FreeMind for Mac
Mind-mapping software (beta).
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FreeMind overview
FreeMind for Mac is an easy-to-operate mind-mapping software with a strong emphasis on folding. Based on Java, it is compatible with different environments, including Microsoft Windows, Linux, and macOS. It is a particularly helpful productivity tool for planning projects, revising for exams, or sparking new ideas.
Features:
- Branches shift automatically to ensure your nodes are presented in a concise and logical manner. Alternatively, you can move them manually.
- Download FreeMind for Mac to protect your map or individual branches from the data loss with an automatic backup function provided by DES encryption.
- You don't need to choose between fast link following and fast fold/unfold. Smooth navigation includes one-click folding/unfolding and following links with a click at the same time.
- Use and edit long multiline nodes, even with newlines.
- Decorate nodes with built-in icons, tones, and beautiful fonts.
What’s new in version 1.1.0_Beta_2
Version 1.1.0_Beta_2:
Big New Features:
- HiDPI support (for Windows and Linux).
- Look into the properties under Appearance -> Scale.
- Provided a new way to generate graphical and local links: copy and paste nodes as graphical or local links.
- The paste of structured (HTML) data recognizes the structure and reconstructs it as hierarchical nodes.
- Format dialog has example nodes that show all the changes.
Smaller Features:
- Font color combo box
- Re-developed lots of the attribute functionality
- Search dialog on geographical maps accepts coordinates in the form "lat lon" or "lat lon;lat2 lon2;..."
- A reverse lookup is then performed unless you set do_reverse_lookup_on_lat_lon_search to false
- New search-and-replace dialog shows tooltips of the node and note text
- Enhanced the calendar widget to show 12 month at once
- Standalone map server created
- Icon toolbar can have multiple columns (see properties->appearance)
- On save, thumbnails are created and displayed as tooltip on mindmap links to other mm-files
- Added node statistics to the status bar (inclusive sums of node contents)
- New Export as HTML page with a single clickable image containing only the links (URLs) or the map
- Clones can be deactivated by menu
- Strikethrough
- Sorting in both directions by repeating the command
- Markings in calendars
FreeMind for Mac
Free
In English
Version 1.1.0_Beta_2
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Jul 25 2013
Version: 1.0.0_RC_4
great and informative post. http://www.mindmappingsite.com/sw-tool-reviews/software-reviews
Jan 27 2013
Version: 1.0.0_Beta_6
What a great little app! The documentation says to use the Insert key to insert a "child" node; on a Mac this was baffling, but a quick Google search gave the answer – use the Tab key. Some of the other keystrokes & functionality are not intuitive e.g. to insert line breaks, but it's all learnable. It does work, it's pretty quick to get started, and it's free!
Jun 1 2012
Version: 1.0.0_Beta_3
Brilliant app. No frills, no fuss. Easy to use and easy to learn. Can only imagine how awesome it would be if I really had learnt how to use it and not just messed around.
Don't expect flying saucers and amazing Flash or Java capabilities - this is an application for people who want to work and get the work done, not bother around with fancy things that take up time. Give it a few years and it probably will have some flying saucers - not necessary in my opinion, but inevitable as a part of evolution.
Congrats to the developers for creating this awesome app!
Jan 1 2012
Version: 0.9.0
When I open it, the app shows and empty doc and many tools, but all tools stay grey (unusable), so I have to search through the menu items to do something, but futile. The only usable item is "Help > Documentation" which closes (!) my empty doc and opens a mindmap explaining commands that simply do not work. One of the hardest-to-use and most user-unfriendly apps I've ever met. Should be called "UnfreeMind" instead! While so much great, self-explaining GUIs exist since the nineties, this 2012 app sux cog.
