FreeMind
Features include:
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is a premier free mind-mapping software written in Java. Á mind map is a diagram that can be used to represent ideas and tasks. Features include:
- Fully functional following of HTML links stored in the nodes, be it www links or links to local files.
- From very early versions, Freemind supports folding which is its essential property.
- Fast one-click navigation, including folding / unfolding on one click and following links on one click at the same time (you don't have to make choice between fast following of links and fast fold/unfold). You can move the map by dragging the map's background as well as using mouse wheel.
- Undo
- Smart Drag'n Drop, including the possibility to copy nodes or copy style of nodes; dragging and dropping of multiple selected nodes; dropping of texts or list of files from outside
- Smart copying and pasting into, including pasting of links from HTML or structuring the pasted content on the basis of the number of leading spaces in a line; pasting of lists of selected files
- Smart copying and pasting from, including plain text and RTF (MS Wordpad, MS Word, MS Outlook messages).
- Export of map to HTML, with folding (see example (http://freemind.sourceforge.net/PublicMaps-exported.html))
- Find facility, where found items are shown one by one as you do 'find next', and the map is unfolded only for the current item.
- Possibility to use and edit long multiline nodes; even with newlines
- Possibility to decorate nodes with built-in icons, colors and different fonts.
- Low costs of risk of switching away to another mind mapping tool, because FreeMind stores maps in XML format. If you have a lot of maps created by FreeMind and you want to switch to another program, writing a conversion program should be easy, especially if that program features Visual Basic scripting facility. Christoph Rissner describes in his article (http://krottmaier.cgv.tugraz.at/docs/seminar/sem2002_mindmaps.pdf) at IICM site (http://krottmaier.cgv.tugraz.at/veranstaltungen/seminar/abgeschlossen.html) his implementation (http://krottmaier.cgv.tugraz.at/docs/seminar/sem2002_mindmaps.tar.gz) of data exchange between FreeMind and MindManager.
- File mode enables you to browse the files on your computer, seeing the folder structure as mind map.
Version 1.27 – Released 24 August 2020
- New Radial layout.
- New Stylesheet “Colored Circles”, looks great with the new radial layout.
- New Linear layout, great for making simple timelines.
- New Stylesheet “Blue Steel”, with a cool flat look.
- Use emojis icons in topics. “Icons” has a new tab “Emojis” where you can add your choice of emojis. Requires Mac OS 10.13 or up. Read more…
- The “external link” icon is tinted.
- New Topic border styles: circle, left arrow, right arrow and parallelogram.
- The minimum width and height for topics can be set via element style or the new topic resize tool. This allows manual sizing of topics.
- Enable the “topic resize tool” via Preferences | General | Topic Tools.
- New keyboard shortcut “Remove checkbox” Shift+Ctrl+Space.
- iPhoneLink removed.
- Bug fixes and other minor improvements.
Version 1.26 – Released 21 April 2020
- v1.26.1 b1974 released 22 June 2020 fixes bugs reported on v1.26.0
- In some cases customized Label font sizes would drift
- “New Mind Map” could cause a crash – particularly, but not only, on MacOS 10.10 – 10.12
- Inspector buttons had zero width in toolbar on MacOS 10.10 – 10.13
- Open a blank mind map or start from a template. (Requires MacOS 10.13 or higher)
- 11 predefined templates available.
- Add your own templates. Read more…
- 11 predefined templates available.
- Calendar
- Export topics with checkboxes to Reminders.
- Export topics with a date as events to Calendar.
- Export topics with a date as .ics events. This can be imported in calendar apps.
- Path style “rounded” added, read more…
- Transparent .png image export.
- New layout directions for the List Layout: “Top – Right to Left” and “Top – Left to Right”.
- Edit in the outline view. Double click to edit topic text and use shortcuts, or the menu, to add topics.
- Show dates, or filter topics with dates, in export outline and print outline.
- Paste on collapsed topics.
- Drag and drop URL into empty space to create a new topic with link.
- SimpleApps edition: Drag and drop filename into empty space to create a new (child) topic with link.
- Deleting a mind map in Google Drive moves the mind map to trash, rather than deleting the mind map permanently.
- Mind Map Style restored in main Style menu.
- Small bug fixes and improved performance.
Version 1.25 – Released 2 Dec 2019
Mindmanager Mac Os
- Easily style topics, lines and more, with the new Style tab in the inspector. Open with Command+5. Read more…
- As a result the old style toolbar is hidden by default. It can be made visible via the main View menu.
- Tap once in blank space to display the mind map style when the style inspector is open. Read more…
- The Files tab supports Import en Import pdf bookmarks.
- Clear history in the Files tab via the right click context menu.
- To switch focus, for example from Notes tot Editor, use the Main menu View | Focus Editor or the keyboard shortcut Ctrl+Cmd+0.
- Mac OS 10.12 or prior: The Style Sheets are moved to the Stylesheet tab in the inspector. Open with Command+4.
- Map searchbar: Restore State – restores collapsed and hidden topics when search bar closes.
- Bug fixes and performance improvements.
Version 1.24 – Released 2 Sept 2019
- Version 1.24.2 b1864 released 18 October 2019:
- Fixes crash problems related to entering text and spellchecker.
- Fixes .pdf files not selectable for import
- Slideshow support. Define slides by selecting topics and play slideshow inside SimpleMind or export as zipped set of .png images. Read more…
- Auto focus extended with Lock Auto Focus on Selected Branch. The branch remains focused until Auto focus style is changed (disabled etc).
- Improved toolbar images
- Improved inplace topic editor
Mindnode Mac Os
Version 1.23 – Released 15 April 2019
- Version 1.23.2 released 9 May:
- Bug fix for Email Mind Map on MacOS 10.14
- Bug fix for opening .smmx file from Finder in AppStore edition
- Version 1.23.1 released 19 April: bug fixes related to Mac OS 10.10 – 10.12
- Save mind map files in any directory – including iCloud Drive.
- Open mind maps via “Mind Map | Open”.
- Open mind map files via Finder.
- Mind maps opened via Finder or “Open” are shown in the Files tab.
- AppStore edition: Mind Maps in Files tab do not support linking to documents or mind maps.
- SimpleApps edition: Mind Maps in Files tab behave like in a cloud and have full linking capabilities.
- Wysiwyg (What you see is what you get ) rich text support in notes, topics and labels:
Bold, Italic, Underline, Strike-through, Superscript and Subscript. - User Interface Modernized
- Dark mode support. (MacOS 10.14)
- Enable Dark Mode, even when MacOS is light, via Preferences | General.
- Style Sheet selector in inspector (MacOS 10.13)
- Dark mode support. (MacOS 10.14)
- New style sheet “Natural+Colors on Black”.
- Auto Focus can include cross linked topics.
- Group borders
- Display a group border around any set of topics.
- Improved appearance of branch borders
- Branch borders can be added to central themes.
- Display a group border around any set of topics.
- Topics support dashed line styles (via style toolbar – Line width)
- Copy Branch as Outline and Copy Branch as Image
- New command Checkboxes | Reset state – checkboxes are unchecked, progress bars are set to 0.
- Drag-drop reconnect topics in auto layout mode no longer fully expands dragged topics
- Full size image is displayed with Preview app
- Bug fixed in access to Contacts and Photos Library
- Bug fixed: Notes included in full text search
Mind Map For Mac Os
Version 1.22.0 – Released 4 Dec 2018
- Improved display in Image Preview.
- Adjustable font size in note panel (context menu)
- Removed options for shadow support in mind maps
- Keyboard shortcuts for subscript Ctrl+= and superscript Shift+Ctrl+=
- Bug fixed in Export Outline scope radio buttons
- Bug fix for Nextcloud servers that have path at the end of the server url