Use the Marker Index

The Marker Index pane displays a pivot view that shows your map topics categorized by their markers, providing a fast and easy way to see and navigate to your map's important content. You can use the controls at the top of the pane to enable or disable marker indexing, configure which markers to track, and copy the indexed list to the clipboard.

Marker indexing takes place in the background, and is enabled by default. All the named markers on your map are tracked (that is all tags and icons except the General Icons), but you can disable tracking of individual markers using the configuration options. You can also control whether the index is automatically refreshed  using the MindManager options.

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Use the Marker Index pane

To see the Marker Index task pane:

To show a topic from the list in your map:

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Control and configure marker indexing

When marker indexing is active and set for automatic refresh, MindManager continually scans your map(s) and updates the index(es) to keep them in sync. This can slow MindManager's performance, especially when working with large maps. To remedy this, you can set an option to refresh the index(es) only at your request, or you can disable indexing for any or all open maps and re-enable it only when needed.

Refreshing the index

To enable or disable automatic refresh:

  1. On the File tab, click Options, and then click Marker Index.

  2. In the Marker Index options, disable the Automatically refresh Marker Index option.

  1. Once you have set this option, you can refresh the index manually by clicking map_part_refresh.png at the top of the Marker Index task pane.

Disable marker indexing

To turn off marker indexing on the current map do one of the following:

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Choose markers for indexing

All the named markers on your map are automatically indexed, but you can choose to index only specific markers. New markers that you add to your map are not automatically indexed, but you can update the index to include them.

Select markers for indexing

  1. Do one of the following:

  2. Enable or disable tracking for specific markers in the dialog, and then click OK.

  3. Note: this setting applies only to the current map.

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Copy the Marker Index list to the clipboard

You can copy the current Marker Index list to the clipboard as a text file. This list can be used to show the current list of tasks on your map and their status, or a list of task assignments by resource, etc.

The copied list contains all the information from the Marker Index, regardless of the expanded / collapsed state of the groups within the list. You can paste this into any other document that accepts text.

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See also:

Markers

Task Info

Manage Markers