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Ability to add information to the connector, not just the node.
Sometimes, you need to be able to describe the relationship between nodes, not just place information in the node. Please add the ability to put an expandable description to the connector, and enable different line types, such as dotted lines, double lines, etc.
579 votesyou can now click connections between nodes and set the colour, line type and add a text label.
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I would like to have the posibility of starting more "rootparents" in the same map
When in planing mode of a structure, I often get the ideas in an unsorted way. To keep them, it would be great to have the possibility to put them on the map immediately including som child nodes and afterward just have to connect them to the main structure in an reasonably way.
508 votesyou can now add multiple roots, disconnect nodes and float them, and manage multiple maps in the same file on mindmup 2.0.
If you use google drive, use https://drive.mindmup.com
if you use free storage or Gold storage, use https://app.mindmup.com
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A dedicated smartphone app.
An smartphone (iPhone, Android) application able to edit mindmup on the road offline.
382 votesMindMup for iOS devices is now available for general use – we’re taking the Beta marker off, because we finally ensured that users of the mobile app are as productive as when using the desktop app.
For more info about the mobile app, and to install it on your iOS device, see http://discover.mindmup.com/mindmup-for-ios
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Having the possibility to add detached blocks
Adding blocks not connected to the main idea but floating anywhere the users want to put in on the screen. By extension it would be interesting to create more that one tree on one page.
371 votesyou can now add multiple roots, disconnect nodes and float them, and manage multiple maps in the same file on mindmup 2.0.
If you use google drive, use https://drive.mindmup.com
if you use free storage or Gold storage, use https://app.mindmup.com
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add stock icons
add stock icons similar to what XMIND has. it's pretty useful to have icons such as 1,2,3,4 to identify priorities. Smileys and flags are also useful indicators. The workaround now is to upload the images as the icons.
323 votesStickers (standard icons) are now globally available to everyone. Check out https://www.mindmup.com/tutorials/stickers.html for more information on how to use this feature.
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link to another mind map
It would be really nice if we could link a node in mind map to another mind map with a relative path . eg if we have many mind maps in a folder ..
Transport
> Air
>plane
>Land
>Car=>Link to=> "car.mup"
>Bus
>Van
>Water
>Ship
>BoatEg in above example if we could click on car and go a mindmap called car.mup somewhere in the folder . it would be a clean ,navigable and much more maintainable map. esp we are have huge maps.
Note : map files could be accessed using relative paths eg : ~/folder/folder/car.mup
307 votesYou can create submaps easily now, see https://www.mindmup.com/news/2022/09/08/create-submaps-easily.html
If you want to link to an existing map, just paste the URL into the node - see the section "Cross linking maps" on this page https://www.mindmup.com/tutorials/linking.html
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Improved readability: Children automatic colors and different sizes
In order to make the Mind maps more readable I would recommend to add automatic colors to every new node departing from the central topic.
This is currently doable manually but it requires extra time (especially on big maps), while adding automatic random colors to any new "parent node" and respective children would make jotting new ideas faster and more understandable at a glance.
On a similar note I would also suggest to increase the size of the central node and the parent nodes. The original mind map theory states in fact that it's important to add some visual clues…295 votesMindMup now makes it easier to manage large maps with a new theme, called Productivity, which automates font sizing and colors for children and branches. Here’s a demo of how it works: https://youtu.be/BtDtAWPJUhA
To activate the theme, just select “View > Map Theme > Productivity” from the application menu.
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Facilitate multiple parent nodes
When two ideas converge to form a new point that needs both parents. This is different to just connecting two arbitrary nodes together. It might require a reorganization of the map layout to keep it looking neat.
286 votesyou can now add multiple roots, disconnect nodes and float them, and manage multiple maps in the same file on mindmup 2.0.
If you use google drive, use https://drive.mindmup.com
if you use free storage or Gold storage, use https://app.mindmup.com
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Ability to dill down on a node to create a sub-mindmap
When creating mind maps they can become very large with lots of children nodes linking ideas. To help this problem it is really useful to dill down on a child node to create a sub-mindmap, in the sub-mindmap the child become the parent node in the centre, and all its child nodes are shown. This means you can create one large mind map and dill down onto set topics or area you are working on. A software called "xmind" does this but it doesn't link to google drive.
Keep up the good work guys :)
243 votesHi,
it's now possible to create submaps easily (with some limitations that we plan to remove in the near future). Check out https://www.mindmup.com/news/2022/09/08/create-submaps-easily.html for more information
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Linking Google Drive files to nodes
It would be great to be able to link nodes with specific files on GDrive. This would dramatically improve collaboration on ideas with extensive information background and/or requesting collaborative document creation.
I could create a link to a specific shared document on my Drive and collaborators could open and read/edit it. I understand it is a matter of rights and IDs but it'd be a great leap forward.
205 votesthis is now possible with mindmup 2.0 – adding an attachment opens a google drive picker, and the file preview will be shown when clicking on the paperclip after the files are linked to nodes.
see http://blog.mindmup.com/2015/10/mindmup-20-is-now-ready.html for more info
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LINE BREAK of text string in the node.
EXAMPLE:[Ctrl]+[Enter]
Press [Ctrl] key and [Enter] key simultaneously
then LINE BREAK at an arbitrary position of text string in the node.193 votesthis is now available at www.mindmup.com – shift+enter should create a line break when editing the node text
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Allow exporting to more formats (specifically PDF, and a higher quality JPEG).
The file sizes of the images and PDFs can be disregarded, in my opinion, since we would really like to see our maps on our Android phones and iphones as images exported from MindMup, and currently, the quality of the JPEGs are quite unreadable for large mindmaps, defeating the purpose of making the mindmap..
Probably the Devs can take a look at this feature?
189 votesWe added security and privacy, so this is now ready for general use. PDF Files are stored on our servers for up to 24 hours – here is a bit more info on the security etc: http://blog.mindmup.com/p/pdf-export.html
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188 votes
MindMup for iOS devices is now available for general use – we’re taking the Beta marker off, because we finally ensured that users of the mobile app are as productive as when using the desktop app.
For more info about the mobile app, and to install it on your iOS device, see http://discover.mindmup.com/mindmup-for-ios
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It would be great to have captions for the connect lines.
There are some situiations when the connection between nodes are not quite clear. It would be great to have apportunity to clearify it by the caption.
188 votesyou can now click connections between nodes and set the colour, line type and add a text label.
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move the bubble somewhere else and it doesn't pop back
I'm used to mind manager when you move your ideas somewhere and it stays there, in mindmup it pops back which is quite annoying to me.
186 votesThis is now available at www.mindmup.com, see an example at:
http://blog.mindmup.com/2013/09/use-shiftdrag-to-manually-position-nodes.htmlWe’d love to hear your feedback on the solution, please let us know by sending an e-mail to contact@mindmup.com or leaving a comment here.
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Search within own mind map
Why: to find nodes within large mind maps. I have created mind maps with over 1000 nodes and the easiest way to navigate to the desired node is by searching.
185 votesYou can now search for nodes in a map – just use ctrl/cmd+f – see http://blog.mindmup.com/2014/02/use-ctrlcmdf-to-search-maps.html for more info
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adding pictures to nodes
WHY: sometimes a pictures tells more than a word :-)
181 votesthis is now done. see here for info on how to use it: http://blog.mindmup.com/p/images-and-icons-in-nodes.html
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Write text on links between nodes
Allow to write text on connections/links between two nodes (e.g. "implicates", "caused by", etc.)
165 votesyou can now click connections between nodes and set the colour, line type and add a text label.
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I would like it had icon support in the node. This would make easy mark ideas as done, important, etc.
I guess that 5 or 6 good icons would be good. For me the important ones would be the "completed icon" (maybe a green V), the attention (maybe an yellow exclamation), an incompleted or impossible idea (some red icon, maybe a X or perhaps just a red circle), original idea (a lamp, maybe).
151 votesyou can now add images to nodes. we don’t have a standard icon library, but you can just drag and drop any image into a node and it will become an icon. http://blog.mindmup.com/p/images-and-icons-in-nodes.html
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Automatic colors of the children nodes
I would like to colorize the children nodes according to their parent, unless I specify the colo for the node myself. The color could fade into transparent, or white by some value in every level from parent. Example:
Node1 - red (specified by me)
Node1.1 - lighter red (not specified)
Node1.1.1 - more lighter red (not specified)
Node1.2 - green (specified)
Node1.2.1 - lighter green (not specified)
Node1.2.2 - brown (specified)
etc..the idea came up from bubbl.us but without color transition
148 votesCheck out https://www.mindmup.com/news/2018/08/09/custom-theme.html — you can now create your own palette
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