What's new in SimpleMind Desktop Pro 1.20.0 Build 5302
Mar 13, 2018
- Support for CMYK jpeg images
- Bug fixed: linking to a specific topic in a mind map would break the link when used across platforms
- Bug fixed: Custom relation paths could be cut off in mind map export
New in SimpleMind Desktop Pro 1.15.0 Build 4997 (Jan 4, 2017)
- Use Google Drive to synchronize with other devices
- Diamond and Cloud border shapes
- Redesigned Preferences panel
- Toggle Checked State, assures checkbox is visible then toggles checked state. Default shortcut Ctrl+Space
- Rounded corners in angled paths
- Order Forward and Order Backward also works for Topics. Default keyboard shortcuts Ctrl+Up and Ctrl+Down
- Improved handling of saving with cloud sync apps that lock mind map files while uploading.
- Bug fixed: original child order is maintained when using drag-drop to change parent
- Bug fixed: Ctrl+Click to include/exclude in selection did not work with outliner active.
- Several style toolbar bugs fixed
- Improved support for multi-touch screens:
- Pinch Zoom gesture supported
- Press-and-tap shows context menu
- Two-finger-tap starts branch selection (instead of long press on topic)
- All tool tips can be disabled via Preferences | General tab
New in SimpleMind Desktop Pro 1.14.0 Build 4969 (Oct 27, 2016)
- Outliner - in the Inspector panel on the right, depicted in the image below. The Outliner synchronizes with the selection in the editor. Particularly useful when Searching in the Mind Map. Use drag & drop in the outline to reorder topics.
- Keyboard shortcuts for Show Outline Ctrl+1, Show Note Ctrl+2 allow fast switching between topics in outline and note.
- Angled relation paths and Adjustable relation paths. Read more…
- New build-in style sheet: Chart (angled paths + arrows)
- Relation style presets, create and apply adjusted relation styles
- Paste Text as List and Import .txt files. Each new line creates a new topic, leading tabs are interpreted as hierarchy level.
- "Enable Snap Options" check added to Snap Options. Snap to guide lines and snap to grid are only active when this option is checked. Pressing the Ctrl-key while dragging a topic, temporarily inverts this option. This allows easy enabling/disabling the snap feature in specific cases. New command "Toggle Enable Snap Options", Ctrl+G, inverts this option without opening the Options Panel.
- Removed "reorder topics" panel, reordering sibling order is now more conveniently done with the outliner.
- URL) Link detection in note panel
- Improved spell checking for entire Mind Map
- Max font sizes in note panel and topic properties panel increased (24)
- Improved unhide marker position, improved arrow positions for unhide markers.
- Bug fixed that made cross links appear initially as a straight line
New in SimpleMind Desktop Pro 1.13.0 Build 4933 (Jun 7, 2016)
- Layout Direction options (Auto, Left, Right, Top, Bottom, Manual) for auto layout modes.
- Snap to guide lines and/or grid, available from editor status bar
- Auto focus, available from editor status bar.
- (Tinted) Collapsed and Hidden topic markers are clickable tools, also when the topic is not selected
- Option "Display Hide tool for topics" shows hide tool for topic and moves collapse tool and collapse markers to opposite side (see image above)
- Long press Hide/show tool shows hide/show options (hide children , full hide etc.)
- Navigation History (most recently used mind maps) in drop down menu for "Back" button
- User defined custom colors in the color dialogs are saved between sessions
- Ctrl+Drop a (file) link to add a linked child topic (rather than linking the topic)
- Apply the first 8 style presets with (customizable) keyboard shortcuts: Ctrl+F1 .. Ctrl+F8
- Bug fixed in positioning hidden topics for auto horizontal and vertical layouts
- Bug fixed when pasting in auto layout
- Bug fixed related to hidden topics in auto layout
- Bug fixed related to full text search in external directories
New in SimpleMind Desktop Pro 1.12.0 Build 4910 (Mar 13, 2016)
- New style added: "Natural + Colors", colorful paths without topic boxes
- Advanced search options in Mind Map editor: search for checkbox state (unchecked, checked) or icon
- Pdf bookmark extraction: Import pdf, Convert .pdf to mind map, link to bookmark in pdf document, support for linking to "page=number" in pdf links
- Add Icon from File, add a custom icon without adding it to the custom icons library
- Style sheet selector shows preview images
- Improved lines in auto Top Down layout
- Double click in empty space adds a Central Theme when nothing is selected
- Navigate command added, acts as if clicked on the link icon, default Ctrl+H
- Option to either scroll or zoom on Ctrl+Wheel
- Improved speech recognition
- Toggle Mind Map Explorer (F8) and restoring Explorer closed state
- Performance improvement for dashed lines in low zoom factors
New in SimpleMind Desktop Pro 1.11.0 (Mar 13, 2016)
- Auto Layout added: Horizontal, Vertical, List, Top Down.
- Use drag-drop to rearrange Topic order in auto layout modes.
- Default Layout Mode for new Mind Maps in Global Style Options.
- Manual Align tools removed (conflicting with auto layout)
- Keyboard navigation with arrow keys improved.
- Select All Topics, Relations, Images etc. added to main menu.
- Rotate and Flip in Add Image dialog
New in SimpleMind Desktop Pro 1.10.0 (Mar 13, 2016)
- Multiple Selection support for all relevant commands
- Align tools added
- Main window shows current mind map name in caption
- Bug fixed: selection restoration would not work
- Bug fixed: switching away from SimpleMind no longer cancels topic changes
New in SimpleMind Desktop Pro 1.9.9 Build 4805 (Sep 15, 2015)
- Display Branch Borders
- Link to specific page in a local .pdf file
- Display and play back Voice Memos inside topics - as recorded using SimpleMind for android or SimpleMind for iPad/iPhone
- Transparent fill color support in topics and labels
- Device and platform independent rendering
- Upload to Cloud in Add Document Link
- Double tap on Image opens the full size image - the image link tool was removed
- Editor Scale Factor, allows scaling editor rather than adjusting font sizes
- Opml and Freemind files imported as implicit UTF-8
- Bug fix: high idle CPU usage fixed
New in SimpleMind Desktop Pro 1.9.8 Build 4780 (Jun 8, 2015)
- Copy / Paste Link to Topic allows linking to a specific topic in any mind map
- Hide/Show Branch support
- Improved Navigation History
- Add icon as custom image in Icon Picker pop up menu
- Configurable external image viewer in Image options
New in SimpleMind Desktop Pro 1.9.5 Build 4740 (Jun 8, 2015)
- Thumbnails for Dropbox and other external directories
- Search in Dropbox and other external directories
- Customizable Mind Map background color
- Adjustable text alignment in note panel and topic properties dialog
- Custom Style sheets use time stamps to avoid overwriting modified custom styles
- Improved L/R balance for strict layouts
- Allow cross linking in search mode
- SimpleMind Maintenance dialog: checks for known clouds and warns when changing local store directory
- Zoom factor range extended: 0.01 to 5.0
- Optionally revert Scroll wheel zooming: SimpleMind | Options | Keyboard shortcuts.
- Major bugs fixed:
- Strict Layout bug fixed for multiple central themes connected by labeled cross links
- Note marker in ellipse borders painted at wrong position
- Searching would not locate matches in all floating texts.
New in SimpleMind Desktop Pro 1.9.4 Build 4710 (Jun 8, 2015)
- Customizable line width for relations
- Auto import/export for Custom Style Sheets
- Bug fix: restored larger custom icon size
- Bug fix: synchronization via Dropbox with SimpleMind for iOS would fail for new mind maps
New in SimpleMind Desktop Pro 1.9.3 Build 4698 (Nov 3, 2014)
- Redesigned Dropbox support. Direct open from / save to Dropbox.
- Add, move, rename, move on Dropbox
- Store Mind Maps in any public External Directory
- Link to Document in Cloud (such as Dropbox)
- Add full size images with Link source or Upload to cloud
- Image (thumbnails) may store a link to the original / uploaded image
- New style added: Soft Colors Left to Right connected
- Custom titles for local Mind Maps
- Add Cross Link mode
- Additional arrow styles (circles, diamond, stop)
- Rotate Branch tool, rotates selected branch.
- Rotate and Move Branch with Alt+Drag
- Rotate and Flip (H|V) commands
- Keyboard arrow navigation for relations: Left / Right arrow scroll to source / target topic
- Drag-drop URLs (from web browser address bar) on topics
New in SimpleMind Desktop Pro 1.8.3 Build 4602 (Feb 10, 2014)
- Large images are displayed as thumbnail on the mind map. Image preview shows full size.
- Delete hierchical relations.
New in SimpleMind Desktop Pro 1.8.2 Build 4599 (Jan 31, 2014)
- Inspector Panel with embedded Note view and Icon Picker. Show/Hide Inspector with F9 (default)
- Layout options added: Strict Vertical (top to bottom) Layout Mind Map and Strict Horizontal/Vertical Layout Branch.
- Image Size limit and Density are configurable via Image Library window.
New in SimpleMind Desktop Pro 1.8.0 Build 4567 (Dec 5, 2013)
- Add floating texts (labels) to relations and topics.
- Style Presets for topics and texts.
- Clickable Check boxes inside topics.
- Gradient fill topic boxes.
- Full collapse child topics.
New in SimpleMind Desktop Pro 1.7.5 Build 4522 (Sep 30, 2013)
- Added many high resolution Stock Icons.
- More options available in Custom Style Sheets.
New in SimpleMind Desktop Pro 1.7.4 Build 4504 (Sep 4, 2013)
- Hierarchical relations and cross links styles: customize source and target arrows, custom path and line styles and color. The default values are taken from the mind map style and selected Style Sheet. Double click a relation to edit its style
- Topic styles: customize border style, border width, text alignment and fill, stoke and text color.
- Mind Map Style: customize relations and topics on a mind map level.
- Reconnect relations with drag handles at relation ends.
- Mind Map Auto numbering style has been moved from the Visual style menu to the Mind Map Style dialog.
- Select custom color and Clear Style Customization also work on hierarchical relations and cross links.
- Style tool bar contains commands to change topic and relation style elements.
- Style presets allow applying predefined style to the selected topic
- Copy / Paste Style, default shortcuts Ctrl+Alt+C and Ctrl+Alt+V
- Note Tool (T) displayed at top right, note marker moved to top right corner
- Opml import export includes _note attribute (interaction with Scrivener, OmniOutliner, Workflowy etc)
- Bug fixed: printed text would appear grayed.