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.
• Support for insertion of Unicode characters.
• 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, filesystem and XMind formats.
• Export to CSV, FreeMind, Freeplane, JPEG, BMP, SVG, Markdown, Mermaid, OPML, Org-Mode, Outliner, PDF, PNG, Portable Minder, PlainText, filesystem, XMind and yEd formats.
• Printer support.

Installation

You will need the following dependencies to build Minder:

• ninja-build
• python3-pip
• python3-setuptools
• meson
• valac (any 0.48.x version -- any later version will result in segfaults -- earlier versions have issues with libarchive)
• debhelper
• libcairo2-dev
• libgranite-dev
• libgtk-3-dev
• libxml2-dev
• libgee-0.8-dev
• libarchive-dev
• libgtksourceview-4-dev
• libmarkdown2-dev
• libhandy-1-dev
• libjson-glib-dev

To install, run sudo ./app install and then run the application from your application launcher or from the command-line with ./app run.

Flatpak

Minder is available as a Flatpak (recommended) via Flathub and elementary OS AppCenter.

Flathub

You can install the Flathub flatpak from:

https://flathub.org/apps/com.github.phase1geo.minder

elementary OS AppCenter

Search for "Minder" in AppCenter and install from there.

Distribution packages

Arch Linux

Arch Linux users should use the flatpak version of Minder from Flathub.

Void Linux

Minder is packaged in Void Linux, install it with xbps-install:

$ sudo xbps-install Minder

Fedora

For Fedora users, install the RPM package with:

$ sudo dnf install minder

Debian/Ubuntu

Debian/Ubuntu package is also available:

$ sudo apt install minder

Documentation

Minder documentation can be found here.