Archive for September, 2009:

Full screen Presentation powers our work

Posted on September 26th, 2009 in Featured, XMind Basic | 2 Comments »

The wise had told us communication is very important in our life.
We also know Presentation is an important way to communicate with others, esp in work. There are many companies designing and developing the tools to let us perform better on presentation. And so do us.
Mind map brings us a great way to catch inspiration, organize sparkles, plan project, and more other things. While we designed it in 2007, we asked ourselves, since mind map is so powerful and useful, why don’t we present the map directly. Then managers, colleagues, customers,and clients can understand us more clearly. How perfect! From Oct. 2007, XMind 2008 Pro has a special feature, Full Screen Presentation. A brand-new method.
With many follow-up hours’ work, now Presentation is very stable. Here are some key points to present your map in XMind Pro:

  • What we present is the current mind map
  • Only focused topic is highlighted.
  • Focused topic will be zoomed in and auto-centered.
  • Arrow keys and enter key both can navigate all topics.
  • You can switch between multiple sheets(one XMind file is a workbook including multiple sheets.) in sidebar.
  • You can record the audio to a topic during presentation in sidebar.
  • You can filter all topics via marker and label in sidebar.
  • Below are three screenshots:
    1. Beginning. all topics are hidden, only central topic is highlighted, centralized and zoomed in:
    beginning
    2. During presentation. topics which have been navigated will be shown too.
    presentation
    3. Sidebar and Button panel. Move mouse to the bottom, you will see the panel button. Click sidebar button, you will see the powerful sidebar at the left side. Here, you can navigate, filter, and record.
    sidebar_and_buttonpanel

    This presentation mode is popular used to make speech in meeting, report in hall, etc. Maybe you’re willing to share some your experience with us. :)

    A glimpse of XMind new version

    Posted on September 15th, 2009 in Featured, New Version | No Comments »

    XMind is still in development. This version has taken a littler more time. We’re still working on it, and will have it completed this month.
    Now, let us preview part new features here.

    Relative hyperlink
    This feature enable we have more choices while adding local files.
    Sorting Topics
    Do you want to see the latest modified topic, or the task with the highest priority? These will be available in the coming version.
    Powerful Search
    Searching content in entire workbook and showing them with the full path, are these you wanted? Both available.
    Default Theme
    Theme is made up of topic color, shape, size, line color, background color, and etc. You will not only have ability to design and extract your own theme, but also let it be the default theme in your XMind Pro.

    Time is up. :) If you want to enjoy all new features before releasing, please send an email to “info@xmind.net” with subject “XMind Beta Test” to join our beta test. Once beta version is OK, you will receive the download link and test account.

    Tips:
    Some users may upload the map by accident. In future, you can disable this button. Please Delete the file, net.xmind.share_3.0.3.200904291819.jar, which is at “plugin” folder in XMind installation folder. (if your operating system is XP, it should be at, C:\Program File\XMind\plugins)

    Process to Install and Use XMind Pro

    Posted on September 5th, 2009 in Featured, XMind Basic | No Comments »

    With the XMind Share viewer below, we can see the full process to install and use XMind Pro. We hope this can help you understand XMind better:


    Click and See big map

    This is a public and downloadable map. As the XMind Pro subscriber, you can upload your own maps as private, and invite some special persons to see it online.