How to Start Mind Mapping from a Custom Template

In this article, find out how you can make your favorite template the default map when launching ConceptDraw MINDMAP.

How to Create a Custom Library

Why do people use custom clipart to create their mind maps? First, this allows you to create your author's style. Making a mind map is a creative work, and each mind map depicts the personality of its author. More, the custom clipart is needed if your mind map often contains the same set of custom images that are not supplied with standard software package. ConceptDraw MINDMAP allows you to create a custom clip art library to increase the visual capacity of your mind maps. You can even deploy them inside ConceptDraw MINDMAP so that you can use them through standard interface tools.

How to Customize the Default Map Theme

ConceptDraw MINDMAP allows you to customize all kinds of visual aspects of your mind maps, including the the style of topic lines of the default theme for new maps.

How to Customize the Style of Your Mind Map

Tips on how to modify or create your own mind map theme and then use it for a new map?

How to Set the Default Theme for your Mind Maps

Find out a favorite style for your mind maps, then set it as the default for all your new mind maps.

How to Use Mind Map Filtering in ConceptDraw MINDMAP

Many of us use mind maps for organizing, structuring or compiling our ideas or projects. Making mind map is the ability to take existing ideas and combine them in new ways. This is much easier to do when you can see all the ideas in front of you. Using mind maps for organizing and structuring information as the volume of data grows and the map expands can be a challenge. ConceptDraw MINDMAP allows you to sort and filter your mind map content even on the Full Screen.

How to Draw a Mind Map on Mac

Step-by-step guide on how to create a mind map on Mac using ConceptDraw MINDMAP

How to Create Floating Topics in ConceptDraw MINDMAP

With ConceptDraw MINDMAP you have the ability to create floating topics that are not connected to the mind map structure. Since a floating topic is not connected to any other topics on the mind map, you can use it for future development of your main idea. This is a good way to make comments that relate to the entire map and not a separate topic.

How to Show the Relationship Between Topics

Any mind map contains topics that are arranged in a radial structure. It depicts the relation (semantic, causal, association, etc.) between the concepts, parts and components of the main idea. In addition to the main connections that make the structure of a mind map, topics can be linked with other lines. ConceptDraw MINDMAP allows you to show the relationships between topics, which belong to different parts of the mind map structure, but also influence each other. Relationships help to show and organize complex interconnections between topics of mind map visually. Such communication is also very important - the mind map, where many topics are not related, tends to turn into a common text!

How to Create a Mind Map with Multiple Main Ideas

Classical mind map consists from the single Main Idea surrounded with related ideas and branches, deepening the main theme. The Multiple Main Idea on a single mind map page is a really useful when you have a lot of corresponding ideas. ConceptDraw MINDMAP allows you to insert a number of different mind maps onto a single workspace.

How to Create an Effective Mind Map Using Topic Types

Tips on how to increase mind map effectiveness using Topic Types functionality, delivered with ConceptDraw MINDMAP.

How to Change the Font for an Entire Level of a Mind Map

The visual representation of information is much more productive than simple linear transfer because it is more natural for our brain to understand information in the form of visual images. ConceptDraw MINDMAP will help you put your thoughts and ideas across to any audience in the most intelligible and memorable way. Mind maps can be used in a great number of situations involving analysis, learning, research and thinking. Use them for personal planning, preparing lists, working on projects, as well as analyzing problems and finding solutions. ConceptDraw MINDMAP provides a variety of style and formatting options for your mind maps, that let you add more information to your mind map without interfering with its readability.