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

1️⃣ 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).

Xmind menu showing preferences selection and topics

2️⃣In the Preferences panel, navigate to Smart Guideline > Select  Always Display to activate the feature.

Preferences settings for Smart Alignment Guide

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.

Mind map showing central topic with alignment guide

Activate Smart Guideline in Xmind Web

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

Mind map alignment guide illustration