My major use case for Freeplane is creating and maintaining documents in Provided to increase or decrease the minimum spacing.īoth of these approaches work well and serve to remove the constraints that IĮxperience as the main difficulty with FreePlane. When you 'drop' the node, the other nodes and branchesĪutomatically rearrange themselves to maintain a minimum spacing. Whenever you cross the vertical centre-line the branchesĪutomatically reverse. With Mind-Man 8 you can also 'drag and drop' any node, and its sub-branches (exactly like using CTRL+arrow in Freeplane) Remains unchanged until you 'drop' it, when they automatically reverse Node to the opposite side of the mind-map, the orientation of the branches Without constraint, even if it ends up on top of another node. With iMindMap 4.1 you can 'drag and drop' any node, and its sub-branches, My impression is that these areĬurrently the two leading, commercially available, mind-mapping packages. I downloaded evaluation copies of both programs to see how they deal with the Mind-Man has now progressed to v8,Īnd Tony Buzan's endorsement is now for iMindMap v4.1. V3.5 which was then endorsed by Tony Buzan. My earlier experience with mind mapping was with Michael Jetter's Mind-Man
#Freeplane paste and preserve structure software
Success of any mind-mapping software depends on the extent to which itĮliminates the downside constraint and enhances the flexibility inherent in The potential downside is thatĮngagement with the developing mind-map is constrained by the narrow viewĭictated by a computer screen, keyboard and mouse.
The idea nodes, and the connecting lines, can easily (or even automatically)īe rearranged as the mind-map develops. On the other hand, computerised mind-maps have the great advantage that that Paper starts to get too crowded, you are stuck with what you have done and it That the ideas would make more sense in a different arrangement, or if the The downside is the inability toĮasily rearrange the ideas as the mind map develops. Ideas down quickly in a way that encourages the continuing flow of ideas.Īnyone can grab the pen and add a new idea. The advantage of the pen and paper approach is that it makes it easy to get Inventing the concept, but I suspect that he was simply recording a technique
#Freeplane paste and preserve structure manual
Unstructured and disorderly nature of creative thinking and is more compatibleĪs far as I am aware this manual process was first 'systematised' by Tonyīuzan in some of his earlier books. Related ideas with free-form connecting lines. This would be a big sheet of butcher's paper or white-board) and connect The original idea was toĬapture ideas in an unstructured way on a blank sheet of paper (in a meeting Procedure tends to work against creative thinking. The concept was to unleash creative thinking and discussion by freeing the Mind-mapping was around long before mind mapping software became available. Would like to explore the issue more fully, with your indulgence, to refine Rickenbroc's suggestion of using CTRL+arrow actually gives me part of theįunctionality I wanted, and easily swaps a node and its branches t theīoercher suggested opening a new feature request, but before doing that I Is there a simple way of 'switching' the edge to the opposite side? (i.e. The edge stays connected to the LH side of the node. If I then drag the node to the LH side the 'invisible handle' turns red, but
If I create a node on the RH side, the edge is connected to the LH side of Non-obvious links between some nodes causing them to move together. I get there in the end, but there seem to be some I then try to compact these into a more orderly layout by dragging I create a mind-map with, say, six nodes, randomly laid out, but all on Would hate to be struggling because I have missed something simple. It may be that theĪnswer to either or both is 'that's the way it is", and that's fine. Questions I hope someone will be able to help me out with.
I'm finding it very easy to get my head around, but I have a couple of The need has arisen again and I am delighted to come across Freeplane. I used to do a lot of mind-mapping in the early days of Mind-Man (10+ yearsĪgo).
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