Mind Map

Nimbalyst Mind Map is a spatial editor for .mindmap files. It lets you lay out ideas on an infinite canvas while keeping the underlying file readable, versionable, and editable by agents.

Use it for brainstorming, project planning, research organization, decision trees, and any topic where a hierarchy is easier to understand visually than as a long outline.

What Mind Maps Are Good For

• Breaking a project into themes, branches, and follow-up work

• Organizing research notes by concept or domain

• Capturing meeting ideas spatially while preserving structure

• Mapping product roadmaps, launch plans, and decision trees

• Turning a topic prompt into a structured map your team can revise

Built-In Capabilities

• Infinite canvas with pan and zoom

• Nodes, branches, notes, tags, status, and color coding

• Keyboard-driven editing for adding children, siblings, and updates quickly

• Auto layout for cleaning up a map

• Outline view when a hierarchy is easier to edit as text

• Search across nodes

• AI-assisted creation and branch expansion

Plain-Text Files

Mind maps are stored as .mindmap files. That means they can live with the rest of your project, sync like other files, and be reviewed in Git.

The visual editor gives you the canvas, but the file remains structured enough for Claude Code, Codex, and other agents to read and update.

Working with AI

Your coding agent can create, expand, and reorganize mind maps. Good prompts include:

• "Create a mind map for this product launch plan."

• "Expand the Discovery branch with customer research tasks."

• "Reorganize this map into Design, Build, Launch, and Measure."

• "Add notes to each high-risk branch."

• "Turn this outline into a mind map."