You can also add colours and icons to your Mindmap. This will help you navigate your Mindmap as it grows larger. You can also then use the legend and filters to group elements together.

Adding Colours

Firstly select the branch you want to add colour to. The Format tab will appear on the toolbar.

In the Format tab press the fill colour button and select a colour. This will now fill the selected branch with your selected colour.

Adding Icons

Press on the branch you want to add an icon to. Now press the Icons tab on the right of the screen and select an icon to insert into the selected branch.

Legend and Filter

A good way to manage colours and icons is with the legend and filter tools.

Adding a Legend

Press on the View tab to access the Legend tool.

To add a legend firstly press on the Legend button. The legend now appears in the top left-hand side of the mind map.

Press on Add Item and choose to add a colour or icon – we will choose a colour for this example.

Now press on the Select button to use the eye-dropper tool, and choose the colour that you want to add to the legend from your mind map.

Press into the space to the right of the colour in the legend, and give the colour a label. For this example we will use the label 'More research needed'

To paint another branch with the same colour (or icon), select your branch and then hover over the colour label and press the paintbrush icon.

You can also now use the funnel symbol in the Legend, to filter by colour.