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LinkBack allows you to have editable documents from one application embedded in another application. A user can paste content from any LinkBack-enabled application into another and reopen that content later for editing with just a double-click. Changes will automatically appear in the original document again when you save in the other application.

 

NovaMind allows you to use LinkBack technology to both embed NovaMind documents in other LinkBack enabled application's documents, and to embed documents from other LinkBack enabled applications within NovaMind.

 

Embedding a NovaMind Mind Map in another application

Select any branch or branches on your Mind Map, and press Command+c (copy). In your other LinkBack enabled application, paste the NovaMind Mind Map. No matter what you select, the whole Mind Map will be copied and inserted in the other application.

 

When you are using the other application and want to edit the NovaMind document, you can just double-click it in the other application and it will open in NovaMind. Make the changes you desire and then save it in NovaMind, and it will be updated in the other application.

 

Embedding documents from other LinkBack enabled applications in NovaMind

Select the portions of the other document you wish to paste into NovaMind (some applications may copy the entire document), and copy it, then switch to your NovaMind document. You can paste the other documents in the following ways:

By selecting a branch, you can paste it as the image for the branch by using Command+v (Paste)
By selecting a branch, you can paste it as an attached image graphic by using Control+Command+v (Paste as attached graphic)
By selecting text in the branch notes, you can insert the graphic inline with the branch note text

 

When you want to edit the embedded document, you can just either double-click it or use the Edit/Edit in <application name> menu item (where <application name> is the name of the application that will open the embedded document). When you save it in the other application, it will be updated in NovaMind.

 

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Note that for documents embedded in the branch notes, you may need to click on the notes window before the update appears.