Search for maps or documents

What do you want to do?

The Search feature is particularly helpful for finding a map that contains some specific text.

  • Specify the text you want to find, the location(s) to search, and the topic fields to check.

  • You can also use this feature to search through a set of linked maps.

When the search is completed, click on a topic in the Search Results window to open the map and jump to the matching topic. You can also display the search results as topics in a map.
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Open a Recent Map

To open a file you recently worked on:

  1. Click the File tab, then click Recent.

MindManager displays the list of the last few maps that you opened. Click the file name to open the map. You can control the number of recent documents that appear using the General options.

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Open the Search pane

You enter your Search information from the Search task pane.

To open the Search task pane, do one of the following:

Click the Search task pane tab

OR

Click the Task Panes button on the bottom status bar then click Search to open the Search task pane.

OR

  • Press ALT+CTRL+SHIFT+F.  

 

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Search through maps in folders

  1. In the Search task pane, under Define Search, enter a word or phrase in the Look for box.
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  1. Select a location to search, or enter the name of the folder you want to search in the Look in box. Select the Include subfolders checkbox to search subfolders as well.

Mindjet online features
You can search for files in Mindjet Files online by selecting a Mindjet Account from the Look in list.

  1. To specify which topic fields to search, click More search options and select the checkboxes for the fields you want to inspect. (By default, only the topic text is searched).

  2. Click Search to start the search. To stop the search, press ESC.

  3. The Search Results window displays a tree with the map names and topics that are positive matches.

  4. To see any matching topic click the topic name in the Search Results window.  
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Search through a set of linked maps

  1. Open the main map that links to the other maps

  2. Switch to Linked Maps View. You'll see thumbnails of the open map and all the maps it links to.

  3. On the Linked Maps View tab in the Linked Maps group click Search.

  4. In the Search task pane, under Define Search, enter a word or phrase in the Look for box.  
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  1. By default, only the topic text in maps is searched. To specify which topic fields to search, click More search options and select the checkboxes for the fields you want to inspect.

  2. Click Search to start the search. To stop the search, press ESC.

  3. The Search Results window displays a tree with the map names and topics that are positive matches.

  4. To see any matching topic click the topic name in the Search Results window.

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Display Search Results in a map

  1. Once you have completed the search, in the Search task pane, click Send to.

  2. Choose to create a new map, or to add the search results to the selected topic.

  3. A new map or topic is created, with the search results as subtopics. Each result topic contains a link to the map and to the topic that contains the search text.

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