# XMind

## Collaborative Minds

### Notes

Rich text notes are used to annotate topics. You can easily create new note, and format it to record more details:

To Add notes to a topic:

1. Select a topic.
2. Open the pop-out dialog with one of the following ways.
   - Press 'F4'.
   - Click notes icon on the toolbar.
   - Right-click the mouse, select 'Notes'.
3. Type your notes in the notes dialog.
4. Click "Ctrl(Command)+Enter" to save notes and close the dialog.

Note: "Ctrl+Enter" is not available on Linux at present.

To Format existing notes:

1. Open the Pop-up notes dialog, and press "F4" again to open the Notes View.
2. Use the notes toolbar to edit these attributes:
   - Text font, size, type, alignment, color.
   - Background color.
   - Insert Images.
   - Insert Hyperlink
3. If you type the sentence like "http://www.xmind.net" in the notes, XMind will format it as a hyperlink automatically.

To Open the Hyperlink in the Notes

1. Open the Notes View
2. Press the Ctrl(Command on Mac) key, and click the link

Note: You can only insert local image into topic notes.

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