FreeMind Guide

Usage

Configuration

FreeMind is widely configureable. You can select the language, english, german or french, make various defaults and choose which keybindings to use.
To configure FreeMind, edit either the file freemindUser.properties, which you should normally use, or freemind.properties, where I made the defaults, in any text editor, make your changes and store the file again as plain text. If you start FreeMind, the new properties are read in.
Configurations made in freemindUser.properties overwrite those made in freemind.properties, so you can play around and just delete the changed values from freemindUser.properties, if your changes don't work.

Usage

FreeMind should be intuitively to use. Just add the nodes you want. If you have problems with anything and think it's not intuitively, just send me a mail so that I can change it in the next release.

Development

Because FreeMind is still in development phase, there are some unimplemented or experimental features:
  • Printing: Printing is still experimental and doesn't work well.
  • Fonts: Due to a bug in the swing library, the selection of font attributes is somewhat buggy.
  • File-Mode: Is still experimental, only basics are implemented.
Of course there are still some bugs in FreeMind (any software has bugs), but I use FreeMind every day and found it quite usable and stable. If you have any problems, feel free to send me a mail.

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