A powerful, stable mind mapping plugin for Obsidian
Interactive Editing • AI Smart Expansion • Multiple Export Formats • Enterprise-Grade Stability
- Native Obsidian Integration: Seamlessly integrates into your Obsidian workflow
- Bidirectional Markdown Sync: Real-time conversion between mind maps and Markdown
- 13 Professional Themes: Professional themes + dopamine color schemes for various scenarios
- Rich Text Support: Tables, Callouts, quotes, code blocks, embedded content
- Multiple AI Services: OpenAI, Anthropic, Gemini, Deepseek, Ollama
- Smart Expansion: One-click child node generation, deep analysis, content optimization
- Insight System: Flomo-like AI insights with multi-dimensional analysis
- Custom Prompts: Fully customizable AI interactions
- Unified Resource Management: Centralized resource lifecycle control
- Zero Memory Leaks: Complete lifecycle management and automatic cleanup
- Async Safety: Prevents race conditions accessing destroyed objects
- Optimized Performance: Efficient rendering and memory usage
- Image Export: PNG, JPEG, SVG with watermarks and author info
- Document Export: Selected content export, 12 professional templates
- XMind Integration: Bidirectional conversion with XMind files (Desktop)
- ✅ Create and edit mind maps directly in Obsidian
- ✅ Support for drag-and-drop, hotkeys, context menu
- ✅ Real-time preview, WYSIWYG
- ✅ Complete undo/redo history
- 4 Layout Directions: Center, Right, Left, Clockwise
- 13 Themes: 7 professional + 6 dopamine color schemes
- Custom Color Groups: Smart node connection color system
- Responsive Canvas: Auto-adapts to content size
| Content Type | Supported Features |
|---|---|
| Markdown Formatting | Bold, italic, highlight, strikethrough, code |
| Tables | Full table rendering and editing |
| Callouts | Multiple Callout types, theme-adaptive |
| Block Quotes | Block quotes, text block display |
| Code Blocks | Syntax highlighting, rendered as child nodes |
| Embedded Content | Canvas, PDF++, Eagle, Excalidraw |
| Internal Links | Support for internal link navigation |
| Footnotes | Superscript rendering, content protection |
| Task Lists | Clickable checkboxes |
- Tree structure display
- Real-time search and quick navigation
- Expand/collapse support
- Synchronized scrolling with main view
- Thumbnail minimap
- Visual navigation
- Quick jump
- Real-time updates
- One-click theme switching
- Adjust layout direction
- Modify color groups
- Background color picker
- Generate Ideas: AI brainstorming
- Generate Analysis: Deep content analysis
- Detailed Expansion: Refine node content
- Practical Applications: Practical scenario suggestions
- Custom Prompts: Fully customizable
- Popup with streaming output
- Support for editing and insertion
- Smart Callout type selection
- Regenerate and replace functionality
- Document analysis and summary
- Keyword extraction
- Streaming output to new file
- Custom save path
- Multi-dimensional perspective analysis
- Customizable built-in perspectives
- Backlink expansion depth configuration
- Persistent data storage
- Extensible AI workflows defined via SKILL.md
- Multiple output formats: markdown, mermaid, excalidraw, canvas, base
- Auto-scans vault
skills/folder to discover skills - Streaming output, real-time file writing
- Smart content extraction, strips AI explanatory text
- Three modes: custom path / vault root / source file directory
- Shared across all AI features
- Auto-creates directories when they don't exist
- Both AI Insight and Skills execution support interruption
- Mobile progress indicator integrates stop button
- Mind map node AI expansion also supports stopping
- Trial Period: 7 days free trial for all Plus features
- Licensing: Obtain registration code through sponsorship
- Scope: Node AI expansion, context menu AI, file AI analysis
- Free Features: All other features remain unrestricted after trial
Supported Formats: PNG, JPEG, SVG
Features:
- Adjustable image width
- Custom author info (avatar, name, extra text)
- Watermark settings (text/image, transparency, rotation)
- 12 professional templates
- Mobile share menu integration
Features:
- Selected content export
- Full document export
- Card summary display
- Filename and date control
- Export preview modal
- Markdown ↔ XMind conversion
- XMind file preview (thumbnails)
- Folder auto-sync
- Open XMind in tabs
- Uses
<!--c-->comment markers - Compatible with obsidian-workflowy-plugin
- Markdown view synchronization
- Auto-save state
- ✅ Windows, macOS, Linux
- ✅ All features available
- ✅ XMind integration
- ✅ File system operations
- ✅ iOS, Android
- ✅ Mind map viewing and editing
- ✅ Touch operations
- ✅ Image export (share menu)
- ✅ Tab/Enter virtual buttons
⚠️ Not Supported: XMind conversion, file sync
Method 1: Ctrl+P → Search "Create new mind map"
Method 2: Right-click folder → "New mind map"
Method 1: Right-click Markdown file → "Open as mind map"
Method 2: Command palette → "Toggle markdown or mindmap mode"
Node Operations
| Shortcut | Function |
|---|---|
Shift+F2 |
Edit node |
Shift+Insert |
Insert child node |
Alt+Shift+Enter |
Add sibling node / End editing |
Shift+Delete |
Delete node and children |
Escape |
Cancel editing |
Alt+Shift+S |
Select node text |
Alt+Shift+D |
Move next siblings as children |
Alt+Ctrl+Shift+D |
Move all siblings as children |
Alt+Shift+J |
Join with node below |
Alt+Ctrl+Shift+J |
Join as citation with node below |
Node Movement
| Shortcut | Function |
|---|---|
Alt+Shift+↑ |
Move node up |
Alt+Shift+↓ |
Move node down |
Alt+Shift+← |
Move node left |
Alt+Shift+→ |
Move node right |
Expand/Collapse
| Shortcut | Function |
|---|---|
Alt+↓ |
Expand one level |
Alt+↑ |
Collapse one level |
Alt+PageDown |
Expand one level from max displayed |
Alt+PageUp |
Collapse one level from max displayed |
Ctrl+Shift+Space |
Toggle expand/collapse |
Text Formatting
| Shortcut | Function |
|---|---|
Alt+Shift+B |
Bold |
Alt+Shift+I |
Italic |
Alt+Shift+H |
Highlight |
Alt+Shift+2 |
Strikethrough |
Alt+Shift+L |
Remove line breaks |
Other Operations
| Shortcut | Function |
|---|---|
Alt+Shift+C |
Copy node |
Alt+Shift+V |
Paste node |
Alt+Shift+Z |
Undo |
Alt+Shift+Y |
Redo |
Alt+Ctrl+Shift+Z |
Replace with previous text |
Alt+E |
Center current node |
Alt+Shift+E |
Center entire map |
Ctrl++ / Ctrl+Scroll↑ |
Zoom in |
Ctrl+- / Ctrl+Scroll↓ |
Zoom out |
Ctrl+0 |
Reset zoom |
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Set Up AI Service
- Open plugin settings → AI Service Configuration
- Select provider (OpenAI, Gemini, Deepseek, etc.)
- Enter API Key and model name
-
Use AI Expansion
- Click the 🧠 button on a node
- Or
Ctrl+Double-clickthe node - Select expansion method
-
Custom Prompts
- Plugin settings → AI Custom Prompts
- Use
{{nodeContent}}placeholder - Takes effect immediately after saving
BRAT (Beta Reviewers Auto-update Tester) allows you to install and automatically update plugins directly from GitHub.
- Install the BRAT plugin from Obsidian Community Plugins
- Enable BRAT in Settings → Community plugins
- Open BRAT settings and click "Add Beta plugin"
- Enter the repository URL:
https://github.com/springrain1/obsidian-xmind-plugin - Click "Add Plugin" and BRAT will install SuperMind automatically
- Enable SuperMind in Settings → Community plugins
Tip: BRAT will automatically check for updates and notify you when a new version is available.
- Download the latest release from Releases
- Extract to:
<vault>/.obsidian/plugins/obsidian-xmind-plugin/ - Restart Obsidian
- Enable plugin in Settings → Community plugins
- ✨ Mind map view now renders node tables with support for child nodes under table nodes
- ✨ Fixed rendering of Callout, table, code block, and quote block components; block-level components preserved as renderable child nodes
- 🐛 Fixed blank line removal between components when writing back to Markdown, fixed note blank line loss
- 🐛 Fixed content hierarchy misalignment after adding new nodes and converting to Markdown
- 🐛 Fixed blank line issues between same-level unordered lists after list conversion
- 🤖 New skill: xmind-mdoutline-generator - Extract mind map outline from original text, automatically add XMind-specific components
- ⚙️ Three save path modes for XMind → Markdown attachments: Obsidian default/original file location/custom path
- 🐛 Fixed mouse drag inertia issue in canvas overview
- 🐛 Added context window token count configuration option in AI service settings
- 🐛 Fixed notes and
---separator loss issues - 🐛 XMind→Markdown note formatting optimization using more stable
<strong>/<em>syntax
- 🔄 File list supports folder right-click or Alt multi-select for batch XMind ↔ Markdown conversion
- ✨ Comprehensive format support: colors, notes, tags, summaries, boundaries, collapse states, formulas, images, floating topics, multiple sheets
- ✨ New command to convert between "Level 1-3 headings + unordered lists" and "All unordered lists"
- ✨ Two-level tab navigation layout for settings (General/AI/License), no more endless scrolling
- ✨ Dopamine purple gradient navigation bar, light/dark theme compatible
- ✨ Lazy-loaded tab content panels with tab state memory
- 🐛 Fixed BASE view AI Insight unable to retrieve filtered documents (adapted to Obsidian's updated DOM structure)
📖 See Full Changelog
If you encounter any issues or have suggestions:
- Submit an Issue on GitHub
- Describe the problem in detail with steps to reproduce
- Obsidian Community
- XMind Team
- All users and supporters
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