Professional & Powerful Mind Mapping Software
XMind is the world's coolest mind mapping software, the best way to brainstorm,
the most efficient solution for saving your time, and powering your company.
Smart Maps, For Smart Mind.
XMind is the
world's coolest mind mapping software, the best way of brainstorming, the most
efficient solution to save your time, and power your company. Here are some
great features of XMind 2012, the latest version.
Mind Mapping
Productivity is what matters most.
Special thanks to Tony Buzan, who brings us the mind map,
a proven theory can help us dramatically to clear our thinking, improve
productivity level. Mind Map structure in XMind contains a root in the
center, with main branches radiating from it.
Besides the Mind Map structure, XMind also offers Org-chart, Tree-chart,
Logic-chart, and etc. These charts will play an important role in some
circumstances. For example, Org-chart can show the
company/department/team structure clearly. Logic-chart is very useful in
sorting the reasons.
More important, all these charts can be used within one map! Every
branch can have the most proper structure, even every topic. This is a
great usability.
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Fishbone Chart
Help much in timeline management and quality defect
prevention.
Fishbone chart, also known as the Cause & Effect diagram
, generates a series of branches which help users visually organize
causal relationships in complex ideas or events.
Business people are often faced with project management with milestones
and timelines. Fishbone chart is well suited to tracking such schedules.
It illustrates a series of activities in a time sequence, and how the
whole project is impacted by different milestones on the schedule. Each
branch can also be detached into detailed recursive activities. Through
Fishbone chart, peole can quickly capture a glimpse of key activities
and their dependencies within a schedule, and take proper measures to
accelerate the project.
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Matrix
Add rows to your mind map. (originally called
spreadsheet)
Matrix displays a set of complex factors and behaviors in
rows and columns, thus enabling in-depth comparative analysis for
project management, strategic decision-making, and any other important
things. It allows people to easily arrange information as a table, and
at the same time, also include multiple topics - complete with
individual appearances and structures - within each cell.
Matrix is more than a table, or a spreadsheet in any other mind mapping
software. Actually it's a kind of structure of mind map content model.
Cell topics are sub topics of the row topic and columns are labels. A
matrix can be easily converted to a meaningful mind map and vice versa.
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Brainstorming Mode
All your thought goes into your mind map.
What's better than a full-screen mind map, when you're in
a team brainstorming? Brainstorming Mode is made up for that. Here, you
and teams can take all attention on recording the inspiration and
sparkles in your mind. A well-designed timer could help you to save time
and raise the productivity.
Of course, keyboard shortcuts are available in this mode. It helps to
navigate, add/remove/edit topics, collapse/expand branches, zoom the
map, add relationship, boundary, and more. It almost frees your mouse.
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Gantt View
You can use both advantages of mind map and gantt chart.
I believe that Gantt View is not a required feature for
mind mapping software. But if you manage your project in mind maps, the
feature will be extremely helpful!
Gantt View shows start date, end date and progress of every task. A task
(or a milestone) is actually a topic in mind map. So tasks have their
tree structure, which we usually called a Work Breakdown System(WBS).
And the structure is, you guess right, the mind map! And they're auto
synchronized.
We re-built the Gantt View in XMind 2012. The user interface is more
beautiful, the interaction is more fluent, and the usability is
improved. Complex operations can be done directly on the view.
We also bring task dependency in XMind 2012.
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Import and Export
Communication is simple and easy.
XMind can import mind maps made by FreeMind or Mindjet
MindManager. And we'll try to support more file format in the future.
XMind can export maps into a variety of popular formats such as PDF,
Word, PowerPoint, HTML, plain text, and of course images, like
PNG/GIF/JPEG/BMP. When you export to plain text, you got the topics
outline and notes. When you export to Word/Powerpoint/HTML, you got a
rich text article with topics outline, notes, hyperlinks, and separated
maps as images. XMind can also export files to Freemind and Mindjet
MindManager format. P.S. Export to Word/Powerpoint need your operating
system to be Windows and Microsoft Word/Powerpoint installed.
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Online Mind Map Library
Upload your mind map, and share it with the world.
With a free XMind ID, you can publish your mind maps to
the online mind map library on XMind.net. It's like an online community.
Visitors can comment, bookmark, and even download your mind map to XMind.
We have 3 sharing options: Public/Private/Unlisted. (Unlisted sharing
means we don't list the mind map on your profile page or search results.
However it can only be accessed by a direct URL on an embedded page.)
We also provide an embed-able mind map viewer so you can show your work
on other websites like your blog. You can even enjoy your mind maps on
an iPad!
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Template and Theme
It's your XMind, not other's.
XMind have 7 built-in templates. They are all nice and
useful. You can design and save your custom templates for future usage.
A theme is a collection of colors, shapes, line patterns, and other
coordinated graphical attributes of map and topic. XMind provides a
variety of professional themes for users to choose from, which can be
applied to any map in just one easy step. Themes can be further
customized, extracted and saved as a new one for future usage with other
maps. You can even change the default theme.