the submit button for this comment will be to download the pro version. I’m hoping the best for connecting a node to multiple parent nodes in a future version.
February 19th, 2009 at 8:05 pm
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