Continuously fine-tuned based on customer feedback. For example (as a separate purchase) for Windows and Mac. SimpleMind is designed to synchronize your Mind Maps across platforms. We've created a beautiful, intuitive app, so you can mind map wherever you are and whenever you want. From the description on the creator’s site for this app, the full version comes with exporting abilities, cross-linking topics and font adjustments.Mind mapping helps you organize your thoughts, remember things and generate new ideas. We have not needed the full features of the full version. Overall, the free version of Simple Mind + for the iPad is very useful and it does the majority of what we need currently. If you need to make a copy of a node or a group of nodes into the same brainstorm project, it can be done by tapping twice on the node/topic node and there will be icons for copying, cutting and pasting. Selecting ‘New Map from selection’ will copy whatever is activated/selected to a new brainstorm map. There’s a choice of 12 themes with a choice of 6 colours for separating the groups of ideas.Īnother useful feature is the apps copy function: copying an individual node, a group or an entire brainstorm to a new project can be done through activating/selecting a node/topic node and tapping the Note Paper and Pencil icon located at the top-left corner of the screen. It helps us see the different parts of the brainstorm project and we can go straight to the section much faster. What we find quite useful is the colour-coding of the groups of ideas. To help have a better view of the project, you are able to zoom in and out to see the entire project or just a part of it. There is no choice for the alignment of text (only allows centre-align), font, font styling or paragraphing in the free version. In other words, you can have many individual header subject nodes with topic and idea nodes under it as opposed to having only one main subject node where everything branches out from. Deleting one of these connector lines belonging to a topic node enables you to make it a parent node. Relocating a node to another topic is quite easily done by tapping the connector line and dragging it to another topic node. There is no function that allows for distribution or alignment between nodes organising nodes neatly within a group can only be done manually. This feature therefore also helps give more room for brainstorming with additional details for an idea being able to be kept hidden under the corresponding idea node.įunctions to organise and lay out nodes and groups of nodes are limited: you can either move each node around individually simply by holding down onto the node and moving it around wherever you want to position it or, you can move an entire group by long-pressing a topic node until a thin border becomes double its thickness and then dragging the entire group elsewhere on the canvas. That’s quite a lot of room for writing in one of these nodes! If keeping things neat and uncluttered is what you like, but you have the need for room to write in length somewhere that you can bring up whenever you want to look at the idea in detail then there is the handy text window that pops up after clicking a navigator icon on every node. There doesn’t seem to be a character limit, allowing for writing even after 500 characters. The nodes is generous in space for writing. Otherwise, we have found the canvas size to be more than enough for a huge brainstorming task. The canvas area appears to be infinitely expandable, so the size of the brainstorm is limitless. Double-tap anywhere on the canvas again and a sub-node appears to begin brainstorming. Double-tap anywhere on the white canvas and a node appears for you to type the title of the project. When you first open the app, there is a blank white canvas. We came across SimpleMind+ for the iPad and found that the free version is very useful for brainstorming tasks. We’ve been looking for a simple app that allows us to brainstorm ideas and be able to see those ideas easily and navigate our ideas for writing projects.
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