MagicalPad HD first came to my attention because of the Evernote integration. Take meeting minutes, brainstorm ideas, manage your writing tasks, outline your fiction or story ideas, mindmap your plans, or create pages for setting, ideas, characters, and story creation or ideation as I have done. You can set dates for individual tasks and monitor projects via a dashboard screen. The latest upgrade also offers additional high-end mindmapping functions (simply create a mindmap with the press of a button) and task management functions. Text boxes can be linked easily into a hierarchical structure, but importantly outlines can be merged or split simply by drag and drop. You also have the ability to free-form draw or handwrite in text or drawings, or embed images or documents into your outlines. Mindmapping and Outliningįree-form options for planning and outlining abound in this app – you can choose from text, to outline bullet (or checklist) mode, and setup background font text, size and colour and border options per child and sibling in your lists. I can export outlines and lists as either text or as a graphic PDF in entirety. The Evernote integration was a drawcard for me. Export via email, Dropbox, Google Drive, iCloud and Evernote.Export in a variety of formats including OPML, PDF, JPEG, RTF and TXT.Pages can expand to any size you like.Įxport options for your pages are varied (see below) but you can also export entire pages as a PDF image or sections of the pages. These can have various backgrounds applied – I like the plain whiteboard look for most. Inside, you can create and rename / copy as many note pages as you like. MagicalPad contains a freeform notebook system – each notebook you create can have an image input for the hardcover, which is a nice touch. Click on any of the images below.Īdvanced Mindmapping From Notebook to Note Pages See some of the gallery images to see how easily you can customise your outlines. I like the clean (okay, mine still are a little cluttered) white outline pages, but if you’re into colours, you can put colour backgrounds to your text boxes, and organise how you wish. I thoroughly utilise and enjoy the free-form brainstorming and multi-level outlining functions, and have many pages where I use everything from outlines, checklists, images, mindmaps and task management features – all on the one page. My entire novel series I’m playing around with is being captured in this one app. I’ve been using the app on a daily basis over the last month or so, before the latest upgrade that brought in new mindmapping and task management features. MagicalPad HD is placing itself into the serious mindmapping business stream – but it’s much more than that. Seriously – right now, while it’s on special this week for only 99c, to celebrate an upgrade of mindmapping functionality. If you love Scapple for Mac or Windows, for free-form mindmapping, brainstorming, checklists and image embeds, and you have an iPAD, go get MagicalPad HD right now.

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