September 15th, 2011· Leave full screen mode using ESC (Lion).
· Resolves a crash when closing a document window.
· Correctly enable the user guide menu item.
· When exporting a document, the application will now suggest the title of the original file as the new filename.
· Resolves a crash when opening the preferences window (Snow Leopard).
· Correctly disable full screen menu item on Snow Leopard.
July 18th, 2011· Then running on Lion, MindNode Pro’s fullscreen mode will be replaced by Lion’s native fullscreen mode and also MindNode (free) will gain fullscreen capabilities.
· Full integration with Versions, including autosave in place and the new versions browser. I’m also planning to support automatic termination in a followup release.
· QuickLook support for images (Snow Leopard and Lion) – my favorite new feature.
· A new integrated find bar (similar to the one in Safari) will replace the find panel on Lion.
· Completely rewritten attachment and image support that will considerable reduce the applications memory footprint and will also speedup saving. On Lion documents will also be saved asynchronous, considerable reducing autosaving times.
· Full 64-bit support on Lion.
· 100% Cocoa, MindNode no longer links against the legacy Carbon framework
May 4th, 2011· Fixed an issue with the Spotlight importer that would prevent the indexing of node titles.
· Correctly apply line width when importing OPML and FreeMind documents.
February 8th, 2011· Fixed a FreeMind importing issue.
· Resolves an issue when trying to export an empty document.
· Updated German localization.
· Resolves an issue related to suggested filenames during saving.
December 10th, 2010· Considerable changes to the MindNode file format to allow direct import of MindNode documents on iOS devices.
· When pasting a tabbed outline, the application will now create a subnodes hierarchy instead of pasting everything into one node.
· Added a “Paste and Match Style” menu item to the context menu.
· New shortcut for the export menu item.
· Fixes a crash when using copy and paste on a large map.
· Resolves an issue related to suggested filenames during saving.
· Correctly encodes asian characters during plain text export.
· The buildin help is working again.
· Fixes a crash related to quickly generating new nodes.
· Fixes several typos.
· Correctly restores the visible canvas location and scale factor when importing a MindNode (touch) document.
· Fixes a crash related to canceling the creation a new node with ESC.
· Improves saving on larger mind maps.
· Correctly handle nodes folded with the Pro version.
· Resolves an issue that caused the incorrect setting of cross connection stroke widths. This issue sometimes also lead to a crash.
September 2nd, 2010· Fixes a bug that caused drawing issues when entering a node title.
· Resolves several issues related to the Spotlight importer and QuickLook plugin.
· Selection is retained when folding a node.
· Correctly retain viewpoint when entering and exiting full screen mode.
· When using the shortcut for cross connection creation, the preview line will correctly end at the mouse cursor.
· Added a “Not found” message to the find panel.
· Remove new lines and tabs from suggested file names.
· Resolves a drawing bug when aborting connection creation.
· Fixes a bug when searching with an empty string.
· Correctly display the hand cursor when using the hand-tool.
· Trigger Smart Layout when changing text attributes.
· Resolves a crash when trying to paste an image or file attachment.
· Don’t turn PDFs into images when using copy and paste.
· ESC no longer aborts editing. I had to change this functionality as it could cause a crash and a fix would require loosing multilevel undo of node editing.
· Correctly enable and disable cross connection menu item.
May 20th, 2010· Fixes a bug that prevented the creation of a new cross connection when only one node was selected.
· Resolves an issue that prevented removing of links.
· Correctly enables and disables inspector link controls.
· All cross connection are now drawn correctly during PDF and PNG export.
New implementation of fullscreen support when using full screen mode on an external monitor (this only effects fullscreen mode when run on a second monitor):
· The full screen window is now positioned correctly on the second monitor.
· Dock and main menu no longer hide.
· The fullscreen mode no longer exits when focusing on an other application.
· Correctly apply padding during PDF and PNG export.
· Correctly resize the image when a linked file updates.
· Fixes visual file link image generation on 10.5.
· Added keyboard shortcuts for superscript and subscript.
· Fixes several typos in the german localization.
· Resolves several memory leaks.
May 15th, 2010Node with constraining:
· MindNode now supports the same node width constraining abilities as MindNode Pro.
Document wide spellchecking:
· Spell checking is now available for the entire document and not only when editing a node title.
Other Enhancements:
· MindNode is now using a zip based file format. This will greatly improve integration of MindNode documents with 3rd party applications/services.
· Shortcuts for quickly accessing Inspector tabs.
· Enhanced style of node creation well.
· The text view when editing text is now always on top of other nodes and draws an appropriate background.
· The dragged node is now drawn transparent to allow easier positioning of larger nodes.
· Several undo grouping issues resolved.
· Solves several german localization errors.
· Resolves an issue with asian characters during OPML and FreeMind export.
· The main menu bar no longer blinks when navigation the map with the arrow keys.
· Corrects a sorting issue when using OPML export.
February 8th, 2010· Fixed an issue that resulted in setting a stroke width to zero, which in turn caused a crash during selecting.
· Added a new user default to automatically inherit the style when reconnecting (MindNode Pro) or copying (MindNode and MindNode Pro). This key is hidden in this release and will be exposed in 1.5. Adding this key in this release will enable a graceful transition for existing users.
· Correctly reports an error when trying to load a document created with a newer version of the application. This change is also in preparation for 1.5.
· Fixes a problem with plain text export. Exported plain text documents will now load correctly in TextEdit.
· Significant performance improvement when saving large mind maps. Previously saving a large mind map could result in “beachballing”.
· Updated MindNode (touch) export format in preparation of the upcoming MindNode (touch) 1.2 update.
· Fixes errors in the documentation.
December 9th, 2009· Fixed an issue with incorrect inheriting of font attributes.
· Fixed an issue with overlapping branches when using smart layout.
· Now retaining node orientation when reconnecting
· The application will now strip unsupported paragraph attributes (e.g. first line heading) when pasting.
· Correct printing of header and footer.
November 23rd, 2009· (MN, MNP) Fixes a random freeze when working with Thai language (this bug probably also affected other languages).
· (MNP) Correctly sets the insertion marker when clicking on a link on Snow Leopard.
· (MNP) Fixes smart layout when editing a title and resizing a node.
· (MN, MNP) Triple clicking on a node no longer exits edit-mode and correctly selects the entire text.
· (MNP) Changed the line connection points of filled nodes. This change is necessary, to avoid covering of nodes, but may change the look of your maps – sorry for this inconvenience.
· (MNP) When reconnecting or creating new nodes the filled and constraining style will inherit.
· (MN, MNP) Fixes wrong descriptions in export dialog of german and japanese localization.
· (MNP) Toggling Smart Layout is now registering undo actions.
· (MNP) Find now unfolds found nodes. This fixes a bug where under certain conditions a found node wasn’t correctly displayed.
· (MNP) Unfolding a node now selects the entire subbranch. This will make it easier to reposition a newly unfolded subbranch.
· (MNP) Fixed the “Choose File…” button of the link inspector
· (MNP) Fixed an issue where the header and footer were cut off when printing. The fix made it necessary to increase the printing margins when printing a header and footer.
· (MNP) Fixes a crash when using iPhone sharing.
November 2nd, 2009· New “string outline” export format.
· Full support for copying outlines into plain text documents.
· Improvements to RTF export .
· MindNode now supports connections during printing and image export. This also influences QuickLook preview.
· Correctly imports MindNode (touch) 1.1 documents.
· Consistent format descriptions in the export dialog.
October 6th, 2009· Removed margins when printing a document.
· Fixed RTF export. The outline is now correctly recognized as a list by TextEdit and Pages.
· The “Insert New Parent Node” menu item now correctly creates a new parent node.
September 8th, 2009Improvements and Fixes:
· (MNP) Smart Layout.
· (MNP) iPhone Sharing.
· (MN) (MNP) Suggest mind map title as default filename when saving (only on Snow Leopard).
· (MN) (MNP) Insert New Parent Node functionality.
· (MN) (MNP) Import MindNode (touch) files.
· (MNP) It’s now possible to double click on a link to enter the edit mode of a node. To enable this behavior opening a link is slightly delayed.
· (MNP) To increase the ability to work with links, links are now deactivated in edit mode.
· (MNP) Changed the default shortcut for “New Child Node” to Tab. This change will only affect new users.
· (MN) (MNP) Fixes an issue which could cause nodes to be ordered incorrectly when copying nodes into a text document.
· (MNP) Fixes automatic link detection on Snow Leopard.
June 29th, 2009· A minor release that fixes one single issue: In previous versions connections to a node, which was created using duplicate, could load incorrectly from a file. If you experience this issue, select the entire content of the canvas and copy it into a new document.
June 17th, 2009· MN: Fixes typos in the japanese localization.
· MN/MNP: Fixes an issue with node wells not showing up when selecting a node or editing a node.
· MN/MNP: Enabled basic scripting support.
· MN/MNP: The window zoom button will now maximize the window.
· MNP: Fixes issues when reverting documents with folded associations.
· MNP: Improved smart link detection.
· MNP: Fixes a crash when using the unregistered version and creating a new node with the node well.
May 31st, 2009· When creating a link, MindNode Pro will try to extract an URL from the pasteboard.
· Solves an issue that prevented the Spotlight importer from correctly indexing mindnode documents.
· Fixes an issue that made it imposible to add nodes to an empty canvas.
· Fixes an issue with folded nodes when rewiring nodes.
· Fixes an issue related to undoing a waypoint location change after undoing a branch reorganization.
May 8th, 2009· Fixes a bug that incorrectly positioned nodes when creating them with the node well.
· Newly created nodes are now correctly positioned centered under the mouse cursor.
· MNP: When connecting a node to a folded node the node no longer unfolds.
· MN: Nodes folded with MindNode Pro correctly show up in Mindnode.
April 27th, 2009· A minor release bringing smaller fixes and improvements. It also adds compatibility to the updated mindnode file format and allows to view cross connections that were created with MindNode Pro 1.3 and newer.
February 16th, 2009Major improvements to zooming:
· MindNode now supports zooming to any factor between 10% - 400%, allows zooming with multi-touch trackpads and mouse wheel ([CMD]+[Mouse Wheel up/down] and supports Fit Mind Map and Fit Selection. Furthermore the zoom factor button next to the horizontal scroll received a major facelift and now looks and behaves similarly to pop-up-buttons used in the iWork suite.
Multi-touch support:
· Additional to the two-finger scrolling, MindNode now supports pitch to zoom and three-finger-swipe to change the selection on all new multi-touch trackpads.
Other Improvements and Fixes:
· New MindNode icon.
· German localization.
· Print settings are correctly saved with each document.
· Improved handling of canvas resizing. It decreases automatically when folding and moving nodes. The canvas no longer has a visible border.
· When editing a left aligned node, the canvas no longer moves around.
· Changes default main node thickness to 2 pt instead of 3 pt.
· Root nodes are now called main nodes.
· Fixes a drawing bug when adding a new line character at the end of a node.
· Correct handling of paper sizes.
· When editing a title the application no longer draws a white background.
· Improved behavior when entering the edit mode. The application now inserts the insertion marker at the point of the click and no longer selects the entire node.
· The color of the selection rubber band changed.
· Main nodes are ordered by their canvas location when exporting to RTF, HTML, FreeMind and OPML.
· It’s no longer possible to create a main node when double clicking the canvas.
· Fixes a crash when trying to print an empty document.
October 18th, 2008· Find support.
· Copy will place a RTF representations of all selected nodes onto the pasteboard.
· Branches are always drawn below nodes.
· Pressing ESC during dragging will undo the operation.
· Improved Inspector.
· Solves issues with the software updater when the inspector is open.
· The software updater won’t check on first launch.
· Drag and drop support for Strings and RTFs.
· Removed the tab between bullet and text when exporting to RTF.
· Updated the way font changes are handled when not in edit mode. It’s now a lot smoother and underlining works correctly.
· Improved handling of color wells and the color panel when entering edit mode.
· Smaller node active area.
· Strikethrough support.
· New node well
· New root nodes are only created on mouse up.
· Major improved html export.
· Many other minor changes and improvements
August 12th, 2008· (Fix) The nativ MindNode format no longer shows up in the export dialog as an available format.
· (Fix) Deleting the content of a spotlight attribute caused the save operation to fail.
· (Fix) Exporting to rtf caused to fail when nodes contained an empty title.
· (Fix) Abort editing a node by pressing ESC is working again.
· (Fix) The node well is not drawn during a position translation directly after node creation.
· (Fix) Animations are reenabled correctly after exiting edit mode.
· (Update) Using MindNode files with Subversion and CVS now works. Hidden .svn and .cvs are copied into the new bundle.
· (Update) When exporting to html, rtf, opml and freemind nodes are sorted by y location (used to be creation date in previous versions).
June 12th, 2008· (New) FreeMind import.
· (New) OPML import.
· (Update) Major overall stability improvements.
· (Update) Only alphanumeric keys enter the node edit mode directly.
· (Fix) Improved FreeMind export. Exported files should now import fine into mind42 and MindMeister.
· (Fix) Beachball when saving large (500 nodes) mind maps.
· (Fix) Node overlapping after reconnecting (copy and paste)
· (Fix) Zoom button when using on computers with 2 monitors.
· (Update) Prettier XML output formating when exporting OPML, FreeMind and HTML documents.
· (Fix) New nodes are positioned at the correct location when the supernode is flipped.
· (Fix) Page up/down, Home and End keys support.
May 12th, 2008· (New) FreeMind export.
· (New) Spell checking and grammar checking support.
· (New) Drag canvas with the mouse (during space pressed).
· (New) Left-aligned nodes grow to the left side.
· (New) During title editing, sub-nodes reposition accordingly.
· (New) Menu items Deselect All and Duplicate.
· (New) Save and restore window attributes (postion, size, scroll position, zoom level).
· (Update) The window zoom button works as intended and no longer resize the window to full screen.
· (Update) When opening a new document the entire canvas is shown.
· (Update) Slightly reduced vertical canvas border offset.
· (Update) Sub-nodes are created below each other.
· (Update) Additional undo action names.
· (Update) Pressing ESC during dragging a node out of the node well (rounded plus sign) will cancel this operation.
· (Update) The canvas is accepting click-through events for all actions.
· (Update) Removed localizations for language currently not support from the sparkle software updater. This saves about 3 MB of disk space.
· (Update) Pressing ESC during node title editing will no longer abort editing, but will display the complete word dialog.
· (Update) Improvements to the positioning algorithm.
· (Update) Improved crash reporter.
· (Update) Delete node during editing its title.
· (Update) Command Dragging allows selecting and moving with one gesture.
· (Update) Double-click Dragging allows repositioning a node.
· (Fix) A great number of typos fixed.
· (Fix) Sometimes the scroll view jumped location when resizing the canvas.
· (Fix) Zoom In shortcut mapping corrected.
· (Fix) When an inspector color well is active, the node stroke color wont be set by the color panel.
· (Fix) Deleting nodes by pressing delete forward on the keyboard.
· (Fix) Scroll to node when moving a node before entering edit mode.
· (Fix) Cycling and centering the root node is no longer possible when in edit mode.
· (Fix) Scrollbar geometry.
· (Fix) Aborting node creating with ESC no longer results with undo operations on the undo stack.
· (Fix) Pressing Command / Option / Control and a character key at the same time no longer results in entering the edit mode.
· (Fix) Loading an invalid input format no longer crashes the application.
April 11th, 2008· (New) Improved keyboard mapping.
· (New) Cycle root nodes.
· (New) RTF Export
· (New) Canvas auto scrolls when nodes grow too large during text input.
· (Update) Major update to the way Spotlight meta data is handled (values are committed correctly, its possible to undo changes and the document is marked as edited).
· (Update) Im starting to use Undo action names.
· (Update) When changing the selection with the keyboard, the canvas will scroll to display the new selection.
· (Update) Default document icon.
· (Update) Root nodes are no longer created on top of each other.
· (Fix) ESC aborts title editing and restores original node title.
· (Fix) Root Node dash style is drawn correctly.
· (Fix) Undo support when editing node title.
· (Fix) Substitution Menu removed.
March 13th, 2008· (Fix) ^ or no longer cause the current text to disappear.
· (Update) Center Root Node Shortcut changed to Command R.
March 7th, 2008· (New) Application Icon
· (New) Export to html
· (New) HelpBook (Tutorial, Keyboard Shortcuts)
· (Update) When editing a title, tab creates a new subnode, opt tab inserts a tabulator.
· (Fix) Spotlight PlugIn is working again. Related minor improvements.
· (Fix) QuickLook PlugIn opens preview with correct size.
· (Fix) Crash Reporter remembers date of last crash log correctly.
· (Fix) Changes to the toolbar are saved.
· (Fix) Selection management issues.