✏️ Edit Diagram

The Edit Diagram menu is the central tool for creating and structuring your knowledge network. Here you can create new items (nodes) and relations (lines), organize their hierarchy, and use the powerful automation features of the InfoRapid KnowledgeBase Builder.

Before you fully utilize the individual functions in this menu, it is extremely important to understand the following basic principle of the app:

Create the first item: When you create a completely new database, you will not see a node in the center of the empty screen yet, but a button "Create new item". Clicking on it opens the dialog for your very first root item.
Edit items and relations: To edit an object, you must first click (select) the item or the relation line in the diagram.
The quick context toolbar: As soon as you select an object, a small, floating toolbar opens immediately right next to the element. Click on "Edit Item" or "Edit Relation" there to open the dialog for names, descriptions, and formatting. In practice, this is often the faster way than using the left main menu.
Reset positions: Have you moved nodes manually and want to restore the perfect auto-layout? Select any item. Only in the toolbar that now appears on the item (not in the left main menu!) will you find the buttons "Reset Position" (resets only the shift of this single item) and "Reset all Positions" (cleans up the entire diagram again perfectly).

↩️ Undo & Redo

At the very top of the left main menu are the global commands for error correction:

Undo: Undoes the last work step. Pro tip: The system saves the last 200 work steps directly in the database. This allows you to revoke mistakes even if you have closed and restarted the app in the meantime.
Redo: Restores a step that was accidentally undone.

🔵 Item

In this section you will find all the tools for direct editing of individual nodes in your mind map. The commands always refer to the currently selected item.

Multiselect: Activates a mode in which you can select several items in the diagram at the same time to change their formatting in one go, copy, or delete them.
New: Creates a new item in the current diagram.
Edit: Opens the text editor for the currently selected item to adjust Name, Description, Hyperlink or Category.
Delete: Removes the selected item along with all its attached relations from the database.
Copy / Cut / Paste: The classic clipboard functions to duplicate or move items.
Paste as child: Pastes an item copied from the clipboard as a direct subcategory (child node) of the currently selected item.
Import Wikipedia articles: An absolute highlight of the app! Opens a search window with which you can research directly in Wikipedia. The app automatically imports the desired article (including images if desired) as a formatted item into your mind map.
Complete Items with Wikipedia: Compares existing items in your diagram with Wikipedia and enriches them with the corresponding information.
Wikidata Import: Allows the import of complex, structured data sets (such as mythologies or historical family trees) directly from Wikidata using a SPARQL query.
Import Webpage: Reads the contents of a specified URL and transfers it into the diagram.
Insert Images: Inserts image files from your device into the diagram. These can be stored as a preview directly in the item node or as an attachment (visible in the tooltip). Note: The app automatically offers to reduce oversized images to an optimal 1024 pixels to keep the database performant.

🎨 Item Templates

To ensure a consistent design in large diagrams, you can save formatting (such as colors, frame shapes, and fonts) as templates.

New: Creates a new design template based on the formatting of the currently selected item.
Update: Overwrites an existing template with the current design settings.
Rename: Changes the name of the saved template.
Delete: Deletes the selected template from the list.
Apply to Item: Transfers the saved design to the currently selected item in the diagram.

🔗 Relation

Here you control the lines and relationships between the individual items.

New: Starts the tool for drawing a new relation line. Pro tip: It's even faster to do this directly in the diagram by tapping/clicking on the start item and dragging and dropping the pointer to the target item.
Edit: Opens the dialog for the relation. Here you can define the line name (for forward and backward direction) or save descriptions for the line.
Delete: Deletes the selected relation line without deleting the items attached to it.

🎨 Relation Templates

Similar to the item templates, you can manage designs for your lines here (e.g. line style, line width, arrows, and color).

New / Update / Rename / Delete: To manage the line designs.
Apply to Relation: Transfers the saved line formatting to the currently selected relation.

📥 Insert (Automation & Expert Tools)

This submenu offers advanced functions to generate diagrams fully automatically from existing data.

Appointment: Inserts a special calendar/date item including start and end time.
Pseudocode: A powerful tool for software developers and process planners. Enter simple text commands (like if, while, switch), and the app automatically generates a perfectly structured, complex flowchart from it.
Outlined Text: Generates branched mind maps from simple text files. If you have structured texts using indentations (e.g. from MS Word) or as HTML lists, you can paste them here. The app builds a finished hierarchical map from them in fractions of a second.
Textanalysis: An ingenious function for knowledge extraction. Paste a long continuous text, and the software analyzes it for frequent and relevant terms (excluding definable stop words). From this, a mind map of the key terms is automatically created, whereby the respective sentences from the original text are stored as notes on the nodes.
Run Script: Executes automation scripts in JSON format. This function is primarily designed for internal purposes and the app's integrated Help Assistant.