Mindomo Changelog

06 October 2008 (v.3.8)

Feature: Possibility to add maps to favorites.

Feature: Drag & drop of maps between folders.

Feature: Added HTML View for maps.

Feature: Partial spanish translation was added.

Bugfix: Spellcheck problem solved.

Bugfix: Fixed bug with save as loosing the link to a topic.

05 September 2008 (v.3.7)

Bugfix: Fixed issue with encrypted map opening from the map browser.

Bugfix: Fixed issue with canceling the uploading of images/documents.

Bugfix: Fixed issue with saving map-to-map links in encrypted documents.

Bugfix: Fixed memory leak in image downloading module.

21 August 2008 (v.3.6)

Feature: Upload images and insert to topics. Limited to 100MB/user (available for premium users only)

Feature: Preview for images in the browser page.

Feature: Fullscreen functionality in the viewer.

Feature: Favicon support for URLs.

Feature: Possibility to change the alignment of the multimedia(image,video).

Feature: If viewer fail to load a map it shows a nicer window.

Bugfix: Fixed issue with boundary drawing.

Bugfix: Fixed the autorize bug which appeared whenever a map was zoomed to a very low value and the user clicked on expand/collapse.

11 August 2008 (v.3.6)

Feature: Upload documents and attach to topics. Limited to 100MB/user (available for premium users only)

Feature: Insert Video to topic

Feature: Insert Audio to topic

Feature: The Map Canvas is automatically resized to contain all available topics.

Feature: Translation to Chinese, Italian, Russian

Bugfix: Improved performance of drawing curves.

Bugfix: Fixed the FitMap bug.

Bugfix: Checked Remember me at login didn't allow to logout.

Extended the servers with additional hardware.

26 May 2008 (v.3.5)

Feature: Export to Microsoft Excel (XLS) (available for premium users only)

Feature: Redesigned Mindomo Customer site (for Mindomo Business and Education) version 2.0.

Bugfix: Making possible to show the search box during embedding.

10 May 2008

Bugfix: Sometimes changing password disabled the account.

Bugfix: Export options were not taken into consideration during exporting.

Bugfix: Deleting relationship made impossible to add new relationship.

Bugfix: Dialog launcher was not disabled when all maps where closed, which caused an exception.

17 April 2008

Feature: Redesigned complete web site.

Feature: Redesigned "Maps" page. Maps may be shown categorized or in folders.

Feature: Localization to German and Swedish.

Feature: Map-to-Map links are now possible

Feature: Topic links are now possible

Feature: Hyperlinks may be started in the same window or in a new window.

Feature: Automatic reconnect after network connection failure.

Feature: Last modification date is converted acording to the user's local timezone.

Feature: Possibility to log in from the editor in the eventuality of a session timeout (after 10 minutes of inactivity the users will be automatically logged out).

Feature: Possibility to login and save a map from the demo mode.

Feature: Possibility to configure how Mindomo starts: same window, new tab, popup window

Feature: Remember me option at the login page

Feature: Status icon showing the status green/red if Mindomo is connected/disconnected to/from the server.

Feature: Notifications when multiple users open the same map.

Feature: Logout button on top right of the Mindomo editor

Bugfix: Corrected bug of spellchecking topics with nodes

Bugfix: Corrected bug of searching the root element

Bugfix: Corrected bug of locking maps when users have only read rights

Bugfix: Deleteing central topic is disabled.

Bugfix: Switching between tabs always selected the central topic.

Bugfix: Delete button deletes the selected image, relationship or topic.

21 January 2008

Feature: New printing dialog with advanced printing options

- the number of pages you want to print your map
- paper format
- orientation
- margins
- measurement units, etc...

There were many users who complained about the poor printing in Mindomo. We have listened their complaints and created a new dialog which will let you print your maps in all kinds of formats. However we were limited by the printing functionality in the Flash Player, but we hope that we managed to find a good compromise. Due to the fact that there is no way that we change the printer paperformat and orientation from the program, it remains for the user to do the same settings twice. Once for the preview and once for the printer. We show a couple of warning messages to remember the user this repetitive task and we hope that this will make the users to remember to change the printer's settings.

10 January 2008

Bugfix: Corrected bug of changing connection width

Bugfix: Connected the list of available link protocols

During the update we mistakenly uploaded a version of Mindomo which contained half implemented upcoming features. Only a small ammount of users should have connected to this version, those users should refresh their browser cache in order to reload the actual version. To refresh your browser cache please press Ctrl+F5 key combination (Works only under Windows: Firefox and IE)

26 November 2007

Feature: Possibility to create folders / subfolders

Feature: Possibility to copy and paste maps between folders

- premium users are now able to create subfolders in the Private Maps folder and to organize their maps into different categories.

Feature: Possibility to filter out maps by name or by author from the Map Browser

Feature: Map Browser remembers its last location in the directory hierarchy

- thus next time when you want to open a map you will start from the same location as when you left the dialog

Feature: Applying map styles (map themes) can be undone and redone

Feature: Topic Notes can be viewed in a left side panel

- this is especially useful for topic notes which are long and the tooltip space is not large enough to display them

Feature: The Mindomo Button contains a few additional actions

- login to edit
- get the javascript code to embed the map into your webpages

Feature: Zooming is done with a slider, which is similar like in the editor

Feature: Scrollbars are hidden

Feature: When embedding in web-sites, the look and feel of the editor can be customized

- we will have more details about this in a later post

Change: Import and Export is made more visible in the Application Menu

- a new sharing button was added where you can direclty start the sharing dialog

Change: The Mindomo Viewer has been completely redesigned

- the new look followes the look and feel of the Mindomo Editor

Bugfix: Wrong initial viewpoint, where the initial location of the map was not correctly calculated

Bugfix: Mailto: was not correctly started

Bugfix: Notes bug, sometimes the contents of the notes was lost

Most of the work we did was on the server side (back-end) part of Mindomo. We made it database independent, and more configurable than it was before. Altough this is not something which is visible, it was necessary for the upcoming features.

30 October 2007

Feature: Mindomo Business/Education trial version is now available!

- it is valid for 14 days
- it is limited to 6 user accounts
- it is limited to 2 maps per user account

Feature: A windows installer containing all required software to run Mindomo Business/Education.

- a graphical user interface will guide you trough the installation process
- it will install Mindomo Software, Apache 2.2 webserver, PHP 5, PostgreSQL 8.2 database server, additional libraries required to run Mindomo.

Feature: A package containing only the Mindomo Software

- requires manual configuration of a webserver with PHP 5 and a database server (PostgreSQL or MySQL)
- it can be installed on Linux/Unix, MacOSX or Windows
- it requires in-depth knowledge about configuring the above mentioned software

We are excited to announce that a trial version of Mindomo Business/Education is available for download. You can find the available downloads, documentation and price list by signing in at the following link Mindomo Customer Center To sign in please use an existing Mindomo account.

09 August 2007

Feature: Redesigned ribbon bar

- we have rearranged the functionalities of Mindomo in a way which follows the Microsoft® Office Fluent UI and hopefully is much more intuitive
- the new ribbon bar contains the Application button, the Quickaccess toolbar and the application title bar.

Feature: Ability to open multiple maps in tabs an copy branches between them (Premium Users Only)

- now you will increase your productivity by opening multiple maps and copying branches and other information between your maps.

Feature: Spell checker (Premium Users Only)

- you can check your maps for spelling errors
- the available languages are: English, German, Spanish, French, Italian, Portuguese, Swedish, Danish, Dutch, Finnish and Polish.

Feature: Fullscreen view (Premium Users Only)

- you can switch between normal(embedded) view and fullscreen view during your presentation or editing.

Feature: Map locking for avoiding simultaneous editing

- if another user has already opened for editing the map you are looking to modify, on the bottom-right side of the screen you will see a panel which keeps you informed of the map's status

- when clicking the Refresh button, the map will be reloaded with the latest modifications made by the user which currently holds the lock

- if the other user has finished editing, upon refresh you will be the one locking the map for editing

Feature: Added new boundary types

- we've added a number of new boundary types to help you make your maps more exciting

Feature: Added new relationship types

- we've added new types of relationships to help you increase the comprehensiveness of your maps

Feature: Added new hyperlink types

- you can now choose between various types of links which can be added in your map nodes

Feature: Added new options to browse your maps

- you can now choose between a thumbnail view or a list view when you are browsing your private maps
- You can now easily filter your maps by typing the name into the filter field

Feature: Application Menu with recent maps

- we implemented an application menu which helps you clearly choose your map operations and also enables you to quickly open one of your recently edited maps

Feature: Implemented minimized ribbon bar state

- this new feature allows you to minimize the ribbon bar in order maximize your map display area
- in order to switch between the minimized and normal state of the ribbon bar you have to double clicked the opened tab

20 June 2007

Feature: Mindomo Premium has been released!

Change: Completely redesigned our site

Change: Extended our help pages

Change: Added new feature to save a map encrypted into our database(Premium Users Only)

Change: After login your maps will be shown and they can be opened by clicking on the preview thumbnail

Change: Created a separate page to search, browse and rate the public maps

Bugfix: Import/Export from Mindmanager

Bugfix: When there is no map preview image an image with "No preview" text is shown

Bugfix: The preview images are updated on every save

Bugfix: Hand cursor points where the arrow points

Bugfix: Topic text selection disappears after selecting other topic

Bugfix: Solved map size limitation during exporting a map to an image

Bugfix: Cursor does not disappear when inserting relationship and the topic is not in the viewable area

15 May 2007

Feature: New map styling

- A "map style" is a list of predefined properties for the topics
- It defines the properties for: the center topic, the main topics, the subtopics(topics on level 2 or above), and the properties of the map
- For every different kind of topic (center, main, subtopic) the following attributes are kept in a style:
- Background fill, Shape, Font (name, size, bold, italic, underline, color), Alignment and Line format (except the color)
- Additionaly the following map attributes will be saved:
- Center line color, Background fill and Map size
- There are 20 predefined styles
- You may style your maps by applying one of these styles to your map
- NOTE: Styles will work only with new maps!
- Applying styles for old maps (created before 15.05.2007) will not work!

Feature: Creating and setting the default map style for your account

- Currently you can't edit the map styles, but you can set a default style for your account
- This default style will be used to create a new map, after you login or whenever you press the create new map.
- To set your default style follow the steps below:
1. Create a new map
2. Add a main topic to the central topic
3. Add a subtopic to the main topic
4. Change the properties of these 3 topics
5. Set the background color of your map
6. Go to the "Map" tab and click on the "Set as default" button.
7. Next time when you login, you should get your default style :).

Feature: Additional exporting options

- During exporting to PDF, RTF and TXT the following options can be specified:
- Generate table of contents
- Numbering scheme
- Depth for numbering
- Option to include links

8 May 2007

Feature: Small preview image is generated for maps

- a small preview image is generated when the map is saved
- for old maps this image will be generated when these maps will be saved again

Change: Cleaned up the public maps

- the last days we removed the test junk and duplicate maps

Bugfix: Layout problems with Bottom/Right/Left tree layouts

Bugfix: Topic editing and font style problems

Bugfix: Url was stored case insensitive

Bugfix: Loading and saving topic fill style and color for the task info

Bugfix: Copying nodes with symbols, priorities and task info was not done properly

Bugfix: SaveAs duplicated the map without overwriting it

30 April 2007

Feature: Import from Freemind

- the following items are imported: Rich text title, Rich text notes, Icons and Colors
- to import a FreeMind file, you should press the Import button from the tab bar and select the file you want to import.

Feature: Export to plain text

- a plain text outline of your map will be generated
- you can access this feature form the export wizard

27 April 2007

Change: Added possibility to search in topic titles

Change: Added possibility to freely position the main topics

- it is not entirely "free" positioning, because we won't let branches to overlap
- this functionality needs some more work, but it already will help you to create better looking maps

Change: Notes editor is docked to the left side of application

- some users asked for this

Bugfix: printing, selecting topics and text and changing font name

20 April 2007

Feature: Export to MMAP (MindManager Map Format)

- now you will be able to save your maps to your desktop computer
- mindomo currenly has only one map style, therefore the style of the MindManager map will be changed to this style when the import is done
- we will soon have full style support in Mindomo, so you will be able to import any style from MindManager in the near future

Feature: Multiple topic selection using the mouse

- drag the mouse while keeping the Ctrl or Shift keys pressed

Feature: Keyboard topic selection

- Shift + Up, Shift + Down, Shift + Left, Shfit + Right to select a single topic
- Ctrl + A to select all topics

Change: Changed the core of Mindomo to support map styles


Please note that some of these features will be available only in the Premium version at the end of the beta testing.

13 April 2007

Change: We have updated the MindManager import, we now support nearly all elements

- Topic title with formatting
- Topic notes with formatting (tables are not supported and will be stripped out)
- Task info - Start date, Due date, Resources, Duration: hour(s), day(s), week(s), month(s)
- Priority and Task Completion symbols
- All symbols which have correspondents in Mindomo - Smileys, Flags, Checkmarks, Home, etc...
- Layout stlyes for subtopics (where there is no correspondent in Mindomo, we convert the layout to the most appropiate)
- Flag which tells if the task info should be shown in the topics
- Map background color (images are not imported, yet)
- Topic boundaries

6 April 2007

Feature: Ability to privately share maps between Mindomo users, specifying various access rights

- read/copy/modify/delete

Feature: Ability to specify various access rights when saving into the public folders

- read/copy/modify/delete

Feature: Ability to embed private or public maps in Websites

- we reduced the size of the viewer to 330kb

Feature: Central topic name is taken as default map name, during saving

Feature: Copy & Paste Topic style

Feature: Count the number of views on a map

Feature: Load and Save GUI (Graphical User Interface) was changed

Feature: Export to RTF - Rich Text Format

Feature: Export to PDF - Portable Document Format

Feature: Export to MindManager

- We still have some issues with the export to MindManager file format, but as soon as we solve these issues we will make it available


Please note that some of these features will be available only in the Premium version at the end of the beta testing.

23 March 2007

Mindomo was listed as one of the "Top 25 Web 2.0 Apps to Improve a Student's or Professor's Productivity" according to the OEDb (Online Education Database).

10 March 2007

Feature: Added the Tab key to insert a new subtopic

Feature: Rename topic will select the whole text

Feature: Removed copyright notice from image exports

Feature: Double click on a map in the open dialog will open the clicked map

Bugfix: Saving images. The maximum image size to export is 2880x2880 pixels

Bugfix: Spelling errors.

27 February 2007

Feature: Import from MindManager maps

- please click on the Import button from the Home tab, select the file you want to import to Mindomo, then the import progress will start
- please be patient the import will take some time and currently there is no progress bar to show a feedback on the progress

22 February 2007

Today we officially released Mindomo Beta. We are really happy that our "baby" has finally arrived :).

It was a long journey to reach this point. We have had a lot of discussions about which features are important, which should be left for later implementations, the profiles of the different versions, and which architectural solution to choose.

We tried to include the most important features into the Free version and also offer extra power and value in the:
Premium,
Business and
Education packages.
One important feature in the Free version which is not available right now is the export to and import from other desktop mind mapping applications. This is under development, and will be available soon!

We are hopeful that you will enjoy Mindomo and will find it useful.
You can start in minutes with the free version by signing up for free.

For feedback, comments and bug submissions please visit our Forum

Thank you,
The Mindomo Team.