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Boost your brain with Freeplane

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Stable version: 1.1.x
Development version: 1.2.x

What is Freeplane?

Freeplane is a powerful and free mind mapping application. It is a redesigned version of the well known FreeMind, and is created by one of FreeMind's key developers. The software is written in Java, and supports any platform capable of running current versions of Java, including:

  • Microsoft Windows
  • Mac OS X
  • Linux / BSD / Solaris
  • Portable Freeplane for Windows (runs from a USB drive)

Freeplane is available in several different languages. The currently available translations are: English, French, German, Spanish, Italian, Japanese, Russian, Croatian and Polish.

Freeplane is released under the GNU General Public License (GPL).

Recent news:

  • Previews for Freeplane 1.2.x launched. 2010-08-01
  • Mind map gallery launched. You can contribute your mind maps to the collection. 2010-07-17
  • Stable version 1.1.1 released. Only new Latex library and fixes for Debian packaging. 2010-07-18

Older news

Getting Freeplane

First make sure you have installed a recent version of Java, 1.5 or above.

To download Freeplane, go to the SourceForge page, and click on the "Download Now!" button.

To run, use installer for Windows OS, adapted distribution for mac OS or simply extract the downloaded zipfile, and run the "freeplane.bat" file (Windows), or the "freeplane.sh" file (Unix) file.

Freeplane features

The most important new features in 1.1.x

  • Better inline_editor for all plain text nodes
  • Edge-like connectors (available from connector pop-up menu)
  • External objects: External bitmap and SVG images can be attached using menu Insert->External object and resized
    • Image size can be reset by double clicking on the bottom right corner
    • Images can be scaled by dragging the bottom right corner
  • Good Scripting support:
  • Insert image dialog and insert external object dialog have file previews
  • F-Toolbar
  • Find or Replace in all open maps
  • Full screen mode
  • Hidden Edge Style
  • Horizontal Edge Style
  • Hot keys can be set by pressing left mouse button on menu item and holding CONTROL key
  • Outline view
  • Portable Freeplane
  • Selective paste from edit menu (Paste as...)
  • Spell checker
  • Structured HTML paste


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Screenshots and Mind Map Gallery

Contributing to Freeplane's Development

  • Have a look at the (preliminary!) Architecture description.

Browsing this Wiki

Many pages on this wiki are tagged with one or more of the following Categories:

  • Advanced Users - Documentation for experienced and/or technical users
  • Developer Documentation - Information for software developers wishing to enhance or customize Freeplane
  • Needs Updating - Pages which contain valuable information, though some of it needs to be updated
  • Old Wiki - Pages imported from the previous Wiki which may now be obsolete
  • Scripting - Extending Freeplane using Groovy scripts
  • Team Freeplane - Freeplane team members and project coordination
  • Testing - Details about testing new versions of Freeplane which are under development
  • Tutorials - HowTo articles and other "hands on" documentation
  • User Documentation - Basic information about Freeplane including usage and features
  • Wiki - Help for using this Wiki

Contributing to the Wiki

You can use this wiki to share information and tips about Freeplane and its features.

You can create new pages and edit all existing pages including this one after you register and log in.

You can subscribe to atom feed to be informed about all changes in this wiki. Using this web service you can get daily e-mail notifications whenever the content changes. The same service can also be used for notifications about any changes to the project pages on SourceForge.

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Thanks

Freeplane team uses:

  • YourKit Java Profiler developed and donated by YourKit, for analysis of memory consumption and performance issues
  • Code analyser stanj4, developed and donated by Odysseus Software GmbH
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