Zettt created a nice short screencast showing how to use and interact with MindNode Pro.

MindNode Screencast from Zettt on Vimeo.

Link: [Tutorial] MindNode Pro

I released MindNode 1.3.2 and MindNode Pro 1.3.1. This updates adds a Japanese localization made by Koichi Matsumoto and brings minor bug fixes.

Website

During this week I added three new things to my website:

• Koichi Matsumoto created a Japanese version of mindnode.com.
• I added a preview page of the upcoming iPhone version of MindNode.
• I created a new page with video tutorials.

MindNode Pro 1.3.1 and MindNode 1.3.2 Release Notes

Japanese Localization

MindNode and MindNode Pro are now fully localized in Japanese.

Improvements and Fixes:

• Fixes a bug that incorrectly positioned nodes when creating them with the node well.
• Newly created nodes are now correctly positioned centered under the mouse cursor.
• MNP: When connecting a node to a folded node the node no longer unfolds.
• MN: Nodes folded with MindNode Pro correctly show up in Mindnode.

I released MindNode Pro 1.3 and MindNode 1.3.1 today.

MindNode Pro 1.3 is a major update and free for all existing MindNode Pro users. It adds the ability to visualize cross connections and to edit the mind map in a full featured fullscreen mode. To better communicate that MindNode and MindNode Pro are based on exactly the same codebase I skipped the 1.2 version number.

MindNode 1.3.1 is a minor release bringing smaller fixes and improvements. It also adds compatibility to the updated mindnode file format and allows to view cross connections that were created with MindNode Pro 1.3 and newer.

MindNode Pro 1.3 Change Log

Cross Connections

Cross Connections allow the user to visualize a connection between any two nodes on the canvas. You can create a new connection by selecting two nodes and choosing create connection from the main menu or by shift-clicking on a node and dragging a line to a second node. MindNode Pro supports importing and exporting connections from FreeMind. All other export formats currently don’t support this new feature.

Fullscreen Mode

MindNode Pro now supports editing the mind map in a full screen mode. It can be enabled in the main menu.

Contextual Menus

Context menu allow to access to the most important functionally directly on the canvas.

Improvements and Fixes:

• Fixes an issue related to displaying the wrong link type in the inspector.
• Fixes a bug that caused “node wells” to stay visible although the mouse was nowhere near it.
• Fixes a bug that caused nodes to stay in edit mode when quickly creating a new one.
• New nodes are now created centered under the mouse cursor.
• Fixes an issue related to incorrect selection of the inspector dash style menu.
• Allow to detach nodes by pressing “d” during dragging.
• Improvements to menu item validation.
• Allow to reorder nodes when there is no active selection.
• Fixes several bugs when importing FreeMind documents.
• New
  acknowledgement menu.
• Export as PNG now available in the export file dialog.
• Copy MindMap As > PDF and Copy MindMap As > TIFF are replaced by Copy MindMap As Image. This menu item will place a PDF and TIFF representation onto the pasteboard. This also resolves an issue with certain applications (e.g. Mail.app) not accepting MindNodes PDFs via copy and paste.
• When reconnecting a filled node (this includes main nodes), the node will retain its filled state.
• Fixes an issue with nodes ignoring the “Decreasing Branch Thickness” setting when being detached.
• Pasting or reconnecting to a node with folded subnodes will unfold the subnodes.
• Solves an issue with “ghost” subnodes when deleting a node with folded subnodes.
• Fixes an issue that caused to show the folding well icon instead of the node well.
• Resolves an issue that prevented users leaving the “canvas dragging” mode.
• Changed the line ending style of branches. It’s now nicely rounded. This also improves the visual style when a branch reduces it’s line width.
• The line dash style is now affected by the line width.
• Resolves an issue related to setting an incorrect font when deleting the entire content of a node.

MindNode 1.3.1 Change Log

Contextual Menus

Context menu allow to access to the most important functionally directly on the canvas.

Improvements and Fixes:

• Fixes a bug that caused “node wells” to stay visible although the mouse was nowhere near it.
• Fixes a bug that caused nodes to stay in edit mode when quickly creating a new one.
• New nodes are now created centered under the mouse cursor.
• Fixes an issue related to incorrect selection of the inspector dash style menu.
• Improvements to menu item validation.
• Fixes several bugs when importing FreeMind documents.
• New
  acknowledgement panel.
• Export as PNG now available in the export file dialog.
• Resolves an issue that prevented users leaving the “canvas dragging” mode.
• Changed the line ending style of branches. It’s now nicely rounded. This also improves the visual style when a branch reduces it’s line width.
• The line dash style is now affected by the line width.
• Resolves an issue related to setting an incorrect font when deleting the entire content of a node.

Warning: The following version is beta software. This means that this version is unstable and may cause data loss!

MindNode Pro 1.2 required a major code rewrite which might have introduced several new bugs. I tested this version very carefully and I’d like to ask you to send me any issues you encounter during your tests. I’m especially interested in feedback related to cross connections. Thank you for your help improving my application!

Change Log

Cross Connections
Cross Connections allow the user to visualize a connection between any two nodes on the canvas. You can create a new connection by selecting two nodes and choosing create connection from the main menu or by shift-clicking on a node and dragging a line to a second node. MindNode Pro supports importing and exporting connections from/to FreeMind. All other formats currently don’t support this new feature.

Fullscreen Mode 
Focus is critical when brain storming and sometimes even the smallest things can break concentration. Via the main menu you can now enable a clean fullscreen mode.

Contextual Menus
Context menus allow to access the most important functionally directly on the canvas. Currently contextual menus are supported for the canvas, nodes and connections.

Other Improvements and Fixes:

• Solved an issue related to displaying the wrong link type in the inspector.
• Fixes a bug that caused “node wells” to stay visible although the mouse was nowhere near it.
• Bug that caused nodes to stay in edit mode when quickly creating a new one.
• New nodes are now created centered under the mouse cursor.
• Fixes an issue related to incorrect selection of the inspector dash style menu.
• Allow to detach nodes by pressing “d” during dragging.
• Improvements to menu item validation.
• Allow to reorder nodes when there is no active selection.
• Fixes several bugs when importing FreeMind documents.
• New
  acknowledgement menu.

Warning: The following version is beta software. This means that this version is unstable and may cause data loss!

MindNode Pro 1.2 BETA 1

[Update]
Known Issues:

• Crash when pasting a node.

I’m currently working on the next major release of MindNode Pro. Version 1.2 will bring one major new feature and several other additions to the application.

Cross Connections
Cross Connections allow the user to visualize a connection between any two nodes on the canvas. This is by far the most requested feature so far and I’m happy to finally bring this feature to my application.

Fullscreen Mode
Focus is critical when brain storming and sometimes even the smallest things can break concentration. MindNode Pro 1.2 will bring a fullscreen mode that will enable a clean and distraction free environment.

Context Menus
With version 1.2, MindNode Pro will allow the user to access important functionally directly via a context sensitive menu. This feature will also start to appear in the freeware version later this year.

To be announced
There is one additional feature I’m currently working on. I’m not sure if it will be ready in time so I don’t want to talk about it at the moment.

MindNode Pro 1.2 Sneak Peek Screencast

MindNode Pro will be a free upgrade for all MindNode Pro users. My current plan is to release version 1.2 sometime in April.

MindNode Pro 1.1.1 is a free update for all MindNode Pro users and brings minor bug fixes.

Download MindNode Pro 1.1.1

Improvements and Fixes:

• Adds the ability to create a main node with Option-Click on the canvas.
• Fixes an issue with zooming when in edit mode.
• Interface and interaction improvements in the registration dialog.
• Resolves a crash when trying to print an empty document.
• Fixes a bug when switching from a custom scale value to scale to fit in the print dialog.
• The scale value in the print dialog now continously updates the print preview.
• Changes to incoming branch drawing of filled nodes.

Download MindNode 1.3

Change Log

Major improvements to zooming

MindNode 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.

Multi-touch support

Additional to the two-finger scrolling, MindNode now supports pitch to zoom and three-finger-swipe to change the selection on all new multi-touch trackpads.

Other Improvements and Fixes:

• New MindNode icon.
• German localization.
• 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.
• Changes default main node thickness to 2 pt instead of 3 pt.
• Root nodes are now called main nodes.
• Fixes a drawing bug when adding a new line character at the end of a node.
• Correct handling of paper sizes.
• When editing a title the application no longer draws a white background.
• 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.
• Fixes a crash when trying to print an empty document.

Download MindNode 1.3

MindNode Pro 1.1 is a free update for all MindNode Pro users!

Download MindNode Pro 1.1

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.

To help differenciate MindNode and MindNode Pro, MindNode will receive a new icon in the upcoming 1.3 release. My original plan was to enhance the icon for MindNode Pro, but doing so without cluttering the icon, turned out to be too difficult. So we ended up trying color variations to create a new look for the MindNode icon. I hope you like the new icon.

After long considerations I just made the switched to Kagi as my main payment provider. This will provide a much smoother checkout experience for my customers and will allow me to integrate a store into the application in the future. Buy at Kagi»

With this switch I also changed the base currency from Euro to US-Dollar. The new price of MindNode Pro is $14.95. With the current Euro-Dollar exchange rate this makes the application even more affordable. Please also note that this is still an introductory price. The final price for MindNode Pro 1.x will be $24.95 and will come into effect on March 1st, 2009.

An other change I made to my site is the new Software Licensing Policy. In my opinion it’s a very fair license and if you have any feedback on it, please let me know.