Welcome to Notemap

Notemap is a native macOS mind mapping application built for people who think visually. Whether you are brainstorming ideas, planning a complex project, organizing research, or mapping out the structure of something you are writing, Notemap gives you a fast, focused canvas to capture and connect your thoughts.

Why Notemap?

Most mind mapping tools are browser-based, slow to load, or cluttered with features you never use. Notemap takes a different approach:

• Local-first. Your files live on your machine. No accounts required, no cloud dependency, no waiting for a server. Open the app and start working immediately.
• Fast. Notemap is a native macOS app built with SwiftUI and Metal-accelerated rendering. Everything from layout calculations to canvas panning feels instantaneous.
• Keyboard-driven. Create nodes, navigate the tree, edit text, and reorganize branches entirely from the keyboard. Your hands never need to leave it.
• AI-enhanced. Built-in AI features powered by Google Gemini help you brainstorm, expand ideas, refine text, and generate structured content directly inside your maps.

What can you do with Notemap?

Notemap is designed to be flexible enough for many different workflows:

• Brainstorm freely. Start with a central idea and let your thoughts branch out in every direction. Use AI brainstorming modes to push your thinking further.
• Plan projects. Break down complex projects into tasks, subtasks, and milestones. Visualize the full scope of your work at a glance.
• Study and learn. Organize course material, summarize chapters, and build knowledge maps that help you retain information.
• Write and outline. Structure articles, essays, or books as mind maps before you start writing. Export your outline when you are ready to draft.
• Organize research. Collect ideas, references, and notes into a structured visual format. Add details and notes to any node for deeper context.

Key features

Notemap is packed with features that help you work the way you want:

• Nodes and branches. Build tree structures with unlimited depth. Add child nodes, siblings, and reorganize branches with drag and drop.
• Colors and themes. Choose from a palette of node colors and apply visual themes to change the look and feel of your entire map.
• Shapes. Pick from multiple node shapes to visually distinguish different types of information.
• Multiple layouts. Switch between horizontal, vertical, and other layout modes to find the arrangement that works best for your map.
• Cross-links. Draw connections between any two nodes in your map, even across different branches, to show relationships that go beyond the tree structure.
• AI features. Generate child nodes from a prompt, refine node text, expand branches, generate questions, summarize branches, and brainstorm with different thinking modes.
• Export. Save your maps as PNG images, SVG files, plain text, OPML, and AI-generated articles or summaries.
• Present mode. Walk through your mind map as a presentation, revealing branches step by step.
• File sidebar. Manage multiple mind maps in a workspace with a built-in file tree.

What’s next?

Ready to get started? Here is what to do next:

• Installation — Download and set up Notemap on your Mac.
• Creating Your First Map — A hands-on walkthrough of building your first mind map from scratch.