MagicalPad creates a blank top-level topic. Outlines: To create an outline, use the “plus” button. A mind map properties button gives you access to 8 different map layouts, connector line shapes (straight or curved), change how many levels of your map are expanded or collapsed and enables you to change the app’s settings so you can double-tap to create a new topic. Like a dedicated mind mapping program, map branches in MagicalPad can be expanded and collapsed. Mind map topics can be converted into tasks at any time. Mind maps: MagicalPad HD enables you to use your mouse and keyboard shortcuts to quickly build out mind maps many levels deep. Even if you’ve never used an app like this before, I found this to be an intuitive way to get started.
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Adding content to your MagicalPad fileĪdding content to MagicalPad is simple: Tapping on the “insert content” icon, which looks like a plus sign inside of a circle, enables you to add a mind map, outline, text, photo or drawing. It even gives you options for background image alignment. A properties button on the right side of each page title enable you to adjust the background color of your page or use an image for the background. It also contains buttons that enable you to add new pages, duplicate them (if you want to use one as a template for others), and delete them. Tapping the page icon on the bottom toolbar displays a panel on the left side of the workspace with a list of your current notebook’s pages. Nicely done!Įach MagicalPad can have multiple pages. I love the way MagicalPad’s context-sensitive menu is designed: It doesn’t overwhelm new users with too many options, yet advanced settings are just a tap away. A downward-pointing arrow enables you to expand this context-sensitive menu even more to reveal commands for coloring elements, such as text, mind map and note shapes as well as outline colors. Tap on it, and a mini-toolbar elegantly slides out, which enables you to convert it to a to do item (which places a checkbox next to it), cut, copy, paste and delete, and move it within an outline hierarchy. When you tap to select an element in the app, a circle icon with 3 lines appears in its upper right corner. Just like many desktop business programs, MagicalPad provides context-sensitive menus for each element that enable you to perform common tasks quickly, without resorting to the toolbars. As you would expect, you can use two fingers to zoom in and out of the workspace, and drag with one finger to drag it horizontally and vertically. The MagicalPad workspace is completely free-form you can position notes, lists, tasks, mind map topics and other elements freely on an “infinite” canvas to denote relative importance and relationships between them. They can easily be restored by tapping on the small, unobtrusive “closed” tabs. Both toolbars contain tabs with arrows that, when tapped, cause these toolbars to slide out of the way too make more room on the iPad’s screen. A set of tabs entitled “visual” and “task” enable you to quickly toggle between a full, rich, colorful visual workspace and a spartan, black-and-white task list. Toolbars on the top and bottom of the workspace provide access to the most common MagicalPad commands. Each workbook can have multiple pages, just like a physical notebook. To help you get started with this multi-functional tool, MagicalPad for iPad comes with many sample notebooks that highlights some of the most valuable business and personal applications of MagicalPad. This familiar visual metaphor gives the app a comfortable feel and invites exploration. When you first open MagicalPad, you are greeted with a row of notebooks that look like Moleskine notebooks, with an elastic cord holding each cover shut. Once you understand its navigation and functional conventions, it makes a whole lot more sense.
MagicalPad does so much that it’s a little overwhelming at first. I definitely recommend viewing the app’s “quick guide,” which is accessible from its help button. In this review, I will walk you through the most notable features of MagicalPad for iPad, which was recently updated to add even more functionality, and how you can use it to enhance your productivity. What makes it truly unique is that you can intermingle these different types of visuals all on the same page, interconnected to one another. In the last three years, it has come a long way and now offers multiple ways to represent your ideas – using mind mapping, outlining, notes, tasks and images – all via a single, intuitive interface. In 2011, I told you about MagicalPad, a list-making tool for the iPad that showed a lot of promise for capturing and organizing ideas.
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