MindNode

New MindNode Pro details

Markus — Wed, 20 Aug 2008 15:21:54 +0000

In the last few days I added new information to the MindNode Pro section of my website. You can now find the planned feature set and some first screenshots on there. I’m planning to release MindNode Pro in early September and it will be available at an introductory price of €11,95 (about 17,35 US-Dollar).

As a side note: Due to a vacation (I’ll be visiting Sweden and Denmark) I won’t be able to respond to support emails in the next ten days. Sorry for the inconvenience!

MindNode 1.1.2 (717)

Markus — Tue, 12 Aug 2008 15:41:36 +0000

I just released MindNode 1.1.2. This release contains several bug fixes and minor improvements.

Download MindNode 1.1.2

Release Notes:
(Fix) The nativ MindNode format no longer shows up in the export dialog as an available format.
(Fix) Deleting the content of a spotlight attribute caused the save operation to fail.
(Fix) Exporting to rtf caused to fail when nodes contained an empty title.
(Fix) Abort editing a node by pressing ESC is working again.
(Fix) The node well is not drawn during a position translation directly after node creation.
(Fix) Animations are reenabled correctly after exiting edit mode.
(Update) Using MindNode files with Subversion and CVS now works. Hidden .svn and .cvs are copied into the new bundle.
(Update) When exporting to html, rtf, opml and freemind nodes are sorted by y location (used to be creation date in previous versions).

MindNode 1.1.1 released!

Markus — Wed, 11 Jun 2008 17:04:27 +0000

MindNode 1.1.1 features FreeMind and OPML importing, some major stability improvements and minor bugfixes.

Download MindNode 1.1

Release notes

(New) FreeMind import.
(New) OPML import.
(Update) Major overall stability improvements.
(Update) Only alphanumeric keys enter the node edit mode directly.
(Fix) Improved FreeMind export. Exported files should now import fine into mind42 and MindMeister.
(Fix) Beachball when saving large (500+ nodes) mind maps.
(Fix) Node overlapping after reconnecting (copy and paste)
(Fix) Zoom button when using on computers with 2+ monitors.
(Update) Prettier XML output formating when exporting OPML, FreeMind and HTML documents.
(Fix) New nodes are positioned at the correct location when the supernode is flipped.
(Fix) Page up/down, Home and End keys support.

MindNode featured on NLMA

Markus — Thu, 15 May 2008 17:47:07 +0000

MindNode is featured on the latest episode of the podcast Neat Little Mac Apps.

Link to the episode.

MindNode 1.1

Markus — Mon, 12 May 2008 14:43:40 +0000

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

A quick note for beta testers

Markus — Fri, 02 May 2008 18:55:11 +0000

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.

MinNode 1.1 beta 1 (517)

Markus — Sun, 27 Apr 2008 18:06:28 +0000

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

Become a friend on Facebook

Markus — Fri, 11 Apr 2008 18:29:53 +0000

I just created a Facebook page for MindNode.

MindNode Facebook page

If you like, you can also follow me on Twitter: Fafner.

MindNode 1.0.1 (469) [update]

Markus — Fri, 11 Apr 2008 12:54:41 +0000

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.

MindNode 1.0.1 beta 4

Markus — Thu, 10 Apr 2008 17:51:07 +0000

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