Mindscope 1.5 is now available

Posted by Stephen Zeoli
Jun 20, 2017 at 10:50 AM

Mindscope is a great app for iPad that’s a combination of outliner and mind map. It hadn’t been updated for a while, but now there is a new version out and it looks like a significant upgrade. Here’s what the developer says about the new features:

—- iPhone & iPad compatible—-

That’s right, Mindscope now runs on your iPhone as well for when you’re on the go! It’s really useful for taking notes on the go. Especially because of…

—- iCloud sync—-

Your Mindscope entries can now be stored in iCloud. If you do so, it will sync between your iPhone and your iPad! If there are any problems, please let me know! I have spent many hours testing and polishing this - it should Just Work.

Note that if you don’t want to use this, you also have the option to simply work locally (like before).

The entries are synced when you have Internet and are primarily updated when you first open up the app. If you’ve made a change on your other device that you aren’t seeing yet, trying exiting and re-entering.

—- Bluetooth keyboard fix—-

Bluetooth keyboards now work great again with Mindscope! Creating entries used to not work when a Bluetooth keyboard was connected. This has now been fixed, in fact, I’ve gone even further and added a ton of…

—- Keyboard shortcuts—-

Many, MANY new keyboard shortcuts makes using Mindscope with a keyboard simply awesome. Hold down the Cmd key on your keyboard to see them all. Everything from navigating to creating to editing to styling can now be done via keyboard. It’s AWESOME, if I do say so myself (and I do).

—- New action side menu—-

Instead of a popup, an action bar now slides in when highlighting entries - this makes life way easier especially on the iPhone, since this way the action buttons won’t pop up under your finger, and also there is room for all the actions.

—- Massive internal refactoring & rewrite in Swift—-

This one you won’t see much of on the outside, but I’ve rewritten many parts of the app in Swift to provide a better foundation for The Future.

Here is the App Store page:

https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/mindscope/id901513028?ls=1&mt=8

If you haven’t tried Mindscope, I suggest giving it a try. It really is ingenious and an easy way to brainstorm, plan and outline.

Steve Z.