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📝 Notes on Item

The Notes on Item menu is your integrated text editor for in-depth knowledge. Every item (every node) in your mind map can hold an extensive HTML text note – including formatted text, tables, formulas, and hyperlinks.

The notes view has two main states: A pure Read View where the note is displayed formatted and interactive elements can be used, and an Edit Mode for writing and adjusting the content.

🎛️ Header & General Control

At the very top of the notes window, you will find the global control functions for the currently opened note:

  • SYNC: Automatically synchronizes the text notes window with the 3D diagram. If you click on a different item in the diagram, the note view immediately switches to the newly selected node thanks to this function.
  • Expand / collapse window (Arrow symbol): Expands or collapses the width of the text notes panel. This is particularly useful for giving yourself more space on the screen when writing or reading long texts.
  • Close (X symbol): Closes the text notes window and returns you to the full diagram view.

⚙️ File & Display Options

In this section, you control the basic behavior of the note view:

  • Save note: Manually saves your current text inputs to the database.
  • Save automatically (Checkbox): Pro tip: Activate this option so that the system saves every text change fully automatically in the background while you type.
  • Delete note: Irrevocably deletes the entire content of the current text note after a security prompt.
  • Start in Edit Mode (Checkbox): By default, already filled notes are opened in pure Read View. On tablets and smartphones, this prevents the on-screen keyboard from accidentally popping up when just reading or highlighting. Check this box if you want the note field to always be in the writable Edit Mode immediately when opening an item.

✏️ The Edit Mode (Edit Toolbar)

When you activate the Edit Mode, a multi-part toolbar becomes visible, which can be operated like a classic word processor.

📝 Edit Text

This submenu contains general tools for the document:

  • Undo / Redo: Undoes or re-applies the last input.
  • Insert Images: Opens a dialog to upload or insert images into your note. You can often determine alignment and size here as well.
  • Insert Formula: Inserts a placeholder for complex mathematical formulas, which the system then displays graphically correctly.
  • Insert Hyperlink / Remove Hyperlink: Highlight a word to add an external internet address (URL), or remove existing links.
  • Insert Horizontal Line: Inserts a visual separator line into the text.
  • Spell Check: Activates or deactivates your browser's automatic spell checker for this text field.
  • HTML Source: Switches to the pure HTML code view of the note (formatting tools are deactivated here). This is particularly useful for professionals who want to adjust the layout in detail.

🔤 Format Font

Here you adjust the appearance of individual words or sentences:

  • Font Style: Format text as Bold, Italic, Underline or ~~Strike Through~~.
  • Font Name & Font Size: Select the desired font or adjust the size (Increase Font / Decrease Font) in single steps.
  • Superscript / Subscript: Useful for formulas or footnotes (e.g., H₂O or x²).
  • Text Color & Background Color: Highlight selected text with colors from the palette.
  • Remove Format: Deletes all special style settings of the selected text and resets it to the default.

📑 Format Paragraph & Edit Table

Tools for structuring layout and lists:

  • Headings: Format paragraphs as "Main Heading" or "Subheading".
  • Alignment & Indent: Align text Justify Left, Justify Center, Justify Right or Justify Both and use the "Indent" or "Outdent" commands.
  • Lists: Create a "Numbered List" or an unnumbered "List" (bullet points).
  • Edit Table: Insert new tables and manage them using commands like "Insert Row Above"/"Insert Row Below", "Delete Row", "Insert Column Left"/"Insert Column Right" or "Delete Column".

⚡ Actions (Automations)

Important Note: The Actions tab is only displayed when Edit Mode is switched off (i.e., you are in the pure Read View).

This tab transforms the notes view into an ingenious tool for knowledge workers. Here you will find automations that allow complex diagrams to virtually build themselves just by reading texts.

  • Highlight item names (Checkbox): Automatically searches the continuous text of your note for words that already exist as nodes (items) in your current diagram and highlights them in color.
  • Analyze text: Analyzes the entire text of the current note for frequent and relevant key terms and fully automatically generates a networked mind map from it, with the respective original sentences from the text stored as new notes on the created nodes.
  • Import Wikipedia articles: Highlight a word to search directly for the matching Wikipedia article and create it as a new item.
  • Create new items automatically (Checkbox): The most ingenious feature for quick research! If this is activated, every word or sentence you highlight in the note is immediately and fully automatically turned into a new node item in the diagram.
  • Import Wikipedia articles automatically (Checkbox): With every text highlighting, automatically tries to load the matching Wikipedia article in the background and add it to the project.
  • Import Webpage when link is clicked (Checkbox): If you click on a hyperlink in the note, the target webpage is read directly and its content imported as a new diagram item instead of opening it in a separate browser window.