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A mindmap document is a map. The document’s title is the centre, main branches radiate from it, and topics nest underneath. Reach for it when the shape of the thinking matters as much as the words: a strategy you are pulling apart, a customer you are profiling, an offering you are scoping.

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Creating a map

In the sidebar, open the ⋮ menu on Documents or on a folder, choose New document, then Mindmap. Name it — that name becomes the centre of the map — and start adding branches. Or ask your agent: “Turn our positioning notes into a mind map — the pillars as branches, the proof points underneath each.” Because a map is branches and nestable topics, an existing board or tracker can become one without rewriting the content. Ask your agent to convert it.

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Working with a map

The map opens two levels deep and is fully editable.
  • Add topics. Hover a node and click +, or press Tab for a child and Shift+Enter for a sibling. The new node opens ready to be named.
  • Edit a topic. Double-click a node, or select it and press Enter, to edit its title and its note — the small print under it — in place. Enter commits, Escape reverts. Double-clicking the centre renames the document itself.
  • Move topics. Alt+↑ and Alt+↓ move a node among its siblings; Alt+→ makes it a child of the node above, and Alt+← promotes it back out. The whole branch travels with it.
  • Drag to reparent. Drag a node onto another and it becomes that node’s last child. A collapsed target opens on drop. Dropping a node inside its own branch is refused.
  • Tick a topic done. Topics can carry a checkbox, so a map can double as a plan. Done topics dim.
  • Delete a topic. Select it and press Delete. A topic with sub-topics or hidden detail asks you to confirm, and says how many go with it.
  • Collapse and expand. Every node with children has a pip on its right edge, showing how many descendants are hidden when collapsed. Click it or press Space. The depth buttons (1 / 2 / 3 / All) collapse the whole map at once.
  • Find a topic. The search box dims everything that does not match, opens the branches that do, and counts the matches. / jumps to it, Escape clears it.
  • Move around. Drag empty space to pan, scroll to zoom, Fit to frame the whole map again.
Arrow keys walk the map — left to the parent, right into the first child, up and down between siblings. A topic title can link to another document in your brain, and the link is clickable on the map. A branch with nothing under it is fine, and so is a map with no branches at all — topics simply hang straight off the centre.
Panning, zooming, collapsing, searching, and changing depth only change what you are looking at. They are never saved, so opening a map and exploring it writes nothing.

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Seeing what your agents see

The Canonical markdown toggle opens a live panel showing the document exactly as it is stored and exactly as an agent reads it, flashing the lines your last edit changed. You never need it — but it is there, because you should always be able to check what your agents are actually working from. Edit in that panel lets you make changes there directly; Apply stays disabled until the draft is a valid map, and tells you what is wrong when it is not. The map is read-only wherever the rest of Tatara is: without edit access you can still pan, zoom, collapse, and search, but nodes cannot be changed. A mindmap document has no properties rail and no width control — the map is the page, and the title is the centre node.

Kanban boards

The same content, rendered as a board you drag cards across.

Document formats

All six formats, and which to pick.