About the software
There are quite a few ‘lesser known’ features within iThoughts that are really quite powerful and have been developed, over the years, specifically to address the needs of ‘power users’. Many are effectively ‘hidden’ in the pursuit of a less cluttered user interface. The remainder of this article will give you a quick overview of some of my favourites.
You can password protect your maps for privacy. iThoughts takes this to another level and encrypts the file itself (using AES-256) This means that you can store your maps ‘in the cloud’ (or on a stick) and be confident that the cloud provider (or a hacker) cannot read your map – even if they have the actual file in their possession.
What’s really cool is that it integrates with FaceID and TouchID so that you don’t need to enter the password each time.
The main features of IThoughts are:
- 4x Layouts (Horizontal, Vertical etc)
- 3x Auto Layout (Full, Partial, None)
- 4x Map Styles (full color, wireframe etc)
- 6x Link Styles (Linked, Straight, Curved etc)
- 30x Canvas Options
- 90x Stock Images
- 100 Stock Icons
- 13x Topic Shapes (Rectangle, Oval etc)
- Rich Text Formatting (Markdown)
- Task Attributes (Start, Due, Progress etc)
- Boundaries (Grouping topics on a branch)
- Relationships (Linking related topics)
- Topic Sorting (Auto, Once, Random etc)
- Topic Numbering
- Callouts
- Topic Notes
- Topic Hyperlinks
- Presentation Mode
- Doodle
- Research (lookup text)
- Advanced Filtering
- Search/Replace
- Printing
- Focus Mode
- Zoom
- Auto Zoom
- Cloud Syncing (iCloud, OneDrive, Dropbox etc
- Encrypted, Password Protected Maps
- Outline View
- Custom Background Canvases
- Auto Balanced Maps
- Hand Drawn Effect
- Topic Summaries
- Conditional Formatting
- LaTeX Support
- Languages
iThoughts v6.1 System Requirements
- Operating System: Windows 11, Windows 10, Windows 8.1, Windows 7
How to Download and Install iThoughts v6.1
- Click on the download button(s) below and finish downloading the required files. This might take from a few minutes to a few hours, depending on your download speed.
- Extract the downloaded files. If you don’t know how to extract, see this article. The password to extract will always be: www.mysoftwarefree.com
- Run the “iThoughts.exe” and install the software
- When asked for a key, use the keys found on key.txt
- You now have the full version of IThoughts v6.1 installed on your PC.
Required files
Password: www.mysoftwarefree.com