FreeMind Review

FreeMind is a totally free mind mapping program written in Java and developed for anyone who is looking for a simple and inexpensive mind mapping tool. Provided with numerous features, it allows you to take notes, organize them and store them in one space. Here you can create links that go to unite all your ideas into a mind map.
Being opensource, FreeMind‘s code can be modified and customized to suit your needs.

FREEMIND – TUTORIAL

FREEMIND – FEATURES

• Fully functional following of HTML links stored in the nodes, be it www links or links to local files.
• It supports folding which is its essential property.
• Fast one-click navigation, including folding / unfolding on one click and following links on one click at the same time.
• Smart Drag’n Drop, including the possibility to copy nodes or copy style of nodes; dragging and dropping of multiple selected nodes.
• Smart copying and pasting into, including pasting of links from HTML or structuring the pasted content on the basis of the number of leading spaces in a line; pasting of lists of selected files.
• Smart copying and pasting from, including plain text and RTF (MS Wordpad, MS Word, MS Outlook messages).
• Export of map to HTML, with folding (see example)
• Find facility, where found items are shown one by one as you do “find next”, and the map is unfolded only for the current item.
• Possibility to use and edit long multiline nodes; even with newlines
• Possibility to decorate nodes with built-in icons, colors and different fonts.
• File mode enables you to browse the files on your computer, seeing the folder structure as mind map.