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- Price: Free
- Operating system: Mac OS X 10.5 Intel, Mac OS X 10.4 Intel, Mac OS X 10.6 Intel
- Date added: October 23, 2009
- Total Downloads: 4,407
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CNET editors' review
Reviewed by: CNET Staff
Like all mind maps, FreeMind gives you the flexibility to organize thoughts on a page as they connect to each other and to the larger picture. After all, not all minds reason in subheadings and bullet points. You shape, place, and name that master idea (the root node), then create child or sibling spokes that relate to it.
FreeMind encompasses a fine range of features, including scads of icons and color formatting options to help you visually organize concepts. It also supports hyperlinks, which allow you to link Web sites and even documents to a map. In addition, you'll be able to export your landscape of thoughts in a variety of formats, including HTML, PDF, and JPEG. As flexible as it lets your mind be, FreeMind works within an older-style logical structure that could get frustrating for some. For instance, you must insert nodes by hand or using a hot key; you can't click and drag to create them (a shame).
It's evident how mind maps like FreeMind can hasten note-taking, or help you visualize a project, paper, or process. However, a revamped interface with more intuitive drag-and-drop functionality and versioning for collaborators wouldn't hurt, either.
Publisher's description
From FreeMind Team :FreeMind is intended for editing Mind maps, XML/HTML documents, and directory trees. In future, even network-structures will be supported such as Topic Maps (ISO). All this data is represented to the user as a Mind map. This is achived with a modular design, which makes it possible to easily write modules, only designing the model of the problem (the data structure), without caring for the visual representation at all. Currently a Mind Mapping and a File Mode are implemented. Version 0.8.1 is a bug-fixing release.
What's new in this version:
- Fixed: Plain text Long node gets corrupted (loses newlines) on drag * http://sourceforge.net/tracker/?func=detail&aid=2844139&group_id=7118&atid=107118
- Fixed: Question before delete issued from the menu added
- Fixed: Message on status bar is cleared before save.
- Improved: Graphical layout of password dialog for encryption
- Improved: If a file exists in "File->Save as" the file dialog is repeated.
- We now create two different versions for Ma... see all new features
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