FAQ

Preface

This FAQ currently is currently work in progress.

General

Which documentation is available?

The Freeplane manual is currently in work.

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.

Are there books about Freeplane?

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

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

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.

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.

Editing Mindmaps

How to copy and paste html text and images from Web pages in nodes and notes on Linux

Use Firefox for Windows with Wine.