FAQ

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

General

Are there books about Freeplane?

Yes, but only in French and German:

• Mind Mapping - Transformez vos idées en projet avec Freeplane (2012, French)
• Eine Einführung in Freeplane als Werkzeug für Wissens- und Zeitmanagement (2013, German, Ebook)

Books about Freeplane's anchestor FreeMind might be interesting as well:

• Booster votre efficacité avec FreeMind, Freeplane et Xmind : Bien démarrer avec le Mind Mapping (2010, French)
• FreeMind kompakt: Besser lernen, verstehen und entscheiden mit dem Open-Source-Mindmapping-Programm (2009, German)

And of course there are a lot of books on Mindmapping in general.

What made it worth forking from Freemind?

See the article on the Freeplane/FreeMind relationship.

FAQ Freeplane 1.1.x

• Troubleshooting.
• 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.
• 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.

Index wiki

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.