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Smart Guideline

Smart Guideline

Smart Alignment Guide helps you precisely align topics while editing your mind map. It ensures a cleaner layout and keeps your mind map visually organized.

How to Activate Smart Guideline

Activate Smart Guideline in Xmind App

  1. Go to Xmind > Preferences to open the preferences panel; on Windows, click the hamburger menu in the toolbar's top-left corner > Preferences. Alternatively, use the shortcut Command + , (Mac) or Control + Shift + P (Windows).

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  1. In the Preferences panel, navigate to Smart Guideline > Select  Always Display to activate the feature.

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Effect Preview

When you are editing, smart guidelines will automatically appear to help you align — making it easier to keep your map neat and structured.

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Activate Smart Guideline in Xmind AI

Different with Xmind App, smart guidelines will automatically appear when editing in Xmind AI, without the need of any settings.

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