mindm

Python library for interacting with locally installed MindManager™ on Windows and macOS platforms.

Installation

Install using pip:

pip install mindm

Getting Started

Low-level example

Example for iterating over all topics in a mindmap and changing the topic text to uppercase:

import mindm.mindmanager

def iterate_topics(topic):
    text = m.get_text_from_topic(topic)
    m.set_text_to_topic(topic, text.upper())

    subtopics = m.get_subtopics_from_topic(topic)
    for subtopic in subtopics:
        iterate_topics(subtopic)

m = mindm.mindmanager.Mindmanager()
central_topic = m.get_central_topic()
iterate_topics(central_topic)

High-level examples

Example for loading a mindmap from an open mindmap document and cloning it to a new document:

import mindmap.mindmap as mm

document = mm.MindmapDocument()
document.get_mindmap()
document.create_mindmap()

Example for serializing a mindmap to YAML format:

import yaml
import mindmap.mindmap as mm
import mindmap.serialization as mms

document = mm.MindmapDocument()
document.get_mindmap()

guid_mapping = {}
mms.build_mapping(document.mindmap, guid_mapping)

yaml_data = mms.serialize_object(document.mindmap, guid_mapping)
print(yaml.dump(yaml_data, sort_keys=False))

Example for serializing / deserializing a mindmap to / from Mermaid format including all attributes:

import json
import mindmap.mindmap as mm
import mindmap.serialization as mms

document = mm.MindmapDocument()
document.get_mindmap()

guid_mapping = {}
mms.build_mapping(document.mindmap, guid_mapping)

serialized = mms.serialize_mindmap(document.mindmap, guid_mapping, id_only=False)
print(serialized)

deserialized = mms.deserialize_mermaid_full(serialized, guid_mapping)
print(json.dumps(mms.serialize_object_simple(deserialized), indent=1))

document_new = mm.MindmapDocument()
document_new.mindmap = deserialized
document_new.create_mindmap()

Platform Specific Functionality

Windows

Supported:

• topics (central topic + subtopics)
• notes
• icons
• images
• tags
• links (external and topic links)
• relationships
• rtf

Not Supported:

• floating topics
• callouts
• colors, lines, boundaries

macOS

Supported:

• topics (central topic + subtopics)
• notes
• relationships

Not Supported:

• icons
• images
• tags
• links
• rtf
• floating topics
• callouts
• colors, lines, boundaries

Documentation

Link to GitHub Pages