Using Smart Map Parts

1. Select an existing topic or create a new topic.

2. Do one of the following:

• Click the Hyperlink button on the toolbar

• Press Ctl+K

• Click Topic - Hyperlink

• Right-click the topic or location and select Add Hyperlink

3. In the Add Hyperlink dialog, click the Folderbrowse  button and select the target folder whose files and/or subfolders you want to link to, then click OK.

4. Click the Map Parts tab, and navigate to the File Explorer map parts folder. Select the part you wish to use in the bottom pane:

All Files and Folders creates links to all files and subfolders under the target folder.

All Files creates links to all files within the target folder.

All Folders creates links to all subfolders under the target folder.

5. Drag the map part onto the root topic (or just click on the part if the root topic is still selected). After a short pause, the map part will be populated with links to the files or folders on your system. The links will be updated (reflecting any files or folders added or removed) only when the map part is refreshed.

 

1. Create a new root topic or select an existing topic to use as the root.

2. Click the Map Parts tab and navigate to the news feeds map parts folder you want to use.

3. Drag the feed map part onto the root topic (or just click on the part if the root topic is still selected). After a short pause, the map part will be populated with the latest information from the feed. The content will be updated each time you open this map or each time the map part is refreshed.

Expand the topic to see a list of all the headlines. To read the story for a headline topic, click the topic's Notes icon . To jump to the online source, click the topic's hyperlink icon.

 

You can create your own news feed map parts using any source that provides its feeds in RSS (or RDF) format. RSS is an XML-based format for distributing and aggregating Web content (such as news headlines and blogger entries). Many popular news sites such as CNet and Yahoo provide RSS feeds free of charge for use by individuals and non-profit organizations for personal, non-commercial uses. Additionally, independent news aggregator sites like Syndic8 list targets for thousands of RSS feeds from a wide variety of sources.

To create your own news feed map part:

1. Click the Library tab and navigate to the map parts news feeds folder where you want to add this feed. (Right-click and select New Folder to create a new folder.)

2. Click Tools - Macro - Add New Feeds to Library.

3. Enter the url of the feed source and click OK. You can obtain the url by copying it from the site you want to link to. In some cases you'll see a button for the feed .

• You can right-click on the button and select Copy Shortcut, then switch back to MindManager and right-click in the url filed and click Paste.

• Or, you can click on the button, then copy the url from the browser Address field and paste it into the MindManager url field.

The new News Feed map part will appear in the Map parts pane, and you can use it as you would any other news feed map part.

Hint: Some news feeds may not have an associated image, so they show up without a label in the library. You can add your own text label to the part by doing the following:

• Select Modify in the map part's pull-down menu. The map part appears in its own window. Add text as you would to any topic and click the Save button (or click File-Save).

Drag the map part onto the root topic (or just click on the part if the root topic is selected).

• These parts - Appointment, Contact, Note, Task - will invoke the appropriate Outlook dialog so you can enter the item. The item will be added in Outlook as well as in MindManager.

• Details for the Outlook items are summarized in the note for each item's topic. Click the Notes icon to see information about each item.