Minder

Overview

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.

Installation

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.

Distribution packages

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

Documentation

Minder documentation can be found here.