Save mind map files in any directory – including iCloud Drive.
Open mind maps via “Mind Map | Open”
Open mind map files via Finder.
Mind maps opened via Finder or “Open” are shown in the Files tab.
SimpleApps edition: Mind Maps on Files tab behave like in a cloud and have full linking capabilities.
AppStore edition: Mind Maps on Files tab do not support linking documents or mind maps
Wysiwyg rich text support when editing Note, Topics and Labels:
Bold, Italic, Underline, Strike-through, Superscript and Subscript.
UI Modernized
Dark mode support on MacOS 10.14. Preferences | General allow enabling dark mode even when Mac OS is light.
Style Sheet selector in inspector (MacOS 10.13+)
“Natural+Colors on Black” stylesheet added
Branch border for top-down and list layouts displayed as bounding box
Branch border supported for central themes
New command Checkboxes | Reset state – checkboxes are unchecked, progress bars are set to 0.
Drag-drop reconnect topics in auto layout mode no longer fully expands dragged topics
Cloud explorers support sorting on name or date via context menu
Full size image is displayed with Preview app
Bugs fixed in Nextcloud and Nutstore support: directory names containing a dot caused subtle problems.
Bug fixed in Custom relation path bounding box.
Version 1.22.0 – Released 4 Dec 2018
Improved display in Image Preview.
Adjustable font size in note panel (context menu)
Removed options for shadow support in mind maps
Keyboard shortcuts for subscript Ctrl+= and superscript Shift+Ctrl+=
Bug fixed in Export Outline scope radio buttons
Bug fix for Nextcloud servers that have path at the end of the server url
Version 1.21 – Released 22 Aug 2018
Version 1.21.1: released 14 September 2018. Fix for Google Drive sign in problem.
Open multiple Mind Maps with “View | Open in New Window”. Shortcut Cmd+O. Read more…
Crosslinks can be used to make a summary or merge paths (A in image below).
Manually toggle the crosslink style via “Toggle cross link style” in the relation toolbar . You can use this to style as a “normal” crosslink or to style as a hierarchical relation and merge paths or make a summary. Read more..
Nextcloud support added. You can now use your own Nextcloud based cloud server to synchronize mind maps across devices. Read more…
坚果云 – Nutstore cloud support added. 坚果云 Nutstore is a free Chinese cloud service and can now be used to synchronize mind maps across Mac, iPad/iPhone and Windows devices. This is great news for our Chinese customers that could not use Dropbox or Google Drive. Also available for non-Chinese customers. Read more…
Maximum image thumbnail size increased to 480 pixels.
Press Alt-key to force scrolling rather than moving elements. This can be used when an image leaves no empty space to scroll.
Working around Dropbox time outs when synchronizing.
Version 1.20 – Released 13 Feb 2018
Version 1.20.2 – released 14 March 2018: Local mind maps support multiple selection for delete, move to folder and copy to cloud; bugs fixed
Translated into 11 languages: Dutch, French, German, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Portuguese, Russian and Spanish, Simplified Chinese and Traditional Chinese. The language is set by Mac System Preferences | Language and Region
Breadcrumb bar in Cloud Explorers (Dropbox etc.) for quick navigation between folders
Inplace text editor changes:
Press “Escape” to cancel editing, for a new topic also cancels topic creation
Press “Enter” to accept any text, including empty text for a new topic (no longer cancels topic creation when text left empty)
Order Up (Command+PageUp) reconnects the selected topic to its parent parent (grand-parent).
Default Layout Direction for new mind maps can be set in Preferences | General
Bug fixed: Local Mind Maps “Empty trash” could result in random errors.
Dropbox and Google Drive: “Refresh Listing” removed, Synchronize performs both: sync + refresh list.
Bug fixed: Dropbox and Google Drive could open wrong file in editor when mind map was opened via history
Bug fixed: main menu edit | order back/forward on image or label could cause crash
SimpleMind Lite: fixed bug in printing orientation
Version 1.19.0 – Released 5 Dec 2017
Image (file) and text drop is much improved
drop an image on a topic to add image as floating image, embedded image or icon.
drop an image in empty space to add a floating image or a new topic with an embedded image.
drop Text to add a child or central theme.
Link to Contact by phone number or email address. Mac OS 10.11 minimum. Read more…
The Top-Down auto layout has 2 new layout directions, Top-RightToLeft and Bottom-RightToLeft.
Super script and sub script markdown support ^^super^^ ,,sub,,
Markdown text markup commands via main menu Style | Font (Bold, Italic etc).
Outliner shows dates and has a filter to show only topics with a date set. Click date icon to change date.
Default Word Wrap (long press wrap tool or Ctrl+Shift+Command+E).Read more…
Import Mind Map added to main menu.
Finder-like sorting in Dropbox and Google Drive listings.
Bug fixed for navigation links containing #.
Bug fixed: forcing portrait orientation in outline generation.
Version 1.18.0 – Released 8 August 2017
Progress bar checkboxes (0% – 100%) and roll-up progress checkboxes (progress automatically calculated by averaging progress from children).
Set a date for a topic.
Mind Map Editor search bar (in advanced mode) allows searching for topics with a date before or after a certain date
Insert Sibling Topic: similar to add sibling, but orders new sibling before current topic in parent. In auto layout mode the position on the mind map page is set accordingly. Ctrl+Cmd+Enter
You’ll get a warning when delete/cut results in an empty mind map.
Order Forward and Order Backward also works for Topics. Default keyboard shortcuts Command+Up and Command+Down
(Backward) Delete deletes the selected element, and no longer navigates to the parent element.
Redesigned Preferences panel
Restore Default fonts added in Preferences
Font panel integration removed (fonts can only be adjusted via Preferences)
Restoring Mind Map Explorer collapsed state
Performance improvement for large mind maps
Bugs fixed
Version 1.14.0 – Released 18 July 2016
Outliner – in the Inspector panel (on the right), displayed in the image below. Outliner synchronizes with the selection in the editor. Also useful when Searching in the Mind Map. Use drag & drop in the outline to reorder topics.
Keyboard shortcuts for Show Outline ?1, Show Note ?2 allow fast switching between topics in outline and note.
Angled relation paths and Adjustable relation paths. Read more…
New build-in style sheet: Chart (angled paths + arrows)
Check spelling for entire Mind Map, shortcut ?;
Live spelling and automatic spelling correction support for Mind Map editor
Paste Text as List and Import plain text .txt files. Each new line creates a new topic, leading tabs are interpreted as hierarchy level.
“Enable Snap Options” check added to Snap Options. Snap to guide lines and snap to grid are only active when this option is checked. Pressing ? (Command) while dragging a topic, temporarily inverts this option. This allows easy enabling/disabling the snap feature in specific cases.
Relation style presets, create and apply adjusted relation styles
Export as Encapsulated PostScript (eps) (Export, Mail, Export to Dropbox)
Removed “reorder topics” panel, reordering sibling order is now more conveniently done with the outliner.
Bugs fixed
Version 1.13.0 – released 2 May 2016
Layout Direction options (Auto, Left, Right, Top, Bottom, Manual) for auto layout modes.
Snap to guide lines and/or grid, available from main menu SimpleMind | Snap Options.
(Tinted) Collapsed and Hidden topic markers are clickable tools, also when the topic is not selected (see image below).
Option “Display Hide tool for topics” (in SimpleMind Preferences) shows hide tool for topic and moves collapse tool and collapse markers to opposite side (see image above).
Long press Hide/show tool shows hide/show options (hide children , full hide etc.)
Bugs fixed.
Version 1.12.1 – released 7 March 2016
Embedded images in topics
Tinted checkboxes: topic check boxes appear in the topic’s stroke color (see image below). Change via Mind Map Style | Custom check box color. Defining (near) white as custom checkbox color results in plain black and white checkboxes.
New style added: “Natural + Colors”, colorful paths without topic boxes (see image above)
Export to Dropbox, in Mind Map menu, for mind maps on Dropbox
Advanced search options in Mind Map editor: search for checkbox state (unchecked, checked) or icon
Pdf bookmark extraction: Import pdf, Convert .pdf to mind map, link to bookmark in pdf document, support for linking to “page=number” in pdf links. Note: App Store edition only allows importing .pdfs on Dropbox. Links to local files are not supported.
Add Icon from File, add a custom icon without adding it to the custom icons library
Double click in empty space adds a Central Theme when nothing is selected
Style sheet selector shows preview images.
Improved lines in auto Top Down layout
Performance improvement for dashed lines in low zoom factors
in the relation toolbar 
. You can use this to style as a “normal” crosslink or to style as a hierarchical relation and merge paths or make a summary. Read more..
Nextcloud support added.
坚果云 – Nutstore cloud support added.
Link to Contact by phone number or email address. Mac OS 10.11 minimum. Read more…
