There is a good news for XMind users who speak or like French. XMind coming new version will have a French language package inside.
Here, let’s say thank you to Mr. Philippe Boukobza and his team. Thank you for all your wonderful contribution!
Nowadays, we are getting used to spell checking whenever we write something. In XMind, you may meet this kind issue, when editing a topic, you expect that spell checking can help you to perfect your spelling.
Now in XMind, the default spell checking is in English. But our users come from all over the world, they speak all kinds of languages. This default spell checking couldn’t meet the need of users who come from non-English speaking countries.
If you come from non-English speaking countries, you may probably want to use your own dictionary for spell checking.
Here one of our users shared a useful website for you to find your own dictionary:
http://www.winedt.org/Dict/
Download the very dictionary, change the extension to .dict , then add your own dictionary to XMind. (Edit > Preferences > Mind Map > Spelling)
After doing this, in XMind, you can enjoy spell checking for French, German, Spanish and etc. Very easy and useful, right? 
Whenever you need this, do not hesitate to give it a try.
Me again to share some frequently asked questions in last month.
How could I change XMind display language?
XMind: XMind v3.1.1 has 5 language packages, English(en_US), Germany(de), Japanese(ja), Simplified Chinese(zh_CN) and Traditional Chinese(zh_TW). While you launch XMind, it will select the language pack depending on your computer’ formats. If your language is out of them, XMind will use English package as default.
Of course, you can decide which package your XMind use. It’s simple too.
*XMind.ini file is at
the XMind installation folder on Windows/Linux or
the application package on Mac (Application folder/XMind (right click)/Show Package Contents/Contents/Resources/XMind(right click)/Show Package Contents/Contents/MacOS)
The second question is asked many times by some companies’ users. We are behind the proxy, how to use XMind Pro or upload map?
XMind: When XMind is launched, there will be a sign-in dialog. After signing in with your XMind Account, you can share the map with the world or enjoy all Pro features. If you access the internet via the proxy, you should have the same settings in XMind too.
Please modify the network settings at: Preferences/Network Connections.
The third question is a bug, losing inserted image. Some users insert images into XMind. But these images sometimes disappear after re-opening the XMind files.
XMind: This is a bug. After testing, we find it happens if you open the XMind files which have the inserted images via double-click. And we are trying to fix it in the coming version.
Thank you for all people who offer the feedback. If you have any questions or suggestions about XMind usage or XMind bugs or anythings, tell us.
Thank you all again!
In the past months, we received lots of inquiries about XMind Pro Enterprise license. They told us that XMind Pro was good at enhancing the efficiency, saving working time, and wanted to know something about the Enterprise license support.
The full name of Enterprise license is XMind Pro Enterprise Unlimited License. Actually, it’s another type subscription code, which means all people within a company or an organization can enjoy XMind Pro. Of course, there is no limitation on the number of users.
Normally, we will recommend this Enterprise License to these inquirers only when the estimated user number is more than 100. In that case, it has the superior cost-effective. More important, only one license and a few special XMind accounts needed, so it’s very convenient for you to mange your team, department, and your company.
Interested in it? Please fill this form.
Recent months, exchange rate of different currencies has big change. This kind change even has affected the justice of our price system. Some customers also sent emails to question us.
So we do the fine tuning on price system, which has token effect from June 1st 2010. Now 1 Year Subscription Code will cost
USD 49.00 OR EUR 40.00 OR GBP 35.00 OR JPY 4900.00.
And the coupon code “PRO10OFF” is still available, has no purchase amount limitation.
Recently, we received an email from our friend Marcin Wudarczyk, CEO of NG Logic, a Warsaw located company. He told us they have almost finished the development of XMindlook, a xmind plugin. This is a very good news. XMindlook is focusing on “Empower your mind map” via Keeping tasks synchronized at all times transparently between MS Outlook and XMind.
After using a few weeks, I think XMindlook is worth for you to take a try, and want to share some my usages:
The first one is about the installment. Please download XMindlook.exe and install xmindlook.exe to the XMind installation folder. If you are using the XMind Portable version, please install xmindlook to “Commons” folder.
When you finish the installment, and launch XMind. You can find that XMindlook has created a new menu named XMindlook, a “XMindlook Registration” under help menu, two toolbar buttons, a new XMindlook page in preferences dialog, and three views in your XMind.
The third point is about the function of these views.
The forth point is XMindlook is not free($49.00), but you can free try 30 days. And it works well with XMind/XMind Pro and MS Outlook 2003/2007/2010.
And Mr Marcin also told us: “I am a heavy user od mind maps and GTD, so the product was made also to satisfy my own needs. This is our first XMind plugin, but hopefully,if you will like it, it will not be the last one. I will be happy to listen to the commuity feedback and continously improve our product to suit your needs, not only mine;) Our goal is to further extend XMind to make it wide-use and feature-rich mind mapping platform.”
At last, I want to say thank you, Mr Marcin. And we hope to see more plugins developed by the third party, no matter simple or big, free or paid. You are welcome!
Good news! Before June 30th, you can have XMind Pro Subscription Code with 10% discount, which is $44.10 per year only. To enjoy this, please use the coupon code “PRO10OFF” with the below steps:
That’s all. Now, you will receive an email sent to your paypal account email by xmind system. That email includes:
Still have questions? Leave your comments or contact us.
P.S. If you can not see that Paypal button on the purchase page, please send the USD44.10 or EUR36.00 or GBP33.10 or JPY4410.00 directly to XMind paypal account, paypal@xmind.net.
While paying the money, please leave your email in the notes, then we can send the code to you in time.
Here, we collect the most frequently asked questions in last month.
First one is from Nobuo a Japanese user.
“I have two PCs (my office and my home). So, I can ran one Pro version at a time. Should I purchase one license? Or I have to purchase two licenses even though?”
XMind: You only need one subscription code for all your PCs.
Being an XMind Pro user, you should have an XMind account, and then activate/renew your account with subscription code. Then with this activated account, you can use XMind Pro on any computer which has XMind.
Second question is from Davy a French user and Florian a Germany supportor.
“I would really apreciate to used Xmind Pro even when I don’t have an Internet connection. Can you help me ?”
XMind: Of course, you can use XMind Pro offline. The solution is:
Enable “Remember me on this computer” in the signin dialog while you signing in with your activated account. Then your XMind Pro will not ask you to sign in before the expiration date.
The last one has been asked by Many users from UK, Singapore, Spain, France, and etc.
“We would like to buy 10, or 30, or 50, please tell us the volume price.”
XMind: Yes, XMind Pro has prepared the volume discount for supporters.
And you can directly transfer money to XMind Ltd bank account in HongKong.
Below are four maps which are special and viewed/downloaded many times online. We believe it’s possible to learn something from them.
How 2 take effective note
In this map, Ms eili, a dental student shared us how to improve the note taking skills step by step.
Mind Mapping for Musicians
Mr Marko Zirkovich shares some ideas where mind mapping can be useful for musicians visualized.
Fiche Projet
Mr LOCHET Pierre-Yves who is from France, shows us a film project in XMind. He uses more elements than many other maps, such as multiple structures, boundary, relationship, summary, and markers.
Sun
This is a really amazing map! It shocks me every time I read it. In fact, I have downloaded and saved it as one favorite map. A solar system map.
In fact, I am usually surprised by the creativity when I read shared maps online. We are here, around the World, waiting yours!
MindMap is simple and powerful. Esp. when we understand more experiences about XMind, a great mind mapping software tool.
We find that, video is a better channel to let people know a tool well, and there also be some videos about XMind created by users. We already posted one, Concentrate in XMind, last week. Below one another, created by chubble10, about using XMind on Ubuntu.
If you have interest, please share your videos at:
Collecting XMind Video .