FreeMind

FreeMind is an open source, efficient, portable, fast, multiplatform and easy to use graphical application designed to act as a mind-mapping utility for the GNU/Linux, Microsoft Windows and Mac OS X operating systems. It is also an easy-to-operate hierarchical editor.

Features at a glance

Key features include a HTML link follower, one-click navigation, folding support, undo, smart drag and drop, including the possibility to copy nodes or copy style of nodes, as well as dragging and dropping of multiple nodes.

In addition, with this application you will be able to use and edit long multiline nodes, decorate nodes, and run in on your favorite operating system, smart copying and pasting, as well as exporting of maps to the HTML (HyperText Markup Language) format, with folding.

The software is engineered in such a way that it can follow both local and remote (www) HTML links that are stored in the nodes, offers one-click folding and unfolding functionality, as well as the ability to follow links with a single mouse click.

Among other important features, we can mention the ability to edit long multiline nodes, decorate nodes with built-in colors, fonts and icons, drag & drop of several nodes, and support for copying and pasting text from a variety of documents, including RTF, MS Word, MS Wordpad and MS Outlook.

Another interesting feature is the ability to move map simply by using the mouse wheel or by dragging the map's background. Additionally, the application comes with a built-in search functionality that allows users to find items, which are displayed one by one as they are found.

Under the hood and supported operating systems

The software is written entirely in the Java programming language, which means that it is platform-independent, supported on any operating system where the Java Runtime Environment (JRE) is available, including all GNU/Linux distributions and the Mac OS X or Microsoft Windows OSes. It’s compatible with both 32-bit and 64-bit hardware architectures.

What is new in this release:

• Some good people have been busy and FreeMind version 0.9rc6 is now available in the Lucid Lynx multiverse repository. I'v tried this package in Karmic (un-install any other versions first) and it works fine. Thanks guys!

What is new in version 0.9.0 RC4:

• Open Hyperlink handler for notes added. Use CTRL-click to open a link.
• Fixed: Font smoothing fails: arrow links - 0.9.0 RC3 : https://sourceforge.net/tracker/?func=detail&atid=107118&aid=2677919&group_id=7118
• (Hidden Feature): Default font and paragraph spacing for notes is set. Switch this on using the resources_use_default_font_for_notes_too and resources_use_margin_top_zero_for_notes properties.
• Resource loading adapted for Costello (for future use)
• Fixed: Anti aliasing :
• https://sourceforge.net/tracker/?func=detail&atid=107118&aid=2633216&group_id=7118
• https://sourceforge.net/tracker/?func=detail&atid=107118&aid=2677919&group_id=7118
• Fixed: FreeMind hogs CPU https://sourceforge.net/tracker/?func=detail&atid=107118&aid=2696815&group_id=7118
• Improved export to XHTML, thanks to erne100: https://sourceforge.net/tracker/?func=detail&atid=107118&aid=2747128&group_id=7118, https://sourceforge.net/tracker/?func=detail&atid=107118&aid=2747000&group_id=7118
• New XSLT Script: mm2latex. Thanks to Wolfgang.
• Updated XSLT mm2twiki. Thanks to the author.
• Fixed: Notes from 0.8.1 disappears in 0.9 RC3 https://sourceforge.net/tracker/?func=detail&atid=107118&aid=2705587&group_id=7118
• Fixed: Aggressive long node format question https://sourceforge.net/tracker/?func=detail&atid=107118&aid=1875776&group_id=7118
• Fixed: Fail to detect invalid preference setting https://sourceforge.net/tracker/?func=detail&atid=107118&aid=1536197&group_id=7118
• Fixed some printing issues: (Hopefully also: Failure to print from toolbar https://sourceforge.net/tracker/?func=detail&atid=107118&aid=1536202&group_id=7118)
• Fixed: Node up/down didn't make the map dirty.
• Fixed: Returning focus to the mind map requires pressing Escape (to give focus to the central node) https://sourceforge.net/forum/message.php?msg_id=7394941
• Fixed: Opening files under Mac OS X without empty map.
• Fixed: Find/Replace window not visible https://sourceforge.net/tracker/?func=detail&atid=107118&aid=2737248&group_id=7118
• Fixed: icon list scrolls very slowly with scroll wheel
• Fixed: Cannot select multiple single nodes https://sourceforge.net/tracker/?func=detail&atid=107118&aid=1675829&group_id=7118
• Fixed: Import -> Linked Branch can't find file https://sourceforge.net/tracker/?func=detail&atid=107118&aid=2795002&group_id=7118

Requirements:

• Java 2 Standard Edition Runtime Environment