2012 is coming soon. Happy new year! Have you got the ship ticket? 
In 2011, XMind does not make any big things on the software. But after one-year study and preparement, XMind Ltd understands more on many things, such as product design, web app, iOS development, mobile market and etc.
These knowledge may not let XMind be best at once, but we believe it will be better and better from 2012.
Below are the new 2012 calendar templates we made. If you need or like, please download them. Or you can also translate it to other language and re-upload.
English Version
German Version
Chinese Version
The brief instruction
The template uses Fishbone as the main structure, and spreadsheet chart every month. Each day is in the separated cell as a sub-topic. There are two common usages.
1. Drilldown & Floating topics
- Select the date
- Drill down (F6)
- Add daily things as the floating topics.
2. Multiple sheet
- Select the month (main topic)
- Choose “Insert — New Sheet from Topic” on the menu
- In the new sheet, add the daily tasks as date’s subtopic
It’s glad to share a good news with xmind users. The great mind map sharing website, Biggerplate.com, now supports .xmind files.
They said,
The addition of XMind to the library is yet another exciting step for Biggerplate, and a testament to a fantastic piece of software that has been making some big waves within the mind mapping world!
XMind has rightly earned a very large and loyal following for itself, as users have been won over by simple design, highly effective functionality, and an extremely competitive pricing model.
The free version offers a level of functionality that would put several paid software providers to shame, and the Pro version adds layers of business-oriented features that further enhance the program’s appeal.
The open source nature of XMind means this software is sure to evolve with the needs and wishes of consumers and developers, which will help to ensure it can continually provide a highly affordable, user-friendly, and extremely effective mind mapping experience for a wide range of user types.
Now, there are some great mind maps and templates already there. Below are steps to share mind map on Biggerplate.
Now, you can see your maps at, Mind Map library(click Most Recent).
Today, we’re glad to share a special GTD template created by Mr. Adnan Adam Onart, working at Boston University.
The template is composed with 6 sheets which are linked with each other. Mr. Adnan also shares with us why he made this template,
GTD or Getting Things Done, the action management method, invented by David Allen, has a large following world wide. The applications for implementing it abound: From tiddlywiki’s to thick client softwares. You can also see many versions of its workflow in print or on the WEB. The advantage of using XMind for GTD is the combination of the workflow operations with its pictorial representations. The direct manipulation of the tasks on the screen creates some intuitiveness which is not easy to come buy with flat or hierarchical list system. I wish to keep the design of the map simple, free from unnecessary icons or markers. But this template comes to you as Version 0.3. As I’ll start using it, I may be adding new features or making improvements. I’ll be happy if I could also have your feedback and suggestions for future evolution.
If you’re interested, please download GTD.xmt. After downloading it, you can directly double-click and open it with XMind, Or open it from menu, ”File — New — New from Template…” and select this template.
Here is an important news for all XMind users from Japanese. CoGen Media has been XMind Ltd official partner in Japan.
CoGen Media distributes high performance Mind Mapping Software “XMind series” (developed by XMind Ltd.) of free and Pro version from November 17th.
The Official Website is http://jp.xmind.net/
Earlier this year, XMind surpassed the half a million user mark, and our user base continues to grow exponentially as more and more people discover the power of XMind.
Many people tell us, XMind helps them a lot in business. XMind lets their plan work easier, reports clearer, brainstorming faster, and etc. Some users know and begin to use XMind when they see colleagues are using it. And at last, XMind Pro has the company clients. They bought subscription codes for employees. They believe XMind can power their teams, some have even seen the improvement in work.
During the communication with these companies and small teams/organizations, while solving their problems, we also understand more their requirements. Now to serve teams, organizations, and companies better, XMind prepares multiple plans for business.
Every plan will offer a group license, and has the user number limit. One company only needs to buy one subscription code for all users.
It’ll be easy to power the team with XMind for Business.
September 15, 2010 — — XMind Ltd today announced the new XMind, packed with great new features including New TaskInfo view, Home Map setting, Overview View, French language support, Spanish language support, Office 2010 support on Windows, Unlisted Sharing, Fit Map and Brand new Gallery — all combined in this most powerful XMind.
This new version also features up to the most stable XMind and brings hundreds of improvements and fixed bugs.
Download the best XMind now
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.
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.
Some users have reported that they paid the money via Paypal. But after finishing the payment, they still did not receive the Subscription codes. This brings much trouble for users, esp some people are very urgent to enjoy the Pro features, such as Presentation, Audio Notes, TaskInfo and Gantt Chart.
This turned out to be the problem of not finishing the full procedure. The entire procedure to subscribe XMind Pro with Paypal is below:
- Visit the Purchase page, http://www.xmind.net/pro/buy/
- Click “Buy Now” button
- Confirm the order quantity and Fill the simple form, and click “Continue” button below.
- Now, you are on the Paypal page. Please fill paypal account and password to finish the payment here.
- After finishing the payment, Please do not close the browser, and wait the browser back to the “Thank You” page of XMind.net.
- When you see the “Thank You” page, XMind system will automatically send Subscription Code(s) to you via email within 8 hours.
Note: Your code(s) will be sent to Paypal account email, not the registered email on XMind.net.
Some users just didn’t wait for the browser back to “Thank you” Page. As a result, our server wouldn’t receive the sign to send out the subscription code automatically.Once this happened, do not worry, please send an email including the purchase date, receipt no., paypal account to Sales@XMind.net. You will get the Code(s) within 24 hours.