How to Create a Mind Map on Mac

Using visual methods to represent, organize and understand information has long been being a rather popular method. Mind mapping can help people to get knowledge more easily. This can be really helpful in daily life to structure and organize things in a clear way. This article will guide you through creating a mind map, using ConceptDraw MINDMAP software for macOS.

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 a Mind Map on PC

Mind maps are useful forcapturing ideas, organizing and structuring information in a visual form, that is easier to understand, and easier to explain to others. Mind map consists of a general Main Idea surrounded by other related topics and subtopics, which are displayed in a radial hierarchical structure. Read this step-by-step guide on how to create a mind map using ConceptDraw MINDMAP for Windows.

How to Create a Custom Library

Why do people use custom clip art 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 clip art is needed if your mind map often contains the same set of custom images that are not supplied with the 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 Start Mind Mapping from a Custom Template

More than 20 built-in styled themes, plus the ability to design custom themes makes ConceptDraw MINDMAP an impressive visual tool. Quickly make a mind map template for organization meeting schedules and reporting. Create mind maps that stand out from the crowd. In this article, find out how you can make your favorite template the default map when launching ConceptDraw MINDMAP.

How to Create a Mind Map from Selected Tasks in Project

You can see the project data in a mind map structure by create a mind map from the selected project tasks.

How to Perform Presentations Without Exporting to Other Applications

Tips on how to perform a mind map presentation directly from the mind mapping software.

How to Create Floating Topics in a Mind Map

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 Create a PowerPoint® Presentation from a Mind Map

ConceptDraw MINDMAP allows you to create a traditional PowerPoint Presentation from your mind maps. There are two different variants when exporting to PowerPoint  - one places editable text into the template of your choice, the other places the pieces of the map that you want to show into the slides.

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.

How to Quickly Make a Project from a Mind Map

ConceptDraw MINDMAP allows you to view your mind map as a Gantt chart. You can do this by opening your map in ConceptDraw PROJECT. It is possible to proceed with the same file in both ConceptDraw MINDMAP and ConceptDraw PROJECT.

How to Create PowerPoint® Text Slides from Mind Maps

ConceptDraw MINDMAP allows you to create a traditional PowerPoint Presentation from your mind maps. Here is an instruction on how to create PowerPoint slides from a mind map.

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 an Effective Mind Map Using Topic Types

Increase mind map effectiveness using Topic Types functionality, delivered with ConceptDraw MINDMAP. Each Topic Type icon supports a specific set of information relating to the contents of the topic. Different Topics Types icons set are supplied with the MINDMAP application and the solutions that you can download from Solution Park.

How to Create a Fishbone (Ishikawa) Diagram Quickly

A Fishbone (Ishikawa) diagram is also called cause-and-effect diagram. Fishbone diagram is often used in business to determine the cause of some problem. The diagram illustrates the main causes and sub-causes leading to an event. The main goal of the Fishbone diagram is to illustrate in a graphical way the relationship between a given outcome and all the factors that influence this outcome. The complete diagram resembles a fish skeleton as its name implies. The ability to create a Fishbone Diagram is supported by the Fishbone Diagram solution. Use ConceptDraw MINDMAP for structuring data and then ConceptDraw DIAGRAM for generating a Fishbone Diagram from mind map structure.

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 Plan Projects Effectively Using ConceptDraw MINDMAP

You can turn a project mind map into a Gantt chart. The advanced data exchange capabilities of ConceptDraw MINDMAP and ConceptDraw PROJECT allows you to view your mind map as a Gantt chart. This way you are switching between views of the same file.

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?