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title: Clean up Mind Maps with Auto Focus & Auto Layout
description: Learn Auto-Focus for selective branch viewing and Auto Layout for clean Mind Map organisation. Perfect for presentations, exam preparation, and tidying large maps for professional clarity
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May 8, 2026

# Clean up Mind Maps with Auto Focus & Auto Layout

## Learn Auto-Focus for selective branch viewing and Auto Layout for clean Mind Map organisation. Perfect for presentations, exam preparation, and tidying large maps for professional clarity

 

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AYOA's layout features can help you focus on other areas that are important. Cleaning up your Mind Map's layout can be useful for presenting your ideas to your team, learning information for exams or simply for tidying up a large map that you have on the go.

 

### Auto-Focus

 

To use Auto-Focus in your mind map, click on the Auto focus icon at the bottom.

 

![](https://support.ayoa.com/hs-fs/hubfs/image-png-Jul-18-2025-01-51-30-5750-PM.png?width=391&height=87&name=image-png-Jul-18-2025-01-51-30-5750-PM.png)

 

You can set your auto focus to On, if you want to display selected branches and their children, or On + , if you want to display the selected branches and all their descendants.

 

![](https://support.ayoa.com/hs-fs/hubfs/image-png-Jul-18-2025-01-51-59-9406-PM.png?width=382&height=191&name=image-png-Jul-18-2025-01-51-59-9406-PM.png)

 

You can quickly move between branches using your keyboard arrows.

 

### Auto Layout

 

If you want to clean up your mind map, Auto Layout is great for tidying up your branches.

![](https://support.ayoa.com/hs-fs/hubfs/image-png-Jul-18-2025-01-33-12-1020-PM.png?width=688&height=346&name=image-png-Jul-18-2025-01-33-12-1020-PM.png)

Click the Display options icon in the top right, and toggle Auto Layout on to clean up your map.

![](https://support.ayoa.com/hs-fs/hubfs/image-png-Jul-18-2025-01-30-45-0155-PM.png?width=325&height=177&name=image-png-Jul-18-2025-01-30-45-0155-PM.png)

 

Then toggle Auto Layout on to clean up your map.

![](https://support.ayoa.com/hs-fs/hubfs/image-png-Jul-18-2025-01-31-19-8126-PM.png?width=267&height=445&name=image-png-Jul-18-2025-01-31-19-8126-PM.png)

Your map will clean itself up.

![](https://support.ayoa.com/hs-fs/hubfs/image-png-Jul-18-2025-01-33-41-9395-PM.png?width=688&height=345&name=image-png-Jul-18-2025-01-33-41-9395-PM.png)

If you want complete freedom when drawing branches, you can toggle it off, as this will allow branches to overlap, and give you complete flexibility. 

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