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Getting Started with MindVisualizer

This is a visual mapping quick start guide for MindVisualizer.

• Start MindVisualizer program.
  After you successfully installed MindVisualizer you will find its name and icon in the Windows Start menu. Click it to start.

 

• Create a new visual map
  When the program is started, Click the [New] button on the toolbar under the main menu bar.
  
  
  A new visual map with a default 'Central Topic' will be created.
  

 

• Input your central topic
  The default 'Central Topic' is selected by default, if it is not, select it by clicking on it first.
  Now type your central topic to replace the 'Central Topic' placeholder. a central topic is the central idea which is the visual map is all about. Let's input 'Who Am I?' in this example.
  

• Input your main ideas to support the central topic
  Click the 'Subtopic' button on the toolbar as illustrated below
  
  
  A new 'Main Topic' which is a supporting idea of the central topic will be created. Now input your main topic. (Make sure the new added topic is selected, if it's not, select it by clicking on it).
  
  Repeat the above step to insert all your supporting ideas. We'll get a map like:
  

 

• Input your supporting topics for the main topics
  The steps are similar to the above steps, the only difference is that you should select the main topics first before clicking on the 'Subtopic' button. We finally get a map like (Click to enlarge):
  

 

• Mark topics with icons
  You can mark topics with icons to make some of them more emphasized. Follow the steps below:
  1. Click the Icons button to show the Icon Library.
     
  2. When the Icon Library appears the right side, click on the icon you want to add it to the selected topic.
  After adding the icons will get a better mind map like (click to enlarge):
  

 

• Add text notes to topics
  As a rule-of-thumbs you should always use brief wording or simple sentense in your map. If you want to add more detail to a specific topic, use the Notes property. Click the Notes button to show the notes window.
  

 

• Print and export your maps
  Now you can present your map by printing it out or export to PDF, MS Office Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Web page, etc. Check the Print and Export items under the File menu.

You can download the source map here. Note you'll need MindVisualizer installed to open this visual map.

What's Next?

MindVisualizer is far more flexible and powerful than you have done in this quick start tutorial, you can format the maps with colors, different frame type and line styles, mark the topics with image, link the topics to web site, email address, outlook items, add MS Word, Excel as attachments, and so on. Explore it yourself!