A marker is an icon, text annotation, font color or fill color with an associated name or meaning (i.e. Michael's tasks). You can use markers to code your map by applying them to specific topics. Markers are stored in a map marker list, and the current list is shown in the Map Markers task pane.
Do one of the following:
On the Home tab, click the Map Markers group dialog launcher.
On the Status Bar, click the Task Panes button, then click Map Markers.
The markers are organized into groups based on their type (icon, text markers, fill color or font color). A default set of marker groups is always included in the list. Markers can also be added to topics from the pane.
You can create additional groups for icons and text markers, organize (move, add, remove), name and group markers.
Each map markers list is pre-populated with groups of markers of a single type (Task info, icons, text markers, font color, fill color). Some groups are default groups (they appear in every map markers list) and may be empty in some lists. Markers within the group can be mutually exclusive (only one marker from this group can be used on a topic) or not (multiple markers from this group can be used on a topic). You can change this attribute for user-defined icon groups and for text marker groups.
Unnamed markers (without assigned meanings) are not included in the legend and disappear from the list when they are no longer used on the map. Named markers remain in the markers list whether or not they are used on the map. You can modify their meaning and content, or remove them from the list (and legend) if they are not used. See Modify the map markers list for details.
Group Definitions ▼
|
Group name |
Default group? |
Contents |
|
Task Priorities |
yes |
The whole set or a subset of the standard Priority icons
(1-9). |
|
Task Complete (%) |
yes |
The whole set or a subset of standard Task Complete
(%) icons (0% to 100%) |
|
Resources |
yes |
All resources used on the map - you must rename dynamic
resources (names are grayed) to keep them in the group if not used on
the map. |
|
{various text marker groups}
|
no |
Text markers |
|
{various icon groups} |
no |
Named icons (named by user) |
|
Single Icons |
yes |
Named icons that don't belong to any icon group. |
|
General Icons
|
yes |
Markers that are used on the map but not assigned to
a group (names are grayed). If you delete the marker on the map it is
removed from the list. You must move these markers to another group to
keep them in the list. They are not included in
the legend. |
|
Fill Colors |
yes |
A selection of fill colors, may
be named or unnamed (unnamed colors disappear from the list if not used
on the map and are not included in the legend). |
|
Font Colors |
yes |
A selection of font colors, may be named or unnamed
(unnamed colors disappear from the list if not used on the map and are
not included in the legend). |
The Task priorities, Task complete (%), and Resources are default groups that work in conjunction with MindManager's Task info features. When you add a marker from one of these groups to a topic the corresponding task info is also added to the topic.