FAQ

Answers to questions are to be found on different places, depending on the Freeplane version.

General

Are there books about Freeplane?

Not yet. But there are a lot of books on Mindmapping in general.

German readers might find a book about FreeMind to be useful: "FreeMind kompakt: Besser lernen, verstehen und entscheiden mit dem Open-Source-Mindmapping-Programm."

What made it worth forking from Freemind?

See the article on the Freeplane/FreeMind relationship.

FAQ Freeplane 1.1.x

• Troubleshooting.
• Location user direcory: The location of the Freeplane user directory can be found by in invoking the menu item Help->About. It's ~/.freeplane on Linux and %USERPROFILE%\.freeplane on Windows.
• Log file. Mainly for advanced features like Scripting you need to know where the log file is located. Find it in the user directory. It's named log.0 in most cases. If you have more than one Freeplane instance opened then it might have the name log.1 or even log.0.1. The most recently changed file matching the pattern log.* will be the one you are looking for.

Note that test versions for the coming 1.2 versions under Windows have a different user directory than the 1.1 series.

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FAQ Freeplane 1.2.x

See the FAQ in the documentation in Freeplane's Help and the index on the right. If you want the most recent version, use the FAQ in the online documentation. In addition new FAQ's will be described below until they are integrated in the (online) documentation.

How to replace a splash screen

Find directory resources in the freeplane installation directory, create directory images in it and put your file named Freeplane_splash.png there.