Organizing your work starts by organizing your thoughts – XMind provides you with all the elements you need to put your objectives and thoughts in writing in an orderly manner and with intuitive and elegant designs. This open source free tool comes with a wide range of templates and mind maps that cover all possible projects and workflows that require careful planning.
The functionality provided by XMind can be further extended by upgrading to either the Plus or the Pro versions, which are no longer open source. These will allow you to access to the Brainstorming and Presentation Modes, the Gantt View, and various toolboxes, as well as to export your mind maps to PDF and all Office formats. Sticking to this open source version, though, won’t prevent you from making use of its powerful mind mapping capabilities. You will be able to print and save your maps and diagrams for future use, but you won’t be allowed to share them in file format.
XMind comes in a clear and nice-to-look-at interface, full of useful and nicely-designed templates for all possible mind maps, diagrams, flow charts, etc., that you may need when organizing your thinking and designing your strategies. Fishbone charts, matrices, tables, flow charts, diagrams... just make your pick and customize the selected template with your own thoughts, your company’s strategic areas, your personal training plan, a timeline, or a simple to-do list. Whatever the need, XMind 2013 will provide you with the right type of mind map. Besides, the program includes a wide array of beautiful clip art objects for you to embellish your projects, and to add intuitive markings to highlight the most sensitive elements.
The program can show you a printout preview and a useful schematic view of all the elements in the diagram in hierarchical order, so that you can check the overall structure of your project. Being an open source tool, you are welcome to improve XMind 2013 for you and other potential users, as well as to make it part of your own development. Few similar tools offer the variety and gusto that you can find in this excellent mind-mapping tool.
v3.3.1 [Aug 17, 2012]
New features:
- New business model
- New Gantt Chart
- Revision
- Search content in xmind file on Mac via spotlight
- Spellcheck view
- Qiucklook attachment/image on Mac
Improvement:
- Eclipse 3.7.2
'Double click to open' works better and more stable
- Support dragging file onto XMind icon to open on Mac
- Portrait/Landscape options in 'Page Setup' dialog
- New 'Extract and Apply' option after extracting theme.
- Improve file save/open process
- Improved performance after enabling auto save
- Show proper error message after failure to export to PDF(map)
- 'Upload' is renamed to 'Share'
- While saving the preview image in xmind file, save file's center position at the same time.
- Default format of preview image changed to PNG
- The Open dialog points to Documents folder when being first used, and points to last time path in future usage.
- Drill down into a topic, the Gantt chart shows only the current map's topics.
- Internal browser works well on windows
- Map won't scroll automatically when selecting multiple elements.
- When opening a .xmind file using double click, no extra blank map will be open.
- Use platform-specific solution to open file hyperlink/attachment.
- Find/Replace no longer messes across editor and notes view.
- When closing XMind, unsaved workbooks will be asked to save one by one instead of an aggregate dialog.
- Improve the shortcuts under Brainstorming mode
- Improve the proxy settings
- Improve the new file dialog
- many other improvements, like new splash, new about dialog
Bugs
- Can't drag file into xmind as attachment on linux.
- Default color of Notes view is white on linux.
- Moving multiple floating topics at the same time, they will lose the relative postion.
- In a drilled down map, after moving the central topic and a floating topic at the same time, the central topic will be lost when drilled back up.
- Ctrl s can not save the file in brainstorming mode
- The date info in Taskinfo view does not update if always let xmind open
- The status of new imported map from MindManager/FreeMind is saved. User can not save it directly unless making one modification.
- Yes/No icons in Freemind become question mark marker after importing.
- If there are topic links between sheets, xmind failed to export map to PDF(document).
- Quotation marks in labels will cause exporting to Word/PPT fail.
- The suggested file name will be not right when exporting a map with a multi-line titled central topic to PDF.
- Spell mistake in the export dialog
- On Windows, if setting the xmind portable as default program of .xmind files and double-clicking .xmind to open it,there will be special folder at the same level with that .xmind file.
- Press shift key to select multiple topics, then copy and paste to another topic, the pasted topics' order is not right.
- some other small bugs
