# XMind

## Collaborative Minds

XMind Share is a free online service for us to share mind maps with families, friends, colleagues, and even the world! Here are how to enjoy this service.

### Upload map

1. You need an XMind account or, if not, sign up one.
2. Sign in with your account by clicking Sign into XMind.net under help menu.
3. Create a map using one of the templates, or open one from your local disk.
4. Click Upload button on the far right of toolbar.
5. In the dialog follows, you can preview the map's title, description, privacy settings and thumbnail picture.
6. Click Upload button in bottom of the dialog, and XMind will start a background job to handle the uploading process.

Ok, let's check about the upload dialog

- General, here we can add the description for this map.
- Privacy, here is the place to set the privacy of map, Pubic, Unlisted, or Private; and if it's downloadable.
- Modify the Thumbnail

### Delete/Embed/Comment a map

When the upload process finishes, clicking My XMind Account option under the help menu, we can see the uploaded maps in XMind inside browser easily. Then we can

- Delete my online map via clicking the delete icon under map's thumbnail
- Emebed any a online map to my blog via pasting the Embed Code on that map page
- Add comment to any a map.

### Map viewer

In this viewer, we can navigate the map. It also has another model, Outline. Click the Outline on the bottom, we'll be able to read this map in a traditional way.

### Share the map

In the privacy page, we know any map can have three kind privacies, Public, Unlisted, and Private. The way to share maps with different privacies has a litter differences

- Public Maps has no limitations. They can be seen by any person and searched by search engine.
- Unlisted Map can not be searched by search engine. They are not shown on XMind Share too. People, only who know map's URL, can read it.
- Private Map is available for all XMind users. If you want to share a private with some people, you should click the special Share to button and send the invitation to them. People, who get the invitation email, should at least have a free XMind Account for reading this private map online.

Now we find that unlisted map should be helpful to share a map in some special stituation, such as at meeting,at class, and etc. And Private Map will be able to play an important role in collaborating within a small team, or share some special and important information.

This service is powered by Amazon S3 Service.

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