Using the Tool Palette

The tool palette is a small floating window that has some handy tools for quickly creating new branches and other common operations.

You can display the Tool Palette by selecting the "Window / Tool Palette" option from the main menu, or using the shortcut

+Option+P.

This is the same way you hide the Tool Palette (or you can click on the close button on the palette).

The left most item on the tool palette is the normal NovaMind editing mode. To select one of the other modes, click on the relevant buttons. An icon will appear, indicating that the action you have selected will be performed once, and then NovaMind will revert to normal editing mode:

If you click on the same button again before performing the action, the icon on the button will change to indicate that the action will be locked in until you change back to normal editing mode (or another mode):

If you click on the same button again, it will go back to single action mode again etc.

If you have clicked on one of the buttons to change mode, and decide you want a different mode or back to normal editing, just click on the appropriate button.

	Normal editing mode
	Adding child branches - click on a branch to add a child branch
	Adding sibling branches - click on a branch to add a sibling branch below the branch you clicked on
	BranchStorm - when you click on this, and start editing your branch text, whenever you press Return, a little icon is inserted in the text, and you can continue typing. When you either pause typing, or finish editing the branch, the text before the first icon is left on the branch, and all the text between the other icons is split onto child branches.
	Graft - this allows you to drag branches from one place on the Mind Map to another to graft them (like pressing the Option key)
	Link line drawing
	Zoom - when you have this selected, you can either click on the canvas to zoom in, or drag out a selection around the portion of the Mind Map you want to view. You can drag outside the visible area of the Mind Map and the canvas will scroll. You can also press the Option key to change from zooming in to zooming out , and when you click, the map will be zoomed out.
	Grab the canvas and scroll it (like pressing the Spacebar).