Add-ons (install)

What is an Add-on?

Add-ons are well-known from applications like Firefox or LibreOffice. They can be used to extend and customize Freeplane. They can provide a single function, be bound 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

The add-on has the form of a mind map with the special suffix .addon.mm. To install the package via a single click you need Freeplane version v1.2.10_05 or later.

Only with older versions you have to follow this procedure:

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

You will find the new command in the menu. (For instance "Insert Inline Image" can be found under Edit->Node extensions and it will have the shortcut Ctrl+Shift+i.)

Here are the first packages, for use with Beta or preview versions only:

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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 script asks for an URL and inserts an HTML img tag at the end of the node's text. If the node is not already an HTML node it will be converted.

The image can be made a link, either to the image source URL or to a custom URL.

Download v0.9.8

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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/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 last chosen character from node core text
• split node core text 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...
• 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

Download v0.3.0

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. The new functions are available under Tools -> Development Tools. Among other:

• 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).

Download v0.9.12

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