XMind

Collaborative Minds!

Since XMind was put into the marketplace, we have had many supporters from Germany.  Undoubtly, XMind German version, as a bridge or a link, quickly brings XMind close to our Germany users. This is definitely a key point.

Now we would like to solemnly introduce a nice friend from Germany, Mr. Jens Pipka, a senior consultant for IT Technology and Architecture since more than 15 years, who has done XMind German translation for us voluntarily since 2007. We have had a pleasant cooperation with him. During these years, each time when XMind released a new version,  Mr. Jens Pipka kindly did us a favor for German translation. It’s not a easy thing.  We never met each other. There is a sense of trust between us. We really appreciate for all the effort he has done for XMind these years.

And we also would like to say “Thank you” to all our contributors, who help us to do translations, who help us to figure out the reasons for bugs, who offer suggestions for improvements, who do beta test for us and etc. It’s our great honor to have such nice users. Thank you all!

Now XMind new version is around the corner, with your help, therefore, XMind could have this stable and wide development.

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.

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.

• 10% for 10-20 codes;
• 20% for 21-50 codes;
• 30% for 51-80 codes;
• 40% for 81-120 codes.

And you can directly transfer money to XMind Ltd bank account in HongKong.

In order to collect all your requirements, to know your satisfaction of XMind very well, we have run an XMind Questionnaire.

From this Questionnaire, hope we can know ourselves much better, know the advantages and disadvantages, so that we can keep the good points and also suit the remedy to the case.

Please Fill in the Questionnaire, and Tell XMind team your feeling and requirements.

This survey will take approximately 5-10 minutes. Your responses will be kept confidential and the information from this survey will be used for market research purposes only. Thank you very much for your time.

One of our best friends, an XMind Pro daily user from South Africa, reminds that XMind not only can organize our ideas but all our work as well, for example, manage all your files in Project Management.

This friend told us that, most of time, he was drowned in numerous files, notes, spreadsheets, quotes, web links. Until one day, he found XMind can be used to manage all these files. Most people just think of mind maps as a way of organizing sparkles or ideas. However, XMind, as a mind mapping software, indeed, can help us as a great files management tool.

One significant way is to use the attachment. It’s very handy. We can directly drag and drop any required files into XMind as a subtopic of the exiting topic, or a floating topic. Double-click will open these attachments.  Fast and simple. But this may not be the best solution. Because:
XMind will save a copy file. Then, after editing them in XMind, the original version in your local computer will not be updated.
After inserting many files, esp. file with big size, your XMind file will become bigger. And it will use more time to open, save and close.

So here is the second way, Hyperlink, a better solution. You can build a hyperlink between any topic and any a local file/folder. It’s very simple.

Select a topic, Click “Ctrl+H” or hyperlink icon on toolbar, Select file, and here choose the file/folder and link type, “Absolute or Relative”. That’s all. And with one simple click, we can view and edit these linked files/folders in XMind directly.

BTW, if you usually move XMind files in your computer, such as from “D driver” to “E driver”, it’s better to use Absolute link. It can works after moving it. Note that this absolute links will be invalid if being moved to another computer.

If using Relative link, please do not change the relative position between XMind file and the linked files/folders. Then, you can bring them together, and work with this linked files anywhere. For example, if they are in one same folder, the links will work no matter where this folder is. This is very useful for working on airplane, doing presentation to clients, and etc.

Then all the files in the map present themselves to us. We can navigate the files within the map, organize and arrange them by changing the structure, color, line shape, and even use label, boundary, and theme.

With XMind, time will be saved, meanwhile, both ideas and files will be well organized.

P.S. here, we want to share another usage from a Chinese daily user. Hope this is useful.
He told us that they have many files (they are not allowed to save in other computers.) in their LAN server, and needed to link them in XMind. He hopes that the link in map will be available while he open linked files and show them to manager. He called us, because Absolute link and relative link neither worked.

After testing, we find Web link (select Web in Hyperlink dialog) is feasible. Instead of using “http://”, paste the target file position in to field, such as “\\venus\D\xmind-portable-3.1.1″, at last fill “\”+”file name”. Then inside their LAN, work goes fluently again.

Now, please enjoy our XMind Pro XMAS family package!

Christmas is on its way. It’s the best time of the year.

It’s a time to celebrate, celebrate for what we have gained in 2009.
It’s a time to expect, expect a promising future.

This colorful season, we are honored  to have all your support.
This gorgeous year, we step together all the way.

At this special time of year, we would like to thank you all. Glad to let you know that our promotion especially for the coming Christmas and the New year, now is available.

US$49.00 to get your 2-Year Subscription code
US$99.00 to get your Family Package, 3 2-Year Subscription codes

Check it out

Wish you all Merry Christmas and Happy New year!
May all your dreams come true!

Friday, 4 December, 2009 — XMind, a leader in mind mapping, visual thinking and collaboration software, today announced XMind 3.1.1, with many important

Improvements:

1. If your account has been renewed, after signing in, your XMind title will become “XMind Pro”.
2. XMind shows the Path of current XMind file in the window title.
3. XMind prepares the description file about “XMind File Format” for Developers.
4. While launching XMind, you can enable “Do not show this again”. Then you can sign in under Help menu when you want to.
5. Every Pro feature is labeled “Pro” in Menu.
6. If you sign up an account in the inside browser, XMind will sign in automatically.
7. If you renew you account in the inside browser, XMind will enable all Pro features automatically.
8. Improve some translation.

and fix some Bugs:

1. When adding local files as hyperlink in XMind for Windows version, if the path has “space”, XMind will not work well.
2. If using Spreadsheet structure, we can not edit the column name via double-click.
3. If showing the Legend in the map, we can not edit the description of markers in legend via double-click.
4. While signing into your account on XMind.net, we can not unsubscriber the newsletter/tips at the Setting page.
5. After extracting a new Theme or Style, we can not rename them via double-click in the theme view or style view.

Another important thing we would like to share with you is:
Our website, XMind.net has been revised successfully.

Here I list some major changes of our website:

1. More attractive Home page: More friendly and good-looking design. You will find the target information easily.
2. New website with many improvements, especially can work fluently on any browsers.
3. New Downloading: Save your time, be nice, considerate to you. Two editions, one Package only.
4. Better viewer for your online maps: Make every effort to build perfection.

At last, on this Thanksgiving Day, we also would like to take the opportunity to thank you, our friends, thanks for all your support, thanks for being with XMind for so long time. We believe that with your support, your understanding, your patience, XMind can get better and better. We are so deeply grateful to all of these, and we will take this as our forward momentum!
Wish you all a Happy Thanksgiving Day!