Your topic has a small yellow box on it, indicating that it contains some notes. The text you add to this note stays tucked away from the mind map. You also have superscript and subscript options. You can make your text bold, italic, underlined or strikeout. SimpleMind Pro gives you basic writing tools on the keyboard toolbar. You can Insert a topic between two topics (nodes), that is, between a parent and a child node. Select the node you want to add a child node to and double-tap an empty space. The app has a shortcut to adding new child siblings. You can also use the big Plus icon on the toolbar if you don’t remember what these icons mean because it has them written out for you: Sibling nodes are on the same hierarchy level and you add them using the sibling icon, which looks like a star. A child node is one hierarchy lower than the node you’re adding it to. You can add child and sibling nodes using the Plus icon on the node. To build your mind map you have to add topics and content to it. You can decide how your ideas are connected later. You are not organising your thoughts yet, therefore at this point, your mind map has no connections between the ideas. When brainstorming you are simply putting all your ideas on the mind map canvas to get them off your mind. To do this a bit quicker, make sure nothing on your mind map is selected and double-tap an empty space. When you have plenty of ideas on your mind, you can put them all down as central themes by tapping the Plus icon on your top toolbar. BrainstormingĮvery mind map you create starts with a Central Theme which is the main title for your mind map. SimpleMind Pro has a collection of useful templates that you can get started with: Mind Map, Timeline, ToDo simple, ToDo, Meeting, SMART, SWOT, Week planner, Month planner, Flowchart and Organogram. When creating a new mind map, you can start with a blank template to have full control over the mind map you will be creating. It helps though to see the contents page as a mind map because it puts things into perspective. This converts the Contents Page into a mind map with links to the PDF that opens on a window with no annotating tool. When you tap a PDF for importing you have to Convert and Open. To import a PDF, it must have a Table of Contents. PDFs are the most user-friendly file format in digital productivity. Most of us use PDFs and it’s important to understand how they work in as many apps as possible. PDF bookmarks caught our attention and we were curious to see exactly how that would work. You can import text files, OPML, Freemind, PDF bookmarks and the native SimpleMind Pro formats. Something we noticed though, it is cheaper to buy the app from third-party apps (Appstore, Google Play, etc.) than from their website. They also have some cool packages on their website for bulk purchases. It costs $29.99 for macOS, $9.99 for the iPadOS/iOS version, $7.99 on Google Play and $32.40 for Windows. The app is a one-time purchase on all these platforms. They’ve got most operating systems covered. SimpleMind Pro is a mind mapping app that is available on macOS, Windows, iPadOS/iOS and Android.

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