NovaMind 4 Pro for Windows

Gideon King had emailed me information in his NovaMind Newsletter to share with me all the exciting new features that will be in the release of NovaMind 4 Pro for Windows. You can see from the list below that the new feature set is considerable. Gideon is also looking for users who are interested in doing beta testing for NovaMind 4 Pro. It is a great opportunity to work with the application before it is released and get a chance to provide the company with valuable feedback.

Below are some of the new features of NovaMind 4 - the hyperlinks will open images showing you the items:

• Create new documents from templates
• A template chooser, showing you the templates available and with the ability to select themes and see instantly how it will change your selected Mind Map template, and then creation of your Mind Map using that template and theme.
• New ribbon bar with commands grouped into Home, Insert, Design, View and Format options, meaning that there is much less switching between tabs - most operations can be accomplished from the home tab.
• New text handling system so that the text commands can be used on branches even when you are not editing the text, and even handle multiple branch selections from the same interface.
• Instant preview of line weight, line style, fonts, and corner settings so you can see what it is going to look like before you apply it.
• Layout settings panel showing you a preview of how your Mind Map will look when you apply the selected branch spacing to the Mind Map
• Selection of themes, with instant preview of the theme applied when you mouse over a theme.
• Selection of map styles , again with instant preview when you mouse over the style.
• A special formatting floating panel which allows you to set the graphical attributes of the branch or graphic all from one place.
• Background settings floating panel with all the background settings in one place.
• Graphic style selector with instant preview of the style as applied to selected branches.
• New tabs for multiple Mind Maps, with preview of the Mind Maps as you move your mouse over the tabs, menu based selection of Mind Maps for documents with many Mind Maps, and the ability to scroll through the tabs, drag them into a different order, and drag them onto other documents to copy the Mind Map to the other document.
• Document View where you can work with the map settings of multiple documents at the same time.
• A new sidebar. The sidebar has multiple tabs, the first holding the graphic library with adornments and graphics available to be selected and dragged on to your Mind Map. The second tab is for branch notes, where you can type your notes - you can also drag graphics from the graphics library on to the notes tab to add them to your notes. The third tab is the outline view which allows you to work with your Mind Map outline directly.

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