Use Icon view

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Icon view lets you quickly assign icon to topics and tasks to indicate their priority, progress, status, and more. You can also use Icon view to review previously assigned icons. Maps can be viewed a map based on a variety of icons, including Priority, Progress, Flags, Arrows, Smileys, and more. Priority icons are the default marker in Icon view.

Icon view is customizable. You can move, rename, and delete Icon view columns. There are also options for displaying topic formatting, such as shape or font. You can choose how to sort topics, and choose whether to show or hide subtopics.

In previous versions of MindManager, this feature was called Priority View.

Switch to Icon view
Choose an Icon view display mode
Assign an icon to an uncategorized task or topic
Recategorize a task or topic
Mark a task as complete
Navigate in Icon view
Orient Icon view (pan, zoom or center)
Customize Icon view

Switch to Icon view

To switch to Icon view from another view, click Icon in the View tab Document Views group.

To return to Map view, click Map View on the Icon view tab.

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Choose an Icon view display mode

On the Icon View tab, click View Tools, and choose a category from the Icon Group drop-down menu.
The view is modified based on the icon category chosen and the number of those icons in the map.

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Assign an icon to an uncategorized task or topic

Drag the task or topic from the Uncategorized column to the column associated with the icon type that you want to assign.

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Recategorize a task or topic

Drag the task or topic from its current icon-type column to another icon-type column.

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Mark a task as complete

Click the task.
On the Icon View tab, click View Tools, and click Mark Done .

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Navigate in Icon view

You can also navigate through Icon view efficiently using the keyboard:

Keystroke	Action
Arrow keys	Select the topic above or below or to the left or right of the current topic. (For left and right arrows, the selection begins at the top main topic after you pass through the central topic to the other side of the map.)
TAB, SHIFT+TAB	Move to the next or previous topic, callout or subtopic. Use this method to visit each topic on the map in order of priority. Floating topics and callouts attached to relationship lines are skipped.
BACKSPACE, SHIFT+BACKSPACE	Move back or forward through the history of topics you have selected.

For more information see Keyboard shortcuts.

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Orient Icon view

There are several ways to orient Icon view.

Set the zoom factor for Icon view

Do one of the following:

On the Status Bar drag the Zoom Factor slider to the desired magnification level, or click Fit Map to fit the whole map into the window.

On the View tab, in the Zoom pull down, click the Zoom In / Zoom Out buttons, or click Fit Map.

On the View tab, in the Zoom pull down, click a value in the Zoom Factor box, or enter a value and press ENTER.

For wheel-mouse users hold the CTRL key and use the wheel to zoom in and out.

Press CTRL+F5 to fit the whole map into the window.
press CTRL+0 (zero) for 100% zoom

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Customize Icon view

Delete Icon view columns

Right-click the column header. and click Delete.

Rename Icon View columns

Right-click the column header, and click Rename.
Type a new name in the Name box, and click OK.

Hide topic formatting

On the Icon View tab, click View Tools, and in the Topic Formatting group, click Hide.

Show subtopics

On the Icon View tab, click View Tools, and click More Options.
Check the Show Subtopics Icon box.

Hide a column

On the Icon View tab, click Collapse button in the column header. To show the column, click the Expand button.

Set how topics are sorted

On the Icon View tab, click View Tools.
Click the Sort Topics drop-down, and choose one of the following:

Sort By Due Date
Sort By Start Date
Sort By Topic Text
Sort By Progress
Sort By Resources

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