Creating your first Mind Map

The following describes the basic creation of a Mind Map. There are a number of ways of accomplishing these tasks (shortcut keys, context sensitive menus etc), which are dealt with in other places in the documentation.

When you start NovaMind, it will initially have a Mind Map already created for you, or you can create a new file by clicking on the NovaMind Application Menu, selecting File / New Document. If you would like to use one of the supplied templates you could use the New Document from Template option and choose a suitable template for your needs. For the moment, we will assume that you are starting with a blank Mind Map.

Type in the Mind Map title.

Your Ribbon Bar should be showing the Home tab, so click on the option to add a Child Branch in the Insert group.

If you want to add a different type of branch than the default branch type shown, click on the Menu Triangle and select the type of branch to add.

Type the title of the branch.

You can continue adding branches using the Insert / Branch option or Insert / Child Branch option.

You can also add child branches of the default type using the Suggesterator if you have it installed.

Repeat until you have completed adding the information you want in your Mind Map.

If you want to add text to a branch that you are currently not editing, select it by double-clicking on the branch text then typing.