Node content
Properties panel
Double-click a node · Toolbar → Properties
Slides in from the right with four tabs: Style, Icons & image, Task and Content. A blue dot marks the tabs that already have something set. Click empty canvas or press Esc to close it; clicking another node keeps it open and shows that node.
Node style
Alt + B / I / S · Alt + = / -
9 shapes (including capsule, hexagon and diamond), fill, text and border colors, dashed borders, bold, italic, strikethrough, text size and alignment.
Custom colors
Rainbow circle after the swatches
Branch color, fill, text, border, relationships and the color theme can all use any color: click the rainbow circle to open the picker, drag the square for shade and the bar for hue, pick from the common colors grid, type a color code such as #3B82F6, or in Chrome / Edge use the eyedropper to pick from the screen. "Recent", under the swatches and in the picker, starts with the current color followed by the colors you recently customized or picked, one click to reuse; a whole drag counts as one undo step.
Icons
Properties → Icons & image
Priority, progress, emoji, flags and more; a node can have several, and you can filter by them.
Images: crop and position
Properties → Icons & image → Insert image
After picking a picture a crop box opens so you keep only the part you need (drag inside to move, drag edges and corners to resize); use Crop later to adjust it again. Images can sit above, below, left or right of the text.
Links and jumps
Properties → Content
Add a web address that opens in a new tab, or link to another node in the map and jump to it with one click.
Notes
Properties → Content
Extra details with Markdown lists, to-dos and links. Kept in XMind exports and shown with N in presentation mode.
Boundaries
Ctrl + B
Draws a frame around a subtree; press again to remove it. To frame several siblings together, Shift- or Ctrl-click them (under the same parent), then press Ctrl + B or right-click "Draw one boundary around these"; any siblings in between are included.
Summaries
Right-click → Add summary
Sums up a group of children in one line, shown beside a brace.
Relationships
Right-click → Add relationship
Then click the target node to connect two nodes on different branches. Change solid or dashed, color, arrows and label, and drag the middle dot to bend it.