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What is Freeplane?

Freeplane is a powerful and free mind mapping application. It is a redesigned version of the well known FreeMind, and is created by one of FreeMind's key developers. The software is written in Java, and supports any platform capable of running current versions of Java, including:

• Microsoft Windows
• Mac OS X
• Linux / BSD / Solaris
• Portable Freeplane for Windows (runs from a USB drive)

Freeplane is available in several different languages. The currently available translations are: English, French, German, Italian, Russian, and Croatian.

Freeplane is released under the GNU General Public License (GPL).

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Getting Freeplane

First make sure you have installed a recent version of Java, 1.5 or above.

To download Freeplane, go to the SourceForge page, and click on the "Download Now!" button.

To run, simply extract the downloaded zipfile, and run the "freeplane.bat" file (Windows), or the "freeplane.sh" file (Unix) file.

Freeplane features

A New User Manual is coming. Read and contribute.

The most important new features

• Better inline_editor for all plain text nodes
• Edge-like connectors (available from connector pop-up menu)
• External objects: External bitmap and SVG images can be attached using menu Insert->External object and resized
  • Image size can be reset by double clicking on the bottom right corner
  • Images can be scaled by dragging the bottom right corner
• Good Scripting support:
  • New scripting API
  • Loading and execution of external groovy scripts
• Insert image dialog and insert external object dialog have file previews
• F-Toolbar
• Find or Replace in all open maps
• Full screen mode
• Hidden Edge Style
• Horizontal Edge Style
• Hot keys can be set by pressing left mouse button on menu item and holding CONTROL key
• Outline view
• Portable Freeplane
• Selective paste from edit menu (Paste as...)
• Spell checker
• Structured HTML paste

New filtering features

• Date based filter
• Filter conditions for numeric values return false for non numeric values
• Filter based on link labels
• Filter history
• Filter menu
• Filter tool bar can be hidden like all other tool bars,
• Filter status is displayed in status line
• Filter node text by regular expressions

Other features

• All backup or autosave files are numbered from 1 to maximum number, the bigger number the latest file.
• Automatic backup for all loaded files on first save.
• Backup and autosave use directory ".backup" created in the map directory.
• Edit nodes with line breaks in in-line editor (alt+enter to quit , shift+enter for line break)
• Enable link pop-up menu even if neither target nor source node is selected.
• Exception traces for internal errors are automatically sent to freeplane team for analysis.
• Export Using XSLT
• Hide tabs if only one map is loaded
• Hot keys: CONTROL + ALT + RIGHT, CONTROL + ALT + LEFT
• Icon actions moved in separate menu
• Icon toolbar hidden by default
• Linking to arbitrary URI integrated
• Links where target or source are selected are found first.
• New icons: 0%, 25%, 50%, 75%, 100%
• New navigation actions useful for presentation "next node" and "previous node". They traverse the map in depth-first order.
• Personal modification color can be set in prefeences
• Plain text search for filter in html nodes added
• Priority filters based on priority icons
• Text labels can be added to any end and in the middle of any link by link pop-up menu
• Text rendering mode use more exact fractional metric based version.
• The action is also available from pop-up menu
• The attached file can be opened by double click on the image itself
• The same zooms applies to all maps
• Zoom keep selected node position
• Zoom saved between sessions

Contributing to Freeplane's Development

• Visit the Think Tank

• Have a look at the (preliminary!) Architecture description.

• Some users might be interested in the Translation How-To.
  
  

Testing Freeplane

• How to test

• Testing/release policy

Browsing this Wiki

Many pages on this wiki are tagged with one or more of the following Categories:

• Advanced Users - Documentation for experienced and/or technical users
  
• Developer Documentation - Information for software developers wishing to enhance or customize Freeplane
  
• Needs Updating - Pages which contain valuable information, though some of it needs to be updated
  
• Old Wiki - Pages imported from the previous Wiki which may now be obsolete
  
• Scripting - Extending Freeplane using Groovy scripts
  
• Team Freeplane - Freeplane team members and project coordination
  
• Testing - Details about testing new versions of Freeplane which are under development
  
• Tutorials - HowTo articles and other "hands on" documentation
  
• User Documentation - Basic information about Freeplane including usage and features
  
• Wiki - Help for using this Wiki
  

Contributing to the Wiki

You can use this wiki to share information and tips about Freeplane and its features.

You can create new pages and edit all existing pages including this one after you register and log in.

You can subscribe to atom feed to be informed about all changes in this wiki. Using this web service you can get daily e-mail notifications whenever the content changes. The same service can also be used for notifications about any changes to the project pages on SourceForge.

Useful links

• Freeplane SourceForge page with summary on the latest project activity
• Freeplane Open discussion forum
• Old builds repository of Freeplane
• Current test builds of Freeplane
• Icons
  • Silk Icons organized into folders [icons organized.zip]
  • Flags of the world icons organized into folders [Flags organized.zip]

Hint: all of wiki/forum/files pages (and even sections) can be easily followed via newsfeeds, so don't hesitate to subscribe!

Thanks

Freeplane team uses:

• YourKit Java Profiler developed and donated by YourKit, for analysis of memory consumption and performance issues
• Code analyser stanj4, developed and donated by Odysseus Software GmbH