# XMind

## Collaborative Minds

### Notes

Rich text notes are used to annotate topics. You can easily create new note, and format it to record more details:

To Add notes to a topic:

1. Select a topic.
2. Open the pop-out dialog with one of the following ways.
   - Press 'F4'.
   - Click notes icon on the toolbar.
   - Right-click the mouse, select 'Notes'.
3. Type your notes in the notes dialog.
4. Click "Ctrl(Command)+Enter" to save notes and close the dialog.

Note: "Ctrl+Enter" is not available on Linux at present.

To Format existing notes:

1. Open the Pop-up notes dialog, and press "F4" again to open the Notes View.
2. Use the notes toolbar to edit these attributes:
   - Text font, size, type, alignment, color.
   - Background color.
   - Insert Images.
   - Insert Hyperlink
3. If you type the sentence like "http://www.xmind.net" in the notes, XMind will format it as a hyperlink automatically.

To Open the Hyperlink in the Notes

1. Open the notes view
2. Press the Ctrl(Command on Mac) key, and click the link

Note: You can only insert local image into topic notes.

Show all notes in notes view

1. Open the notes view
2. Click on the sheet and all notes of the map will be shown in the notes view

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