May 12, 2008 at 3:43 pm
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
May 2, 2008 at 7:55 pm
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.
April 27, 2008 at 7:06 pm
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
April 11, 2008 at 7:29 pm
I just created a Facebook page for MindNode.
MindNode Facebook page

If you like, you can also follow me on Twitter: Fafner.
April 11, 2008 at 1:54 pm
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.
April 10, 2008 at 6:51 pm
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
April 10, 2008 at 12:06 pm
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.
April 7, 2008 at 6:44 pm
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
April 6, 2008 at 11:54 pm
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
March 29, 2008 at 10:42 am
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.
