Use the power of mind-mapping to make your ideas come to life.
- Quickly create visual mind-maps using the keyboard and automatic layout.
- Choose from many tree layout choices.
- Support for Markdown formatting.
- Add notes, tasks and images to your nodes.
- Add node-to-node connections with optional text and notes.
- Stylize nodes, links and connections to add more meaning and improve readability.
- Add stickers and node groups to call out and visibly organize information.
- Quick search of node and connection titles and notes, including filtering options.
- Zoom in or enable focus mode to focus on certain ideas or zoom out to see the bigger picture.
- Enter focus mode to better view and understand portions of the map.
- Unlimited undo/redo of any change.
- Automatically saves in the background.
- Colorized node branches.
- Open multiple mindmaps with the use of tabs.
- Built-in and customizable theming.
- Gorgeous animations.
- Import from OPML, FreeMind, Freeplane, PlainText (formatted), Outliner, Portable Minder and XMind formats.
- Export to CSV, FreeMind, Freeplane, JPEG, BMP, SVG, Markdown, Mermaid, OPML, Org-Mode, Outliner, PDF, PNG, Portable Minder, PlainText, XMind and yEd formats.
- Printer support.
You will need the following dependencies to build Minder:
- ninja-build
- python3-pip
- python3-setuptools
- meson
- valac (version 0.48.3 or later is recommended to avoid compile issues with libarchive)
- debhelper
- libcairo2-dev
- libgranite-dev
- libgtk-3-dev
- libxml2-dev
- libgee-0.8-dev
- libarchive-dev
- libgtksourceview-3.0-dev
- libmarkdown2-dev
From the command-line within the top Minder directory, run ./app run to build and run the application.
To install, run sudo ./app install and then run the application from your application launcher.
Arch Linux users can find Minder in the official community repo:
$ sudo pacman -S minder
Minder is packaged in Void Linux, install it with xbps-install:
$ sudo xbps-install Minder
For Fedora users, install the RPM package with:
$ sudo dnf install minder
Debian/Ubuntu package is also available:
$ sudo apt install minder
Minder documentation can be found here.