Model types

Mind Map and Impact Map

One model type, two styles. You choose which when you create the model:

Mind Map: free-form mapping with color-coded levels.
Impact Map: the structured ladder of Goal → Actor → Impact → Deliverable → Specification.

Both grow the same way: hover or select a node and click one of the + buttons on its edges to add a child in that direction. Double-click a node to rename it; Enter accepts, Shift + Enter starts a new line.

Mind Map

Start from a root topic and branch outward. Each level down is colored differently, so depth is readable at a glance. Add New Root Node starts a second, independent tree on the same canvas.

Select a node and use the Icon button to give it an icon from the picker. That is useful for marking questions, risks, or owners without inventing a notation.

Root nodes are protected from accidental deletion: a root with children cannot be deleted, and the last remaining root cannot be deleted at all.

A Mind Map with a central topic branching into color-coded levels.

Impact Map

An Impact Map answers four questions in order, and the editor enforces that order. A child is always the next level down, so the map cannot drift out of shape.

Level	Question	What goes here
Goal	Why?	The business goal, stated so you would know if you hit it.
Actor	Who?	The people who can help or hinder that goal.
Impact	How?	The change in an actor's behavior that would move the goal.
Deliverable	What?	What you could build or do to cause that impact.
Specification	None	The detail of a deliverable.

Add New Goal starts a new map. The toolbar shows a legend of the five levels and highlights the level of whatever you have selected, so you always know where you are on the ladder.

An Impact Map showing a goal branching into actors, impacts, and deliverables.

Properties

Both styles use the shared properties dialog (name, description, and a Markdown Specifications area), reached from the badge at the center of a node or by pressing Enter with the node selected.