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 based on a variety of icons, including Priority, Progress, Flags, Arrows, Smileys, and more. Priority icons are the default marker in Icon view. A count of the number of topics in each column is displayed at the top of the column.

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

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

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Choose an Icon view display mode

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Assign an icon to an uncategorized task or topic

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Recategorize a task or topic

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Mark a task as complete

  1. Click the task.

  2. 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.

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

On the Status Bar, click the Zoom Level button , click a value in the Zoom dialog or enter a value in the Percent box, and press ENTER.

For wheel-mouse users, hold down the right mouse button OR the CTRL key, then 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

Rename the view title

  1. Right-click the view title, and click Edit Title.
    By default, the title is the text in the map's central topic.

  2. Type a new title in the box, and click OK.

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Delete Icon view columns

Rename Icon view columns

  1. Right-click the column header, and click Rename.

  2. Type a new name in the Name box, and click OK.

Choose a different icon group for Icon view

  1. On the Icon View tab, click View Tools.

  2. In the Icon Group drop-down menu, choose an icon group.

Add an icon group to Icon view

  1. On the Icon View tab, click View Tools.

  2. In the Icon Group drop-down menu, click Add New, and then choose an icon group.

Hide topic formatting

Show subtopics

  1. On the Icon View tab, click View Tools, and click More Options.

  2. Check the Show Subtopics Icon box.

Hide a  column

Set how topics are sorted

  1. On the Icon View tab, click View Tools.

  2. Click the Sort Topics drop-down, and choose one of the following:

Set the vertical distance between topics

  1. On the Icon View tab, click View Tools, and click More Options.

  2. Specify the distance in the Distance Between Topics box.

The default vertical distance is 2 mm. The maximum is 9999.9 mm; the minimum is 0.

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