Free online MIND to TXT converter

What the MIND format is

.mind is a native mind-map document format associated primarily with MindMaster and EdrawMind. It stores a map's topics, parent-child relationships, notes, labels, boundaries, hyperlinks, images, icons, and visual styling in a structured project file. You typically encounter it when a mind map is created or saved in EdrawMind/MindMaster.

Unlike a plain document, a MIND file is intended to be reopened as an editable diagram. Its internal structure and presentation data are not reliably readable by a standard text editor.

What the TXT format is

.txt stores unformatted characters without map layout, fonts, colors, images, or interactive relationships. It works with Notepad, text editors, command-line tools, scripts, document-management systems, and virtually every operating system.

For a mind map, TXT is most useful as a linear outline: indentation or one topic per line represents the original hierarchy. It is suitable for searching, quoting, importing into simple workflows, and long-term access, but not for preserving the visual map.

How to convert MIND to TXT

Using the online converter

1. Open the MIND-to-TXT conversion page on 101convert.com; the service can be used free without installing software.
2. Choose .mind as the input file and upload the map.
3. Select TXT as the output format and start the conversion.
4. Download the resulting .txt file and open it in a text editor to check the topic order and indentation.

Using EdrawMind or MindMaster

1. Open the file in the EdrawMind/MindMaster application that created it.
2. Use File → Export and choose a text, outline, or Word-compatible export if the installed version does not offer TXT directly.
3. If the application exports an outline to a document format, open that file in a word processor, choose File → Save As, select plain text such as .txt, and choose the required character encoding.
4. Review the exported hierarchy before deleting the original MIND file.

Quality and compatibility

The conversion normally preserves topic wording and parent-child order, but it discards colors, shapes, connectors, positioning, icons, images, attachments, and most notes or hyperlinks. Collapsed branches may still be exported, but the exact result depends on the converter and the MIND file version.

Use UTF-8 when saving TXT if the map contains accented characters, non-Latin scripts, or symbols. TXT cannot restore a mind map's visual structure, so retain the original .mind file when later editing or diagram reproduction may be required.