I just released MindNode 1.1. This update brings major improvements to the way text is handled in my application. I hope you enjoy the new features.

Notable new features

• FreeMind export functionality
• Nodes grow depending on their position and effect sub-nodes
• Improved node positioning
• Spellchecking support
• Drag Canvas with the mouse

Detailed Release Notes

• (New) FreeMind export.
• (New) Spell checking and grammar checking support.
• (New) Drag canvas with the mouse (during space pressed).
• (New) Left-aligned nodes grow to the left side.
• (New) During title editing, sub-nodes reposition accordingly.
• (New) Menu items “Deselect All” and “Duplicate”.
• (New) Save and restore window attributes (postion, size, scroll position, zoom level).
• (Update) The window zoom button works as intended and no longer resize the window to full screen.
• (Update) When opening a new document the entire canvas is shown.
• (Update) Slightly reduced vertical canvas border offset.
• (Update) Sub-nodes are created below each other.
• (Update) Additional undo action names.
• (Update) Pressing ESC during dragging a node out of the node well (rounded plus sign) will cancel this operation.
• (Update) The canvas is accepting click-through events for all actions.
• (Update) Removed localizations for language currently not support from the sparkle software updater. This saves about 3 MB of disk space.
• (Update) Pressing ESC during node title editing will no longer abort editing, but will display the “complete word” dialog.
• (Update) Improvements to the positioning algorithm.
• (Update) Improved crash reporter.
• (Update) Delete node during editing it’s title.
• (Update) Command+Dragging allows selecting and moving with one gesture.
• (Update) Double-click+Dragging allows repositioning a node.
• (Fix) A great number of typos fixed.
• (Fix) Sometimes the scroll view jumped location when resizing the canvas.
• (Fix) “Zoom In” shortcut mapping corrected.
• (Fix) When an inspector color well is active, the node stroke color won’t be set by the color panel.
• (Fix) Deleting nodes by pressing delete forward on the keyboard.
• (Fix) Scroll to node when moving a node before entering edit mode.
• (Fix) Cycling and centering the root node is no longer possible when in edit mode.
• (Fix) Scrollbar geometry.
• (Fix) Aborting node creating with ESC no longer results with undo operations on the undo stack.
• (Fix) Pressing Command / Option / Control and a character key at the same time no longer results in entering the edit mode.
• (Fix) Loading an invalid input format no longer crashes the application.

Download MindNode 1.1

I just uploaded MindNode 1.1 beta 2. Please use the software updater within MindNode to update to the new version. This is a private beta release. I hope to release 1.1 final at the beginning of next week.

Dear Beta-Testers, please let me know what you think about the changes related to text editing. Thank you!

Known-Issues

• When editing the node title of a node with subnodes, undo doesn’t work correctly.

Release Notes:

• (New) FreeMind Export
• (New) Spellchecking and Grammer-Checking Support
• (New) Drag canvas when pressing space.
• (New) Left-aligned nodes grow to the left side.
• (New) When editing the title of a node, all subnodes reposition accordingly.
• (Update) Additional undo action names.
• (Update) Pressing ESC while dragging a node out of the node well (rounded plus sign) will cancel this operation.
• (Update) The canvas is accepting click-through events for all actions.
• (Update) Removed localization for language currently not support from the sparkle software update. This saves about 3 MB of disk space.
• (Fix) “Zoom In” shortcut mapping corrected.
• (Fix) When an inspector color well is active, the node stroke color won’t be set by the color panel.
• (Fix) Deleting nodes by pressing delete forward on the keyboard.
• (Fix) Scroll to node when moving a node before entering edit mode.

Download MindNode 1.1 beta 1

I just created a Facebook page for MindNode.

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Important Notice: Due to popular demand, I updated the keyboard mapping in this release. You can find a detailed overview of the current mapping in the help menu.

Release Notes:

• (New) Improved keyboard mapping.
• (New) Cycle root nodes.
• (New) RTF Export
• (New) Canvas auto scrolls when nodes grow too large during text input.
• (Update) Major update to the way Spotlight meta data is handled (values are committed correctly, it’s possible to undo changes and the document is marked as edited).
• (Update) I’m starting to use Undo action names.
• (Update) When changing the selection with the keyboard, the canvas will scroll to display the new selection.
• (Update) Default document icon.
• (Update) Root nodes are no longer created on top of each other.
• (Fix) ESC aborts title editing and restores original node title.
• (Fix) Root Node dash style is drawn correctly.
• (Fix) Undo support when editing node title.
• (Fix) Substitution Menu removed.

Download MindNode 1.0.1

UPDATE: MindNode 1.0.1 (468) had a little bug that prevented the deletion of nodes via the keyboard.

It’s very interesting to see how much time can be spent redefining and improving the keyboard shortcuts to offer the best interaction experience possible. I think I finally finalized the keyboard mapping. To get 1.0.1 release as soon as possible I removed some of the functionality present in the last beta. My current plan is to release MindNode 1.0.1 over the weekend.

MindNode 1.0.1 beta 4 offers several bug fixes and the following two updates to the keyboard mapping:

• Enter Edit Mode: Option+Return or simply start typen when only one node is selected (or all selected nodes have the same parent).
• Create Child Node: Command+Return

Download MindNode 1.0.1 beta 4

Due to the server problems I experienced yesterday, I’ll be moving my webspace to a new hosting provider. This move won’t be noticeable by users of my site, but comments will be deactivated during this time.

Update: Successfully moved to the new server. Everything seems to work fine.

New in this build:

• (New) RTF Export
• (New) New node attributes related to node title handling. They are made persistant and exposed in the inspector.

I’ll probably move the canvas background attributed to a new tab in a future release.

Download MindNode 1.0.1 beta 3

This new beta build features an entire rewrite of the way node titles are handled and drawn.

1.0.1 Release Notes

• (New) Configurable max node size (Preferences)
• (New) New Shortcuts (Shortcut may change in 1.0.1 final).
• (New) Cycle root nodes.
• (New) Canvas repositions when nodes grows too large.
• (Update) Major Update to the way Spotlight meta data is handled (Values are commited correctly, it’s possible to undo changes and the document is marked as edited).
• (Update) I’m starting to use Undo action names.
• (Update) When changing the selection with the keyboard the scroll view will scroll to display the node if required.
• (Update) Document icon.
• (Fix) ESC aborts title editing and restores original node title.
• (Fix) Root Node dash style is drawn correctly.
• (Fix) Undo when editing node title.
• (Fix) Substitution Menu removed.

Download MindNode 1.0.1 beta 2

When I first tried to add a MindNode listing to the software tracker tucows and the interface told me that it will take about 1500+ days for my listing to appear, I thought this was a serious glitch in the software. But when I checked again, nothing had changed. I did some research on the internet and it reviled that you really have to pay $50 for every update to your listing or else you have no real chance to be listed. I guess this is one of the websites to ignore in the future.