FAQ

Troubleshooting

See Troubleshooting page.

General

Which documentation is available?

A help mindmap is available in the application (menu: Help->Documentation). It is a small documentation mostly suited for reference purposes.

The Freeplane wiki contains extensive documentation, but only on a few topics.

The Freeplane manual is currently under development.

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."

Why a new project? What made it worth forking from Freemind?

See the article on the Freeplane/FreeMind relationship.

Installation and Configuration

Where is the "user directory"?

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.

Note that the user directory of test versions of the coming release 1.2 on Windows is %APPDATA%\freeplane\1.2.

Where do I find the 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.