Add text markers

Text Markers are available in the Mindjet MindManager Pro edition only.

A text marker is a brief notation that gives information by displaying the text below the topic. Each topic can have more than one text marker, but you may not repeat the same text marker more than once on a single topic. You add or remove text markers on topics using the Add Text Marker button or from the Map Markers pane.

Hint: If you prefer not to display text markers but want to avoid removing them you can hide them using the View - Show / Hide command in Map view. Text Markers are not displayed in Outline view.

Every map begins with a built-in Map Markers List: a set of available markers and their pre-defined meanings The markers are stored in groups in the Map Markers list (to see it open the Map Markers Task Pane). When you add a text marker to a topic you can select a marker from this list or create a new Text marker.

You can choose a different pre-defined list of markers to use with the map in the Template Organizer's Map Marker Lists pane, or you can modify the Map Markers list to assign different meanings, add or remove markers, and create new marker groups.

Hint: You can also use text markers as criteria for selecting topics and filtering the map.

To add a text marker to a topic:

  1. Select a topic or topics that you want to assign the marker to.

  2. Click the Add Text Marker toolbar button

  1. In the text marker picker select the group and then the marker(s) you want to assign to the topic. Enable or disable the Show Group Name in Preview to show or hide the group name in the text marker labels on your map.

Notes:
Some markers are mutually exclusive: Only one text marker from that group can be added to a topic. If you attempt to add a second marker from the same group, it replaces the first marker. These groups are shown in the Map Markers pane as   (mutually exclusive). You can change this attribute. You can add multiple markers to a topic from a group that is non-exclusive -  .

If you are assigning a marker to multiple topics if the marker you choose was already assigned to any of the selected topics, it is removed. This works as a toggle, so a second click on the markers will add it to all selected topics.

  1. If you don't see the marker you want to use, you can add a new text marker or a new marker group.

Shortcut: You can add a marker to the selected topic(s) by clicking on it in the Map Markers Pane.

To change a text marker on a topic:

Once you have added a text marker to a topic, you can change it in several ways:

To remove a marker:

Exporting text markers - notes

Text markers are exported to Web pages, to PDF files (map images and outlines) and Word documents. They are not exported to PowerPoint slides, Outlook or Project and are not included when you print from outline view or save as a plain text or HTML outline..

For Web export you can choose whether to display text markers and change the section label that's used by customizing the Advanced Settings.

For Word export you can choose whether to include the text markers in your document in the General settings tab.

Hint: You can also use text markers as criteria for selecting topics and filtering the map topics.