New features

Version 1.30 – Released 11 October 2021

Use the new Full Screen Button to easily switch to full screen editing on tablets.
Improved look of topics with borders in the Natural Stylesheets.
Google Drive now includes “Shared with me”. This shows files and folders that you do not own, but that have been shared with you. In SimpleMind navigate to the root of Google Drive to see the folder “My Drive” and “Shared with me”.
Word wrap improved for far east languages.
Reorder stocks icons and stylesheets by tapping on “edit”, next use drag and drop.
Maximum thumbnail size increased to 640 pixels.
Note! Adding large thumbnails can slow down performance and take longer to sync.
Thumbnails can be locked to a fixed position via the lock icon. This is especially useful when working on small devices.On smaller devices use two-finger-swipe to move the mind map when you see only the thumbnail and the image is not locked.
This update requires Android 5.0 or higher.
Improvements to the look and feel of mind maps.
General improvements and minor bug fixes.

New brainstorm bar: designed to quickly get ideas on the canvas. It frees you from having to think about where each idea belongs within your mind map, and enables you to focus on idea generation. Once done, order your ideas using drag and drop. Read more…
External Directory access redesigned for continued support on Android 11+

Version 1.28.0 – Released 7 Dec 2020
Android 10 supported
Sort Local Mind Maps by name or date.
New command Checkboxes | Reset state. Sets Checkboxes to unchecked, and progress bars to 0.
Using latest Dropbox and OneDrive APIs
Minor bug fixes.

New Radial layout.

New Stylesheet “Colored Circles”, looks great with the new radial layout.

New Linear layout, great for making simple timelines.

New Stylesheet “Blue Steel”, with a cool flat look.

New Stylesheet “Colored Circles”, looks great with the new radial layout.

Use emojis icons in topics. “Icons” has a new tab “Emojis” where you can add your choice of emojis. Read more…

The “external link” icon is tinted.

New Topic border styles: circle, left arrow, right arrow and parallelogram.

The minimum width and height for topics can be set via element style or the new topic resize tool. This allows manual sizing of topics.

Enable the “topic resize tool” via Preferences | General | Topic Tools.

New keyboard shortcut “Remove checkbox” Shift+Ctrl+Space

Minor bug fixes and minor improvements

Export topics with a date to a calendar app.
Export topics with a date as .ics events. This can be imported in calendar apps.
Read how to.
Add a new event in the calendar app via the topic toolbar – date. That date will be shown in the topic.

Path style “rounded” added
Transparent .png image export.
New layout directions for the List Layout: “Top – Right to Left” and “Top – Left to Right”.
Show dates, or filter topics with dates, in export outline and print outline.
Paste on collapsed topics.
Keyboard shortcut added: “Control+Space” and “Control+K” toggles checked state of a checkbox.
Close button added to Style inspector toolbar
Nextcloud removed. Unfortunately, Nextcloud is using older Android components and we are no longer able to release with Nextcloud included. Nextcloud is working on upgrading the android library, once they’ll have fixed it, we’ll be able to add Nextcloud again.
Small bug fixes and improved performance.

Slideshow support. Define slides by selecting topics and play slideshow inside SimpleMind or export as zipped set of .png images. Read more…
Auto focus extended with Lock Auto Focus on Selected Branch. The branch remains focused until Auto focus style is changed (disabled etc).
Topic dialog uses + and * icons for “add child” and “add sibling” – now also available on smaller devices.