XMind is a powerful mind mapping and brainstorming tool used by millions of people around the world. While XMind: ZEN’s minimalist design greatly reduces the cost and difficulty for beginners, there are many uses that may not be familiar to most people. If you can master these quick actions, you can quickly improve your drawing efficiency.
Rapid style
Quick Style Allows for quick changes to theme styles, which can be used to highlight the importance of a topic, and for task management, which can be crossed off as soon as a task is completed. Quick Styles currently support four markup methods: Extremely important, important, Delete, and default.
The neat thing about the Quick Style feature is that it synchronizes updates to the annotated theme. Especially if you are making a large map, it can be a lot of work to make changes to the annotated theme one by one. But quick Style supports one-click updates, which can be updated to all the same annotated themes with one click of the mouse.
At the same time, the Quick Styles feature can also update styles to all sibling themes or all subthemes in one click. When customizing the style of a map, adjust the style of a subtheme and click Update to all of its peers to synchronize your favorite style to all of its peers or subthemes.
shortcuts
Mastering common shortcut keys can greatly improve the efficiency of drawing. General skilled use of Tab, enter and the space bar can quickly map the drawing. You can also try other key combinations for inserting notes, contacts, outer boxes, and so on.
Create a new subtheme — Tab
Create a new sibling theme – Enter key
Type the text — space bar
Other shortcuts can be viewed in the software menu bar. For now, XMind: ZEN also supports customization of shortcut keys, which can be customized if the preset shortcut keys do not fit your usage habits.
ZEN mode
XMind: One of ZEN’s biggest features is the ZEN mode. In ZEN mode, the pages are clean and free of clutter. You can focus on the capture of your thoughts without the distractions of the outside world. With the operation of shortcut keys, you can be deeply immersed in your own thinking and think more calmly and clearly.
The ZEN mode also supports the timing of today’s focus time. When combined with the Pomodoro technique, giving yourself a certain amount of time to complete a task effectively puts a little pressure on yourself to complete it more efficiently.
Also cool is the Night mode in ZEN mode. Open in a low-light environment, can effectively alleviate the visual fatigue caused by bright screen.
If you want to improve your mind mapping efficiency, try XMind: ZEN. If you have any other interesting things to share, feel free to leave them in the comments