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Agreed, I spent a few minutes looking around and trying to add nodes before I found the help. And then some time looking for an 'insert' key on my keyboard... haven't found it yet ;)


Wow, I never thought that an Insert key is going to be such mystery. It is kind of a standard way of inserting a new node in other mind mapping (desktop) apps...


And besides not being included on every keyboard, it's not an command key, but a text-mode toggle, in every other desktop app.


I also have no "insert" key on my keyboard. And tab just cycles through various form controls on the right..


fn+return does the trick on macs.

Tab works once you focus the map itself by e.g. clicking a node.


If it makes you feel any better I have used other mind mapping tools and Insert was intuitive to me.


I guessed (correctly) that on my Macbook Air's keyboard cmd+return is "insert".


Unfortunately cmd+return does not work on my iMac (it does the same thing as return, which is add sibling).




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