Add-ons (install)

What is an Add-on?

Add-ons are a way to extend and customize Freeplane similar to how plug-ins and extensions can be used to extend and customize well-known applications like Firefox or LibreOffice. Freeplane add-ons can be used to provide a single function, a bundle of multiple functions, bind those functions to a menu item, and much more.

Anybody can write an add-on! (see the add-on developer documentation)

note: add-ons are not necessarily provided by the Freeplane core developers.

Installing an add-on

An add-on is a Freeplane mind map with the special additional suffix <FILENAME>.addon.mm. Add-ons can be installed with a single click with Freeplane version v1.2.10_05 or later.

If Freeplane is not the designated program to open '.mm' files and for Freeplane versions before v1.2.10_05, follow this procedure:

1. In Freeplane, select Tools > Add-ons > Search add-ons > Visit add-on page
2. Search for your add-on and choose download
3. Save the add-on on your computer (for example, on your desktop)
4. Select Tools > Addons > Search and install
5. Select directory icon
6. Find and select the file you just downloaded (for example, on your desktop)
7. Select Install
8. Restart Freeplane

You will now find the new command in the menu. For example, "Insert Inline Image" can be found under Edit->Node extensions with the shortcut Ctrl+Shift+i.)

Add-ons are listed below.

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FreeIBIS

by L. C. Rees

Issue-Based Information System for Freeplane

Download v0.1.0

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Freeplane|GTD

This add-on enables using a mind map as a 'trusted system' in the Getting Things Done (GTD) methodology. The hierarchical nature of a mind map is ideal for tracking projects, their associated tasks, and next actions. Features:

• Extracts Next Action lists from nodes marked with a next action icon
• Displays lists sorted by Project, Context, Waiting-For, or Due Dates
• Accepts a simple, natural shorthand notation for entering Next Actions
• Next Actions in lists are hyperlinked back to the GTD mind map for easy editing

See here for more details.

Download latest version

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http://freeplane.sourceforge.net/addons/insertInlineImage/images/insertInlineImage.png Insert Inline Image

by Volker Börchers, Rickenbroc

This add-on is a convenient way to add images on the fly in your maps. The images can come from :

• a file from your computer,
• the clipboard (copy),
• an url from the internet

You can resize the display (with a preview pane) and put it in :

• node core
• node details
• note
• node extension

You can even decorate the image inserted with a link which point wherever you would want. Download v0.9.9

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http://freeplane.sourceforge.net/addons/oldicons-theme/images/oldicons-theme.png Old Icons Theme

This little theme add-on installs the old (pre 1.2.9) link icons (Link.png and LinkLocal.png).

Download v0.9.5

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http://freeplane.sourceforge.net/addons/packAndGo/images/packAndGo-icon.png Pack & Go

by Volker Börchers

Pack and Go provides a function to pack a map with all its dependencies into one zip file.

Download v0.4

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http://freeplane.sourceforge.net/addons/palmIcons/images/palmIcons-icon.png Palm Icons

by Steve Kunkel

Free Palm Os Icons categorized by groups Office, Home.... for Freeplane. Compiled by Steve Kunkel and converted to an Add-on by Predrag. For artist information, see this forum post.

Download v1.0

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http://freeplane.sourceforge.net/addons/studyPlanner/images/studyPlanner-icon.png Study Planner

by Predrag Cuklin

Study Planner will help in better organization of learning. It is designed for pupils and students in planning everyday school extracurricular activities and obligations. Important functions of Study Planner are:

• organization of subjects and activities by day
• organization of activities by time of learning
• the ability to determine the type of activities
• countdown learning
• creating lists of activity by Day, by Subject, by Type of activity, by Period of learning
• copying list
• print list
• more icons

For more information see this page

Download v1.2.1

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http://freeplane.sourceforge.net/addons/translation/images/translation-icon.png Translation

by Volker Börchers

Utilities for automatic translation of maps and language resources that use the mymemory translation service. Of most interest for Freeplane translators. The scripts still have some limitations:

• Text size per node/text is limited to 1000 characters.
• Translation time growths mainly with the number of texts/nodes. No optimization for the case of many small texts.

Download v0.5

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http://freeplane.sourceforge.net/addons/userIcons/images/userIcons-icon.png User Icons

by Predrag Cuklin

This add-on adds standard Freeplane icons under User icons in bigger size (24 px) and adds other icons (computer, more office icons...).

Download v1.1

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wikdNode

by L. C. Rees

Node wrangling features for Freeplane:

• capitalize first word in node core text
• capitalize all words in node core text
• upper case node core text
• lower case node core text
• delete first chosen characters from node core text
• delete first characters matching a regular expression from node core text
• delete last chosen character from node core text
• delete last characters matching a regular expression from node core text
• delete links on multiple nodes
• split node core tex into multiple nodes on periods
• split node core text into multiple nodes on commas
• split node core text into multiple nodes on spaces
• split node core text into multiple nodes on one or more chosen characters...
• split node core text into multiple nodes before one or more chosen characters...
• split node core text into multiple nodes on characters that match a regular expression...
• split node core text into multiple nodes before characters that match a regular expression...
• splits node core text after one or more chosen characters
• splits node core text after characters matching a regular expression
• join node core text of multiple nodes with spaces
• join node core text of multiple nodes with commas
• join node core text of multiple nodes with periods
• join node core text of multiple nodes with one or more chosen characters
• copy node core text as a new child of the node
• replace parent node core text with the core node text of one of its children
• convert parent node attributes to node children
• convert node children to parent node attributes

Download v0.6.5 (without Java speedups)

Download v0.7.0 (with Java speedups) Using the version of widkNode with Java speedups requires adding 'scripts' to the script classpath in Freeplane's preferences.

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SmartLocker

Smart Locker

by Jodi D. Krol

SmartLocker provides a repository integrated within a freeplane mind map. The repsitory appears as a single node which is permanently folded (Locker node), hence keeps information held by its children out of sight. This hidden information is accessable anywhere in your map by means of Service nodes. A Service node can add data to be kept by the Locker node, or display its data and add it to the Clipboard. Data may be simple, or can be a branch of nodes. The services concerning one subject are children of a Subject node. For each Subject node data can be entered for logging in and opening mutiple web pages. Next it is possible to automatically login by clicking the Subject node. It is also possible to generate a secure password for use with a website. And with time managent in Freeplane you can set a reminder when to change your password. The data of a Locker node is protected by encryption. Hence you need a password to get access. This password is asked only once during a session. It is possible to have multiple Locker nodes in one map, each with a different password. In this way data with different security needs can be held in one mind map. For each Subject node there exists a Server node which knows how to find the right Locker node, and which lets you toggle the menu's for editing locker information.

Use cases. Typical use cases are automatic website login and keeping structured data  like credit card numbers and unstructured information like diaries.

Download Smart Locker <follows> After downloading, in Tools > Preferences > Plugins set classpath: lib
and set permit file/ read operation: true

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Collaborative tools

by Sébastien Georget

Collaborative tools provides some scripts to ease team working on a single map.

It requires a working versionning system, CVS, SVN and GIT are supported.

Once installed, you can execute the following commands inside freeplane

• diff your mindmap (F10)
• update your mindmap (F11)
• publish your mindmap (F12)

Download the latest version

Feedbacks and contributions are welcome.

For developers

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http://freeplane.sourceforge.net/addons/devtools/images/devtools.png Add-on Developer Tools

This add-on collects some utilities that script and/or add-on developers will find useful:

• Check Add-on: Adds all standard nodes, attributes and notes to the current map. Can be used with an empty Map to create an add-on skeleton.
• Release Add-on: It copies the <addon>.mm to <addon>-<version>.mm and updates the script node's context from the files lying around.
• Generate add-on documentation: Creates a snippet for the Freeplane add-ons wiki page.
• freeplane.dsld: Adds Eclipse editor support for predefined script bindings such as node, c, ui, textUtils, ...
• Insert Binary: Asks for a file to insert as text of the current node (BASE64 encoded).

The new functions are available under Tools -> Development Tools.

Download v0.9.12

wikdShell

by L. C. Rees

Groovy console for interacting with a running Freeplane instance

Download 0.2.1 Note: using widkShell requires adding 'scripts' to the script classpath in Freeplane's preferences.

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