FreeMind Guide

Introduction

Welcome to FreeMind and the world of computer-based Mindmapping ;-)
To avoid confusion, yes, FreeMind indeed is a Mindmapping tool, but FreeMind is also more. It can represent any tree-structured data as a MindMap, and I look forward to once using it as a generic interface to the computer.
However, this is a dream, but currently you can use FreeMind as a Mindmapping tool, which is what all FreeMind users do. FreeMind has Modes, which means that you can use a specific mode to do a specific task, for instance MindMap-Mode for creating and viewing Mindmaps. The MindMap-Mode will be the only that you will use now, but keep in mind that there are other modes to come.
To use FreeMind efficiently, it's best to learn the keyboard shortcuts, so you don't have to take your hands away from keyboard, what would interrupt your workflow.

After all, I hope you like FreeMind, as I do, and have fun with it!

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