![]() It’s an easy-to-use, cross-platform tool licensed under the GNU General Public License Version 2 and is famed for giving users the freedom to use Mac OS, Windows, and Linux operating systems (OS) within the Java Runtime Environment. ![]() After two years of using Freemind, tired of the cumbersome abundance of Mindjet manager, I wouldn't like to go back to it and even less switch to its little brother.FreeMind is a free, open-source mind-mapping software written in Java for creating structured diagrams. I think Freemind is just now more needed than ever because it offers something the others don't and can be improved. No doubt that Freemind should be improved (I would like, for instance, moreadvanced note taking features, labes on links, more varied node edges, etc., and specially integration with other open source programs so as OpenOffice, Zotero, etc.). ![]() (floating nodes can even be advantageously replaced by ad-hoc nodes in Freemind: you can always create as many provisional nodes as you want, in every place of the map with invisible links and graphical ones). And this helps in the process of quickly write down your thoughts, tasks, etc. But it has an enormous advantage: the flexibility to move the nodes without being constrained into a rigid scheme of symmetrically placed nodes. Freemind is more compact and efficient than xmind".ī) the graphical interface of Freemind lacks some features, something it has been pointed out in these fora. Bretell says above: "it takes up a LOT of room, both in memory and in output. The fancy looks are in this case not so fancy for the mind. I mention some characteristics as proof:Ī) in Freemind you can very quickly take notes, etc., everything that comes to mind, in a sort of graphical database, in situations for which the abundant and flamboyant features of programs like Mindjet Manager become rather cumbersome. I feel the whole approach is different: Mindjet Manager and its little brothers are oriented towards presentation I personally find Freemind more oriented towards the act of thinking itself. And there is no question that this last program is -currently, at least- far superior to Xmind.Ģ) It is not only in terms of market that Xmind is different from Freemind. ![]() Xmind competitor is, in this sense, not Freemind but MindjetManager. Lewis says above: "how a new tool (Xmind) tries to take over an existing community." I won't be surprised if Microsoft and other commercial suppliers of software soon begin to adopt this sort of business model of "open source" with own captive community of users I find interesting what I. Look a this: the comercial version (what I would call simply the program) includes export to PDF files, an essential feature with widespread use that is not included in the "open source"version: you must thus pay to export to PDF !! Incredible. In practice, it is a commercial program with a couple of "open source" modules, a sort of those hundreds (or maybe thousands) freeware that offer a free second (third, etc.) rate version of their program. 1) Xmind introduces itself as an open source program.
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