#Xmind plus pdf

XMind can be installed on Windows, macOS, iOS/iPad OS and Android, in addition to a cloud offering. So I threw the question to my Twitter followers and XMind was the answer that came back the most. Many of them seem to be SEO optimised links to products like Miro, Lucid Chart, etc., but I wanted something more guaranteeably installable - and cheaper. (Oh my it makes my skin crawl when I open up Word and it defaults to Calibri.)Ī casual search for “mind mapping software” on Google brings forth a bewildering array of options. My husband is a designer so after all these years I appreicate options for making my work look good, even if I’m not so great myself at the base design. I use WIndows for work, but a mix of macOS, Windows and iPad OS for productivity away from work. That way I could get benefit from it personally in addition to work.

Support multiple installs under the same license or subscription.

Support either a one-off payment or annual, rather than monthly subscription.

#Xmind plus pdf

Support PDF and graphics exports - so I could share my working without requiring others to have the software installed.I’m always happy to pay for good software, I just don’t like paying through the nose. Support ‘infinite’ scale canvases - or rather, be not bound by “create new A3 mind map” style limits.I didn’t care if it also supported a cloud-based option, but I wanted to keep everything local. The requirements I set out with were pretty loose:

My new role has a lot more planning in it, and so after the first few weeks of endless bullet-point notes with crazy levels of indentation I decided it was time to look again at mind mapping - but this time, seeing if there was any software I could use to tackle it. I’d see examples of people using them for a variety of reasons - study, work, planning, etc., and then make a half-hearted stab at doing one but start to get bogged down in hesitency when drawing them on paper. I’ve always been one of those people who has been a bit leery of mind maps.