Making Notes and Links in Your Mind Maps
Go back into the mind map and the text note will now be saved under the paperclip on the chosen branch.
You can add multiple text notes to a branch by selecting a new text note under the text note editor.
Firstly, in your web browser, find the web page that you want to capture the information from.
Now select the Insert ribbon and press Capture. Mindview will now minimise itself and you will then be switched to the web page you have previously loaded.
A small menu will appear on screen, which will ask you to choose to capture a Picture, Text or Audio.
Using Picture, you can capture images to send to your mind map. There is also an OCR function so you can screenshot an image containing inaccessible text, such as those found in journal articles, and then convert this to accessible text.
Using Text, you can capture a selection of text and send this to your mind map. It will also include a citation to support your referencing.
Using Audio, you can record a voice note that can be added to your mind map.
You have options to crop, rotate or flip the image. You can also use the OCR option to convert any text inside the image into fully accessible text.
When logged into MindView with your user account, all captured information will be put into the Research folder. You are given the option of selecting which research folder and also colour-coding the information.
Once you press the Save button the image will be sent to the Research panel in MindView.
Select the branch you want to add the captured image to, then hover over the entry in the Research panel. You will see an Add button
Click Add to copy the entry across to branch.
The web address associated with the image will be added to the source list (see Citation tool below)
Please note that if you are not logged into MindView with your user account, you will not have access to the Research panel. Captured information will be added directly to the currently selected branch in your mind map instead.
Capturing Text
Press the Text button in the Capture menu. The box will now change to say capture text.
However over the entry and click to add to the selected branch. It will also add a citation.
You
can access the source list by selecting Manage
Sources from the Citation tool
menu.
When you have installed and loaded MindView Assist, you can toggle between the Tasks and Research screens, using the buttons at the top of the screen. Click Research, then press the Plus (+) button to add a new research note.
You can also organise your research into folders, which you can create or move between as needed. Press the folder button to see all your folders, including an "unassigned" option for research not yet sorted.
You can move a piece of research by selecting it and then choosing an existing folder, or by creating a new one.
To add an image from your camera (for example, to capture text from a book) press the Plus button and then press the Picture button. The app will now open your camera.
Once you have taken your picture, you will then have the option to save the image with a name and source information to a folder.
To extract text from the image (so it can be accessed in the text note editor in MindView) press the OCR button. You can now save the text as a separate research note.
You will now see the citation has been inserted under your text in the Text Note editor, and will now be included in the bibliography when we export to a Word document.
