That’s not to say that import and interoperability will not be maintained as an option. In fact, forum discussions about changing the file extension, and working towards an Open Document Standard format suggest that there is no desire to stay aligned with FreeMind. I did prise a list of the present differences between Freeplane and FreeMind out of him, and have included that at the foot of this post.įreeplane can open FreeMind (.mm) files at present, but there can be no guarantee that this will always be so. I have a vision for the software, but I’m not actually a coder.” He went on “I think we should support LaTeX, clones, and maybe some maths/logic functionality.” He promises that users “should see a pace of development that will keep them excited.” When I asked him about it Ryan agreed, and said “In terms of the real difference, this does need to be clarified – inside and outside of the team. In fairness, they do say “already we have some long asked for features such as labelling graphical links, spell checker and improved filtering functionality” but I think it will take more to move FreeMind users. I think it would be positive to have a strong statement of where they are going, based not so much on what Freeplane is not, but more on areas that will be different – a vision that will tell potential users why they should consider Freeplane. There is no policy identification of feature differences yet – and these are what I believe a user will want to know before making a commitment to Freeplane. The Sourceforge wiki for Freeplane says “Our main goals for Freeplane are: Better Mind Map editor than FreeMind”. It is still in alpha so it should only be used for testing for now. Since then they have been refactoring the code so that they can be more reponsive to requests from the user community. Freeplane has a 6-member team and registered at Sourceforge in November 2007. FreeMind developers had different ideas about how that software should develop, and the result was a split. It is an open source and free mind-mapping program that resulted from the forking of the FreeMind code base 18 months ago. They are putting out a call for more contributors and more users, so let’s look at Freeplane: Now I’ve heard from Ryan Wesley, Freeplane’s project manager, that overall it is pretty stable. ![]() ![]() (This is not a specific Freeplane|GTD feature.) Now I do not have to keep separate lists in my e-mail systems.I’ve been meaning to add Freeplane to for a while, but its alpha status was holding me back. The last thing I discovered is that I can link actionable Gmail and Outlook messages to my mindmap actions. ![]() By the way, I also use Dropbox for making available my GTD mindmap at home and at my work.Ī nice feature is that if you click an action in the list it will be selected in the mindmap. Also I can print them as a PDF file (with PDFCreator) and put them on my smartphone with Dropbox. With Freeplane|GTD I can print the next action list and carry them around. The last option is quite OK, but how do you carry it around with you? In other Freeplane GTD systems (or GTD systems with other mindmap software) organising by context often involves multiple entries of the same action or filtering. In the generated next actions lists I can find back my actions organised by context. In my GTD mindmap I can organise my actions anyway I want (by area in my life, by project, as a sub-task). For me this is an ideal GTD implementation.
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