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FreeMind 0.9.0: The New Features

2009-11-05T10:38:51Z

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A great release is to come. We have many exciting new features: WYSIWYG-Editing for nodes and notes, scripting, filter, attributes and many more.

But all these new features still need a lot of testing and documentation. To start this, please have a look at the newest version [http://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=7118&package_id=188772 here] and [http://sourceforge.net/forum/forum.php?thread_id=1592095&forum_id=22101 tell us your opinions].

Use this wiki page for documenting the new features.

But: Don't use this version for productive maps. It is not stable enough!
* Further warning: If you create a map with Attributes, it will open as a "New Map" with no data in version 0.8. Your data is not lost, just not readable by 0.8.
* You can try to convert the 0.9.0 - saved map back to 0.8.0 by following steps

# Make the backup copy of the map
# Open it with the 0.9.0 again
# Select all nodes
# Format-> use plain text
# Save
# Open the mind map file in text editor
# Remove all lines starting with <attribute_registry> and ending with <attribute_registry/>
# Save the file and try to open it in 0.8.0

If it does not help you should use the 0.9.0.

= Attributes =
''FIXME: An introduction should be given here explaining what attributes are and what they are good for. Why should the user learn how to fiddle around with attributes if he does not know what they are?''

Attributes provide different perspectives for ordering/viewing your MindMap. Attributes are tuple name/value pairs that are globally available i.e. can be tagged to any node and assigned specific values. For example, you can create shopping lists, add notional weightings, performance metrics, etc. The real power of attribute comes from writing Groovy scripts that can operate on attribute value or change the behavior of a node. For example, you can summarize the info contained within several nodes for a total cost. Attributes are complemented by Filters.

Real world example: I use Attributes and Filters after taking staff meeting notes. Immediately after a meeting, I assign attributes to nodes as applicable: Attribute 1 is "Name", values are the names of my staff; Attribute 2 is "Priority", values are numbers 1-5. The "Assign Attributes..." dialogue allows me to select all comments from a certain staff member and then assign their name to those nodes at once. If there is an action required, I might assign a priority. Filters allow me to quickly see only nodes from a certain staff member, or specific priority levels, or any combination. --[[User:Dnbarg|Dnbarg]] 20:21, 22 Oct 2007 (PDT)

== Quick Attribute creation ==
* Select node.
* Edit Attribute: Alt-F9 or, Rt-click>Edit attributes.
* Type in an Attribute name.
* Then add a value if desired.
* Edit with the Attribute Manager later if necessary.
== Using Attribute Manager ==
* Open the attribute manager with attribute icon on toolbar or, Tools>Attribute Manager.
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=== Working with Attributes ===
* Click the "Edit" button in the "All Attributes" row
* Select attribute names from existing names to Rename/Delete in popup dialog
* Enter new attribute name to Add in popup dialog
* Press "Close" to close the dialog after all changes are done

==== Create Attribute ====
* Type in your Attribute name, then press add
* Repeat to add multiple attributes
==== Create Attribute values====
* type the value, then press "Add"
* It's a good idea to add a blank value to the list. It helps when assigning attributes later
Every Attribute can have multiple values
* eg. I use an Attribute called "Staff" and the values are the staff person's name
* eg. I use an Attribute called "Priority" and the values are #'s 1 to 5

==== Delete Attribute ====
* Select the menu option Tools/Attribute Manager, to open the panel Attribute Manager.
* In the line "All Attributes" of this panel, click on the icon in the last column (Edit). This opens a new panel "All Attributes".
* In this panel, select the attribute name, then press "Delete".

==== Delete Attribute values ====
* Select the value, then press "Delete"
* All attributes with the deleted value are removed from the whole map

All attributes with the deleted name and/or value are removed from the whole map

==== Rename Attribute ====
* Select the attribute name to be renamed, type the new name, then press "Rename"
* All attributes with the renamed value are adjusted

==== Rename Attribute values ====
* Select the value to be renamed, type the new value, then press "Rename"
* All attributes with the renamed value are adjusted

=== Working with Attribute values (in Attribute Mgr) ===
* After adding Attributes, you should see them listed under the "Attributes" column heading
* Click on the "Edit" button in the row of your new Attribute and add the values
* Edit attribute values in popup dialog
* Press "Close" to close the dialog after all changes are done

== Assign Attributes to nodes ==
assigning only a few nodes
* Choose the node, press Alt-F9 or, Rt-Click the node and choose "Edit Attributes"
* To add more attribute per node, use TAB key (if View>Attributes>Show all attributes is selected), or use the following.
* got to: Tools>"Assign attributes..."
* choose "Selected Nodes" or "Visible Nodes"
* from the drop down list, choose the Attribute you want to assign. (Here it helps when there's a blank value. You can assign an Attribute to all nodes needing it, and then set the value later, on a node by node basis)
* press the "Add" button to assign the Attribute to the node/s
* add more than one attribute to a node if necessary
* delete attributes from multiple nodes with this dialog

== Viewing/Hiding Attributes ==
to see an icon on nodes with attributes
* Tools>Preferences>Appearance>Show icon for attributes
show all attributes
* Alt-s or, View>Attributes>Show all attributes
show no attributes
* Alt-h or, View>Attributes>Show no attributes
show selected attributes
* in the Attribute Manager, select desired Attributes in the "Selected Visible" column
* then, View>Attributes>Show selected Attributes
optimize the width of the Attribute/value table
* Rt-click on the Attribute and choose optimal width

== User feedback ==
=== Bugs concerning attributes ===
* Better sorting of the options: Add Attribute > Delete this Attribute > Delete all Attributes. Numerous times I accidentally clicked on the middle button which is now (beta20) "Alle Werte löschen" when I intended to only "Diesen Wert löschen", because it is on the same line where I specify the criteria, which attribute value pair I try to delete [[User:JR|JR]] 13:16, 8 Oct 2008 (UTC)
* The key bindings alt-s and alt-h do not work as expected for showing or hiding attributes.--[[User:Yubrshen|yushen]] 02:23, 25 Nov 2006 (PST)
* When Attributes are visible, scrolling with mouse wheel stops when cursor is over the attribute of a node. --[[User:Terkor|Terkor]] 20:11, 27 Aug 2007 (PDT)
* If I set attributes, I can't export the map in PDF. It's ok in flash, png, xhtml, jpeg. Beta 17 on Ubuntu 8.04 - Sun Java -- freemind@smci.ch 2008-05-23
* If I add a blank character such as space after an attribute name, it is not considered as the same attribute (no trim) --[[User:Patco|Patco]] 19:27, 19 Jun 2008 (PDT)
* If you create attributes for the first time, but not assign them to a node, they won't be saved in your document --[[User:kvantomme|kvantomme]] 17:15, 3 Dec 2008 (GMT+1)
* Selecting an attribute with the arrow keys (from the dropdown) and then pressing tab makes the attributes box disappear.--[[User:Kartunes|kar]] 18:19, 12 Mar 2009 (UTC)

=== Bugs or features? (questions about attributes to the developers) ===

* The context menu key on the keyboard doesn't open the context-menu. --[[User:Jan|Jan]] 01:07, 4 Jul 2008 (PDT)

* When changing the font-size of a node by keyboard-shortcut (ctrl+"+" / crtl+"-") the fontsize-combobox of the toolbar isn't refreshing. --[[User:Jan|Jan]] 01:00, 4 Jul 2008 (PDT)

* When adding an attribute to a node which already has the attribute, the attribute will be shown as many times as added. However, when deleting the attribute from node, all instances of the attribute would be deleted.--[[User:Yubrshen|yushen]] 02:23, 25 Nov 2006 (PST)
:* In version 0.9.0b13, the bug is corrected (i.e. deleting one attribute does not delete all other attributes with the same name). So, the possibility to have several attributes with the same name but different values ought probably to be considered as a feature, not a bug ? For example the attribute "child" could have the values "Peter" and "Mary" attached to a given node "Paul and Jane" to include in the map the information that Paul and Jane have at least 2 children named Peter and Mary (if I understood correctly the notion and usefulness of attributes)? --[[User:Miclav|Miclav]] 01:56, 9 Sep 2007 (PDT)

* It is not possible to delete an attribute from the List of attributes. If one is created, it lives forever .... It seems that using tool/assign attribute by selecting the attribute in question, and select delete all values, it's possible to remove an attribute of a node. --[[User:Yubrshen|yushen]] 21:19, 15 Jan 2007 (PST)

:* You can remove or even rename some attributes and attribute values from the map using the attribute manager. Use Tools->Attribute Manager->All Attributes->[edit]->[click on attribute]->[Delete] --[[User:DimitriPolivaev|DimitriPolivaev]] 05:12, 9 Sep 2007 (PDT)

* It is not intuitive to go to Tools->Assign Attributes to set attributes on several nodes. I expected to be able to select several nodes (or all) and use Edit->Attributes. It didn't occur to me to look on the Tools menu for Editing. -- [[User:JimK|JimK]]
* The workflow in the Assign Attributes dialog is backwards: actions should be from left to right, top to bottom. I suggest moving the buttons to the right side. It's also strange why Add & Delete have one section and Replace has another. From user viewpoint they're all the same. Just need one name/value input box? -- [[User:JimK|JimK]]
* The title of the Assign Attributes dialog box has an extra character in "Assign" that should be removed. -- [[User:JimK|JimK]]
* Attributes are a great idea, but the whole dialog thing is very slow to work with. And it sucks to have a dialog over your workspace. I suggest making attributes work pretty much like a dynamic list of icons in terms of user interface:
** Make a toolbar dedicated to adding attribute values to nodes. Put the toolbar on the right side of the screen, make a button for every value, so that it can be assigned with one click.
*** This is so that, rather than choosing "apply to selected" or "apply to visible", you can use the standard built in selecting mechanisms, and apply attributes the same way that you apply icons.
**** You also have the added bonus of standardizing the interface somewhat.
** Put a selector box, or in the case of a low number of attribute value pairs, section them off, so you never need more than one or two clicks to assign an attribute.
** Have an empty box in the toolbar for new attribute or value definitions.
** Remove the attribute assignment dialog.
** Here's a visual sample. I found it was easier just to illustrate it: [[Media:FreeMindAttributeToolbar.png]] --[[User:RazielJaTier|RazielJaTier]] 22:50, 20 May 2008 (PDT)
* There is a bug in the browser applet of 0.9.0-Beta19 related to notes attached on nodes: if you switch between nodes the text of the note in the bottom window don't get updated, unless you select a node without a note and go back to one with a note. I guess the method onSelectHook(NodeView pNode) in NodeNoteViewer.java isn't called when switch between nodes with notes. --[[User:Jens|Jens]] 14:20, 11 Aug 2008 (PDT)

=== Wishes concerning attributes ===
* I love the attribute & filter feature & see great potential ahead. Being able to name & save searches would also be extremely useful.--[[User:Felipe|Felipe]] 07:34, 26 Apr 2007 (PDT)
* Really wish for a feature to only selectively show the attribute of the node in focus. The current options of "show all attributes", "show the selected attributes" all apply to all the nodes visible. With all nodes showing attributes, it occupy too much space. I wish that it only shows all the attributes for the current node being selected, i.e. in focus. This would be often enough for normal use.--[[User:Yubrshen|yushen]] 20:36, 1 Dec 2006 (PST)
* Default attributes of new node: I need to add some attributes to all new nodes. Therefore, I wish that there is mechanism to automatically stuff some default attributes to all the new nodes created after the functionality is enabled. This function may be configured to enable/disable. --[[User:Yubrshen|yushen]] 21:19, 15 Jan 2007 (PST)
* Or there is functionality to add a group of selected attributes to a group of selected nodes through one operation. --[[User:Yubrshen|yushen]] 21:19, 15 Jan 2007 (PST)

*You explained how to create attribute etc... but after spending "only" 30 minutes on it, what is the real interest in practice of such feature ? What is the use of attributes ? not clear what it can be used for ....--[[User:Djerr|Djerr]] 17:49, 20 Jan 2007

*Roll-up: It'd be really nice (and quite natural) to be able to roll-up (summarize or otherwise) the values of certain attributes (eg. money, time, resource requirements, etc) from children to parent nodes. --[[User:azimmer|azimmer]] 16:58, 14 Feb 2007

* See also the [[Talk:FreeMind_0.9.0:_The_New_Features|discussion page]]

* Adding "Attribute" is a great idea (for me ;-) !). There's a long time that I'm thinking of using freemind in an Artificial Intelligence way. Using Attribute, simultaneously with groovy, may help me for creating rules. Thanks ! --[[User:PLANTING|PLANTING]] 12 Aug 2007
* A way to copy and paste all the attributes assigned to a node or one of these attributes would be nice. Perhaps a "Copy Attribute" and "Copy All Attributes" in popup menu when you right-click on the attributes of a node. --[[User:Terkor|Terkor]] 10:06, 30 Aug 2007 (PDT)
** Seconded --[[User:Sando|Sando]] 22:26, 21 Oct 2009 (UTC)

* A way to assign different types of data to attributes: AKA Boolean, Integer, Date, Text, etc.
*Refactor/sort nodes by attribute: Dunno if anybody knows the dashboard plugin for mindmanager, but this idea is similar (except better cause it uses custom attributes). basically, any given attribute/group of attributes would be a parent node. And the values of the attribute would be the children. The nodes with those values would branch off from that. Would allow for awesome fluid mindmaps that could show all sorts of relationships between nodes without ruining the linear structure of the map, allowing for scheduling, budgeting, etc. I'm creating some example mindmaps which show how this feature would be incredibly usefull for something like scheduling.
* Sorting function would be great, but I propose it on the node (alphabetical). Having it on the attribute means for me having to update individually each node's attribute, which would take more time than sorting them by hand. I imagine a function sorting alphabetically all subnodes 1st level of the selected node. Franck --[[User:Fb5|Fb5]] 03:55, 6 Dec 2007 (PST)
** I'd agree with 'sort nodes by attribute' above. I'm a mindmanager user and being able to easily and interactively prioritise tasks on a node is very useful. In mm I just use the pre-defined priority icons, and sort accordingly. This is useful, but freemind with multi-attributes could offer more powerful sorts.

* A way to add new attributes using just the keyboard. I use keyboard shortcuts quite often with FreeMind and not having the ability to quickly add/change/delete attributes with the keyboard makes them much less useful. --[[User:Verifex|Verifex]] 15:57, 8 Dec 2007 (PST)
** What about Alt+F9 for selecting the attribute table and F2 for editing, TAB for adding? [[User:DimitriPolivaev|DimitriPolivaev]]
* Some attributes should be single-valued. Right now they all seem to be multi-valued. For example, I want only want attribute named Priority per node. -- [[User:JimK|JimK]]
* Hopefully you're going to add Help to dialog boxes? When I'm in Attribute Manager I don't understand all the choices. I should be able to view help about them from within the app rather than going to a Website/wiki. -- [[User:JimK|JimK]]
* Clicking on the "Icon for Attributes" could show/hide the attributes.
** Seconded --[[User:Sando|Sando]] 22:26, 21 Oct 2009 (UTC)
* Ability to have "Optimal Width" applied on all nodes by default.
** Seconded. A preference for the default width would help as well. --[[User:Icekiss|Icekiss]] 08:08, 19 Apr 2008 (PDT)
*** This function would be a valuable addition --[[User:Sando|Sando]] 22:26, 21 Oct 2009 (UTC)
* It would be great to have the possibillity to group attributes and give these groups names. These names may be treated as node types. One may assign a node type to a node meaning the node gets automatically all the attributes of this type. With this it would be possible to define for instance a node type like ''activity'' with attribute like ''who'', ''start date'', ''percent complete'' and so on. An easy way to assign node types to nodes, for instance something like ''default type for new nodes depending on parent node'' would be the cherry on top.
* I've been using beta 15 seriously for a project. Filtering is wonderful, and what I really need is sub-node sorting by attribute and/or icon priority. (Please!) - johnn

* Don't know if it should be here or not. But actually, it would be nice if we could apply the same kind of filter to the icons:
** it would be faster
** it would be simpler, as some kind of default attribute+values
** it allows also multiple values (i can have multiple icons for one same branch)
* This would probably require to expand the list of icons to have more of the different types of notions that can be represented in a tool as FreeMind:
** relative to decision making: delay (e.g. hourglass), optionality, assumption/hypothesis, problem/inconsistency (e.g. lighting), advantage ("thumb up", "+/-"), inconvenient ("thumb down","+/-"),cause, consequence, risk,
** relative to life in general: user (people), group, time (clock), time interval, machine, etc.--[[User:Patco|Patco]] 19:48, 19 Jun 2008 (PDT)
* Keyboard assigning of attributes is a bit clumsy. Ideally, instead of using the arrow keys to select, the appropriate attribute would be suggested just by typing its first few letters. Then tab could be pressed to select and go to the next attribute.--[[User:Kartunes|kar]] 17:45, 12 Mar 2009 (UTC)
* the attribute icon has not the same meaning than the others. For example, with an ordered list (with icons "1", "2", "3" ...), having a node with attributes will disorganize the position of the icons! -- [[User:Patco|Patco]]

= Filter =
== Create filters to view and print the data more effectively ==
Clicking on the little funnel to the left of the zoom size toggles on and off the Filter Toolbar.
By default (i.e. in absence of any personal filter defined, see below) the values that can be selected in the List box of the Filter Toolbar are:
* No Filtering
* Currently Selected Nodes
To create a filter for one Attribute:
* to the right of the filter status, click "Edit"
* in the drop down menu at the top left, select your attribute
* the expression drop changes to "Exists"
* press "Add", then "OK" at the bottom
* all nodes with the selected Attribute will be shown, and the branches that don't contain these nodes will be hidden.
* To display, on the contrary, all branches that do not contain nodes with the given attribute, click on Edit, then, in panel Filter Composer, click on buttons "Not" then "Apply". This adds, in the List box of the Filter Toolbar, the two additional filters "attribute_XXX Exists" and "Not attribute_XXX Exists" (where attribute_XXX stands for the current attribute).

To create a filter for an Attribute and one of its values:
* after step two above select the second drop down where "exists" is showing
* choose "Is equal to". Your values should now be available in the third drop down
* press "Add", then OK

== use multiple filters at once ==
create two filter sets by the method above
select the filter sets you want
* Shift-click for multiple, continuous sets
* Ctrl-click for non-contiguous selection
press the "and" button on the right => a new set is created which combines your selected sets

'''User feedback'''

Another feature which can be useful: name for the filter. If you combine simple filters, it can be difficult to read what is it doing:
For example:
(Responsable is equal to Erwan and Type is equal to "draw") can be renamed as "Erwan Drawing", and could be more simple to manage.

Another thing: It could be useful to see/mask attributes when clicking on the attribute icon.

== filter on an icon ==
* add an icon to a node by highlighting the node, click on the icon on the left or Rt-click>Icons
* in the filtering "edit" dialog, choose "Icon" in the drop-down list at the top left, the second drop-down grays out, and the third contains the list of currently used icons
* click "Add"

'''User Feedback'''

* '''This is a great feature!''' Honestly, I think in a lot of ways, filtering by icons is a lot more intuitive than filtering by attributes. While the attributes give you a great deal of flexibility, they muck up the display at bit, and they're a lot more keystrokes to add. I really can't think of any examples of an attribute that I wouldn't rather just create an icon for. The icon is a much more succinct way of displaying an attribute about a node and it can be done inline.
** Having said that, I would like to see a little more love put into icons. I already customized my icon library (Thank you!), but it becomes unwieldy when there are more than a small handful of additional items. You can't replace the original icons either.
* I think it would be a good idea to filter icon clock and only those icons with active warning time scheduler

== Persistent Map Filters ==
In Beta 13 persistent filters are added.
And filters can now be saved. --[[User:Terkor|Terkor]] 18:02, 2 Sep 2007 (PDT)

== user feedback ==

* Would like to add some plain and simple text to graphical links. It could be inserted into the middle of the arrow or with an option to move it along the line. Thanks!

* For using semantic strings in addition to numeric and logical ones it would be useful a) to have filters for "contains" (for substrings of text) as in normal content – like "contain" finds attributes with the values "container", "contains", "containment", etc. b) be able to search a string-value across different attributes

* Filtering is great to compact maps for printing, but no usable PDF was created from a filtered map (beta 17) --[[User:JR|JR]] 04:48, 23 May 2008 (PDT)

* When I use filter extensively with very large map of thousands of nodes, I realize that the layout of the filtered map need some improvement. The resulted map's layout should be much compacted for the filtered nodes to be closer to the root node in order to be visible in the freemind window. For such large map, the reason to do filer is to focus so that I can see them easier. Without the improvement, it seems that the layout still follow that without the filter. The map becomes a tree with sparse nodes but stretched apart. It defeats the purpose of the filter somehow. If you need, I can provide a screen capture to show what I meant. Please tell me how. --[[User:Yubrshen|yushen]] 16:16, 5 Apr 2008 (PDT)

* I find that it freezes up a lot when using folding and unfolding while applying filters. It is, however, a really powerful feature. To complete its power would it be possible to have a way to copy only selected or filtered nodes? Sometimes you want to select these nodes and put them in another application, but when I filter, select all and then copy-paste, I get lots of other nodes included.

* Worked well for me. Especially like the filter on icon - no muss, no fuss.

* Great feature. Filtering on an icon: For example if you have "OK" icons on some nodes and want to see all other nodes (= not OK) use filter "contains icon OK" and define filter "Not contains icon OK" using button "Not"

* This great new feature has a little BUG. Situation: I have two maps opened and use the filter "Currently Selected Nodes" on one of them and switch between the maps. When I switch back to the filtered map I don't get the view that I had before I switched away. Instead I get the node filtered that was selected when I switched. (Terkor)

* Filtering and Reminders are a very nice combination. Filtering on icons allows to distinguish between nodes that have a Reminder "whose time has not jet come" and nodes that have a Reminder "whose time has come". But: in the filter composer these two different states are represented with the same icon (a clock). You always have to guess which icon represents which Reminder state. --[[User:Terkor|Terkor]] 19:40, 30 Jul 2007 (PDT)

* It would be helpful to be able to give the composed filters names. --[[User:Terkor|Terkor]] 19:45, 30 Jul 2007 (PDT)

* When filtering is activated there is a drop-down menu left to the "Edit" button. There you can find all the filters that were used that FreeMind session. It would be very effective if I could not only chose one of those filters but chose more than one. And then being able to chose in what order they are applied (for example by moving the filters up and down). Of course I can also get the desired filtering by using the Filter Composer. But with the described option I would be more flexible in quickly combining the filters. And being able to apply some "simple" filters in an order would make things more clear in some situations. --[[User:Terkor|Terkor]] 06:50, 31 Jul 2007 (PDT)

* A refresh view button would be nice. Or even better: auto refresh (maybe as an option) when a node is changed. Explanation: When I mark a node (representing a task) as done and I use a filter that shows me all the undone tasks and hides the done tasks, the node is not filtered as long as I switch filter off and on again. Could be more handy. --[[User:Terkor|Terkor]] 06:09, 3 Dec 2007 (PST)
** I second this notion. Nodes that meet the filter conditions after the filter is set don't get filtered out. So for instance, I want to create a filter to show not checked off items. Once I check them I want them to disappear automagically. --[[User:RazielJaTier|RazielJaTier]] 16:26, 20 May 2008 (PDT)

* If I filter "Currently Selected Nodes", in all the now empty space of the map there appear the ovals of the hidden nodes that allow to move them around, when you move your mouse to that places where they are when filter is not applied. --[[User:Terkor|Terkor]] 06:42, 15 Dec 2007 (PST)

* If "Selection Bubble" is "on" and a filter is applied, also hidden nodes can be "selected" when you for example move the focus using the arrow-keys. --[[User:Terkor|Terkor]] 06:42, 15 Dec 2007 (PST)

* Is there a way to assign attributes when you assign an icon to a node? For example I have lists of phone calls / emails that I have to send. I usually assign a phone or envelope icon to that node. I would like to assign an attribute or ActionType so that I can sort by them later (i.e. see a list of phone calls or emails that I have to make).

* It would be very helpful to have an option to filter out entries without children. This would be very valuable e.g. in situations where in a big map, several nodes have a "Tasks" subnode, and one wants to look at all tasks currently pending.

* Would it be possible to be able to add free text to the map to allow for titles and possibly a Key?

* Filter toolbar should be a standard toolbar. Should be able to show/hide filter toolbar from the View menu. (I am not displaying the main toolbar, but may need the Filter toolbar from time to time)

* Attributes have great potential. However I find editing a bit inconvenient. Would it be possible to add a small handle to existing attribute table (say immediately left of the cells, similar to the handles that are already on top of the table), so that a single attribute could be selected to be copied, cut, or even dragged and dropped to copy/move it to other nodes? Keyboard modifier keys (shift or ctrl) could be used to specify moving/copying in a drag and drop operation. arg0.

* Am loving the attributes. Using beta 20. Am doing a massive project on the muscular system. muscles directly effect eachother. For each muscle there is are muscles directly affecting it, muscles that it directly affects it, and muscles with a mutual two way relation. Each muscle also has a common problem associated with it. Each muscle group is an attribute and each muscle is a value. Filters will be used for self diagnosis, and finding the appropriate stretches. For example hands and shoulders due to using the computer a lot.
**Would be great if graphical links can be attributed, so that they can be filtered. + have the option of making them visible or not.
**Better sorting of attributes would be good. Like an attribute mind map, for sorting and the depth of the filter that is undertaken.
** To have Attributes and Filters integrated on the mind map. Anyone know how to write scripts to run a filter function.
** To filter core structure of mind maps: this would be good for summarising the link to other mind maps.
Thanks for your time. alf
* to encourage the use of attributes and filtering, it would be good to have the search/filter box always visible by default (I have a large screen, and the font/font size take all the extra space on the right, that could be used by this search/filter box (also, there should be a specific menu "search" or "filter" --[[User:Patco|Patco]]

= WYSIWYG-Editing for nodes and notes =

Yet to be documented

I like the WYSIWYG and how it's available when needed. On piece I find lacking is the ability to easily add link <a href=.... and the ability to click on it to pull it up. That feature would be very useful -- [[User:Matthias|Matthias]] 21:57, 18 Feb 2009 (UTC)

== HTML paste tip ==

Paste of HTML content creates one node. Use Edit -> Split to split it in many nodes.

Tools->Split Node is more efficent. --[[User:Phil31753|Phil31753]] 10:06, 9 Apr 2009 (UTC)

==== User Feedback ====
Version beta 0.9.16
I personally hate the WYSIWYG mode but I understand that others might find this feature helpful.
My problem is that I copy and paste very often into and out of mindmaps. Due to the WYSIWYG mode I can not pasten normally into thunderbird. Copying into mindmaps is terrible.
Suggestion: having the possibility to select between plain text modus or html modus or mixed modus. Helpful would be also a shortcut to "paste as plain text and split" and copy as plain text.
--[[User:bebach|bebach]] 2008-04-05

Love this feature, especially the way that the notes export to javascript enabled html. Couple of observations.

* The popup notes in the Javascript export don't seem to work in IE (care factor 0?).

* It would be good to be able to view the note in the main mindmap window, maybe as a popup.

* It would also be helpful if there was some sort of visual indicator of the existence of a popup note in the exported html - at present the note just magically appears as a rollover.

* Don't know if it is due to this feature, but "edit long node" now introduced an extra line feed if the enter key is used (confirm on enter turned off).

--[[User:RichardForster|RichardForster]] 18:04, 19 Sep 2006 (PDT)

I'd like to have the option to collapse the WYSIWYG editing area to free up more screen real-estate.

--[[User:Marko|Marko]] 21:45, 23 Sep 2006 (PDT)

* The WYSIWYG screen estate seems a good place to do all 'richer' content editing: e.g. if freemind would let me edit the multiline text nodes there, and, manage the attributes, i'd find that very usefull.

--[[User:Neanderlander|Neanderlander]] 22:01, 24 Sep 2006 (PDT)

* Some way to change the width of nodes would be great, so free form text can be flowed into thinner columns. Also a way to insert <br> easily without resorting to the html view.

--[[User:pedron|pedron]] 1:02pm, 10 October 2006 (EST)
* In version 0.8 the note attached to a node was very discrete in the sense that it would only show when the mouse is on that node. This new version has many editing features but it's "in your face" (so to speak) until you physically minimize it. I wish there was a way to configure it so that it would act like the previous version while keeping it's editing extras. Or at least have the option of toggling editing toolbar...

--[[User:Cichutki75|Cichutki75]] 8:09pm, 19 October 2006 (GMT)
* In version 0.9 max node width function does not work properly. At least not all nodes for the map created in version 0.8 keep the set width. I did not discover the rule. Some keep some don't.

--[[User:CautiousChaos|CautiousChaos]] 02:22, 12 Nov 2006 (EST)
* The editing panel is intrusive when it is not needed. A hotkey to open/close it would be helpful. Clicking on the note icon resulting in the panel appearing could also be very helpful.
* It seems that word-wrapping does not work in plain-text mode for nodes, making the node to be of single line extending far too long. I had to change the mode of each node to make it word-wrapping. Only using rich-text mode, the wrapping would work. I wish that word-wrapping would still work as in 0.80. --[[User:Yubrshen|yushen]] 15:03, 5 Dec 2006 (PST)
* It seems that in editing long node, the splitting function would only work with word on different line, while in 0.80, the function works even for words on the same line. --[[User:Yubrshen|yushen]] 15:03, 5 Dec 2006 (PST)

--[[User:Djerr|Djerr]] 17:42, 20 Jan 2007

* Using a 0.8 map with notes in 0.9 beta version show all notes as pop up but they can not be modified with the format tool or even edited in the layout page. I have to delete the note and create a new one under the 0.9 version.

I usually write short nodes but very long notes in order to have a "clear" map. 2 special comments on notes :
* For long notes, the time the pop up is shown is too short. Would it be possible to define a time on how long you want this pop up to be shown ? Or even better: to show them as long as the cursor is pointing on the node (or perhaps the note icon).
* I could find very useful (especially for my long notes) to be able in the format menu to change not only italic or bold or font size etc.. but also COLORS, to be able to see very fast the most important points

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* I don't understand the purpose of freemind's notes feature. It seems to be an incomplete feature. On the one hand, it could be used as popup notes for a node on the freemind map. On the other hand, it could be used to provide the details for a topic expressed by the node. I think both should be possibilities, but currently only the first really seems possible.
* I want to use freemind to develop an outline into a full-blown paper. To do that, I would start using freemind to create an outline of the paper. Each node in the mindmap would be an entry in the outline with the node level equating to the outline level. Then, when I start fleshing out the paper, I would use the notes feature to fill-in paragraphs of information for each node. The problem is that there is no good way of outputting the paper -- the notes become popups rather than entries in the paper.
* Is there a way to export a mindmap from freemind in such a way that it could later be imported?

--[[User:DavidMasterson|DavidMasterson]] 22:00, 23 May 2007

* I don't like this feature in the current implementation. This is because i use this tool to connect IDEAS and usually i use formatting things only in the end. A paragraph, a sentence, a list, a word list this are things that i want to have in a hierarchical structure, not as a rich text. In 0.8.0 the copy/paste feature converted a paragraph/list to an hierarchical tree of nodes. That was a better aproach then to get a simple html node. The split feature doesn't replace this functionality better. I hope and trust that you will find a way to add rich text nodes without so much interference with the old style of working. Maybe a paste option with paste as nodes, paste as html will resolve this issue?

--[[User:Terkor|Terkor]] 16:25, 21 June 2007
* Great Feature, but it could be more handy if the (by far) most often used formating-features like Bold and Italic could be used without opening the editor. Just mark the words or characters you want bold (or italic), click the Bold (or Italic) icon (or use Ctrl-B /Ctrl-I) - and that's it.
* It is not "logical" that you open the editor with "Alt-Enter" and close it with "Ctrl-Enter". It should both be the same.
* "Split" should have a shortcut. Suggestion: Alt-Enter or Ctrl-Enter. (See previous paragraph.)
* When I open the editor whilst I am editing a node, the editor should know the actual position of the cursor and if some text is already marked.
* Double clicking the note icon should open / close the note editor. (Generally icons should be more clickable like the link icon. (Double) clicking on the clock icon of notes with a Reminder should open the calendar. And right-clicking an icon should open the "Select Icon" box.)
* The popups displaying the note content don't match size if a note is very short. Does not look nice. (The same for popups that show the "Created", "Modified", and "Reminder" times - too wide.
* Choosing colors should definitely have an icon in the tool bar of the editors. So it takes six (!) clicks to change the color of a word. (Opening the editor not counted.)
* The editor for notes and the one for nodes behave differently, when it comes to use the Enter-key. The node-editor just enters a new line (as one would expect) when I press Enter. The note editor enters a new line and a blank line. Here I have to use Shift-Enter to get just a new line. Why the difference?
* The note editor by default adds a blank line before the text and after text. I see no reason for that. (The node editor does not do that either.) Just takes away precious space.
* In order to save space, please place the toolbar of the note editor next to the menu of the editor. As it is now, there is much unused space. The editor should look more slim.
* Like the note-editor of FreeMind 0.8, the note-editor of version 0.9 should automatically close when not needed. (Or at least there should be an option to pick this behavior.)
* The little arrows on the splitting line that allow to hide/show the note editor should be wider (not higher), they are very hard to click quickly. Perhaps put each of them in a clickable wider boxlike area.
* "Note" in the menu "Insert" is gone. Should be there, that's where people look for it, and it seams a logical place for it (also for a "Remove Note"-function). And "Add Note" / "Remove Note" should be in the context-menu, when I right-click a node.
* How about a function that turns a node into a note and vice versa?
* The popups of long notes should be scrollable.

--[[User:Pascal|Pascal]] 11:33, 20 Nov 2007
* It would be great to have spell checking in notes editor
* In version 0.9.0 beta 14, bold, italic and underline buttons have no icons (if you click where they should be, it does the job, but you don't see the buttons).

--[[User:puckja|puckja]] 13:51, 3 Jan. 2008
* Great feature! Now I can add formated text/graphics in the note panel (SimpleHTML). Cut & Paste from webpage and even MS Word 2003 with figures and math equations works great.
* More user friendly functions such as FONT property in toolbar or shortcut, HIGHLIGHTING capability, insert HYBERLINK (it can be added with direct HTML coding), configurable property for the inserted graphic(size/alignment, etc.) would be great. (It is already very good! Thanks!)

--[[User:puckja|puckja]] 16:09, 3 Jan. 2008
* It seems that all the figures inserted in the note are not "locally saved." It may a a '''SERIOUS BUG!''' If the figures are cut & paste from Internet, then they will not be available if machine is offline. If the figures are C & P from local file (such as MS Word), then the source files are still at your personal Win TEMP directory, which means that they will be deleted some time in the future while you think it is saved. Other software such as PersonalBrain will save the file and change the HTML src location after you saved the "brain", but Freemind seems to leave it unattended. :(

* HTML Editor won't let you put a table in a node. Well, that's not quite true. The "table" item n the menu bar has all its items disabled, but you can edit the HTML to make the node have a table. Why is the menu bar operation turned of for nodes?
--[[User:Anton|Anton]] 18:16, 20 Jul 2008 (PDT)
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* The HTML Editor seems to have a 'template' which is the same for all nodes. It would be nice to have
## User-definable style sheet, that could set font, size, colour, box width ...
## ... for each level
--[[User:Anton|Anton]] 18:25, 22 Jul 2008 (PDT)

Filter macros on the mind map itself would be good. They could be adjustable. And/or/not etc, could be done by clicking the different parts of the map corresponding to the attributes/icons under question. This would be nice because it would be more natural to drill down the search in this way. Filter by cliking on a node, filter again on what is left within that filter etc.

*The WYSIWYG is a big + for my workflow. However, I often use this program w/ widescreen setups and it would be a great if I could reposition the WYSIWYG window to the left, right of the Map window.
*It would be v.nice if the editor could interpret latex formating for math/equations.
--[[User:Lessfield|Lessfield]] 18:01, 19 Feb 2009 (UTC)

I agree with Lessfield - I want to create extensive notes, instructions etc. and I'd like to be able to move the note editing pane to the right side. To go with this, I'd like to be able to control the node layout so it's a tree expanding from top to bottom or left to right (like Visual Mind's Standard, left-to_right and right-to-left views).

Possible bug:- frequently when I'm typing in the notes pane, the insertion cursor zips back to the beginning of the line and text insertion continues there. I don't think I'm accidentally hitting any hot keys ;-)
--[[User:MikeS|MikeS]] 12:09, 19 Jun 2009 (UTC)

= Scripting via Groovy =
[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Groovy_programming_language Groovy] scripts may be attached to individual nodes in the map. When "evaluate" is selected via the menu or keypress (Alt-F8), all nodes in the map are searched (depth-first) for one or more attributes named "script". If such an attribute is found, the value of the attached attribute is passed to the Groovy engine to execute.

Only nodes are evaluated, which attribute keys start with "script". However, there is nothing preventing a script on one node from acting on other nodes via normal operations (e.g. node.getChildren or similar) as far as I can tell from the code.

=== Assignment vs. Operation ===

If the value of the script attribute starts with the equals sign ("="), then the node text will be replaced by the RESULT of the script evaluation. Be careful not to overwrite your nodes! See the example for using the "node.getText()" in an assignment script.

If the value of the script attribute does not begin with the equals sign, then the script will run and may affect the map, but the expression result is not assigned to the node text.

=== Available Operations ===

When the Groovy binding is created, two variables are set:

* "c" is set to the MindMapController
* "node" is set to the MindMapNode being evaluated

You will have to examine the FreeMind source code for operations on the interfaces. See the examples for a few operations such as setting the node text, node color and background color.

=== Examples ===
I have only played with the engine for five minutes, and spent about the same amount of time on the Groovy home page. The following examples work for me:

'''Prepend the node text with an integer representing the node depth.''' Note that the script starts with '=' so the result is assigned back to the node text.
<groovy>=node.getNodeLevel() + " " + node.getText()</groovy>

'''Set the text color of a node:'''
<groovy>node.setColor(java.awt.Color.RED)</groovy>

'''Set the background color of a node:'''
<groovy>node.setBackgroundColor(java.awt.Color.BLUE)</groovy>

'''Project Manager: Don't do this; use methods of the controller c instead.''' If you manipulate the node model directly, you'll miss the undo and flow control capabilities of FreeMind. Please, consult methods from the interface MindMapActions only.

=== Advanced Examples===

All advanced examples have been moved to the [[Example scripts]]

== About Groovy ==
For people unfamiliar with Groovy scripting, it's [http://groovy.codehaus.org home page], an [http://www.onjava.com/pub/a/onjava/2004/09/29/groovy.html introduction], a review on [http://ask.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=06/04/18/2223237 slashdot].

== How to get started ==

# Create an attribute for a node. The attribute must be named "script"
# Create the Groovy script and set as the value of the attribute
# Press Alt-F8 or select "Evaluate" from the Tools menu.

== Wish for Groovy script editing ==
* Need good editor for writing such script for the attribute. The current attribute manager is not suitable to write long script. --[[User:Yubrshen|yushen]] 15:41, 15 Jan 2007 (PST)
* I know I could dig through the source code and figure it out, but even a rudimentary object reference would be great. --[[User:RazielJaTier|RazielJaTier]] 15:01, 21 May 2008 (PDT)
** Created a page called [[FreeMindGroovyObjects|FreeMind / Groovy Object Reference]] to start compiling known information into a reference page. If you're familiar with any of the objects and navigation, lets start documenting it here.
* Debug Console while you're running scripts from the map. If you have a typo, the script simply does nothing. It would be nice to get an error or some sort of feedback. --[[User:RazielJaTier|RazielJaTier]] 15:01, 21 May 2008 (PDT)

== Scripting the application, not the documents ==

When I first read about Groovy in Freemind, I was irritated by the fact that the Groovy scripts are part of the Map (as script attribute) and not the application.

To my opinion it would make more sense to allow Groovy scripts to be plugged into the application and work on either Map.

An example of how this could work can be found here: [http://groovy.codehaus.org/Integrating+Groovy+in+an+application+-+a+success+story]

In a similar way each script could be bound to a menu item in a user menu or a button, and be provided with the current 'context', maybe containing a model of an open Map when activated.
This way it would be possible to create complete maps on-the-fly without having to create the Map and the root node with a script attribute first(!).

This is from user's point of view more like scripted plug-ins and filters in Gimp or Steinberg-like music software, and not so much like the VBA thing stored inside office documents.

--[[User:Det|Det]] 07:28, 16 Mar 2007 (PDT)

== Tips of editing script ==
# Before there is good editor for script, I use a template node to define long script then use copy and paste to duplicate the script.

--[[User:Yubrshen|yushen]] 15:41, 15 Jan 2007 (PST)

= TaskJuggler Integration =

[http://taskjuggler.org/ TaskJuggler] is a opensource project management tool for linux. It covers the complete spectrum of project management tasks from the first idea to the completion of the project. It assists you during project scoping, resource assignment, cost and revenue planing, risk and communication management.

=== Idea ===
The idea is to have special task, resource, and account nodes on the mindmap.

====Usage summary====
- Tasks are defined as subnodes of TASKS node.
- Resources are defined as subnodes of RESOURCES node.
- Accounts as subnodes of ACCOUNTS node. (not yet implemented in 0.9.0 beta 18)
- Taskjuggler task/resource/account info contained as node attributes. <br> You can find more info about these attribs in [http://taskjuggler.org/manual-2.3.0/c1376.html TaskJuggler documentation]
- After entering all task/resource/account info in freemind, use File-->Export to <br> export the task/resource/account info that is currently VISIBLE <br> (your freemind filters can be used to limit the info being exported to TaskJuggler).

[[Image:Taskjuggler_example.png]]

=== Project file (TJP) ===
We generate only includes with FreeMind, so we must write simple TaskJuggler main project file:

<pre>project simple "Simple Project" "1.0" 2005-06-06 - 2005-06-26

include "example.accounts.tji"
include "example.resources.tji"
include "example.tasks.tji"

taskreport "Gantt Chart" {
headline "Project Gantt Chart"
columns hierarchindex, name, start, end, effort, duration, cost, revenue, chart
timeformat "%a %Y-%m-%d"
loadunit days
hideresource 1
}

htmlaccountreport "accountsreport.html"{
timeformat "%d-%M-%y"
accumulate
columns index, name, weekly
}</pre>

=== Include Files (TJI) ===
Mindmap with defined TASKS, RESOURCES and ACCOUNTS nodes can look like this:
{| cellpadding="20" cellspacing="0" border="0"
|[http://pliki.rodos.com.pl/freemind/tji_example/example_freemind2.png http://pliki.rodos.com.pl/freemind/tji_example/example_freemind2_maly.png]
|}

We can export include files which we have defined in our project file directly from FreeMind mindmap:<br>
- example.resources.tji - from RESOURCES node (File->Export->Resources from RESOURCES node to TJI file..)<br>
- example.tasks.tji - from TASKS node (File->Export->Task from TASKS node to TJI file..)<br>
- example.accounts.tji - from ACCOUNTS node (File->Export->Accounts from ACCOUNTS node to TJI file..)<br>

In TaskJuggler our project will look like this:
{| cellpadding="20" cellspacing="0" border="0"
|[http://pliki.rodos.com.pl/freemind/tji_example/example_taskjuggler.png http://pliki.rodos.com.pl/freemind/tji_example/example_taskjuggler_maly.png]
|}

=== Download ===
[http://pliki.rodos.com.pl/freemind/tji_example/example.zip Here] you can download full example without accounts feature and [http://pliki.rodos.com.pl/freemind/account/accountexample.zip here] with accounts.

=== Account support ===
Becouse accounts functionality isn't in CVS yet. You need use [http://pliki.rodos.com.pl/freemind/account/Freemind_0_9_0_beta15_koprin_b2.zip this] binary or
get Freemind from CVS (CVS tag: fm_060405_integration) and aply [http://pliki.rodos.com.pl/freemind/account/diff.zip this] patch.

= The rest of the new features =

==Icons==
=== User icons ===

User icons can be added. PNG files of the icons have to be added to the folder '''<user_home>'''/.freemind/icons. All *.png files in '''<user_home>'''/.freemind/icons are handled as user icons. Size is ''not'' limited to 16 px x 16 px.

'''User feedback:'''
* FreeMind adds "icon_" to the user-given name of a user icon. The name should just be the user given name - without ".png" of course.
* When adding user icons, they appear in a random order within the side bar and mixed with the Freemind built-in icons. Is there a way to control this order ?
* My new icons appeared at the end of the standard ones and appeared to be in alphabetical order by filename. GREAT feature. I was able to take screen captures of the icons for Access objects and some of the Office program icons and use them in a mind map documenting a project my computer literacy students do at the end of the semester. This is far superior to having to use a limited set of standard icons which aren't particularly meaningful.
* Q: what is the procedure for adding user icons in Mac OS? Which is the correct destination folder?

* User icons are not included in exported mindmaps (flash at least).
* Including icons does not appear to work (WinXP - Freemind 0.9.0 Beta 19). Have assumed that placing .png files in C:\Program Files\Freemind\Icons should ensure that they are included but have nt been able to get this feature to work. Is this the correct placement for the icons folder in Windows?
::You put the icons in the wrong folder. Look again above. --[[User:Terkor|Terkor]] 03:23, 21 Oct 2008 (UTC)
* I think I put the files in the correct place. I put them here: c:/Documents%20and%20Settings/fklein23/.freemind/icons/*.png
and they did NOT appear in the icons menu nor on the left hand border -- User:fklein23
* I also note that the menu runs down past the bottom of the screen and though my mouse cursor is actually selecting hidden icons, I can't see them until I click the right mouse button, at which time the "mystery icon" appears! -- User:fklein23

===Selecting, Substituting and Deleting Icons===
* Using Shift+Click on icon bar substitutes the current icons by the new one.
* Icon bar Icon Selection Dialog: click on icon with control key hold: removes the first matching icon, with alt key removes the last one. Icon Selection Dialog: Shift+Enter or Alt+Enter can be used as well.
* Icon hot keys available in Select Icon Dialog. They can be set in Preferences > Keystrokes. --[[User:Terkor|Terkor]] 13:26, 3 Sep 2007 (PDT)

'''User feedback:'''
* Substituting icons with Shift+Enter in the Icon Selection Dialog (as announced in the changes for Beta 9) does not work. Just inserts the selected icon.
* Can I suggest you add a couple of icons as standard namely '$' and '$$' too? Thanks.

==Latex Plugin==
With the new Latex Plugin (Insert > Latex) you can now add mathematical formulas to your nodes.
Select a node and chose Insert > Latex. Under the node a default text in a box is added. When you click on that box a simple editor opens to enter the Latex code. Close the editor and your formula is displayed underneath the node.

Erase the formula by clicking Latex again when the node is selected. --[[User:Terkor|Terkor]] 06:31, 3 Sep 2007 (PDT)

'''User feedback:'''
* I like this one, but there may be an easier way for access of this functionality (a shortcut or s.th.).
* Great, adds a whole new field of use to FreeMind!
* Tip: Can also be used to just add a text to node instead of a mathematical formula. If you just add text without any commands, you get italic text in the box. Everything put between \mbox{ and } appears as normal text. (The code is contained in the default formula that is added every time you add a new Latex box to a node.)
* Exporting the formulas does not work for at least for some filters (Flash at least).
* LaTeX formulas do not scale with the rest of the map but have always the same size. Please make them scalable if possible.--[[User:Christofb|Christofb]] 12:19, 30 Oct 2007 (PDT)

* Nice feature. It would be nice if the graphical representation of the formula could appear with the higher quality associated with LaTeX. Is it possible to improve via anti aliasing or exporting/printing via postscript?

==Linking to nodes in another mm-file==

You may create a link to a node in another map by appending #node_name to the map path

'''User feedback:'''
*Bug?: This feature does not seem to work for file urls ex: file:\\dfs\folder\file.mm##Freemind_Link_335867258. It also does not seem to work through the website applet.
** The URL is wrong. Must be file:///dfs\folder\file.mm##Freemind_Link_335867258

* Bug: This very useful feature seems to work for the current instance of the target map only. Once the target map is closed and reopened the link points to the root node in the target map, even though the link text is still correct. Closing the source map and reopening it works fine. - Tested based on FM 0.8.0 maps with the Windows version of FM.--[[User:Uli|Uli]] 02:51, 13 Feb 2007 (PST)

(•) Solution:

• create a (temporary) local link to the intended target node from any other node within the target MindMap (MM) (ALT+L)
=> i.e. the target-node must be the 'referred' node in this case meaning that it must be the second of the two nodes composing said (temporary) local link.
-> Digression: A local link is created by first left clicking on the source node and, while holding down the CTRL-button, then
left clicking on the target node, then press Alt-L. The link is created in the source node (a green arrow appears).
• Now highlight the 'referring'/source node, i.e. the other of the two nodes in this (temporary) local link (the one with the green arrow) and press CTRL+k (edit link)
=> the freemind node name of the 'referred' node (i.e. our desired target node) appears (eg. #Freemind_Link_676133257)
• Copy (or better still, cut) this node name [ctrl+c/ctrl+x].

• In the Source MM create an external link to the target MM (eg. c:\mindmaps\TASKS.mm),
=> Digression: An external link is created thus: CTRL+k (manually enter path) or SHIFT+CTRL+k (choose path). A red arrow appears.
• highlight the node with the newly created external link and append the copied/cut freemind node name to it using CTRL+k (edit link).
=> The result could look like this: c:\mindmaps\TASKS#Freemind_Link_676133257

• Finally, delete the local link if you may so wish (this step is only relevant, if you'd only copied and not cut the node name above).

• Being able to link to a specific link should not only possible within freemind but also from other tools. This could be established via adding a command line parameter giving the node ID to select right after startup.

== Edit Styles, Patterns, Automatic Layout Patterns ==

=== Change Format Dialog ===

New "Change Format" dialog box that lets you edit node and edge attributes at once. (Format > Change format...)

'''User feedback:'''
* The very powerful and useful dialog box needs a shortcut, and an entry in the context menu when you right-click on a node.
* A preview-area would be helpful.

=== Manage Patterns ===

There is now a manager for the physical styles. (Format > Physical Styles > Manage Patterns..)

==== User feedback: ====

* It is so helpfull!!!!!
* Would it be possible to also show (and even change) the shortcuts of the patterns in the pattern manager?
* Styles should be renamed Format Macro. They are a great feature.
* Feature Request
** A real Style formating feature with style_registry, where the formating is defined, would be great.
* Bugs
** Style names are not proper UTF-8 encoded e.g. ü in become FC in patterns.xml and not ü
** beta 18 couldn't generate new Style from current node. Pressing Save&Exit didn't save and a Notice pop up without any message.
* All version including RC1 - F11 window does not allow to choose a font size which is not in the list (11 for example) this is not consistent with the tool bar of the main window. I'm using style with 11 pt font size !
* Im experimenting with TONY BUZAN's mind mapping and memroy techniques. Eventaully i wnat to make a mind map of his book's and share, however copywright questions arise?? anyone know about it. Regardless of this question it brings to my attention the powers of formatting and memory enhancement.
**Is there a way of patterning the width/thikness of the links?
**Would be great to have a plugin that does a network analysis of the mind map and formatts acordingly. Hubs/number of links to a node = format value. Format value's to stimmulate as many sensory modalites as possible (NLP/ memory techniqes)
***These formats can then have an icon/ memory hook to filter by.

=== Edit Automatic Layout Patterns ===
It is now possible to edit Automatic Layout Patterns. (Tools > Preferences ... > Automatic layout pat...) Click there on a pattern and the new "Change Format" box appears (here called "Change Pattern").

'''User feedback:'''

* I also really like this feature, BUT I also would badly need to automaticaly layout for more then 4 levels (even if I could not change it by myself)! This is one of the most important things missing yet in this great application. Thanks anyway!

* Great! Could you please make the area "Automatic Layout Styles" a bit wider. There is no reason to keep it so tiny.

* I find the automatic layout a bit limited; after four levels, the layout remains the same, but I oftentimes use five, six or seven levels. Only feature I'd like to see added to the program is to set an auto format for a larger (custom-defined?) amount of levels.

* I love automatic layout, I use it pretty much exclusively. The only thing that sucks is that it completely disables the ability to apply localized formats to nodes with it enabled. Can you put in some sort of cascading functionality. The default would be automatic, but you could override the formats at any time. Also put something like the "reset position" like "remove custom formatting". --[[User:RazielJaTier|RazielJaTier]] 15:27, 20 May 2008 (PDT)

* I second Raziel's motion. I'd love to be able to store code snippets in a map, but automatic layout disrupts my custom formatting. --[[User:Neontapir|Neontapir]] 09:47, 23 Jun 2008 (PDT)

* Wonderfull. Would it be possible choose (at least) color to be applied per branch instead of per level. This is more in tune with Dr. Buzan's suggestions.

== Find And Replace ==
FreeMind has now a Find & Replace dialog. It combines the old "Show Map History..." (which is not there any more) with a classical Find & Replace dialog.

Found nodes can be sorted by Date, Text, Icons, Created, Modified, and Notes.

You can choose: Export Selected Nodes, Replace All, Replace Selected, Goto, and Select.

When no search text is entered all nodes of the map are shown in a sorted list.

'''User Feedback'''

* Characters like äöü" are not displayed correctly (the HTML-versions are displayed).
* Could it be possible to hide columns that I don't need to see?
* Thank You for the "replace" addition. How difficult would it be to have a "find" on all opened maps ?
* Is it possible to extend the "find" in all opened maps ? When searching for a text pattern, it will save to open individually each maps and execute a find. --[[User:Fb5|Fb5]] 02:16, 15 Nov 2007 (PST)
** I second this - extremely needed (at least for me :) ) to be able to search across several maps!! --[[User:Spacevulture|Spacevulture]] 11:59, 21 Jun 2008 (PDT)
* Would very helpful if nodes themselves could not only be sorted alphabetically, but also by Icons. And maybe by Date, Created, Modified, and Notes.
* A drop-down menu with recent search/replace terms would be helpful, to avoid retyping when repeating searches. --[[User:Arg0|arg0]] 08:38, 25 Feb 2009 (UTC)

--[[User:MikeS|MikeS]] 10:38, 5 Nov 2009 (UTC) I need to be able to search for patterns in note text, across ''all'' notes at one time. This could be incorporated as the default or an option in the Edit>Find command. Alternatively, a separate 'Find in Notes' command could be added. Thanks

== Display Selection as Bubble==
In the menu View there is now the option to display the selected nodes inside a bubble: "Display Selection as Rectangle on/off". You can also pick this new option in Preferences > Defaults, where you can also choose the color of the bubble. "Display Selection as Rectangle on/off" is now (Beta 13) by default "on". --[[User:DimitriPolivaev|DimitriPolivaev]] 14:50, 9 Sep 2007 (PDT) --[[User:Terkor|Terkor]] 16:57, 9 Sep 2007 (PDT)

'''User Feedback'''
* Like it very much.

==Tabs==
There are now Tabs (like in Firefox) representing the opened maps. Properties > Appearance > Look And Feel > Use Tabs lets you choose if you want to use tabs. --[[User:Terkor|Terkor]] 10:36, 26 Aug 2007 (PDT)

'''User Feedback'''
* Could it be possible that the tabs only appear (option) when more than one map is opened?
** I'd like this too. Screen space can be important. --[[User:Kenrob|Kenrob]] 04:14, 5 Oct 2007 (PDT)
* Could it be possible to show and hide tabs ''in View''?
* Could it be possible to rearrange the order of the tabs (by dragging and dropping them)?
** drag&drop, automatic hide when only one, close one/all via context menu etc. would be very usefull (i.e. like it is possible in firefox) --[[User:flusi100|flusi100]] 08:00, 24 Feb 2008
* Would be nice to close the maps by using their tabs (context menu with "Close" when right-clicking on tab, or middle-click on tab).
** Agreed - this would be useful. --[[User:Kenrob|Kenrob]] 04:14, 5 Oct 2007 (PDT)
** ++ to that. Seemed unnatural not to have a context menu on the tabs.--[[User:Doubi|Doubi]] 23:08, 18 Apr 2009 (UTC)
* Now with tabs and Save All it would just be the next logical step that (as an option) all the tabs would open when FreeMind starts, that were open when FreeMind was closed.
*Switching tabs takes 15-20 seconds. Especially slow after FreeMind has been minimized and computer has been suspended/hibernated. Version 0.9.0 Beta 18. --[[User:Emkeyen|Emkeyen]]
* A cross (X) on the tab similar to Google Chrome would be welcome. I also agree with the above comments on the use of a right click context menu and the dragging and dropping of tabs to reorder them.

==Move Back and Move Forward==
There are now Move Back and Move Forward buttons in the Toolbar (also available in the Navigate menu and by using Alt-Left and Alt-Right). FreeMind stores a chronology of the selected nodes. Using Back and Forward you can navigate back and forth to those nodes - even if they are in an other opened map. --[[User:Terkor|Terkor]] 19:31, 26 Aug 2007 (PDT)

'''User Feedback'''
* Very Helpful!
* Could there be a way to get back to the latest selection by one click.
* How about a popup list of the previous and next selected nodes (like in IE or FF)?
* Useful when navigating in large maps--[[User:Fb5|Fb5]] 02:13, 15 Nov 2007 (PST)

==Export Filters==
Open Office Export now for the ODT format.

Besides the two export filters for TaskJuggler there are three new filters for exporting:

* As Java Appelt
* As Flash
* As TWiki --[[User:Terkor|Terkor]] 19:06, 27 Aug 2007 (PDT)

=== User feedback ===
* Embedded links on images and then exported to flash do not work.
** [http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-781058038619276488&q=freemind+dennis Video of Bug]
* HTML links and then exported to flash do not work either. Please see:
** http://www.efectokiwano.net/mm/
--[[User:VincentD|VincentD]] 02:30, 9 Nov 2006 (PST)
* Export to Flash does not support Rich Formatted nodes.
* When a map that contains a hyperlink is exported to HTML there is obviously an error in that exported hyperlink. --[[User:Terkor|Terkor]] 20:34, 2 Sep 2007 (PDT)
* In exporting to Flash, I have to enter URLs as <nowiki>http:www.yahoo.com</nowiki>, instead of <nowiki>http://www.yahoo.com</nowiki>, for the link to work.
* I'm using 0.9.0 beta 19, when exporting to flash, http links fail. I've watched the video and visited efectokiwano, still not working. Does the exported html require a special server build to serve the content?

--[[User:Berti|Berti]] 12:04, 13 Feb 2008 (PST)
* I tried an export to txt tab separated this worked in 0.8 fine if I rename the .mm to xml and try to view it I get an error it seems the html tags are going to break it. I also tested the xsl form this side Tabulator separated text ? FreeMind
http://freemind.sourceforge.net/wiki/index.php/Import_and_export_to_other_applications

=== Wishes concerning Export Filters ===
--[[User:AlexandreDC|AlexandreDC]] 08:47, 13 Mar 2008 (CET)
* It would be useful to indicate some XSLT templates to produce HTML exports: we could thus choose whether and how to display attributes for example.

--[[User:DRBusch]]
* To me, the most useful application of freemind is organizing complex documents (e.g. a thesis or book). To this end, I've modified the [http://sites.google.com/site/freemind2beamer/ freemind2beamer] script into [http://student.physics.upenn.edu/~drbusch/mm2thesis.xsl mm2thesis]. Unfortunately, I can't seem to figure out how to parse in the xsl document such that I can (for example) put a hard line break into the text of a node and use the second line as a label. For example, node=abcd\\labelabcd would be translated into \section{abcd}\label{sec:labelabcd}. Any thoughts? I haven't dug into the java mm to beamer conversion yet.

=General Bugs=
* Generating Output for a printer is almost impossible. On Ubuntu 7.10 printing does not work (nothing happens), PDF export does not work (Error popup with no content), SVG export does not work (Error popup with no content), PNG export does not work (nothing happens), JPG export does not work (nothing happens), (Jave and Flash export thus is working, but it's not printable in a browser). So I am limited to screenshots which are unreadable in larger mind maps. Preview is ok, by the way, but I would need a feature to resize the whole map to paper size.
* If I close the calendar not with "cancel" but by just closing the calendar window, I can't reopen the calendar. I have to restart FM to be able to open the Time Management dialog again. --[[User:Terkor|Terkor]] 06:27, 15 Dec 2007 (PST)
* I updated to java runtime enviroment 1.6 and was not able to save any mindmap any longer. Message was "Map ist write protected" --[[User:bebach|bebach]] 13 Nov 2007
* Sometimes I use freemind just as a simple extended clipbord. In openoffce 2.0 writer I get the message, the clipbord format does not exist. In thunderbird I always have to paste without format to see anything. It is painful. It seems to me that I was not able to switch freemind to the plain text option. I am looking again the documentation. --[[User:bebach|bebach]] 8 Nov 2007
* Using the PDF export feature results in an error message "null compatible with Global antialiasing enable key". That was no problem in Version 0.8
* I can't save a new mind map under MS Vista. Modify and save of an existing mind map works.
* After pasting a node at a new position, keystrokes get stuck. The moviment is possible only changing the focus with mouse. After changing the focus, keystrokes (up,down,left,right) works normally.--[[User:Leslie|Leslie]] 05:16, 17 Apr 2007 (PDT)
* Ok, the new version is very nice... but there is still the Problem with printing. Sometimes the print is to small or to great or a part is cut off. Its difficult to configure the printer for good mindmap printings--[[User:Bkmzde|Bkmzde]] 00:31, 16 Feb 2007 (PST)
* Bug ? : MindManager Import doesn't include "Html Notes" hooked to the nodes. In 0.8, the note is "translate" in a text note.
* The context-menu that appears when you right-click while editing a node does not work. (It only contains "Copy" - which does not work.) Perhaps adding "Cut", "Paste", "Split" (at cursor-position), "Edit Long Node..." (with the editor remembering the cursor position and if some text is already marked). And perhaps some formating: "Bold", "Italic", "Font...", "Paragraph..."
* Display error: Zoom is now (Beta 14) working perfectly, as far as I can see. Good work! --[[User:Terkor|Terkor]] 14:41, 21 Oct 2007 (PDT)
** OK, there is a little bug: use Format > Bubble. You will see that on most zoom levels text in the bubble is not centered correctly. On both sides of the map text is placed too much on the left side. --[[User:Terkor|Terkor]] 11:33, 22 Nov 2007 (PST)
* Display error: Edges don't connect properly to the root. With widths 4 or 8 the effect is very obvious, and if "Bezier" is chosen). --[[User:Terkor|Terkor]] 07:51, 11 May 2008 (PDT)
[[Image:Root.jpg]]
* File Locking appears buggy: When you open a file with File Locking enabled in Preferences, the first open generates the error that 'file locking' failed. Subsequently, all attempts to open a file result in 'File is already being edited by (Username). Opening as Read-Only.' FreeMind does not appear to be willing to release this lock, except by turning off Experimental File Locking and turning it back on, so the entire feature appears to be broken. Specs: Windows XP SP2 machine, .mm file is on local drive which is also shared.--[[User:Perholm|Perholm]] 22:43, 13 Sep 2007 (PDT)
* Auto-Save Confirmed Buggy: '''I WOULD SUGGEST THAT THIS BUG IS AN EMERGENCY, AS DATA-LOSS CAN/WILL HAPPEN IF THE FEATURE IS RELIED UPON'''. Auto-Save at present does not work properly and should not be relied upon. Bug analysis: It appears that the timer used to control auto-save is only activated once at program launch, and when the auto-save interval has passed the timer does not reset for another auto-save interval, but instead NEVER generates an event again. Test: Set auto-save to 20000 milliseconds. Open an existing MindMap, and make a change within 20 seconds. If you check the .freemind directory, a single auto-save will be generated after 20 seconds, and no further auto-saves will EVER happen. If you again open a MindMap, and DO NOT make a change within 20 seconds, no auto-save will ever happen of any changes including the initial change. I would therefore conclude that the timer used for the auto-save interval is being programmed incorrectly, and does not launch another auto-save interval.--[[User:Perholm|Perholm]] 22:56, 13 Sep 2007 (PDT)
* The JRE 1.6 update 2 bug from javaw.exe on using the function of Open/Save File, it will waitting more than 30 sec per times, The JRE 1.5 update 11 will be better. --[[User:Josepchangtw|Josepchangtw]] 16:55, 15 Nov 2007 (PDT)
* Certain actions, foremost among them the ''paste'' action, cause FreeMind (or perhaps just the editing area) to lose focus somehow, so that no further keyboard input has any effect, until you click in the editing area to restore the focus. This severely detracts from the keyboard-only usability of FreeMind.
** Please describe how to reproduce and see this behavior [[User:DimitriPolivaev|DimitriPolivaev]] 14:40, 18 Oct 2007 (PDT)
** After pasting ''a node'' that has been copied from Freemind, the keyboard has absolutely no effect (really! I even tried mashing it randomly) until you click the mouse in the window, or switch to another window and then back, or do something else that focuses the Freemind window. Pasting text or anything else works just fine; only pasting a copied node (or nodes) causes the problem -- to put it as clearly as possible, the problem only occurs when pasting ''from Freemind to Freemind itself''. Also, I should mention that this is not a problem in 0.8, only in 0.9.
** I have a very similar problem, under Ubuntu 7.10. It happens that: 1. whenever I paste something, I lose the ability to use the keyboard (all shortcuts), editing, entering text. 2. I can get keyboard back by switching to another window or virtual desktop, but after I repeat this (paste something) the third time, I lose keyboard for good until I close and re-open Freemind; 3. mouse works and I can save my map. Please note that for me it happens both with 0.8 and 0.9 branches, when running 0.9.x both with jre 5 and 6. [[User:Zecg|Zecg]]
** Same here on openSuSE 10.3, x86_64. It's hard to reproduce when it happens but I also suddenly use the ability to use keyboard. I've found no way to get keyboard back except closing and re-opening Freemind. Mouse input still works. Appears to be introduced in the 0.9.x branch regardless whether I use jre 5 or 6. It's a show stopper. Is there a way to record all keyboard/mouse input to help to track this down ? --[[User:Steve|Steve]]
** The March 3 build seems to have fixed this bug. If others can confirm this, you can probably delete this thread.
** Not confirmed. The problem is still in Beta 16, just re-tested. A few times it happened after pressing INS, type in something, CR, CR, type in something, CR and cut the nodes again with CTRL-X, CTRL-X or a similar sequence. --[[User:Steve|Steve]]
* Node dragging problem: <br> When dragging the small circle in front of a node and moving the node vertically to raise the distance to the upper or lower node, this behavior in FreeMind seems to have changed. <br>In previous versions, the node could only be dragged to the right, up or down, but not more to the left towards the parent node. There was kind of an invisible vertical border. You could not drag the node beyond this border towards the parent node. This border was excellent to keep all child nodes aligned while changing the nodes' distance. <br>Now this doesn't work any more. In the current version, this border seems to be gone unfortunately. When I change the vertical distance of one node to another node, I cannot keep the moved node in it's horizontal position any more. <br> (By the way, pressing <CTRL>-left-mouse-button on a node's drag-handle also changes the distance between nodes, but this functionality is not compareable, because it changes the distance of <u>all</u> child nodes in this column, not only of the selected one.)
** Solution could be double-click on the small circle: it appears to work very well.--[[User:Luciodp|Luciodp]] 05:32, 7 May 2008 (PDT)
* Node dragging problem 2: <br> FM 0.9 B15. I created a map with FM 0.8, then switched to 0.9. If I copy the contents of a MSWord table into a node, MM gets it formatted with HTML and displays the table perfectly. The problem arises when I move the node to another branch of the tree. The html content gets converted to ascii (e.g. <html> becomes &lt;html&gt;) and thus all the formatting is lost. --[[User:ScavType|ScavType]] 14:09, 04 Jan 2008 (PDT)
* Print Preview shows wrong view after selecting Fit to one page. Steps: create map that's more than one page wide with default page setup options. Edit page options to fit to one page. Choose Print Preview. Expect it to show one page. Instead, it showed the first page of two pages as if ignoring the "fit to one page" option. After clicking next page button, print preview then realized it should zoom to fit to one page. --[[User:JimK|JimK]]
* Hover text for Print icon on toolbar says "Print..." implying that a dialog box will open but instead it just starts a print job. Text should say "Print" or it should open dialog box. --[[User:JimK|JimK]]
* Opened a mind map created in 0.8.7. Looks good except that beta 17 put a cloud around the entire map---i.e., main node---that I can't remove, and all the child nodes on the right of the main node have been moved down far enough to be offscreen when view is centered on the main node. (One branch on the left side is fully expanded to four levels, so maybe that had something to do with it, but folding it back up makes no difference.) Tried to toggle off the cloud using the Insert main menu, the Insert shortcut menu, and with shift+ctl+b combo... no luck. This is my first try with 0.9 b17; and already I can't use it for existing maps. --[[User:foxcole|foxcole]] 13 May 2008 UPDATE: Ah... in beta 17 I can't add a cloud to the main node either, so that seems to be a property that's not natively available at the main level. I've no idea what's putting it there in the first place but now understand why I can't remove it.
* Open a mind map that saved on a network share with windows version of freemind, doesn't work. I got the following failure: An error occoured on opening the file: MindMap:\\mondsee\homes\ko\Eigene Dateien\Brainstorming\FTM\WLT-Event.mm. It's only while opening a file on a network-share - at my local desktop it works! --[[User:Osthoffinnovations|Osthoffinnovations]] 09:12, 30 May 2008 (PDT)
** The space in the path name "..\Eigene Dateien\.." plus double back slash "\\" causes this bug.
As a quick fix add to FreeMind.java on line 517 (after “// bug fix by Dan:”)
if (System.getProperty("os.name").startsWith("Windows XP") && url.toString().startsWith("file:////"))
command = "rundll32 shell32.dll,ShellExec_RunDLL \"" + url.toString().replaceAll("%20"," ").replaceAll("%25","%")+"\"";
* If I put a graphics in a node and use the HTML editor to try to scale it down .... "size=50%" or "width=120px" ... that has no effect. [[User:Anton|Anton]]
* Freemind uses .mm as its file extension, but on Ubuntu (and probably other Linux distributions), this is the same as "Troff MM input document," so the file manager misidentifies all Freemind maps as Troff documents. Perhaps use .mim (MInd Map) or .fmm (FreeMindMap) or something else as the extension?
* On 0.9.0 beta 20: If you select "save" for an unsaved document, but you cancel the action, a message box appears saying "Saving Failed", but it's just a cancel. [[User:snookiex|snookiex]] 11:35, 27 Oct 2008 (GMT-5)
* 0.9.0 beta 20: Create child node using keyboard shortcut (eg. Insert) then press same kb shortcut (or if you have a second keystroke generated thru keystroke bounce) the second child-child node is created as closed node, ie not ready for keystroke entry. Basically pressing the "create child node" should not create a new node if the same keystroke is seen before the node has been "closed". (0.9.0 beta 15 did not display this behaviour - not tested intermediate versions yet)
* 0.9.0 beta 20: Note icon sometimes disappears and hint fails to display. Moving node causes note icon to display and hint to become active again.

=General Comments=
* Feature disable request: Would be great to disable scroll with touch pad as on my MacBook Pro if I accidentally touch the touch pad it starts scrolling very slowely and freezes all functions until it has stopped.
* Feature request: Would be nice to have a Latex export for the mindmap. This especially helps structuring a bigger report without having to type everything in latex again. Nice would be if you could say till which level you want to have headlines (after that just enumerations / lists).
* Feature request: I'm thinking to add a "Rotate" node function. When a node is selected followed by a "Rotate" feature, the selected node and its child nodes will be rotated by 90 degree. This will form a flow chart. Thus, we can used FreeMind to build flow chart easily using its friendly interface.
* Feature request: Add a number "0" icon. The addition of numbers "8" and "9" in .9.0 Beta 18 are great, but "0" is all that's left to complete the set. This will allow users to use these icons in many ways other than just setting priority. For example, when using Freemind to take notes, if you have more than 9 items which would benefit from a graphical numerical identification, double (or more) digits could be used with great benefit. I may even suggest that a black icon with white text be used—black being a conceptually appropriate color for the number "0".
* Feature request: Add the possibility to add a description to a graphical link, or even attributes (would be perfect). I use Freemind to create Moore and Mealy state machines in XML. So adding a text or attributes to a graphical link would be a milestone to reduce the complexity of the drawings.
* Feature request: When you move mouse over a node text is displayed in popup cloud, but it dissapears after few seconds. I would like for it to stay. Also, It would be great to be able to focus that popup and edit (ok that's a hard one, but at least copy) the contest there right away. --[[User:Kova|Kova]] 06:49, 19 Jan 2008 (PST)
* Feature request: I would like an option for text view (bottom) and tree view (top) to show (expand) when you move mouse over them. Right now I have tree view maximized when I'm editing the tree, but when I want to write something in the nodes or have a look what is written I have to go down, resize the text view, write text / view the text and resize again. It would be great if it resizes to half for example if I just move my mouse down to bottom where text area is. In short, I need quickly switch between node edit (text) and tree edit (graphics). --[[User:Kova|Kova]] 06:49, 19 Jan 2008 (PST)
* How about a forum for this stuff? Wiki is great for a single document, but not for discussion or suggestions like this. --[[User:Kova|Kova]] 06:49, 19 Jan 2008 (PST)
* In the German translation the use of capitals is just a mess. (Sorry!) For example "Speichern Unter..." Why a capital "U"? --[[User:Terkor|Terkor]] 06:58, 15 Dec 2007 (PST)
* Since some changes in the properties of FM need a restart of the program in order to be seen, there should be a restart option after you changed settings or in the file-menu. --[[User:Terkor|Terkor]] 02:18, 19 Nov 2007 (PST)
* any idea how I can print or give out a mindmap WITH the notes I made to the nodes? I think I tried all export possibilities but could not find a way. --[[User:bebach|bebach]] 17 Nov 2007
* Since I communicate with others using html exports or java/ flash exports, I uploaded to the web, it would be wounderful to have an internal ftp client in freemind and have an export option "upload by FTP". --[[User:bebach|bebach]] 8 Nov 2007
* Missing Export feature: I love the XHTML-Export with includes Image of the mindmap. For many reasons it would be much more comfortable to have just the images with an imagemap, for example a link collection. It will save user one very painful klick an the looking for the right section in the html export. HTML-Export as an image map would be much better for some users since the are not used to the also very nice flash or java web exports. They are very good for experienced users. --[[User:bebach|bebach]] 8 Nov 2007
* Moving a branch from one side of the root to the other - the text and child branches should "flip" to enable this
** Um, they do! Drag the node onto the root node and drop when you can see the gradient appear - then you'll mirror the structure. Otherwise you're just repositioning the node. --[[User:Kenrob|Kenrob]] 04:34, 5 Oct 2007 (PDT)
* I believe the Calendar / Scheduler feature can offer great benefits if improved. I suggest a pop up will should come up when the reminder time arrives. Similar to MS Outlook, you should have options of delaying the reminder or canceling it. --[[User:Felipe|Felipe]] 13:33, 1 May 2007 (PDT)
* I love freemind and work with it a lot some hours a day! I am looking forward to the new version and I start testing from v0.9 beta 12 --[[User:bebach|bebach]] 24 Aug 2007
* Feature Request: Database views are a powerful feature. I wish something like this for freemind. The idea is to store all the data in some ordinary mindmaps whithout redundancy, and on the other side work on them with the help of several '''virtual mindmaps''', like views in database systems. The intention is to benefit from all the advantages of database views in freemind with a similar feature. To build the freemind views could xquery be used.--[[User:maxreeb|maxreeb]] 6 Sep 2007
* Feature Request: Lose Nodes. While FreeMind works great for information that is already relatively structured in your mind, it is VERY difficult to use when your information is very disorganised, like any kind of stream-of-consciousness type note-taking. In that scenario, the fact that FreeMind forces you with an iron hand to structure information before you're allowed to move on to the next idea, forces you to completely stop the creative process maybe 10 times a minute, which is why I tend to AVOID FreeMind and favor even just WordPad any time I'm creative, because FreeMind works against me by forcing me to be so structure right off the bat that it grinds the creative process to a halt. I truly feel that you need the ability to have what I would term 'Lose Nodes', which is notes that are simply floating on the page and detached from the tree. Of course the goal is to get them attached to the tree in an orderly fashion, but for the sake of picking your own brain, you actually need the ability to simply drop them on the page, and then drag-drop organize them later by binding them together into a tree. You would do the exact same on a physical desktop -- you would cut out little pieces of paper, which would initially just be floating around on the table, until they slowly become organized into a tree. The fact that people have done this for hundreds years, I think proves that this is a natural and intuitive workflow, one that FreeMind easily both could and should support. By the same token, if you realize that a tree is poorly structured, you would want to take it apart and re-assemble it in a new way. As part of that process, maybe 20 or 40 nodes would be temporarily lose, and a 'Lose Nodes' feature would allow you to simply drag the nodes lose from the tree, drop them in the white space, and then later attach them somewhere else. I think this would be extremely intuitive. And very lastly, in this mindset of being able to do in FreeMind what you are thinking, I think you need to support more than one root. Although the GOAL is of course a neatly structured tree with a single root, you again don't necessarily arrive there through clean path -- no, the path is messy and disorganized, and then order forms slowly. I feel I would be able to structure large and experimental concepts much more easily if you supported Lose Nodes and multiple roots. With multiple roots, you would be able to detach section of the tree into a new tree, work on them concurrently, until you realize that they're part of the same concept, and glue the trees back together. These two features together are what is preventing me from being truly productive with FreeMind from a discovery perspective. I have no doubt that FreeMind works like a charm for information that is already relatively organized, but for discovering new and original concepts, FreeMind forces a structure on the information that is not mature for. Rather, FreeMind helps your produce a graph of the end result, but doesn't fully help you get there. --[[User:Perholm|Perholm]] 16:23, 12 Sep 2007 (PDT)
** "Lose Nodes" or "Unattached Nodes" or "Additional Roots" are available in [http://www.mindjet.com/ MindJet's] Mindmap. They are a class of "floating" objects that include labels and graphics. I recall the implementation of this came in on of the service packs for X5. [http://www.mindjet.com/resources/tutorials/mindmanagerx5/default.aspx X5] also added things like callouts, markers, map parts, and storing the map as XML. Once again I would recommend looking at Mindjet's MindMap and if you are a Windows users trying the 30-day evaluation to get a feel for what is possible in both capabilities and interface. --[[User:Anton|Anton]] 18:05, 20 Jul 2008 (PDT)

** Understood the issue. What I do is setting "disable key type" off, and "key type adds new" on. So each time I am hitting "return" key and starting to type again, it is a new node automatically created. In fact it works then like "wordPad", a node being equivalent to a line. To keep my map "clean" all those new nodes are created under a node "to be cleaned" or even a new map. Then I do the assembling by moving nodes with the mouse, and this is all the power of freemind. Faster to reorganise information than any other tool I have ever tried. I like your expression "kind of stream-of-consciousness type note-taking". This is exactly my use (several hours/day for years) of Freemind which is my main/only data entry software, and it is the best tool I know for this. --[[User:Fb5|Fb5]] 03:57, 23 Oct 2007 (PDT)
** About the multi root discussion. The same result could be attained easily now with the tabbed windows. For large maps already difficult to see, multiroots would make them really messy. An improvement for your concern could be to have an option to view tabbed windows "side by side" ("arrange all" in Word from Windows).--[[User:Fb5|Fb5]] 04:15, 23 Oct 2007 (PDT)
* Feature Request: Rearranging Nodes. I'm wondering why, when you're rearranging the order of nodes on the same hierarchical level, why you're only allowed to move a node *before* another node by dropping things in the top half of the destination node. All the time, I need to move a node so it comes *after* another node, but you can't simply drop the node in the bottom half of the destination node to move it to come *after*. And by the same token, there's NO way to move a node to be the last one without dropping it in the right-side of the *parent* node. This is frustrating, really frustrating, and there's no real logic to it... who made the decision that you can only move nodes *before* other nodes, but not *after*? Why did you decide to make it like this and not the other way around. And why is the only way you can get a node to the bottom of a list, to drag and drop onto the right side of the *parent* node. I run into this probably 20 or 30 times an hour, and the current design seems arbitrarily selected. You should be able to move nodes both *before* and *after* each other by dragging and dropping them into the top or bottom half of the destination node. I feel that nothing else is consistent and makes sense. Sorry for my rant, I just feel that there are some things that don't follow GUI 101. --[[User:Perholm|Perholm]] 14:00, 13 Sep 2007 (PDT)
** A simple workaround is to drag to the ''second-last'' position, i.e. the top ½ of the lowest node. When you have everything else repositioned, drag the lowest node to it rightful place. --[[User:Kenrob|Kenrob]] 04:25, 5 Oct 2007 (PDT)
*** I think this is unacceptable as a solution. Workaround, yes. Solution, no. --[[User:Perholm|Perholm]] 14:12, 10 Oct 2007 (PDT)
* Feature Request: Copy/Paste Paragraphs. I'm an author trying to use FreeMind to structure a large literary project, and it would be incredibly helpful if FreeMind had the following functionality: If you grab some text from Word (which might consist of for example 10 paragraphs), it would be incredibly helpful to get each of these paragraphs as individual child-nodes. The reason is that we're using FreeMind to organize a book-type project, of which some has already been written, and we need to get each paragraph of a chapter into a separate child-node in FreeMind so we can rearrange the blocks the FreeMind way, which by the way works fantastically. But at the moment, we can't find any other way than to copy/paste each single (friggin) paragraph individually. And the same goes for when you're trying to get something back into Word; it would be great to be able to simply select a branch, and get it copy/pasted into word as a simple top-to-bottom text copy where each child-node is an individual paragraph. That way you can use FreeMind to organize a literary project, knowing that the project ultimately has to end up in Word, but FreeMind is far superior for organizing and structuring the information. Perhaps consider a 'Paste Menu' like Word has, which asks you how exactly you want to paste, i.e. 'Keep Formatting' or 'Text Only' -- a similar menu in FreeMind could ask if you want to turn individual paragraphs into nodes, or if you want to paste the whole text as a single node. This would be REALLY helpful to organize literary projects. This would also allow you to much more easily use FreeMind to edit something that is initially written as stream-of-consciousness, i.e. any brainstorm. Such a brainstorm would likely simply consist of lines upon lines (or paragraphs upon paragraphs) of disorganized ideas written into Word or a text-editor. When you bring this into FreeMind, you ought to be able to turn each 'idea' (i.e. Paragraph) into a separate node. Right now, I can find no other way than to copy/paste each line individually, which is enormously labor-intensive. UPDATE: OK, FreeMind already has this feature, but it doesn't always work, because if you're pasting from Word, the text coming in is interpreted as Rich Text, and put into a single child node. If you want the behavior I describe, you have to first copy the text in Word, paste the text into Notepad (not Wordpad), copy it from Notepad, and paste it into FreeMind. I think there should be the ability to interpret text coming from Word as 'text-only' and not automatically bring in the formatting. In the case of a literary project, the formatting is only interesting in Word... in FreeMind you only want to edit the text, the formatting is irrelevant in a FreeMind context.--[[User:Perholm|Perholm]] 23:11, 13 Sep 2007 (PDT)
** '''You can use Edit->Split Node after inserting a formatted paragraph into the node. It splits the node in single paragraphs.''' [[User:DimitriPolivaev|DimitriPolivaev]] 14:19, 17 Sep 2007 (PDT)
** Using the Edit->Split Node is very time consuming for a large number of branches. <s>Why can't we retain the behaviour of Freemind 0.8.0? It seems that a tool to organise thoughts should work at the lowest level of granularity not create huge "blobs" of text. When I reorganise my ideas by pasting paragraphs from a document in 0.8.0, each paragraph in the document beocomes a separate branch. I can then drag and drop branches to reorganise my ideas. This issue is so important to me that it will be a show-stopper for 0.9.0 as far as I am concerned!</s> --[[User:Phil31753|Phil31753]] 07:35, 9 Apr 2009 (UTC) Tool->Split Node achieves what I (and others in this section) require.--[[User:Phil31753|Phil31753]] 10:05, 9 Apr 2009 (UTC)
** That's interesting discussion. When I copy from word to freemind, each paragraph is copied as an individual node and that is what I expect and what You would like. Maybe your freemind settings are different than mine ?--[[User:Fb5|Fb5]] 04:05, 23 Oct 2007 (PDT)
** It is now I met the issue You described Perholm. This is when copying form WEB BROWSER to FREEMIND. The copy keeps the html formating and keeps it in one node. This is a real annoyance for me too and that would stop me to move from 0.8 Version. Is it possible to have a "Paste Special" or '''"Paste as text"''' menu which also split paragraph as nodes, please Dimitri ? One advantage of the html copy would be for tables, which doesn't work in 0.8. Thank You. Franck --[[User:Fb5|Fb5]] 03:46, 6 Dec 2007 (PST)
* SIMPLICITY , SPEED and RELIABILITY : Those must be the main strengths of Freemind. I am using Freemind as my main computer interface for data entry for three years, ending with large maps (several 10s of thousands nodes). I have tried many other softwares and my conclusion, there is simply no equivalence on the market. It would be a shame to slow the program or the user-interface because adding new features. So, my expectation is to have user-options for enabling or not those features (attributes and Wysiwig). Thank You so much for the great work. Franck --[[User:Fb5|Fb5]] 20:03, 2 Oct 2007 (PDT)
** I want to second that: my maps are not nearly as big as Franck's but for me simplicity and reliability (as already provided by 0.8.0) are most important, too. Please try to keep focus on the simple things instead of adding too many features.--[[User:Christofb|Christofb]] 12:27, 30 Oct 2007 (PDT)
** Absolutely right. It is wonderful that new features are being added, but it is ESSENTIAL that Freemind is able to run QUICKLY on any computer, or it won't be useful. --[[User:Loydog|Loydog]] 2:44, 8 Nov 2007 (PDT)
** I absolutely agree to that. I'm a freemind user for years now and though I'm looking forward to see new features in freemind I always loved the fast and easy way to create maps on every occasion. So maybe if there are resource consuming new features they could be inserted as plugins or sth. like that so users are able to decide wether they will activate a feature or not--lpdubel 02:06, 14 Nov 2007 (PST)
* Attachments (Multiple): It is necessary to be able to add multiple attachments to a single node. For example, one node may have an attached pdf doc, word doc, excel sheet, and other mindmap. [[User:kberardinelli|kberardinelli]] 09:17, 26 Oct 2007 (EDT)
** What I do is to create subnodes (even without any text) and assign an attachement to each of them. --[[User:Fb5|Fb5]] 02:26, 15 Nov 2007 (PST)
* Attachments (Deletion): Currently, there seems to be no way to delete an attachment. This needs to be very easy to do (perhaps by right-clicking and selecting 'Delete Attachment'. [[User:kberardinelli|kberardinelli]] 09:17, 26 Oct 2007 (EDT)
* Feature Request: Especially when using freemind on a beamer I would like to have a fullscreen mode ie without window decorations etc. Just the canvas, even without menu bar or status bar. -- [[User:barney|barney]] 13:52, 29 Oct 2007 (MEZ)
** I would love to see that too. Think about using it in a classroom for a brainstorming on the beamer. --[[User:Christofb|Christofb]] 12:27, 30 Oct 2007 (PDT)
** Agree, for uncluttering and focusing on one task. -- [[User:Vibrog|Vibrog]] 10:43, 17 Nov 2008 (UTC)
** Agree with you at all! I would like to use freemind for presentation on technical presentation. --[[User:Dinny|dinny]]
* Feedback: In Beta 13 (the one before 14), I could remove the note area from the view and use ctrl-< to activate the note area, make it visible again, and type ahead. This still works in Beta 14. When done, I could use ctrl-< again to focus the mind map node again and the note area vanishes again. In Beta 14 the note area stays visible and I need to ctrl-<, ctrl-> to move out and hide the area. The behaviour in Beta 13 was much easier to work with. -- [[User:barney|barney]] 13:52, 29 Oct 2007 (MEZ)
* Feature request: IMO it would be very useful to be able to add some metadata to a freemind map as a whole like titel, description, author, keywords --lpdubel 02:06, 14 Nov 2007 (PST)

* Feature request: I would like very much to have a better method for transclusion. Compendium allows reuse of nodes across multiple views (whether maps or lists) and automatically handles updates from any instance to all appearances across a range of maps. Compendium even places a subscript counting the number of transclusions for a node! Can one hack this up through per node addressing in FreeMind? Would that handle automatic updates? I suspect a database back-end for nodes makes more sense. I want to construct constructing Maps through addition across a collection of nodes (again, like Compendium) instead of filtering maps by subtraction across a single map's nodes. As a first approximation to this, I'd like to save Filters independently of maps. --[[User:Jay Dugger|Jay_Dugger]], 2217 Sunday, 2 December 2007

*Feature request: Ship it! (sorry, but it would be nice to have a released version that works with the lattest java version), and well, it's been 2 and a half years... [[User:Tomh|Tomh]] 05:09, 10 Jan 2008 (PST)

*Feature request: I really miss a strike-through along bold and italic, with a keyboard shortcut. Cheers.

* Feature request: Nothing big, I just wanted to ask weather its possible to bind the structure to too points again (left right) from the rootnode like it was it 0.8 and that change this when you want. Because its much esear to start a structured mindmap using only the keys... Also I liked to have two sides to divide the thoughts when speaking about pro and contra. It Would be Great if it was possible to ad this as an Option to the root-point. (Inculding the move navigation with strg that could move one node all around the root) Thank you! --[[User:X-Site|X-Site]] 16:29, 9 Mar 2008 (PDT)

* Feature lost? In 8.0 version when you copy nodes and paste in MSWord you immediately create a "structure", that is a hyerarchic level: very useful if you want to adjust titles or paragraphs in preliminary notes, or import them in Power Point slides etc. I'm a teacher and use Freemind with students for brainstorming, organize ideas and create texts or presentations from preliminary notes. Now in 9.0 version this feature seems to be lost. Why? Do tou know any solution? Many thanks for your work.--[[User:Luciodp|Luciodp]] 05:24, 7 May 2008 (PDT)

* Try Tools->Split Node --[[User:Phil31753|Phil31753]] 10:05, 9 Apr 2009 (UTC)

*Feature request: I would like to be able to apply a cloud to a parent node but not necessarily its children; or maybe to only some selected children... similar to how a network or gateway is depicted in a flowchart. [[User:foxcole|foxcole]] 13 May 2008 UPDATE: Perhaps a more accurate request is to be able to choose from a limited set basic shapes to apply to a node or set of siblings but not children.

* When I export my map to a text based format (i. e. HTML), FM starts with the right side and then continues the left side. For me it is not intuitive I start my maps on the left side - as I would read a newspaper or magazine. I guess it is not difficult to allow the user to choose if FM should start with the left or the right side. --[[User:Terkor|Terkor]] 16:28, 13 May 2008 (PDT)

* Feedback: Thanks for all your hard work, absolutely amazing product. --[[User:RazielJaTier|RazielJaTier]] 15:23, 20 May 2008 (PDT)

* Changed Functionality: In 0.8 I could hover over a node to select it, hold down ctrl, which would effectively prevent other nodes from being selected. Then move my mouse all the way across the map (again without worry about another node being selected), then click on an icon *with the ctrl key held down*. The icon would be assigned. In 0.9 you have to release ctrl before you click the icon, otherwise it will simply ignore it. This is a simple little detail, and I'm sure I'll get used to it, but if it's not difficult, and you don't have other plans for ctrl clicking icons, I'd love the 0.8 behavior back. --[[User:RazielJaTier|RazielJaTier]] 15:23, 20 May 2008 (PDT)

* Suggestion: Create localized version of linked data. When you use alt+L to create a link to another part of the map, it would be nice if you had an option to actually create "ghost" versions of that data instead of having to click in the link. If you edited the ghost version, or the original, they would stay in sync. --[[User:RazielJaTier|RazielJaTier]] 15:23, 20 May 2008 (PDT)

* Suggestion: It would be neat to be able to with single click generate the framework of a thinking tool. When I say thinking tool I am thinking mostly of the thinking tools created by Edward de Bono such as his Six Hats, CoRT and many others. See http://www.edwdebono.com/ and http://www.edwarddebono.com/ for more info. An example would be right clinking on "Six Hats" and from your current node it would create six child nodes: White Hat, Red Hat, Yellow Hat, Black Hat, Green Hat and Blue Hat. For each of these child nodes an empty blank node would be created as well. Lastly your cursor would move to the blank node under White Hat and then you can start typing. Such functionality might be created with Groovy script but most would not want the difficulty of programming Groovy script. It is also possible to cut and paste a section of a mind map but that is more cumbersome than a single click. --[[User:Mars729|Mars729]] 17:59, 31 May 2008 (EDT)
** A library of templates would be a great contribution. --[[User:Anton|Anton]] 17:52, 20 Jul 2008 (PDT)

* Suggestion: When working with images it would be nice to be able to paste or drop an image to a node. --[[User:trinxie|trinxie]]

* Suggestion: When adding an image link, if it is a file, should it be possible to store the relative path? Would be great if the whole model is distributed to someone else. Maybe this possibility already exists. --[[User:trinxie|trinxie]]

* If I install Freemind using aptitude in Ubuntu 8.10, I have the /usr/share/pixmaps/FreeMindWindowIcon.xpm to use in my panel, but as the available version in Ubuntu is 0.7.1 and I have some MMs created with later versions, I decided to try the 0.9 RC1, and downloaded it (freemind-bin-max-0.9.0_RC_1.zip). For my surprise, there is no icon to use in this zip. Please include one, or maybe more than one (see http://www.menyhart.net/blog/software/freemind-icon/). --[[User:Itamar|Itamar]] 12:33, 9 Feb 2009 (UTC)

* '''''Observation:''''' Many of these suggestions and feature requests are or are similar to ones that exist in [http://www.mindjet.com/ Mindjet's] MindMap. It used to be that this leader had a great advantage in that it supported scripts. Now that FreeMind has Groovy it is catching up. All we need is the library of neat applications that use the scripting language''!'' I was a keen user of MM2002 and looked forward to MM-X5 and its shift to XML, but the real shift was for the benefit of people ho were programmers, not the baseline users. Unless you were a EmbeddedVisualBasic programmer the change was a setback. The library of HTML export templates was lost - Mindjet's response was "its all XML so you can write your own XSLT. Well some of us can't or don't have the time. The other killer for me was that Mindjet tied in too closely with Microsoft Office. It couldn't export to anything else. So in reality one had to spend hundred of dollars more for each upgrade of MindMap since it always needed the latest version of Office. ''However'' I would recommend looking at Mindjet's MindMap and if you are a Windows users trying the 30-day evaluation to get a feel for what is possible in both capabilities and interface. --[[User:Anton|Anton]] 17:52, 20 Jul 2008 (PDT)

* When you enter note-data for quite a number of nodes the map is so full with the note-icon. I would appreciate an option in the preferences as for the attribute icon, that disables showing an icon. (Tools>Preferences>Appearance>Show icon for attributes) --[[User:Kai|Kai]] 21:59, 20 Mar 2009 (CET)

* Feature request: automatically calculating the print zoom factor according to a user-defined number of mosaiced printed pages. E.g., user should be able to specify he wants the map printed on N x M pages (M pages across and N pages high) and the print zoom factor should be calculated automatically. That would reduce the need to compute the best print zoom factor by trial-and-error. --[[User:Arg0|arg0]] 09:29, 24 Apr 2009 (UTC)

* Feature request: settings for customising arrow links (e.g., ability to specify that links start from the root part of a node rather than from the leaf part). Moreover, it can be really tricky to rearrange the shape of an arrow link, especially short ones, since all parameters (starting point, tangency) are changed simultaneously when dragging a link point. Fine editing should be implemented. --[[User:Arg0|arg0]] 09:29, 24 Apr 2009 (UTC)

* GENERAL OPEN SOURCE FEEDBACK LOOPS WITH FREEMIND, would it not be helpful if feedback loops were integrated into the beta versions, so that one can write requests for enhancements as one is using Freemind or other open source proejcts. For example, for each function there could be a questionnaire and comment box next to it. This info could then be uploaded to a wiki. It may help organize the locations of info and spur more user involvement in the feedback process. Could it also be possible that the uses of the porgramme are logged and statistically analyzed by the developers?

* Feature request: I'd like a feature "View/Zoom onto Subtree" corresponding to the standard "View/Zoom to Fit to Page", doing exactly this: set zoom level and viewport so as to to make the subtree with the currently selected node as root fit the screen. The subtree root should be aligned at the left side of the screen for a subtree with branches pointing right and vice versa. --[[User:PhilShvarcz|PhilShvarcz]] 16:07, 30 Sep 2009 (CET)

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We prefer that you send your requests for enhancements here. Please look first if a similar request for enhancement already exists, using Ctrl + F. Also, there is a section of [http://sourceforge.net/tracker/?group_id=7118&atid=357118 requests for enhancements] at FreeMind's project page at SourceForge.

== Features in development ==

2006-07-16. The development team of FreeMind is currently working on the following features. (We cannot guarantee that the features will actually make it into the next release; most of them should.)

* Attributes on nodes
* Filtering which nodes are shown by icons and contained string
* Rich text nodes
* Save All function

=== Purge this list ===
Could this enhancement request be purged when features are implemented? --[[User:Mvalle|Mvalle]] 6:49, 2 Dec 2008

== Project management ==

=== Firefox Integration ===

My suggestion is to integrate FreeMind with Firefox so you can classify anything you download and extract useful knowledge. In case of being a html page also would be great some clipboard features to add selected text to FM notes in a particular node or as a new child etc.. My html notes consist on a short text I write about the webpage, below link to webpage and below selected text of this webpage, then I save the webpage in a directory for later use. Currently I am using FM to organize some info from my html notes and recent html pages (several hundreds) I have downloaded and I would find this feature fantastic. First you download a file/html page with selected/typed/default text as filename and assign selected or typed text to their FM node, then you organize downloads in a new tab in which FreeMind is running.. Wonderful!! (Also persistent notes instead of temporal ones or at least the ability to choose their behaviour would be great too)

To make FreeMind a productive tool with Firefox, at the very least, when you drag the URL icon from the URL toolbar on the top of Firefox to a node in FreeMind, FreeMind should create a single child node with the correct label and link in it. Currently, it creates multiple child nodes with messed-up labels, which require tedious manual cleanup after the drag-n-drop.

=== Ganttproject/Freemind integration ===

It would be very interresting to integrate Ganttproject, for a better
project management. This solution would be very close from JCVGantt pro + mindmanager (http://www.gantt.fr/#).
Both (Freemind and Ganttproject) are GPL, and java coded.
- actually there is already a data converter for this: [http://johanneskutsam.spaces.live.com/blog/cns!1961B7AE7280AAFD!264.entry '''Freemind2gantt converter '''] It now needs a tighter integration and some more intelligent overlap of contents, so that 1:1 conversion is possible (in both directions) --[[User:BoP|BoP]] 05:31, 22 Jul 2007 (PDT)

=== Time management and dependencies ===
Integrate date attributes and a timing view
Allow to set other attributes (people, groups, objects, locations)
Build on top of that a half-hierarchical structure with dependencies

* For some of the software packages leading this field look at: [http://www.matchware.com/en/products/openmind/default.htm "OpenMind 2"] or [http://www.conceptdraw.com "ConceptDraw"]
--[[User:BoP|BoP]] 05:31, 22 Jul 2007 (PDT)

There should be the option for recurring Reminders (e.g. every week, every month, etc.). --[[User:Terkor|Terkor]] 07:29, 19 Aug 2007 (PDT)

== Nodes ==
===Allow nodes to be moved up or down within heirarchial structure===

Allow nodes to be moved up or down within heirarchial structure, where you can allready physically change the distance between nodes it would be great if you move a node too high or too low it shifts it up or down accordingly with the structural fromat of the mind map

=== Allow picture-nodes to be Pasted ===
I've been using FreeMind as a note taker during lectures for a while, and its great. Of course, every once in a while you need to add a picture quickly. I wish FreeMind would allow for me to draw a picture in Paint or whatever and simply Paste it into a node.
-RogerF

''KeepNote'' has a build in ''Insert Screenshot'' function, which is very easy to use. That would enhance note taker jobs enormous. In addition a creation of a journal note with default date and time would be nice.
-JSp

=== Sketch-nodes ===
As a note taker during lectures, FreeMind is great. Of cource every once in a while the lecturer will draw a more complex picture on the board, and suddenly you're out of ways to 'capture' an important part of the lecture. I would like to be able to add a 'Sketch' node, that would bring up a popup Window and a simple SVG editor. It doesnt have to be advanced, but being able to draw circles, ellipses, straight lines, a few colors an line widths etc. would come a long way with respect to FreeMind as a note-taker during lectures!
-RogerF

=== Improved Table editor ===
IMHO, the table feature of FreeMind is great to have, but a little inflexible. I would like to see features such as:
- drag to indicate number of cells (similar to Word)
- insert row, column etc. should be avaiable from the right-click menu
- change background colors

and generally I would encourage that tables are formatted as compact as possible by default.

=== Add Fonts, Especially Strikethrough ===
- I use Freemind for, amongst other things, task management. I'd like the ability to format node text with strikethrough so the placeholder is kept but it's clear on a quick scan that the task has been handled. I find this much easier than, say, using an icon to identify a completed task

=== Automatically selecting a specific node on startup ===

html allows you to access specifically marked sections immediately using the anchor syntax, which is incorporated into the url. But in freemind, all nodes already have unique id's. It would be very convenient if you could refer to a specific node id right after specifying the filename so that freemind could jump to that particular node immediately. For example:

freemind foo.mm -> opens foo.mm and selects the center of the map

freemind foo.mm bar -> opens foo.mm and goes to the node ID'd bar.

This kind of syntax will make it very convenient for a user of freemind to make a network of mindmaps, and to jump in between networks using the hyperlink input. Of course, for this to be useful, there must also be a shortcut to display the current node's unique ID, and a mechanism for freemind to recognize other hyperlinks that are also mindmaps.

-Markd

=== Automatic Numbering of Nodes ===

A key feature of MindJet and Simtech mindmaps is the ability to toggle a numbers on or numbers off view. This makes a large mindmap more workable, because everyone can quickly reference specific nodes by the node number(s). This is especially useful after converting a map to Open Office or Word, so you have a numbered outline. The numbers would be the logical parent-child relationship seen in outlining or data modeling. The number should be displayed above the node text with a dashed line or shading to distinguish it from the node text. The user should also have the option to display numbers with dots, or without dots (to reduce the length). When a node is moved, deleted, etc. - the maps numbers are auto-recalculated to show the new relationships. This enhancement (along with spell check) would make FreeMind a more useable business tool.

GregA

FullACK. The feature should allow to have all/selected nodes [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ISO_2145 ISO2145]-numbered (in map-view or at least on export). I believe this would not be too difficult to implement. (Probably in 0.9.0 this can be done more or less easily by Groovy-scripting, but maybe it would just turn into a standard-feature for everybody, if it was included into one of the standard-menus.)

Thanks, Golgol

Numbering can be easily achieved by having an external plugin, which is a program that analyses the data (node) it receives, and just adds a "number" attribute.

lkcl.

=== Automatic word wrap in Nodetext ===

I'd like to see this feature. I want for example set a default max node width. So the text will wrap when this width is reached. This would make mindmaps more readable and easier to edit.

Edit: I just noticed, that it is possible by giving "width=" to the body tag in html mode (or rich formatting) but it would be nice having this in plain text mode, too.

Edit2: If you set a "width=" in the body TAG the Node will be this wide. The Node should get smaller if the given width is not needed.

nautsch

=== Automatic transition to Edit Long Node ===

When the user starts typing a node, she/he may not know in advance if the text will fit on one line or require multiple lines (Long Node). It would be advisable that pressing ALT-ENTER at the end of a single line node, switches to the Long Node editing window as it does now, but with the cursor already on the second line of the editing window, so that the user can keep typing right away from there. Currently it's necessary to press END and then ENTER to obtain this behavior. The proposed modification would avoid pressing this two extra keys.

Marco

=== Add to alert to a node ===

I do use Freemind to keep track of my current tasks. MindMaps are IMO a very good way to organize to chaos in them (if you know a better tool, please mail hoffi@muskelshirt.de). But since some tasks do contain da deadline, the possibility to add an alert would be very handy (e.g. like Outlook-alerts).

* Tools -> Show Calendar... -> Remind Me At This Date; also see: Tools -> Show Time Sceduler List... --[[User:Terkor|Terkor]] 19:32, 11 Feb 2008 (PST)

=== Sorting nodes ===

It will be very useful to SORT SELECTED NODES at the same hierarchical level like a list. The simplest and fastest sorting rule would be the alphabetical order. It will improve the visibility of a map. It could be added as plugin or function at the same level as the function "join nodes". It would have to work even if the nodes have subnodes. Thanks. Franck --[[User:Fb5|Fb5]] 02:50, 15 Nov 2007 (PST)

=== Synchronised nodes / mirror nodes / relational nodes ===

Some times you might want a node in two locations. What you can do today is to add a link and/or a graphical link. What I would like to is to have mirrored / synchronised nodes. Say that I have node A, and that I want the same node in another location as well. Simply I should be able to Ã¢ÂÂInsert mirror nodeÃ¢ÂÂ, and wupti node A is shown here as well. No matter whether I now edit the node at the new or original location the nodes is changed in both locations (but of course only stores once). If a plugin for this exists then please mail me at freemind@skinny.dk.

Martin

Another more data centric way to look at this is as relational nodes. Instead of restricting the data model to a simple tree you could store the data in a relational format. This would give users the ability to store nodes with many parents.

This would produce the effect described about but would also open up the possibilities of the app for more human like brain dumping. I am almost certain that the human brain does not relate 1 single piece of information to 1 other piece, it is more natural for us to relate it to as many other pieces of info as possible as this helps us to remember.

So... new data model!! Many to many relationships! :-)

A simple way of storing this type of data would be a flat list of nodes with IDs and then another list of relationships with a focus on Parent relationships. There is only a need to store which Parent(s) a node belongs to. This could be none or more than one.

Some other considerations include rendering the data. For e.g. if a user highlights a node which appears in more than one location in the map (i.e. has more than one parent) do you explode both end points, just the one or maybe provide the option to do either.

PH4wks
=== Free-standing nodes ===

The main feature missing from freemind is free standing nodes, not initially connected to anything, which you later organise, making them parents or children or simply just linked to other nodes. This is how our brains work - it's important not to be restricted to an hierarchical model as currrently.
PBL

Yes i definantly agree free standing nodes is essential. Furthermore from this, a more network orientated view of nodes and links would be a lot freeer and natural. So Linking the nodes with links, and then being able to view them in different ways, Selecting different root nodes or groups of nodes, or the main topic as the root node as it is now.

I completely agree. I have long felt that this is the single biggest thing missing from freemind (and most mind-mapping tools). Being limited to a hierarchy under a single node is a very severe limitation. It completely artificially constrains my natural organizational habits and it leads to "uncomfortable" mapping layouts. For example, I prefer to have my parent nodes on the left and my child nodes on the right, but I quickly run out of visual real-estate when working with mindmaps in my lop-sided way. If I could detach nodes and arrange them freely I could see and work with so much more on a single screen. Also, by having free nodes, I could use a single mindmap for a lot more (possibly my whole life) - and I could avoid having to manage or maintain several maps to manage several separate projects. My mind is not "free" without free nodes. :-)

=== Other node print layout for very big maps ===

While working with a map having 4000 nodes - well structured - it is useful to have a plotter to print it on one sheet. On the other hand there are no walls 5 meters high in this office. So I'd like to request an alternative print mode with a 90 degree rotated layout. This would also enable collaboration of 2 and more people in front of this wallpaper. [[User:Noiv|Noiv]]

=== Inheritance of Node Characteristics ===

If the font size/type, colour and background colour of a node have been set then any child nodes that are created (as opposed to moved into place) should inherit those characteristics. --[[User:Anton|Anton]] 12:20, 25 Jul 2008 (PDT)

I wouldn't use the above suggestion much, actually. Instead, I'd want nodes to inherit font size/type, edge styles etc. from their ''siblings''. This makes sense to me as nodes on a particular level would tend to be section headings, which I'd want e.g. in a larger font than the nodes that come below them.

Perhaps there could be the option for both these types of inheritance. For any 'leg' of a map, the user could right click and get a menu listing the various elements which could be formatted (font [+size, +colour], edge [+style, +width, +colour], etc.), and could indicate whether that element is to inherit from Parent, Sibling or No inheritance.

It sounds a little complicated, but I'd like to have that level of control. It'd save a lot of time for large, complex projects.
-- [[User:Doubi|Doubi]] 20:13, 6 Dec 2008 (UTC)

=== ALT/ENTER to close Long Node editing window ===

As you can use ALT+ENTER to open long node editing window, it woult be logical to use the same keys to close this window.

Kast

=== Merge several nodes back into one branch ===

This feature could work as follows:
ctrl-select several nodes. hit "insert". all selected nodes are now connected to the newly created node

Joshua

== Export and Import ==

=== Import from an "interpreter", Export via "programs" ===

Possibly the most important feature to have for FreeMind is to have an "interpreter" plugin, of scripts - external programs - which can "suck in" content that is defined in a SIMPLE (and by simple i don't mean XML) format.

FreeMind should therefore, ultimately and effectively, be a "cacheing" and "display" and "edit" mechanism.

Likewise, for exporting of information, it should be possible to feed internal data to a predefined program (where the program to be used should be an attribute, where the attribute itself can be the result of a decision made from running an external script!!)

Ultimately, therefore, it should be absolutely trivial to do all of the import and export capabilities, listed below, in terms of well-defined and very simple external programs.

(side-note: the external programs can be non-java programs, of course - even shell scripts. java is a really stupid programming language to do this kind of work in: as a statically typed object-orientated language, it's simply not up to the job. it's great for display purposes, and it's great for platform-independence, but that's about all that it's good for)

[http://sourceforge.net/tracker/index.php?func=detail&aid=1687292&group_id=7118&atid=357118 RFE 1687292]

=== Import and Export from HTML and different Wiki formats ===

Simple import/export scripts can be written which have "rules" on understanding the different types of web pages, for example Wikis, and, also, the current "wiki exporter" should be the first plugin created as an "exporter".

It would be trivial for people to then use lynx or wget for example and a few lines of awk or perl to write an HTML "import" plugin. Instead of having to wade through tens of thousands of lines of stupid java (which is only really suitable for display purposes and platform-independence).

Include an option to state whether the notes file should be in a pop-up window, or a link to a separate file in a scrollable window (in the last version I used notes text came up in non-scrollable temporary pop-ups).

===== Export to HTML =====
Exporting to HTML the various labels are styled with a <nowiki><span></nowiki> that has a long style="" entry. It is better to create a set of CSS classes, one for each distinct style, and reference them in the various <nowiki><span></nowiki> blocks. This simplifies also the import into MS Word.
--[[User:Mvalle|Mvalle]] 08:43, 20 Dec 2008 (UTC)

Thinking about cheap export to MS Word a new export to HTML option could be added with every level of the map producing a different <nowiki><hx></hx></nowiki> title. The central node becomes <nowiki><h1></h1></nowiki>, the first branch <nowiki><h2></h2></nowiki> and so on. The node notes could become the text below this level heading. Or the map leaves could become the contained text.
--[[User:Mvalle|Mvalle]] 08:43, 20 Dec 2008 (UTC)

==== Import and Export from Bugtrackers ====

It would be really nice to have import/export plugin scripts which understand the different bugtrackers. FreeMind is already an extremely good project management tool: why isn't it also helping to be the Uber-Project Project?

=== Import and Export databases ===
Any database connectivity would be nice to have,
especially import, be it either via ODBC or MySQL.
Thanks, UndiFineD

Corresponding requests for enhancement.

* [http://sourceforge.net/tracker/index.php?func=detail&aid=1100921&group_id=7118&atid=357118 1100921 : Export JPEG]

=== Filesystem Integration complimenting Import/Export ===
Definitely powerful would be the use of a node to view/edit the contents of a local file instead of an in-program node. This could effectively replace a lot of import/export functions, as a mindmap could be stored as a folder instead of as a single file, so that clients could extract wanted nodes without having to bring their freemind executable. Secondly, while native viewers do not yet exist, it could help users access their data nodes in extraneous formats. Some ideas.

==== Loading viewers for certain data nodes ====
Now that nodes can be given attributes, it isn't too that farfetched to create different kinds of viewers/editors for different kinds of nodes - or to load viewers for those nodes specifically.

==== Completely virtual nodes ====
Likewise, nodes whose content relies entirely on an external text (or other) file could be created which could be parsed back as text to freemind when viewed.

==== Directory operations ====
Freemind's hierarchical structure of node viewing makes it an interesting way to organize directories.

==== Exporting from command line ====
A feature I would really like would be to be able to do export programatically from cmdline.. something like:<br />
<code>freemind-export --flash mymindmap.mm -o mymindmap.html</code>

You not need to export mindmaps, if you want to browse it with flash browser (visorFreemind).
Just use one ÃÂ«smartÃÂ» HTML/Javasript file which takes mindmap name from parameters, like this:
[http://discopal.ispras.ru/mindmaps/mindmaps.html?intro-and-samples.mm], [http://discopal.ispras.ru/mindmaps/mindmaps.html?algorithms-definitions.mm], [http://discopal.ispras.ru/mindmaps/mindmaps.html?algorithms-dtime-dspace.mm].
But this feature (export from command line) will be very useful to export SVG ([http://sourceforge.net/tracker/index.php?func=detail&aid=1865152&group_id=7118&atid=357118 corresponding ticket]). --[[User:StasFomin|StasFomin]] 19:48, 2 Mar 2009 (UTC)

=== Exporting Legend of used Icons ===
It would be nice when a legend would be attached to the exported graphs, explaining the meaning of the icons used in the map. Would support usability for everyone who doesn't know what the freeMind icons should mean; even if they should be intuitive.

comment on the above:

"Yes, I agree too. It would be great also if a TITLE and SUB-TITLES can be placed (and movable) anywhere in the MindMap, so when it is printed out, people know what this mind map is for.

Also, since we can color our own ARROW LINKS, having their descriptions customizable alongside with those colored arrow links inside the legend would be a great enhancement!"

=== Export to OpenOffice ===

: FreeMind-0.8.0 can export mindmaps to OpenOffice Writer files. However, the fonts, colors, and formatting are not exported. A method that works well is to export as HTML, open the exported document in Konqueror (or some other web browse), and copy-and-paste the entire document into OpenOffice Writer.

Unfortunately there seems to be some problem though with opening the files in version 2 of OpenOffice. I haven't had a chance to go and check against the 1.x versions.

: I have the same problem with OOo 1.9.104 (package from Knoppix). I can provide maps where this happens. Regards, [[User:Zapyon|Zapyon]] 14:02, 16 Nov 2006 (PST)

: Freemind .9beta9 exports to OOo 2.2x though it's not pretty.

==== Export to OpenOffice Impress ====

I wonder how difficult it would be to export into Impress presentation. The Nodes cen be Slide Headers, Subnodes can be Outlines and so on. Then Notes can be exported into Slide Notes. One can do a presentation off the screen, give away handouts with full notes to keep.
--[[User:Koaster|Koaster]] 08:48, 7 Aug 2006 (PDT)

* It's not that difficult, at least for simple cases and when ignoring styles/patterns. I just implemented a small xslt-stylesheet which does the job for me. I may set up a project for that (or give it to the contributions). Meanwhile please contact me -- [[User:htgoebel|htgoebel]] 2008-01-08

==== Export Options to Open Document Format .odt ====

Allow user to set options such as:

* number of levels which translate to heading levels
** thereafter use bulleted list levels.

=== Export to Scalable Vector Graphics format (SVG) ===

''Available in FreeMind 0.8.0 RC2.'' Yes! I'd love to see something done with scalable vector graphics, or some such... I really wish Freemind could export to SVG, or maybe even flash... -- Bruce
And happily, developers are thinking the same thing: -- Here's Dimitri on that very possibility in
[http://sourceforge.net/forum/forum.php?thread_id=1031174&forum_id=22101 forum thread].

=== Export to Portable Network Graphics format (PNG) (enhanced) ===

It is already possible to export mindmaps to PNG. But the export function can be enhanced. E.g. the possibility to export PNG pictures with a '''transparent background''' instead of a white background (respectively the color thats used in the presets) would be very handy. Also possibilities to adjust the resolution and PPI (pixels per inch) are very useful when it comes to printing documents with embedded mindmaps in the PNG format. --[[User:UrsusExplorans|UrsusExplorans]] 10:04, 1 Aug 2009 (UTC)

=== Export to Flash or teach Flash to view mm ===

SVG, however, is still not widely supported - not even in desktop browsers, so it is mostly a way to exchange drawings and print. Exporting to Flash or having a Flash viewer that displayed .mm files (after all, ActionScript can now load XML data easily) would enable quick and effortless integration with current Web browsers without requiring them to install the Sun JVM (which can be a major issue in some environments).<br>
Edit: Good news: I was looking for the same and came accross this: http://nobi.com/appleexpo/index-f.html View source to see how it is made, it simply loads the .mm as parameter in a javacript, and I suppose the graphics and rules from freemind is programmed into the .swf. Should be able to take it appart, if noone has the sourcecode for something similar already. [[User:Mskogly|Mskogly]] 15:54, 20 Sep 2005 (PDT)
:This appears done in .9 beta 9. Please test --[[User:Ddaniels|Ddaniels]] 20:40, 22 Mar 2007 (PDT)

=== Support for Embedded Freemind Maps in Pages.Google ===
Embedded maps on free hosts like pages.google would be very cool. Here is a video of my efforts to get Freemind flash maps to work in pages.google.
http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=4967726587301956565&q=freemind+dennis --[[User:Ddaniels|Ddaniels]] 20:40, 22 Mar 2007 (PDT)

=== Export to LaTeX ===

Feb 10,2005. MindMapping concept is perfect when organizing the structure of a document. I
believe that it would be a great feature if freemind could directly export a
mindmap as a LaTeX file (using the text of the main node for the title,
the text of the main branches for \section and so on).

In the mean time (and since I know nothing about java) I wrote
[http://control.cicese.mx/twiki/pub/Main/FreeMindToLaTeX/mm2tex this perl script]
to translate mm->tex. Any improvements are welcome. I will mantain this utility
[http://control.cicese.mx/twiki/bin/view/Main/FreeMindToLaTeX here], but I hope
this feature will be included in freemind one day.

'''June 19, 2007''' The above links to the perl script are broken. Does anyone have it or something similar?

'''17 mei, 2008''' I export the mindmap to OpenOffice and uses OpenOffice to export it to Latex. I use OpenOffice 3.0, not sure if that option is already available in 2.0.

'''9 Feb, 2009''' This is probably the most important feature I'd like to see in freemind; the openoffice conversion trick doesn't work for my needs. The link to the perl script is still broken and the link to Freemindtolatex appears down now too.

=== Export and import to Ganttproject ===

This link takes you directly to the download and instructions for the export / import xslt files
[http://wwwl.kutsam.at/home/johannes/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=15&Itemid=4 : export / import to ganttproject via xslt ]

in Freemind 0.8 you can use "File->Export->Using XSLT" to export a ".gan" file using the xslt file from the link above

=== Export to favorites or bookmarks ===

Requests for enhancements:

* [http://sourceforge.net/tracker/index.php?func=detail&aid=916260&group_id=7118&atid=357118 916260 : Export to Favourites / Bookmarks]

=== Export to ontology formats (OWL, DAML) ===

Requests for enhancements:

* [http://sourceforge.net/tracker/index.php?func=detail&aid=1096791&group_id=7118&atid=357118 1096791 : Export to ontology formats (OWL, DAML)]

=== Export and import to OPML ===

Requests for enhancements:

* [http://sourceforge.net/tracker/index.php?func=detail&aid=940616&group_id=7118&atid=357118 940616 : OPML import / export support]

See also [http://www.opml.org/ OPML]. OPML - Outline Processor Markup Language.

=== Export branch as folder tree ===

A function like "export folder structure" would be useful for the use cases of bookmark manager, and of project preparation. I use [http://sourceforge.net/projects/bkm Bookmark Manager] from SourceForge, a very nice project. I found that importing bookmarks into FreeMind is a great option, if there only was a plugin to export them, Freemind would work as a perfect bookmark manager. Plus, Freemind would work as a nice 'project manager' for creating directory-trees for large projects, at least I see I could find it very usable in my projects which require managing a lot of project files. Creating such structure in Freemind and then exporting it would be very usable. Date: Fri, 16 Apr 2004 18:10:33 +0200

=== Import through any XSLT filter===
The File->Import Menu should have an item "using xslt" (just as File->Export has "using xslt") This would ease the integration of costum transformations (e.g. ganttchart <-> freemind)

lkcl: not recommended. xslt is so bad at doing "programming" that you will have an absolutely _awful_ time. however, if there's a plugin mechanism, and you want to shoot yourself in the head by having an xslt import/export plugin - then great! if the plugin architecture idea is ever taken up, and comes about, i will watch with fascinated horror at your efforts to add an XSLT import plugin...

=== Export and import to GraphViz ===

=== Export to eps ===

=== Integrate with Microsoft Outlook ===

support for adding specially labeled nodes to Outlook's calendar and Outlook's todo list.

Is there a way to integrate the calendar dates for start and completion of events into Outlook.

The export formats allowed in Freemind and the import requirements of Outlook appear to be different.
Is there a format that is acceptable to both of them or a process such as converting to notepad and then into Outlook.

Austin. austin@elanay.net

=== Integrate with Microsoft Office ===

Enable export in EMF (enhanced metafile format). It will help to integrate FreeMind's Mind Maps with Word, Excel or Powerpoint.

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I'm a new user, and a very computer-illiterate one, but if possible would love to see more integration with Windows Word. At the moment I can copy-paste from FreeMind into Word to get an indented list representing my mindmaps, but could see myself better able to use FM for putting together documents if it had more functionality:

(1) Dynamic integration between Word and FM with nodes mapping to (formatted) Word headings.

(2) Text placed in a node's Note appearing under the corresponding heading in Word as body text.

(3) Changes made either through Word or FM being reflected in both the document and the corresponding mindmap (including rearrangements, additions, changes to text etc).

No doubt a tall order, but it can't hurt to ask :)

-KCM

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=== Import/Export in various Calendar formats ===

The idea being that I can import can a list of meetings, or tasks into Freemind. They would be imported into a sub-node and then i can redistribute them in my mindmap as I want. -- Thanx AP

=== Import via XSLT ===

Would be nice to hase the same dialog for importing as the xslt dialog for exporting. That means the user can import any XML with a proper XSL (sure that needs to generate valid .mm, otherwise the importer will throw an error).

=== Export to Executable JAR File ===

Export to an executable JAR file that can be sent to anyone who has Java installed so they can run the mind map in read only mode. The JAR file would contain the Freemind (browser?) JAR and anything else it needs to run, as well as the mind map file I created. This would be extremely useful because it would allow me to send people mind maps who don't have Freemind installed. I just send them the exported JAR, they double click it and they can view my mind map. This is better than PDF or image exporting because people could actually expand and collapse nodes and it's better than HTML export because it would look and work much better, like the applet does. Hopefully it would only include the necessary stuff for read only/browse mode to keep the JAR as small as possible.

=== Integrate Editor of choice ===

I'd like to have the opportunity to integrate my editor of choice (well there are only vim and Emacs, right? *g*). Being able to invoke an "edit with ..." using a keyboard shortcut (Ctrl-e perhaps if I'm able to redefine the existing "Export to HTML"-shortcut) enables me to edit e.g. notes of nodes in my editor.

In my editor, I do have *a lot of possibilities* FreeMind is not likely going to implement at all or at least that fast: spell check with my existing personalized dictionary, my already defined macros, vertical/column edit mode, various syntax highlighting, enhanced navigation possibilities, completion, folding, search/replace also with regular expressions, undo/redo, ...

-- novoid 2009-05-14

:: This would be nice. Would love to do long node editing in gedit on Ubuntu. Firefox has a plugin called "It's All Text" that lets you edit a web page text box in a configurable text editor. It handles things pretty well with opening up in gedit (for me), and then you save and close it and the web page text box is updated. Something similar would be super here, although I'd recommend just jumping straight to the external editor for long node editing, if you've defined one. [[User:Scarpent|Scarpent]] 19:07, 20 Aug 2009 (UTC)

== Searching ==

Requests for enhancements:

* [http://sourceforge.net/tracker/index.php?func=detail&aid=1084091&group_id=7118&atid=357118 1084091 : Boolean Searches]

Further searching requests.
* regular expression search
* incremental search. No popup; with every letter typed, a node containing the string typed so far is found. Can be modelled on Emacs.
* standard global search and replace functionality of text expressions within nodes
* search accross all the maps that happen to be open at the time

Actually, I'd wish that we have search across all maps opened or not. Just like

'find . -name "*.mm" -exec grep -H "long term" {} \; > /tmp/scratch,

but much more user friendly. Ideally, there should be a Google Desktop search plug-in for FreeMind. I wish I knew how to do it.
--[[User:Yubrshen|yushen]] 00:17, 28 Feb 2007 (PST)

=== Plugin architecture for "actions" ===

Searches is a specific category of the general category of "actions", which should themselves simply be external plugins of actions, with an input capability, output capability and an "iterator" capability.

essentially, what is needed is this:

* Internally, the "search" terms that you're performing are stored in a FreeMind database.
so, the text (as it's being typed!) is entered into a list of "Searches".
* The "context" is the location where the search is to be performed.
* Then, an external script is run called "search" which is passed the two nodes:
the search terms as they're being typed, and the "context" i.e. the data to be searched.

Essentially, you're applying subject-predicate-object to the issue.

Then, you could _have_ your "google desktop" search plug-in, because if the data is stored in flat files (instead of XML) and the search term is turned into a flat file, your plugin can return search results by parsing the HTML that comes back from the Google Desktop search and returning new "nodes" or "attributes" in the simple "import" format that was recommended to be added.

== Notes attached to Nodes ==

=== Note enhancements in 0.9 beta 7 ... ===

* As already mentioned in some postings it would be cool if it would be possible to place the note window optionally on each side of the application.

* Further it would be cool if it could be detached from the main-window so that it becomes a kind of tool-window.

* The graphical version of the note window is cool. But it consumes a lot of space ... Is it possible to avoid the nested tabs and put the tabs for "Layout view/HTML Code view" instead as a toggle button on the toolbar? Would save a lot of space and is more useable! Also maybe we could hide the "<END>" Tag in the graphical editor.

* A possibility to set a <nowiki><br></nowiki> instead a <nowiki><p></p></nowiki> in notes would be great. In other programms it's often shift+return. This would lead to less used space in notes.

=== Word wrap for notes ===
The notes are very important and I tend to write a lot of things in them! So it would be helpful to have for the notes the word wrap option already available for nodes.

=== Shortcut for adding a note to a node ===
It would be nice if there was a shortcut for adding a note to a node

In mousing from the selected node to the menu in order to reach the Insert->Note menu item, I often overfly another node: the selection changes, which is a useability feature I like very much - but then the note drops on the newly-selected node, which is not where I wanted it.
*ditto, a shortcut for adding notes would be of great use. --[[User:Goncalopp|Goncalopp]] 08:03, 27 Sep 2007 (PDT)

=== Link to Nodes from Notes===
I wish to have the ability to create links to various nodes on words within the notes pane. This would be a great feature.

I agree.

=== Mechanism to delete a note from a node ===
I have not found a way to delete a note from a node.

:Just delete the text from the note.

In my case this doesn't work - the note icon remains at the node and the notes window keeps appearing if I mouse over such a node. Deleting jsut the text doesn't help. (Version 0.8.1) - Florian

I can confirm the problem isn't just for you. Although it isn't too hard to open the saved file and remove the Note lines. (Version 0.8.1) - vanstrien

=== Option to keep Notes window open ===
Many but not all of the nodes in a map have notes. As I mouse around the map, the Notes window pops into and out of existence. This is distracting: I would like an option to keep the Notes window open, and see its text update if the selected node has a note.

Include with this an option to stick with the current note - and be able to move around the map from node to node without changing the note and still be able to edit it.

=== Option to position Notes window at right ===
I would like the Notes window to be at the right; others may prefer it at the bottom.
Or to undoc the notes node - movable separate window.

=== Attach note to a node ===

Requests for enhancements:

* [http://sourceforge.net/tracker/index.php?func=detail&aid=1043427&group_id=7118&atid=357118 1043427 : Glorified Endnoting]
* [http://sourceforge.net/tracker/?group_id=7118&atid=357118&func=detail&aid=974920 974920 : Add notes/comments to node]
* [http://sourceforge.net/tracker/?group_id=7118&atid=357118&func=detail&aid=671074 671074 : Additional text for a node, displayed in separate text area]
* [http://sourceforge.net/tracker/?group_id=7118&atid=357118&func=detail&aid=521406 521406 : Separate note for a node, displayed upon request only]

Many people want to have a note attached to a node. Some mind mapping programs have this feature. In my view, such a feature creates a basis for splitting of uses. I would expect long nodes to contain paragraphs or even small articles; I have such nodes, both plain and HTML. I also have long nodes containing nicely set HTML tables. An XSLT transforming script can either assume that paragraphs are in the long nodes or that they are in the notes; not both. Different uses would then require different XSLT scripts. Searching would need to be extended to also search through notes. Notes of different nodes, unlike nodes themselves, cannot be made visible on the canvas at the same time. Without note, every piece of the text in the mind map is a node and therefore first class citizen; it is allowed for it to have children, and whatever feature is offered to other nodes (like icons, time reminders, changing of the default color and the like) is offered to it as well.

Screenshots showing how long nodes can be used follow.

[[Image:FreeMindLongNodes.png]]
[[Image:FreeMindLongNodes2.png]]
[[Image:FreeMindLongNodes3.png]]

As this is such a requested feature, I'd like to invite you to discuss pros and cons here. --[[User:Danielpolansky|Danielpolansky]] 11:47, 15 Feb 2005 (PST)

: The main reasons for enabling node text are as follows: a). to speed the process of map construction & brainstorming. many times note text can be added "after" the primary brainstorming of a topic is complete, as the dimension of information is different - usually it is more detailed. b). the second reason is just or even more important, and that is, to enhance "readability" of the map itself. At our company, we teach that a good mindmap should not contain full sentences, but instead, it should have short phrases - even just one or two words. That is, studies have found out people can understand the main point of any topic by "seeing" just a few words. Maps should be "seen" and not "read". Then, when more detail is needed, you just open the specific node, or view it by a mouse-over type operation. So to summarize, SPEED and READABILITY are critical to the maps actual development and use for most people. --[[ User:GregArndt|GregArndt]] 14:15, 15 Feb 2005 (CST-US)

:: I don't get the point of a). Current solution does not prevent anynode from adding long nodes after the first brainstorming phase. In fact, without separate note, you can always add something afterwards as there is no limit to the depth. What concerns b), long nodes can be folded. This prevents map from being cluttered.

:: Admittedly, ''mouse over'' operation is not sufficient to show the long nodes folded behind a short one. Having a quick look at many long nodes, one at the time, is currently not that easy; it requires a lot of single clicks. --[[User:Danielpolansky|Danielpolansky]] 12:42, 19 Feb 2005 (PST)

: Ok, here's my ''go ahead''. So many people want this feature, and so many mind mapping programs have it. As I am not a mind mapper but rather knowledge manager, I can't judge on this issue properly. Let's get surprised. --[[User:Danielpolansky|Danielpolansky]] 12:48, 19 Feb 2005 (PST)

::: Great news. This will be a real positive addition. And for users that like long notes on the map, they can still always do that. Thank you in advance, this is an excellent application that will continue to improve. ==[[ User:GregArndt|GregArndt]] 23:12,, 19 Feb 2005 (USA-CST)

: To me, HTML long nodes impair Readability of large mindmaps. On the other hand, I get the point that notes don't exactly fit into the concept. Why not go for a compromise: Long nodes would consist of (1) a first line of text, which is always visible/editable and (2) a formated long text, which is only visible/editable in a drop-down window. I would also appreciate a simpler way of editing formated long text than HTML tags. Why not using a RTF editor add-in? [[User:RainerFaller|RainerFaller]] 30 Dec 2005

:: I am all for this. I think that if there was some kind of collapsability the long text problem would be solved. It may be because I am used to programming, but to be able to collapse a bit of text is superb. This would mean that a long node would be collapsed into a single line, say the first line. You can still tell what the node is saying with the first line, but the bulk is concealed. Also, I think that if the nodes are resizable it could be resizable, that would solve the problem. Say a really large node is constructed containing an article, you could resize it to create a scrollable text box. You would only be viewing part of the article at a time, but i think that is manageable when the structure of the mindmap on the whole is preserved.--[[User:Peterw|Peterw]] 12:00, 5 Oct 2007 (PDT)

Maybe it could help to add something like a 'keep-folded' property to a node.
Idea behind it:
A node with 'keep-folded' set is not shown, when the parent of it is unfolded. You would need extra handling for setting the property or showing those 'moved to the background' nodes though. But that way a note could just be a node with that property set. I think a property like that could be helpful in other contexts, too. If you use the Mind Map as a todo-list, you could keep done ((sub-)sub-)...)subtasks folded for example.
Hilmar

: '''Notes are essential:''' While you can write really large nodes, a large node will obscure the mindmap. Lets describe it this way: I do want to perform some medical laboratory tests. This is my '''primary node'''. I want to add '''notes''' on the various aspects how tests should be ordered. The '''child nodes''' describe various symptoms and the attached '''notes''' add epidemiological information and detail. The next '''child nodes''' describe these tests based on the parent symptom nodes. Again, '''notes''' offer further details. The problem with notes-as-nodes is, that the huge text size will obscure the siblings (and even the children of those siblings), thus rendering the map ugly and difficult to comprehend. IF the notes would be only on the last hierarchical level, this wouldn't be such a great problem, BUT IF the notes are written on parent nodes, than the nodes-only approach is a mindblocker, not really a FreeMind.

=== Copy/Export note(s) of node(s) ===

WYSIWYG & note editor ... are very inviting for extensive usage of notes.
* at the moment it is not simple to export or copy them alltogether (with relevant nodes). Option for exporting the notes (also when clipboard-copying-pasting) would be very welcome - something like "Copy With Notes", "Export With Notes" or "Print with notes":
** e.g. for Export/OpenOfficeWriter notes are not exported (they were in 0.8) - I understand that xslt-s have to be adapted to the new xml format of mm (<richcontent ... type=note...> instead of <hook ...>)
* Q: can we consider the freeMind mm.xml format as fixed (at least for 0_9_0)?

AlesPoredos

--[[User:ap|ap]] 07:26, 28 Sep 2006 (PDT)

=== Tooltips ===

Having created a map, it might be more natural to enable us to either show the notes as tooltips, or alternatively to add tooltips as seperate children to notes.

--[[User:Slowlearner|Slowlearner]] 12:08, 12 Aug 2009 (GMT)

== Misc ==

=== Please make freemind more colorful ===
Just like Tony Buzan said, mindmap needs to be very colorful to make your brain exciting.
Freemind is just too "grey" right now.

=== Screen clipping ===
If you used Microsoft OneNote, you will notice a very good feature, Screen clipping.
It allows you anytime, switch to your screen, select an area, got a snapshot and paste the picture in your notes by just few clicks.<br>

This is extremly useful if when taking notes for an online document or electrinic book, no matter what you are reading, pdf, html or ppt, just click and drag, you got the picture in your notes.<br>
If freemind will support similar feature, that would be great.<br>

=== Multiple Maps at Startup ===
When I start FreeMind it loads the last map I worked on, which is very good. I can have multiple maps open, which I juse a lot, so I can work on multiple projects at the same time. However when I close FreeMind and open it again, it only loads the last active map. It would be very usefull if it loaded all the maps that was open when FreeMind was closed, so I quickly can continue to work on my ongoing projects.

: Yes, I want this '''very''' much! --[[User:Ase|Ase]] 10:29, 9 Jul 2008 (PDT)
: So do I. Leos
: Me as well. --[[User:Terkor|Terkor]] 02:32, 4 Nov 2008 (UTC)

=== Single Copy Multiple ===
The Single Copy command is used to grab stuff to duplicate without also copying all child nodes. For example I have numbered items that I keep in an "Unresearched" node, and the same numbered items in a "Researched" Node. Instead of entering the node #'s of 1 - 20 several times, I would like to be able to use the Copy Single command while selecting multiple items. Obviously it would have to be renamed "Copy Without Children" or something similar. Just keeping the command the same but adding support for multiple selection would help me a lot. Then I could copy items 1 - 20 and paste them somewhere else in one shot.

: This is definitely a good request. The action for copying without children would have to be renamed from "Single Copy" to "Shallow Copy" or "Copy without Children" as you suggested. --[[User:Danielpolansky|Danielpolansky]] 10:13, 2 Jun 2006 (PDT)

: I would also need something in the same vein. I have a deep tree of actions from which I choose leaves to do today. I would like to keep the classification embodied in the ancestors of any chosen leaf node I copy to the Today FreeMind. If I could click on a node (not just a terminal leaf) and "Copy Ancestors", then paste I would save a lot of time. The Copy Ancestors would copy all ancestors exclusing the single root node. A variation would be to click a series of consecutively embedded nodes and "Copy Chain" which would copy the nodes themselves only, without any other children, and keep the chain as a unit.

=== Print across pages ===
Would be great to have a possibility to print spanning over several pages if mind map is huge.

'''Hint:''' In 0.8.0 this is possible if you deactivate the "scale to one page" checkbox in the page format dialog and enters a scale factor like "1.0". But there seems to be a little bug; if I enter just "1" as scale factor the output is still scaled to fit on one page.

=== Print out of notes ===
I think it is a very good idea to add the possibility to print out the notes together with the map(on a separate page/pages), something like as in the export of HTML sides.

I agree with this suggestion. It makes a lot of sense to be able to print your notes.

=== Print preview ===
I would like to have a print preview dialog to see if my manually set scale factor (defined in the page format dialog) is ideal.

=== Auto scale to fit one page wide for printing ===
I would like to be able to set a map to print "one page wide" rather than just "fit one page".

=== Auto scale to fit several pages ===
As RFE 972845 another has already provided code to have FreeMind scale the output to fit several pages. It would be really nice to have this enhancement in the normal code base.

=== Calculations ===
I think that is good idea to add possibility to associate numeric values with nodes and make top nodes to recursively calculate sum of child nodes' values. This feature will turn FreeMind into '''easy and visual way to do home accounting or resource planning'''. Adding, removing or dragging child nodes between parents must cause sum to update.

More complex feature - adding multiplication factors to parent nodes.
: '''I vote for this.''' I think such a feature would open Freemind to a new business public: those who must build work resources planning/estimations WBS (Work Breakdown Stucture). Excel could be favourably replaced by mind maps softwares with such capabilities.
: From a more technical point of view, I would add that each node should be associated with an '''aggregation function''' like sum (default), average, geometric average, or even user defined aggregation function. Nodes would gather value of their children and aggregate it to set their own value.--[[User:OliGator|OliGator]] 08:55, 22 Oct 2006 (PDT)

: For now, I didn't used the Time plug-in ; my expects would go in two directions (--[[User:JdX|JdX.fr]] 200706222:
: Go-ing to plan a bussiness, I would like to get some Calculations as said above, that I could get back into a calc-like spreadsheet in another window.
: May I imagine better than a number and an aggregation function, I would enjoy to improve in triplet-properties, not only a number and a function for each node... You may know high potential in A.I. for that representation for many qualities (I began to work on wikini.net on that matter..)

=== Support for Unicode and RTL languages ===

I think that the inclusion of better support for Unicode and RTL languages such as Hebrew and Arabic would allow a larger number of people to use Freemind as their mind-mapping tool of choice.

: What support of unicode are you missing? FreeMind is unicode-enabled. --[[User:Danielpolansky|Danielpolansky]] 11:56, 27 Jul 2005 (PDT)

:: It doesn't work with Vietnamese. Try this: HÃÂ NÃ¡Â»Âi, SÃÂ i GÃÂ²n, ChÃ¡Â»Â£ LÃ¡Â»Ân * a ÃÂ¡ ÃÂ Ã¡ÂºÂ£ ÃÂ£ Ã¡ÂºÂ¡ ... [[User:DeltaVictorLima|DeltaVictorLima]] 11:24, 18 Jun 2007 (PDT)

=== Use UTF-8 in the XML file to store unicode characters ===

: FreeMind 0.8.0's utf-8 support is limited, I think. When open file, FreeMind simply loads the file contents into buffer without valid and proper encoding, if .mm file version matches current freemind version. And all Chinese characters encoding as "''&#x...;''" is meaningless for Chinese. I have a patch for this: [[User:Jiangxin/Better_chinese_characters_support]]. --[[User:Jiangxin|Jiangxin]] 11:53, 6 Apr 2006 (PDT)

:: Indeed, FreeMind does not support UTF-8. Maybe it would be better if it would. That would improve the ease with which the XML files can be read directly in plain text editors. --[[User:Danielpolansky|Danielpolansky]] 10:18, 2 Jun 2006 (PDT)

::: Shouldn't the .mm-file be changed to a real XML file first? It does not have a XML declaration, like <?xml version="1.0" encoding="ISO-8859-1"?>... This gives far better support when opening it in standalone XML editors, and you can also validate your XML. --[[User:pahles|pahles]] 21:16, 3 Jun 2006 (UTC+2)

: Vote for this! It is impossible to compare/merge different mindmaps (also process/edit) with ÃÂ«entities gibberishÃÂ» like ÃÂ«по проекту «SAT»ÃÂ»--[[User:StasFomin|StasFomin]] 19:36, 2 Mar 2009 (UTC)

=== Support general graphs rather than trees ===

Some users want FreeMind to support general graphs rather than only trees. To an extent, their wish is covered by what we call arrow links, and what is called connectors in Microsoft Powerpoint. FreeMind's arrow links are not that powerful as connectors, but that can be improved.

Still, FreeMind is not planned to become a general graph editor, or a concept mapper. Some years ago there was a [http://sourceforge.net/forum/forum.php?thread_id=821693&forum_id=22101 discussion] on that in Open Discussion forum, followed by a concluding [http://sourceforge.net/forum/forum.php?thread_id=957873&forum_id=22101 consideration] by me where the final position on the issue is stated together with an explanation. --[[User:Danielpolansky|Danielpolansky]] 11:56, 27 Jul 2005 (PDT)

===Always On===

I would like to minimize to the system tray(for Windows). Or better yet, let's run FreeMind as a transparent window docked to the desktop. Like my brain, I like to always have FreeMind on in the background. Regardless, thanks!

: You can google for RBTray, which lets you minimise anything to the system tray. -- JettLogic

===Better File Operations, Restore Workspace, New File Extension===

On Mac OS X at least, the file dialog is buggy - it does not show network drives or my iDisk. Also, it would be useful to have FreeMind re-open the last edited file (and restore the workspace as it was when the user last quit). Still, the most annoying thing is the .mm filename extension - that extension is tied to Obj-C code files in Mac OS X, and probably on other platforms as well. Maybe .mind or .mmp? -- RuiCarmo

===File Dialog Improvements===

The file dialogs could use some minor improvements. I would like the dialog boxes for load and save to remember what directory they were in and start from there the next time the dialog is open.

Also, if you try to open a file from the "recent files" list but the file no longer exists, there is no warning from freemind. It would be better to have a "file not found" warning, and better still to remove the bad entry from the list when that happens. --fist_187

It would be better not to "remember what directory they were in", but add possibility to choose "Default directory" in Preferences, which will be opened automatically whenever you save or load something. --Elwin

Yes the file dialogs could use some improvements. It should be possible these days to simply use the native OS'en File Open dialogs. IMHO, either that or a full-featured file dialog that a) provides a few shortcuts to frequently used directories, b) remembers the directory used last time, -or- uses a default directory, and c) allows one to create new directories

=== Crosslinking Nodes ===

The possibility to create cross-references between nodes which are
already part of the mindmap tree would be a great feature. In many
real-life mindmaps items could not be categorized in one and only
one category. The possibility to visualize these dependencies would
be a great advantage over other mindmap solutions. Something like
this is already implemented in Freemind by selecting two nodes
and pressing STRG+L.

For enhancing this feature the following aspects should receive attention:
* the application should visualize cross-references in a eye-friendly way
** nodes with cross-references should be directly identifiable (i.e. by color, shape-type, ...)
** mouse-over effects visualize the dependencies with flashing nodes
** dashed grey lines sound visualize cross-dependencies
* cross-references, especially those which reside not current view-context, should be traceable by a hotkey which toggles b+etween the source and the destination node of a link.
* if a source or destination-node is in hinged position the link should be optionally visualized by propagated a parent nod+e as source or destination-node

Is it possible to add links to specific nodes in other FreeMind map files? Perhaps using Request Parameters in the external hyperlink URL? Identifying the target node while creating the link may be tricky. Here is an idea on how that can be done: <br/>
When creating the link, a dialog window with two textboxes can be used. One textbox would be for the hyperlink URL and the other would be for the target node name. The target node name textbox would have an auto-complete feature (with dropdown) that uses a list of node names that were obtained from the target map file. There could be a button next to the URL textbox that starts the node name retrieval process from the target map file. Before hitting the button the target node name textbox is disabled, and it is enabled after the node names have been read. --[[User:EdB|EdB]] 10:37, 2 Sep 2009 (UTC)

=== Unlimited/Arbitrary Attributes ===

We use a couple of different products (including an internally developed one) to manage requirements. In each case we have the ability to assign arbitrary attributes to requirements at any level in the structure (e.g., Type=Priority Value=High or Type=Source Value=Mike Jones). To support migration between Freemind and these requirements management tools, Freemind should allow X number of attributes per requirement. Though I know this concept would scare the minimalists.
-- unknown

And a custom plugin might read these values, then calculate and display something on the map, e.g. an indicator or an aggregate.
-- [[User:abadger|abadger]] 30 May 2006
(or even just set the colour or insert a tick or cross icon) --[[User:Violetlight|Violetlight]] 15:24, 2 Aug 2006 (PDT)

It would be really nice if as well as text attributes, we could support check or radio buttons (e.g. "done", or "priority H/M/L")<br>
A node action or a function key/pattern (see below) could check the box.
--[[User:Violetlight|Violetlight]] 15:22, 2 Aug 2006 (PDT)

=== Node-specific actions ===

At the moment, there is one "action" on a node (discounting the usual edit/cut/paste etc) - navigate to the target link.
<p/>
I can see a reason to have more than one action on a node, depending on the semantics of the map's content, and specifically the storage backend or plugin. For example, a map that was a live visualisation of the tree structure of a website could have an action to navigate to a page, to check it with a W3C validator, to edit the page, to submit it to a search engine etc etc. These actions would be defined by the plugin supplying the data content, or by other plugins resident - e.g. "schedule this node" for the time scheduling plugin or "bookmark this node's target" for a (possible future) Google Bookmarking plugin.
<br>
I can see two (possibly co-existing) methods of implementing this:
# A context-specific node sub-menu cascading off the right button menu called "Actions->"
# A control-right-button menu just for actions on the node
<br>
I'd welcome feedback on whether this is a nutcase idea. --[[User:Violetlight|Violetlight]] 15:16, 2 Aug 2006 (PDT)

===Images in freemind===

I really like the way freemind can use images as nodes. However, one of the problems with adding a lot of images to a map is that they are all different sizes. So, I wrote this php script:
<?php

$tsize = 100; //thumbnail size

function noresize($name)
{
global $argv;
$fullpath = $argv[1] . "$name";
echo "<node TEXT=\"&lt;html&gt;";
echo "&lt;img src=&quot;$fullpath&quot;/&gt; \"";
echo " FOLDED=\"true\">\n</node>\n";
}

function thumbit($name, $w, $h)
{
global $argv;
$fullpath = $argv[1] . "$name";
echo "<node TEXT=\"&lt;html&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;$fullpath&quot;";
echo " width=&quot;$w&quot; height=&quot;$h&quot;\" FOLDED=\"true\">\n";
echo "<node TEXT=\"&lt;html&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;$fullpath&quot;\"";
echo " FOLDED=\"true\">\n</node>\n";
echo "<node LINK=\"$fullpath\" TEXT=\"$name\">\n</node>\n";
echo "</node>\n";
}

if ($argc < 3)
{
die("usage: " . $argv[0] . " IMAGEPATH IMAGE1 [[IMAGE2] ... ]\n");
}

echo "<map version=\"0.7.1\">\n<node TEXT=\"Ian's image generator\"";
echo " FOLDED=\"true\">\n";

for ($i=2; $i<$argc; $i++)
{
$myimg = $argv[$i];
$props = getimagesize($myimg);
$w = $props[0];
$h = $props[1];

if ($w <= $tsize && $h <= $tsize) //too small
{
noresize($myimg);
}
else if ($w < $h) //resize height to 100, scale width
{
$w = intval(($tsize * $w) / $h);
$h = $tsize;
thumbit($myimg, $w, $h);
}
else //resize width to 100, scale height
{
$h = intval(($tsize * $h) / $w);
$w = $tsize;
thumbit($myimg, $w, $h);
}
}

echo "</node>\n</map>\n";
?>
This is a command line PHP script, so to use it under linux you would type something like:
$ php freemindImgGen.php "file:////path/to/prepend/to/images/" image1.jpg [image2.jpg ... ]
This will output the text for a new mind map (direct it to a file of your choice) with each image thumbnailed in its own node. The images should all be in the same directory (for some reason, relative paths for images don't seem to work). Each thumbnailed image will have 2 child nodes: one node with the full size image and one node with the filename of the image as a freemind link.

Anyway, the reason that I'm posting this here in the request section instead of the user contributions section is that I would like to see this behavior ported into freemind itself. This would be a better behavior for when you drag-and-drop an image file into freemind, as it does just about everything you would want to do with an image in one shot. --fist_187

:[[User:lkcl]] - fist_187: this is a fantastic example of an import/export plugin program that should NOT be added into freemind: it should be possible to RUN this program on-demand from FreeMind from WITHIN freemind as a plugin extension.

--[[User:Pdf|pdf]] 22:11, 30 Aug 2009 (UTC): A thumbnail image function is a great idea! Some images can be huge, and thumbnails would be an excellent option. Photographers could make big use of this, but images in general just make an idea map a richer communication tool. In fact, this capability could re-invent the typical image "gallery" that is often a liner row of images, or an unwieldy table, because images would be represented in a hierarchical context of other references or meaning. Of course, a link to the original file always lets a viewer see an image in its full glory.

However, for the general non-programmer user I would implement the user interface like this:

- When an image is inserted, create a thumbnail as a default (or by prompt) to avoid unpleasant surprises of large images taking over the UI and displacing everything else.

- Add an option to convert an image back to normal, or back to thumbnail.

- In preferences, let the user select "thumbnail" as default, or not, and let the user specify the size (as a maximum dimension of either side of the image). Let the user choose whether a prompt appears, or add a check box to the prompt to not ask again. Another useful preference would be to specify a thumbnail directory (default location inside source image directory)

- As another option (or as a future enhancement) the program would either 1)Create new image files to use as thumbnails, or 2)Generate thumbnails on the fly for display only (or read in thumbnails that may already be appended to some image formats by certain images editors) and maybe cache them. The advantage of reading in on the fly is that the size could also be changed on the fly. The downside is the time required for the program to generate on-the-fly images in large maps.

- Provide a link to the file so the user can open the full size version in its associated application.

- When importing a folder of files provide an option to import any images.

- After a folder is imported, provide an option to add images to existing links.

=== Node Cloning or Mirroring (aka soft links) ===

Requests for enhancements:

* [http://sourceforge.net/tracker/index.php?func=detail&aid=1021772&group_id=7118&atid=357118 1021772 : One Node object at different places]

One feature request that has attracted a lot of attention from users is what they call ''node cloning or mirorring''. This amounts to enabling a node to have more than one fathers. That is, such a node appears visually at more places of a map, still, has only one structure and data. Linking a node graphically to more parts of a map is already possible, but users proposing cloning would like to see more visually integrated approach.

Users get encouraged by the fact that the hierarchical application
[http://leo.sf.net/ LEO] already has such a feature.

This feature has been discussed at forums under threads
[http://sourceforge.net/forum/forum.php?thread_id=1022954&forum_id=22101 Cloning of nodes] and [http://sourceforge.net/forum/forum.php?thread_id=1051440&forum_id=22101 Node cloning/mirroring].

: I would REALLY like it if FreeMind supported 'shortcuts', 'soft/hard links', or 'virtual folders'. You know what I mean? Just some manner of having one node (and its sub-nodes) be able to exist in 2 different places at once. Change one clone, the other is affected, delete one clone, they all go away. (with options to make it a copy instead of a clone, etc...) You'd make my day if you'd add this functionality! --anonymous

: Alright, but "cloning" is not a good term for this as it implies having a physical copy of something. Less misleading could be "linking", "mirroring", "redirecting", "pointing", "referring"... --anonymous

:: You are right; cloning is not a proper term. This is the way our users expressed their wishes. --[[User:Danielpolansky|Danielpolansky]] 09:26, 20 Dec 2004 (PST)

: I agree too - soft links would be a great feature -- Brad Langhorst

: Seconded - the suggestion on sourceforge of using a local link, but with a "ghost" display at the current location (instead of jumping to the destination of the link) sounds like the way to go. The side-effect is that you could have a cycle, whereby you are in node A, with child B being a ghost-link to C, expanding C reveals child D which is a ghost-link back to A. -- JettLogic

=== Mindmap-Wikis ===

Creating a mixture of Freemind and a Wiki would be very interesting. It would be shown on the web, and editable by everybody, like a Wiki, but it would not be text-only but a FreeMind's mind map instead.

That is, provide FreeMind user interface to the underlying wiki technology, handling versioning and other issues. Is there any use of wiki markup in this scenario? (lkcl: yes - see "Notes" section!)

: [[User:lkcl]] - all of these things are possible if you split out a plugin architecture for import / export of data.

Current wiki technology like MediaWiki is already quite attractive in its present state. Either FreeMind interface would be the only one, which would in my view discourage most of the users, or FreeMind interface would be alternative to a web interface, which would require FreeMind to understand wiki markup. This considered, I hold such a project for too expensive compared to the value it brings. Quite another issue is collaborative mind mapping. This issue is similar to wiki, but here the wiki name does not properly apply as neither wiki markup nor wiki's versioning concept applies. --[[User:Danielpolansky|Danielpolansky]] 13:24, 18 Feb 2005 (PST)

Ok, GraphViz is not really mindmapping, but oddmuse-wiki in colaboration with graphviz is really fascinating, take a look (and don't forget to follow the "Edit the text of the Page"-link): http://wiki.doomicile.de/LinuxMuleHistory -- HinnerK

: I don't get your point. What is the relevance to the topic discussed here? --[[User:Danielpolansky|Danielpolansky]] 13:28, 18 Feb 2005 (PST)

:: [[User:lkcl]] he's illustrating that the text you see on that page is actually created by simply putting "digraph { ..... }" into the text, you get a really cool graph. in other words, he's illustrating that it would be easy to replace the FreeMind user interface, written in stupid java, by an oddmuse-wiki using the "digraph ...." concept.

I would suggest starting with a simple [http://www.webdav.org/ save-to-WebDAV] option, and then following it up with a standardized [http://www.xmlrpc.com/ XML-RPC] interface (maybe Atom would be too complex). Having some sort of hooks into node editing operations in the code would be useful, so that people could develop plugins of some sort to perform the actual HTTP transactions live from the applet version -- RuiCarmo

The first thing that came to my mind while opening FreeMind for the very first time was: "Would it be possible to integrate Wiki in FreeMind?". Currently I am working with a project management software (named Trac) which integrates a Wiki Engine. It is a kind of colaborative project management solution, and it has encouraged all the team to document and activelly contribute to each otherÃÂ´s tasks.

Maybe WikiFreeMind :-) could be something similar. I donÃÂ´t think that FreeMind being the only one interface to be an issue, I think it would be great if we could use wiki formatting inside FreeMind nodes. It would be easy (a gross guess) to allow ''Wiki-links'' between nodes, or wiki/web-pages ''outside'' the map.

It would not be too difficult to do a kind of serialization of the map as a Wiki Database, each node being a wiki page, following the extension mechanics proposed by WikiMedia, you could allow wiki tags that would keep track of the properties of the node as a serialized wiki-page. ItÃÂ´s pretty much brainstorming, but I think it would be possible to use FreeMind as a Wiki Navigator, and the Web Browser + Wiki Engine as a Node Editor. --[[User:loudenvier|loudenvier]] 17:15, 05 Apr 2005 (BRA)

Have a look at the [http://wikkawiki.org/HomePage WikkaWiki software]. My zero programming skills don't let me to grasp how it works or what it does. But it seems pretty interesting. It allows to insert FreeMind maps into the wiki. [http://wikkawiki.org/MindMapRecentChanges here's a inline example].
--[[User:Calamar|Calamar]] 04:31, 20 Dec 2005 (PST)

: This portion hasn't been edited in a while. With the flash plugin in architecture in place for .9 beta 9 it shouldn't be too much of a problem to create graphical representations of a wiki to Freemind. The user would have to download the wiki page into the Freemind application and then upload the finished product after editing. It might seem like a long round trip but it would be very useful.

: Furthermore, the Flash application should/could be smart enough to detect a wiki word in the Freemind and auto link it.
--[[User:Ddaniels|Ddaniels]] 05:17, 24 Mar 2007 (PDT)

* There is an development approach for mediawiki and freemind (browser): http://www.wikimindmap.org/ which is available with GNU GPL v3. I managed it to get it run after understanding the config in the getpages.php and the index.php and discommenting something out in getpages.php. But it currently does not show some articles and categories. Perhaps someone is able to bring it to a better version: [[:Image:wwm_zip.mm]]. Just rename file extension to zip. --[[User:Hiverider|Hiverider]] 15:08, 26 Mar 2009 (UTC)

===Applet allowing editing mind maps.===

Requests for enhancements:

* [http://sourceforge.net/tracker/index.php?func=detail&aid=1061195&group_id=7118&atid=357118 1061195 : Editor Mode (MindMap Mode) applet]

It would be fine to edit a map via applet and save it to a webserver directory.

: Indeed it would be fine. This is related to integration of mindmaps in wikis. In particular, [http://wikka.jsnx.com/HomePage WikkaWiki] uses freemind applet to show mindmaps in web pages. Unfortunately, mindmap edition is not possible while it is obviously possible for text. Such a capability would allow mindmap to be editable inside a wiki by wiki users. I also think this is more natural and a lot easier to insert mindmap capabilities inside wiki softwares than implement wiki functionnalities inside freemind. Don't you ? --[[User:OliGator|OliGator]] 09:18, 22 Oct 2006 (PDT)

I wonder why the .mm extension is mandatory on the applet. At this point on the web we use Content-type instead of extensions, isn't it? Why then don't use Content-type OR .mm extension to open a map with the applet?

Will be fantastic if the applet could capture drop events. With this enhancement we could use a custom toolbar to add custom snippets or integrate it with our solutions

Leos: Editing capabilities would be great benefit. I use multiple computers and notebooks at the office and at home, so it is nightmare to synchronize their content. If I could just open the map from browser, modify it and click save, I would be very happy. If there are some Java security restrictions, you can implement it via some servlet, I could deploy into my server.

=== Saving maps using WebDAV ===

Let FreeMind read from and save to [http://www.webdav.org WebDAV] server. Repeatedly requested.

According to the WebDAV website,

: WebDAV stands for "Web-based Distributed Authoring and Versioning". It is a set of extensions to the HTTP protocol which allows users to collaboratively edit and manage files on remote web servers.

What's the holdup on integrating WebDav into Freemind? There's a patch available already [[http://www.ubik-products.com/ludowiki/FreeMind FreeMind WebDAV Enhancement]]. Is there anything wrong with that patch or have people just not gotten around to integrating it? This would also address the need of applets and wiki-like functionality.

Working with WebDAV would make for an outstanding creative toolkit.
There is a keen need for a tool like this in our business (long distances; documents cobbled together from Basecamp and IM logs). One consideration: how would changes be merged? And is there an unobtrusive way to identify authors of specific changes and content?

===Changing attributes by depth level.=== Wouldn't it be good if nodes could have levels (defined as outward from the centre) so that you could change color, font and other node properties by level. For instace, all nodes of level two would have red bubbles.

OR Allow user to define default level attributes to be applied when a branch is made. The most common one being font size and edge width. Undefined attributes like colour should flow down. This is just the desired default at creation time and may be changed. Branches further out than the deepest defined default all inherit from previous branch.

===Integrated Google web search===
How about an accessory software that would input FreeMind's XML and conduct Google and Google News searches on all nodes plus their neighbours? If anything useful is found (and there would be less than x hits), it would *wget* them and add links to the material to the map. Run this as a cronjob and your mind map will always have new ideas when you open FreeMind again.

: Seems like a suggestion for a plugin. For sure it does not belong to the core FreeMind. Such a plugin will call external tools like wget which increases the installation costs. --[[User:Danielpolansky|Danielpolansky]] 09:34, 20 Dec 2004 (PST)

===MIDlet for editing with mobile phones===

MIDlet idea entry front-end is a MUST! I want to be able to do mind mapping with my mobile phone and then upload the changes to the main map on my desktop.

: It is not a ''must''. When enabled with importing various other formats, FreeMind can take data from mobile applications. Also, it is not clear why MIDlet should be the technology of choice, if FreeMind shall run on mobile phones. --[[User:Danielpolansky|Danielpolansky]] 09:33, 20 Dec 2004 (PST)

===Have floating textbox for titles or comments===

Hi I would like to request a feature, namely a title and/or comment at the beginning/end of page to be able to use it in presentations, where I would have my name on top right.
I would suggest that there is no link to other nodes just a kind of text box.
Maybe there are more people thinking about this nice addon?

Request for enhancements:
* [http://sourceforge.net/tracker/index.php?func=detail&aid=1167418&group_id=7118&atid=357118 1167418]: Legends

=== An editable tree view (like the html export) ===

With such view I can imagine freemind to be useable an smaller devices like an ipaq running familiar (or ppc). Can you run freemind on such devices? --Alex

=== A non graphic tree view mode ===
Similar request as Alex.
A '''non-graphic''' linear mode would be usefull ! The graphic mode is the best to organise and visualise the information, but a simple linear tree mode is more comfortable for reading and editing large portion of text. It would also allow to access the same databases on a small screen. Freemind has become one of my most important tools on my Pc and I am dreaming to use it on a symbian phone too. Thank you so much. Franck

Il second that, Inspiration also a midn mapping tool used at school does this, translates the mind map into linear. Being able to see the same information in different ways is what computers are amazing at doing. It would be great to see information from different perspectives, Mind map form, linear (for printing essays/or books), Network diagram, etc.

=== Option not to open last opened file upon start ===

Users request that they should get a user option to tell FreeMind not to open the last opened file upon start. Seems like a sensible request to me. --[[User:Danielpolansky|Danielpolansky]] 10:07, 2 Jun 2006 (PDT)

===ToughGraph like dynamic layout===

Requests for enhancements:

* [http://sourceforge.net/tracker/index.php?func=detail&aid=1052556&group_id=7118&atid=357118 1052556 : TouchGraph style dynamic layout]
* [http://sourceforge.net/tracker/index.php?func=detail&aid=909016&group_id=7118&atid=357118 909016 : TouchGraph display mode]

The [[TouchGraph]] interface has more potential than the existing fixed one. Mind maps are not supposed to necessarily be hierarchical, but organically growing and intertwined a lot. In FreeMind I can add links, but they aren't really good if compared with something universal like TouchGraph (GoogleBrowser, WikiBrowser).

I think FreeMind would become much more powerful (not to mention cool looking) if it had a dynamic mode without a root node. It would be great if arbitrary links (not just parent/child) between any nodes were supported, if text size and colors would dynamically adjust according to the distance, relevance and other factors, and if the layout would be dynamic, with the graph rearranging itself on the fly.

More details at the TouchGraph site ([http://www.touchgraph.com/]), and at this page: [http://www.jspwiki.org/PageInfo.jsp?page=TouchGraphWikiBrowser]).

: I disagree with the views presented here. A good news for you is that if you don't like the way FreeMind presents data, you can choose TouchGraph instead. --[[User:Danielpolansky|Danielpolansky]] 09:32, 20 Dec 2004 (PST)

:* Well, in my opinion the links between nodes certainly offer a starting point for improvements. They are more curved than really necessary. --[[User:TMaschler|TMaschler]] 01:46, 17 Feb 2005 (PST)

:* Further, the idea of formatting nodes in function of their distance from the start node (i.e. by style sheets) would greatly enhance the mind map appearance; although it should be possible to overwrite the node formatting style for each node individually. --[[User:TMaschler|TMaschler]] 01:46, 17 Feb 2005 (PST)

:* What about offering a variety of display modes for the nodes (tree view, the current default view, without hierarchy, ...)?

I agree that alternatives to the hierarchical view are important and the whole advantage of using visual mapping in the first place --[[User:Ryba|Ryba]] 17:16, 27 Oct 2005 (PDT)

===More flexible Resize Options===
What about the following resize possibilities: --[[User:TMaschler|TMaschler]] 01:46, 17 Feb 2005 (PST)
* automatically/ dynamically
* by clicking on magnification glass icons (+ and -)

Resizing should be able to resize a node and the text dynamically wraps and changes the size of the box. The current approach requires hard returns to resize the text boxes.--[[User:Ryba|Ryba]] 17:06, 27 Oct 2005 (PDT)

===More Flexible Window Resize and Reformat Options===
Background: We are using Freemind in an internal Wiki to document all the program file paths. Unfortunately, when opened in a browser window, the .mm file shows a couple of hundred pixels of blank area above and to the left of the map, then fails to allow users to scroll all the way to the right so they can see the information. My apologies if the answer is there, but I have not been able to find any information in the forums or help to either reduce the total window size, or to change the map alignment from CENTER to TOP RIGHT. (Help mentions a user.properties file, not present in 9.0.x).

Requests:
1. Allow users to resize the window to match the map size, and/or
2. Either allow users to set map aligment within the window, or change auto-aligment settings to the most efficient space use (generally top left, but not always, which argues for allowing the user to decide).

Thanks for a great application!!

=== Easier to delete nodes ===

A relatively straightforward enhancement: the Node/Remove Node on the popup menu could be moved to the main popup menu, under 'Insert Child Node'. It would probably be better server by being called 'Delete Child Node'. I think it would also be fantastic if it had a shortcut key - Del probably being the most suitable. I find it a right pain to delete nodes (I notice someone submitted an RFE on sourceforge asking for a delete function, clearly not being aware there already was one - I think this indicates it needs moving!)

''David Perez comment'': An alternative I use is to cut the node in order to delete it.

: Nodes will be easy to delete in the next version. The reason why they are not easy to delete currently is that there's no undo available. In the mean time, pressing Ctrl + X should suffice to delete a node. --[[User:Danielpolansky|Danielpolansky]] 09:28, 20 Dec 2004 (PST)

''Torsten GrÃÂ¤ÃÂler comment'':
: Find the line starting with "#keystroke_remove" in the <user home>/freemind/user.properties file and change it to "keystroke_remove = DELETE". Now you can delete a node with the DEL key. This works on my WinXP Pro, but should work on other platforms, too. -- 04:27, 23 Mar 2004

Most of the times you delete something and sooner or later you find out that you actually need that thing again. Undo is good, but once you have closed FreeMind it's lost forever. Wouldn't it be nice to have a .trash file to accompany every .mm file just to make things easier? --Anonymous.

: This is a known issue by now. Deleting nodes is far too easy in FreeMind 0.8.0, in my view anyway. --[[User:Danielpolansky|Danielpolansky]] 06:51, 13 May 2006 (PDT)

===Statistics===

Requests for features:

* [http://sourceforge.net/tracker/index.php?func=detail&aid=1040097&group_id=7118&atid=357118 1040097 : Total Node Count]

Show the statistics

* number of nodes in a map
* number of leafs (childless nodes)
* number of nodes with children

on the ''node'' level or a ''map'' level (once you can do node level, you also can do map level).

===Thousands of new icons===

Enhancing the number and variety of icons to the sufficient amout would definetely increase versatility of FreeMind. Plenty of small pictures it is a must if you want to organize your knowledge (e.g. notes from collage), so that every 'key info' could be easily remembered. The more icons that help associating the information the better - I would like to see pictures of man, men, woman, women, tree, chair, table and so on - any thing you can imagine, categorized. I know I can use external pictures, but it's really inconvenient if I have to look for each picture on the Internet for a few minutes while creating a new map. Built-in icons would be a great help.

: It is clear that a larger icon library would be helpful. --[[User:Danielpolansky|Danielpolansky]] 13:18, 18 Feb 2005 (PST)

it would be great if i would able to add or delete icons in to the toolbar my self. 22.2.05 by erwin

Not sure if the hyperlink arrows count as icons, but it would be good if they could be colour coded; eg blue arrow for a hyperlink to a local file on the local computer, yellow for a file located on the local network, red arrow for a hyperlink to a html site, Green arrow for a local hyperlink

: I use famfamfam.com's general purpose silk icons set in most of my projects, there are over 1000 icons, each one of them is a little gem. There are distributed under the creative common license, I don't know if they can be included and distributed in a open source project .. probably. Still, the best would be an kind of icon manager to allow us to build our own icons libraries and includes some basics libraries by default.

--[[User:h3|h3]] 11:00, 27 Jul 2006

I suggested in another place to have groups of icons, so that the access of all icons gets simplified, and the change of an icon gets simplified too. Here are some examples of groups/categories:
* To be Completed, important/urgent/both/not important
* partial/ complete
* mecanism (ex: "rouages"), GUI, Database,
* draft/under review/finalized (different evident progressing levels)
* analogy with road signal: "sans issue/cul de sac, speed limit, ..."
* communication mean (phone, e-mail, mail...)
* context (work, home, travel)
* art (music, painting, sculpture)???
* time management (date, time, time duration)
* Satisfaction (smiles)
Thanks :-) --[[User:Patco|Patco]]

===Zooming With Scroll Button===

Being able to pan by holding down the right-hand mouse button and twiddling the scroll wheel is great. What would help navigation a little more would be to zoom in and out by holding down, say, the left-hand mouse button.

===New menu entry ''Save All'' ===

Requests for enhancements:

* [http://sourceforge.net/tracker/index.php?func=detail&aid=932817&group_id=7118&atid=357118 932817 : Easy: "Save all"-menu entry]

* [http://sourceforge.net/tracker/?group_id=7118&atid=357118&func=detail&aid=665584 665584 : Add function "Save all", to menus and toolbar]

=== User defined icons ===

Requests for enhancements

* [http://sourceforge.net/tracker/index.php?func=detail&aid=966193&group_id=7118&atid=357118 966193 : User defined icons (similar 883498) - a quick implementation]

=== Keep custom/unknown XML tags when saving ===

Requests for enhancements:

* [http://sourceforge.net/tracker/index.php?func=detail&aid=943713&group_id=7118&atid=357118 943713 : Keep custom/unknown XML tags when saving]

=== Collaborative editing of mind maps ===

Requests for enhancements:

* [http://sourceforge.net/tracker/?group_id=7118&atid=357118&func=detail&aid=869746 869746 : Multi-user collaboration on one map, using tracking of changes ]
* [http://sourceforge.net/tracker/index.php?func=detail&aid=1058763&group_id=7118&atid=357118 1058763 : conference mode / work together online]

Conference-like editing of a shared map. When one user adds a node, other users get display update, and vice versa. Rather demanding request, but also potentially highly useful.

--[[User:Violetlight|Violetlight]] 09:30, 2 Aug 2006 (PDT): Problems to solve in this area:
* Whether to mesh peer to peer (e.g. Jabber/XMPP) or to use notification via a server
* How to perform locking (and whether to use optimistic locking)
* How to resolve conflicts
* How to bring a new change to a collaborating user's attention without being intrusive (say a "delta icon" in the node or something like that?)

=== Allow for mathematical formulas using LaTeX or MathML ===

Requests for enhancements:

* [http://sourceforge.net/tracker/index.php?func=detail&aid=977500&group_id=7118&atid=357118 977500 : include formulas / latex support]

People want to type in mathematical formulas in text markup and see something good looking when not edited.

=== User attributes or tags of a node ===

Requests for enhancements:
* [http://sourceforge.net/tracker/index.php?func=detail&aid=1122973&group_id=7118&atid=357118 1122973 : Allow nodes to "carry" other attributes]

For user editable using a popping up table. File format example:

<node TEXT="Tagged">
<tag NAME="cost" VALUE="500ÃÂ¬"/>
<tag NAME="todo" VALUE="yes"/>
</node>

=== Rich text formatting of nodes ===

Requests for enhancements:

* [http://sourceforge.net/tracker/index.php?func=detail&aid=909694&group_id=7118&atid=357118 909694 : Different text attributes within text nodes]

Rich text formatting includes boldface, italics, font colors, tables and the like. It is already possible using HTML in nodes. What's missing is the GUI support for editing HTML nodes. Another thing missing is pasting of RTF - Rich Text Format directly into FreeMind.

=== Scalable Vector Graphics (SVG) in nodes ===

Nodes could store and view scalable vector graphics (SVG). Currently, nodes certainly can store SVG, but only its source code is displayed. It should be possible that SVG is displayed like graphics. Editing of SVG can be done using external programs like Inkscape, or using an SVG editing component written in Java.

Viewing of SVG could perhaps be achieved using Apache's Batik framework. How fast, and how much more memory consuming it would be is unclear.

=== Enable spell checking ===

Requests for enhancements:

* [http://sourceforge.net/tracker/index.php?func=detail&aid=1080652&group_id=7118&atid=357118 1080652 : Ability to spell Check Text Fields]

=== Add label to edges ===

Requests for enhancements:

* [http://sourceforge.net/tracker/index.php?func=detail&aid=997862&group_id=7118&atid=357118 997862 : Naming of Edges]

: As I see it, this will make the map difficult to read. I can't imagine how to implement this in a visually acceptable manner. --[[User:Danielpolansky|Danielpolansky]] 14:02, 5 Mar 2005 (PST)

: On the other hand, edge labels make a lot of sense with freely positioned nodes introduced in FreeMind 0.8.0. --[[User:Danielpolansky|Danielpolansky]] 09:29, 26 Oct 2005 (PDT)

=== Add label to arrow link ===

Requests for enhancements:

* [http://sourceforge.net/tracker/index.php?func=detail&aid=1214199&group_id=7118&atid=357118 1214199 : labels on arrows]

Sometimes it could be very useful to label arrow link. It may help to better express and easily understand the exact sense (meaning) of specific arrow link.

=== Filter nodes by their icons ===

Requests for enhancements

* [http://sourceforge.net/tracker/index.php?func=detail&aid=1071438&group_id=7118&atid=357118 1071438 : Filter nodes based on icon]

Set filter on a given node, as a list of icon names. When such a filter is set, only those descendands of the filtered node are shown that satisify the filter. A node satisfies the filter, if one of its icons is in the filter's set of icons, or one of its descendants satisfies the filter.

: Filtering based on icons is not very neat, as it does not decouple the meaning from its presentation. But it may be a good interim solution anyway. --[[User:Danielpolansky|Danielpolansky]] 11:02, 20 Feb 2005 (PST)

* It's done in FreeMind 0.9 --[[User:Terkor|Terkor]] 04:21, 18 Aug 2007 (PDT)

=== Insert Current Date and Hour ===

Feb 25,2005. It would be nice to have a button to insert in a node the current date and/or hour. Thanks!

: Makes sense. Can be found in Window's Notepad under the key F5. --[[User:Danielpolansky|Danielpolansky]] 10:06, 26 Feb 2005 (PST)

It would be great if a time stamp would be created automaticaly wehn creating a new nod.
It should only be displayed when a special "Date-Button" is aktive!

: You guys, would you mind stopping shouting at us with your exclamation marks? In English speaking countries, it is not necessary to add an exclamation mark to every second sentence. --[[User:Danielpolansky|Danielpolansky]] 09:31, 26 Oct 2005 (PDT)

==== Simple Trick for KDE Users ====

2005-09-29-11:16:32-PDT

This will be a really nice feature in general. In the mean time, you can use the following method if you are using KDE. Under KDE, you can insert the current date and time (like the one above) into klipper by binding the following command to a key combination (for example, Ctrl-Alt-C):

dcop klipper klipper setClipboardContents `date +"%Y-%m-%d-%H:%M:%S-%Z"`

After this, Ctrl-Alt-C followed by Ctrl-v should allow you to insert the date, in a format of your choice, into any document (including freemind).

=== Support for callto: protocol ===

As pointed out in a [http://sourceforge.net/forum/forum.php?thread_id=1241290&forum_id=22101 forum posting], support for ''callto:'' protocol would be helpful.

If this was fully integrated, it would allow integrated voice and mind-map collaboration. For example passing "opinion sections" of a draft map between participants with a voiceover prior to including them into a collated and agreed version. Another example might be calling between the participants of a (limited) brainstorm as the brainstorm was first diverged and then converged within the mapping tool. --[[User:Violetlight|Violetlight]] 09:17, 2 Aug 2006 (PDT)

=== Support for use as a dashboard ===
Freemind could be an excellent generic front end as a dashboard for updating information if it supported file polling (refresh) or some other automated update. For example, database loading scripts could write their progress using Freemind's XML format. Any user monitoring processes such as these could see at a glance if a process had failed, add in some context dependent metadata, and could produce a log/report from the XML.

=== Ability for arrows to have text associated, or be full nodes ===

Related To [http://sourceforge.net/tracker/index.php?func=detail&aid=1167198&group_id=7118&atid=357118 1167198 non-tree graph (concept map?)]

I have a need in my current project (uni), to show heirarchies of risks, causes, and parties involved. Associated among these varying levels of heirarchies I have created arrows indicating relationship (affects-this, causes-something-else etc.), the color of the arrows indicating the relationship. It would be helpful to be able to put labels on the arrows. Actually more important than this, arrows should be full nodes, Allowing different objects to be attached as children (including other arrows). Admittedly giving arrows the ability to be full nodes may invite abuse & cause complexity, however informational-relations are themselves complex (solution should be as simple as possible, no simpler). Coding would perhaps be more elegent to allow for more than 1 child node in the code, but have a limit placed by higher-level code? (i.e. no children of children, even though the arrow objects themselves may allow for this)

=== Object Styles ===

It would be nice to have the ability to set styles for an object, and be able to select styles (styles would perhaps be associated per object-type) when creating objects.

Objects include nodes, edges and arrow links.

Using styles, the physical formatting shall no longer be set for a node but rather for a style. An example XML representation may be:

<map>
<style ID="S1" LABEL="Urgent" OBJECTTYPE="node"
COLOR="#404040" BACKGROUNDCOLOR="#FFFFE0"/>
<node TEXT="Root">
<node STYLEID="S1" TEXT="Styled node"/>
</node>
</map>

It is not clear if the user may set the ID himself. Then it perhaps should not be ID but rather NAME. XSLT transforming sheets refer either to ID or to NAME rather than to LABEL of style.

=== Hyperlinks to Programs with Arguments ===

In addition to (followable) hyperlinks to web-pages, to local folders, to executable programs, and to executable files (e.g. "datasheet.xls"), it would also be nice to have hyperlinks to programs with arguments and switches such as: "notepad myfile.bat" or "explorer.exe /n,/e,C:\" --[[User:Lhg|Lhg]] 01:11, 18 Apr 2005 (PDT)

Yes...I am using freemind for System Administration: And it is quite excellent, to have nodes for every computer and user on my system with child
nodes for services, nfsmounts, etc... but i would like very much to be able to link to the other computers with executables like

# ssh mynfsserver.mynetwork emacs /etc/exports
or
# ssh mykrb5server.mynetwork emacs /etc/kdc/kdc.conf

=== Show multiple maps in tabs ===

XEmacs shows multiple documents at tabs at the top. Microsoft Excel shows multiple sheets of a document at tabs at the bottom. Although this is not a standard user interface model, seems quite useful for FreeMind. Various users requested this feature. --[[User:Danielpolansky|Danielpolansky]] 11:38, 30 Apr 2005 (PDT)

Could it be possible to have a "restore all tabs" option, as in Firefox? --[[User:Patco|Patco]]

This would definitely be a useful enhancement. Typical use case: I'm managing several projects, I have one "mindmap" for each project, that would allow me to have all the maps open at the same time and accessible with a single click, selecting the one I need to watch at the moment. I might try to code this myself if I ever find the time for that :-P --[[User:Maathieu|Maathieu]] 12:41, 22 Jul 2009 (UTC)

=== Show multiple pages of the one map in tabs ===

ConceptDraw MindMap has this feature. Right-click on a node, select "send to new page", and the node with its children appears in a separate tab in the same document. This avoids the need to spawn extra files when your map becomes unwieldy and you want to chop off a branch. It is hyperlinked to and from its location on the original page.

Why use this instead of exporting to a new file? Because when the "new" map is conceptually part of the original map from which it was extracted, it is tidier and less error-prone to keep it in the same file. It won't get lost. And with a new page, instead of a new file, the user is saved from having to think of a meaningful file name for the extracted section. Node names do not necessarily make good file names.

=== Allow more maps to be shown side by side ===

In XEmacs, Vim or Microsoft Excel, it is possible to see several documents side by side. It would make sense for FreeMind too. Nevertheless, the added value is questionable. --[[User:Danielpolansky|Danielpolansky]] 11:38, 30 Apr 2005 (PDT)

If a few features are added, seeing two documents side by side would have more meaning. Automatic creation of a cloned node that is the root node of a new document is one. Press Ctrl-Enter (for example) would create a new document. This document would have a root node and filename that is the same name as node from the parent document. A line would connect these two nodes on the screen. Note the line is really two lines that connect at the boundary of each window. This type of line would also show visually the link between any two nodes in any two mm-files. Alternatively you can have the second window show a piece of the same document. This piece would include the node the cursor is on in the left pane and all the child nodes.

Another idea is to show a mind map as a menu. Menus are useful because they require very little additional screen space. Click on anything in the menu and it either shows the rest of the tree from the selected node or it evaluates the node which could mean it opens a new mind map, opens a program or does some other action.
--[[User:Mars729|Mars729]] 17:22, 1 Jun 2008 (EDT)

=== Direct pasting of RTF from clipboard ===

In one of the future versions, direct pasting of HTML into FreeMind will be supported; the code for it already exists and has not been published yet. In addition, direct pasting of [http://www.biblioscape.com/rtf15_spec.htm RTF] as HTML would be helpful. A free algorithm for conversion between RTF and HTML is needed for that.

RTF (rich text format) is used in email messages in Microsoft Outlook, and in hierarchical notebooks [http://www.tranglos.com/free/keynote.html Key Note] and [http://www.tuxcards.de/ TuxCards]. --[[User:Danielpolansky|Danielpolansky]] 03:36, 22 May 2005 (PDT)

=== Lock Contents and Hierarchical Position of a Node ===

It will be really nice to be able to lock the contents of a node so it cannot be edited unless it is explicitly unlocked. Similarly, it might be useful to prevent a node from being moved to another position in the hierarchy of the map.

=== Better Placement of New "Secondary" Nodes Relative to the Root Node ===

When adding nodes to the root node, they appear to be placed Right, Left, Right, Left. If some of these secondary nodes are deleted and another one is added to the root node, the side on which it is added appears to be chosen according to the number of secondary nodes on each side.

This seems fair enough, but if some of the secondary nodes have hundreds of child nodes and others only have a few then you can end up with a map which has far more nodes on the right than the left, but still have new secondary nodes added on the right hand side.

How about using the total number of nodes on each side when working out whether a secondary node should be on the right or left of the root node? Alternatively, allow secondary nodes to be dragged onto the other side of the root node (which doesn't appear to be possible currently).

: CTRL+[LEFT,RIGHT,UP,DOWN] moves the node and its children accordingly (at least in 0.9.0 Beta 8)

Can we have complete manual control of all secondary nodes originating from the root - so that each secondary node has its own unique point of origin on the root node which can be moved independently of all other secondary nodes. At the moment all secondary nodes originate left or right. It would be useful if they could originate like different points of the compass. North, north north west, north west, etc. and even points in between.

=== Using basic vector shapes ===

Using basic shapes like line, rectangle, square, circle etc. would by usefull.

=== Treat a node as HTML using an attribute ===
Instead of the cumbersome "<html>" string required at the beginning of the text. And even worse, having to keep the MaxNodeWidth enforced with something like <body width="600">. Why not take a different approach. One that seems like it would have little impact on the code, though I have not read it as of yet...

If html was treated as an attribute like bold and italic as in html="true", then process the entire node as html same as when the string "<html>" is detected at the beginning of the text. There would be a default <style>body {width:<MaxNodeWidth>}</style> in place, though the actual html in the node could override this just the way normal CSS does.

This has '''MAJOR''' implications for the use of the xml file. Though I have not written any XSLT yet for FreeMind yet, I was appalled at the thought of having to strip out this "<html>" string out of every node that used it. And positively frustrated at the idea of having to test for tags used to control width, i.e. <body width="600">. I really thought this crude and that it would slow the proceesing of files that use what is really a most beautifully clean concept.

However, an html attribute does away with all of this and seems to me to be a much more elegant and cleanly way to deal with html....

BTW, it would be very straight forward to write an XSLT transform to upgrade existing .MM files.

I just had another thought, why not go all the way and give each node a MIME type, limited to "text/plain" (default) and "text/html" for now. This leaves the door open to readily process other mime types through plugins, or whatever. In any case the attribute concept is something worth thinking about. --[[User:Danv|danv]] 10:25, 8 Feb 2006 (PST)

=== Add pictures to notes ===
Add a picture to a note of a node. It would be cool to export a map to HTML (Clickable Map) and have the picture only in the note. Whis would be the logical implementation for e.g. [http://freemind.sourceforge.net/docs/features/0_8_0/Features%200.8.0.html overview of new features in 0.8.0]. It would not be needed to create extra nodes for pictures only.

=== Code environment ===

Possibility to insert source code e.g. html (pre does not work...)

: I don't understand what this request is about. You can insert any source code you want into FreeMind's nodes, just that it cannot start with < html >; HTML code can be inserted by setting space as the first character of a node. --[[User:Danielpolansky|Danielpolansky]] 05:51, 29 Apr 2006 (PDT)
--[[User:Danielpolansky|Danielpolansky]] 05:57, 29 Apr 2006 (PDT)

=== Alphabetize Nodes ===
Automatically rearrange a specified node level in alphabetical order. Today I do this manually in certain circumstances. It can be very time consuming to preform this manually, and hopefully it would not be too time consuming to automate. --[[User:Slashdotted|Slashdotted]] 18:22, 21 Jul 2006 (PDT)

=== Order of Nodes ===
According to Buzan Mindmaps should be read clockwise. What every mindmapping tool misses is the fact that nodes on the left side of the center should be added from bottom to top, with the last entered node on the 11 position.

that was the first thing i noticed about freemind also. i have been making mindmaps by hand for years now and they are always clockwise.
also when exporting eg. to html the nodes should be ordered clockwise. maybe i miss some feature, but when i first exported a mindmap the order was somehow from top to bottom (3 from the right, then 2 from the left, then continue with the right side,...)
the other thing is that nodes are always left or right, and not orderered in a circle.
the only way i can work with freemind is to put all nodes on the right side but the map looks more like a list then

=== Selection and Deselection of Icons ===
It would be great if the icon toolbar on the left would show different styles of an icon (selected / not-selected), so one can easily deselect an icon for a node, rather than go through the contextmenue each time

Besides, it would be great if the context menu could allow remove specific icons, not just the last one.

----

As an addendum to this request, it would be really interesting to define a "combo box" type where (to do/project milestone/other actionable state) lists defined in the tree could be updated by clicking the drop down on the combo box instead of having to delete the icon and re-add another one.

=== Reminder nodes - Alerts and possible Outlook / Lotus Notes / etc integration ===
It would be a great additional feature if it was possible to use FreeMind as a reminder tool too. This idea poped into my mind right now, so it's not pretty much developed yet, but if it was possible to mark a node as a reminder then I would have no need to use Outlook to remind me of things to be done. I was reading something on GTD (Gets Things Done) and it connection with MindMaps and I thought that it would be useful to attach reminders to MindMaps/Nodes. There're a couple of approachs to implement it: The first would be to integrate Freemind with Outlook ot Lotus Notes, and then when you tag a node as a reminder it actually creates a reminder inside Outlook or Notes using the node text and context, so that you get reminded by those applications when the reminder alert occurs. The other option is to write an application that is used to alert user of a node reminder. [[User:Loudenvier|Loudenvier]] 11:08, 11 Aug 2006 (PDT)
It would also be fabulous if one could hyperlink from FreeMind to a Lotus Notes database document. Currently, one gets a "This URL is malformed!" error message. Thanks!

=== Demoting Root ===
Allow insert of sibling of root which auto creates a new root. The old root and the new sibling are both attached to it --[[User:Patheros|Patheros]] 11:45, 10 Apr 2007 (PDT)

=== Open Mindmaps in the same already open Freemind ===
In Windows I open my mindmaps by double-clicking on the *.mm file. It would be nice if double-clicking would not always open a new FreeMind. Instead, I like to view the mindmap in the already existing open Freemind application. [[User:wasserratte|wasserratte]] 10:01, 3 May 2007 (CET)

=== WBS Mode ===
I would like to see a WBS Viewing Mode, where the map would be arranged in a top-down hierarchical display. Something like the Organization Chart from Microsoft Office. That would help using FreeMind as a WBS Chart tool.

I would like to see the ability to port a WBS developed with FreeMind into Microsoft Project similar to the plug in for MindMapper. --[[User:Tuneboy|Tuneboy]] 07:58, 27 Nov 2007 (PST)

=== Improve MacOS Binary Package ===
All files should be contained inside the FreeMind.app package, like most other Mac programs.

== Principles of Unix ==

The principles from Unix are that programs should do one thing, and do it well, and to use well-defined inter-communication between those programs. The current design of FreeMind completely violates those rules - mostly because it is written in Java, but definitely because it is written _exclusively_ in Java. However, do not despair! All Is Not Lost!

By splitting FreeMind along very specific lines, it will very quickly be possible to do things like use a completely different viewing front-end (such as a web interface). It will be possible to satisfy one of the RFEs listed here for 'command line only'. It will be possible to use FreeMind as a powerful semantic analysis engine tool.

And none of that is possible because the current design is entirely in some stupid programming language called "java", which should have been put down for its own good, at birth (thank you Sun Microsystems).

For an example of the kind of architecture that you should follow, take a look at http://gnuenterprise.org/. It should be _trivial_ to add in a "database plugin" into gnuenterprise, and to have a gnuenterprise "reports" form viewing the same data and attributes etc. that a FreeMind user is simultaneously looking at.

And it's _not_ difficult - IF you split along the right lines.

[http://sourceforge.net/tracker/index.php?func=detail&aid=1687293&group_id=7118&atid=357118 RFE 1687293]

== User Interface ==

=== Views ===

==== Hoist/Unhoist ====

It would be awesome if FreeMind could allow the 'hoist' of a non-root node. Clicking on the node and choosing 'hoist' would redraw the map showing that node as root, its descendents around it, and the ancestors, which are now descendants, too, hidden.

Watch an example XSLT script, which hoist the anchor from the root to the node where a graphical link, originating at the root, points at. Input sample FreeMind map:

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<map version="0.9.0_Beta_8">
<node ID="Freemind_Link_1870928497" TEXT="a">
<arrowlink DESTINATION="Freemind_Link_731312914" ENDARROW="Default"
ENDINCLINATION="219;0;" ID="Arrow_ID_1222167311" STARTARROW="None"
STARTINCLINATION="219;0;"/>
<node ID="Freemind_Link_530368245" POSITION="right" TEXT="aa">
<node ID="Freemind_Link_29760795" TEXT="aaa"/>
<node ID="Freemind_Link_731312914" TEXT="aab">
<node ID="ID_1690650363" TEXT="aaba"/>
</node>
</node>
<node ID="Freemind_Link_16275782" POSITION="right" TEXT="bb"/>
</node>
</map>

The Hoist XSLT script moving the root along a graphic link:

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<xsl:stylesheet xmlns:xsl="http://www.w3.org/1999/XSL/Transform" version="1.0">
<xsl:template match="*|@*">
<xsl:copy>
<xsl:copy-of select="@*"/>
<xsl:apply-templates/>
</xsl:copy>
</xsl:template>
<xsl:template match="/map">
<xsl:copy>
<xsl:copy-of select="attribute_registry"/>
<xsl:apply-templates select="//node[@ID=/map/node/arrowlink/@DESTINATION]"/>
</xsl:copy>
</xsl:template>
<xsl:template match="//node[@ID=/map/node/arrowlink/@DESTINATION]">
<xsl:copy>
<xsl:copy-of select="*|@*"/>
<xsl:apply-templates select="." mode="aws"/>
</xsl:copy>
</xsl:template>
<xsl:template match="node" mode="aws">
<xsl:if test="parent::node">
<xsl:element name="node">
<xsl:attribute name="TEXT">
<xsl:value-of select="../@TEXT"/>
</xsl:attribute>
<xsl:apply-templates select="preceding-sibling::node"/>
<xsl:apply-templates select="following-sibling::node"/>
<xsl:apply-templates select="parent::node" mode="aws"/>
<xsl:apply-templates select="../attribute"/>
</xsl:element>
</xsl:if>
</xsl:template>
</xsl:stylesheet>

It would be nice, if this would be a function inside FreeMind e.g. right click on a node and in this context menu chose New Root.
[[User:JR|JR]] 06:34, 16 Apr 2008 (PDT)

==== Folding Animation ====
I believe having a very short animation when folding/unfolding a node would increase readability as it whould make it easier to know where nodes where before and where did they moved to.

==== Left toolbar ====
I think we have too much icons on the left, most of it isn't used. I think it could be halved, and only show the user preferred icons, and the rest of the place could be used to dock other tools. --[[User:Zslevi|Zslevi]] 13:03, 1 Nov 2007 (PDT)

Leos: it would be nice, if I could remove some icon from the toolbar or rearrange order of the icons (like in MS Office).

to allow an easy access to all the icons on the left bar, one may group icons that follow the same metaphor (ex: numbers, home/office, crosslight red/green/orange ....) and access to the icon of interest by clicking on the group icon. This could serve also to simplify the change: suppose you have an ordered list with the icons 1, 2, 3 ... or with icons representing different states "draft", "in review", "published" ... then you could click on the icon on a node, and have a contextual menu with all the other icons of the same group (and delete/delete all). You could much more easily change from "in review" to "publish" state :-) --[[User:Patco|Patco]]

==== Notes ====
I think it's a great thing to have notes for nodes, but I would prefer more options on formatting note text. (What about integrating with Open Office Writer?) At least the font size should be set, because the default size is so small and hard to read. --[[User:Zslevi|Zslevi]] 13:03, 1 Nov 2007 (PDT)

==== Zoom to fit ====
It would be nice if on loading a map, the view executes an automatic zoom-to-fit instead of the default 100%. Also the Fit option should be added to the Zoom drop down menu (as Powerpoint does for example). Also a keyboard accelerator should be added for Zoom to Fit (e.g. Ctrl-Shift-Z, they are near each other). Another small thing: if you have a map larger than taller, the current implementation adjust the scale to fit the map horizontally, but leave the map not centered in the vertical direction. Could this also be fixed?
--[[User:Mvalle|mvalle]] 06:14, 2 Dec 2008

Or save the zoom level with the map so it opens at the same zoom and the same node as when saved
--[[User:MikeS|MikeS]] 10:45, 4 Sep 2009 (UTC)

=== Windows ===
It would be especially helpful if we could reorganize the arrangement of freemind's windows. For example, nodes with notes appear at the bottom and can't be moved around. In other heirarchical editors, a tree view could appear at the left and the text (notes) could be moved to the right, where a large screen and indentation could make most of the text readable as compared to the bottom of the screen.

=== Keyboard ===
==== F1 is conventionally help ====
F1 is normally a help key in most apps

* When zooming with the keyboard shortcuts it would be better to have
Alt + Up Arrow to zoom-in and Alt + Down Arrow to zoom-out. This is
a more natural way of thinking about zooming.-ZSDM

==== Show a help bar on the bottom of the screen for F keys ====
Have an optional toolbar that can be shown along bottom of screen with buttons that can be clicked with a mouse and operate as per the function keys and also give a hint as to what key does.
e.g.
[F1 help] [F2 hot][F3 green][F4 ] [F5]
And format the text of the key as per the pattern it applies
==== Enforce Default Per-Line Text Width For Long Nodes ====

At least 70% of the nodes are multi-line nodes, and to make all the long nodes look *uniform*, we need to manually insert line breaks for each long node, this can get pretty tedious, and also it's difficult to get all nodes of uniform width. A much better way is to have the system enforce a configurable "long node width", that adds line breaks when necessary. If no such paramater is set, it can default to the current behavior.

This can happen through a default attribute of the <body>-tag i.e. <body width="200px">.

===== Locking Node Focus =====

Currently the node focus is "set" by moving the mouse. The last node that the mouse flys over is the default focus node, and subsequent operations like "insert an icon" is performed will be performed on that node. It would be really helpful to be able to *manually* lock the focus on a node, this way it's easier to set an icon (all the way to the left side of the screen) to the right node.

==== Toggle for Re-centering the Map upon node selection =====

I love FreeMind and yet I still dream of a more and better version. Under the mouse section, I have suggested a toggle to enable and disable the mouse fly-overs select node mechanism. It would also be nice if there was some means to recenter the map upon node selection to make that section of the map the graphical focus.

==== Re-centering the Map with Hypergraph-like navigation tool =====

The most compelling form of refocusing large mind maps are ThinkMap's Visual Thesaurus, The Brain, The WebBrain. Of course, being a user and not a programmer, I can only imagine how much work that might take. Perhaps, you might find it useful to forge a collaboration with the SourceForge Hypergraph Project and ask them to build an export to Hypergraph module for you. One note of caution: Straightforward implementation of a hypergraphs compress large peripheral nodes into a small and unreadable overlapping space. This defeats the value of the hypergraph navigation. Thinkmap has solved that problem by forcing peripheral nodes to be well-spaced for readability.

=== "physical style" could be customized ===

I love the flexibility FreeMind provided to make my mindmap pretty. For each node, I can choose the font size, format, color...The choices are so many that making the changes with mouse is a little bit slow because the choices are buried in many sub-menus. The physical style provides a short-cut. But the styles are not attractive. Why not provide a tool so that the user can define a node format (including font size, format, color and icon et al) and associate it to F3~F9 and Ctrl +F1~F9. So after I type in the content, by pushing one key, the node can be customized within a second.

* It's done exactly this way in FreeMind 0.9 --[[User:Terkor|Terkor]] 19:39, 18 Jul 2007 (PDT)

=== Mouse ===

==== Scroll wheel zoom Operation ====

a) It would be nice to be able to zoom using just the scroll wheel rather than pressing CTRL at the same time. How about a user preference/option to control this. This is similar to many other Apps e.g. Excel ie wheel = zoom or pan

b) The way the scroll wheel works seems opposite to many other programs which is confusing
ie push wheel forward causes a zoom out whereas other apps zoom in

==== Right mouse popup menu text ====
The words "Node up" and "Node down" could be easier to understand if there was a verb in it
e.g.
Move node up
Move node down

The operation of it is great, but as a novice it is not clear if it does
move up a node - ie where current cursor is moves
or
move the node - ie the node is moved to a different position on the diagram

==== Photoshop/Freehand-like Keyboard/Mouse Document Navigation ====
Coming from the graphics department, it would be really nice to have the standard mouse/keyboard navigation style (which by the way is great way of handling oversized documents and going from overview to detail view with just a few clicks):

a) Space toggles View Panning
b) CTRL-Space toggles zoom in (Click to zoom in, zoom centered to position of mouse cursor)
c) CTRL-ALT-Space toggles zoom out (click to zoom out, zoom centered to position of mouse cursor)
Tried to map CTRL-Space to zoom in, which worked, but not on mouseclick but on keydown. Additional ALT key for zoom out was not accepted at all in settings->keys

==== Toggle for Mouse fly-over ====

Elsewhere in this RFE, others have noted that although the mouse fly-over selection mode is great for rapid navigation, there are times when one changes the selection as the mouse cursor moves up to the toolbar. Why not toggle the mouse fly-over by some method. Perhaps one of the most convenient methods would be a left mouse double click on the node to freeze the selection.

=== TouchPad ===

==== Horizontal scroll ====

Horizontal scrolling does not seem to work.

=== Menu ===
==== Toggle toolbar on/off via View Menu ====
Add ability to toggle display of toolbars via the menu
Suggest put it under View menu

Functionality as per RIGHT mouse key on a blank part of the screen

==== Alter wording of sub menu Mode ====
As a novice found it hard to understand the difference between Map and Browse
would have found it easier if it had said
ALT+1 Edit map
ALT+2 Browse map
ALT+3 File

==== Add a save all map icons ====
If you work with several maps, it is impossible to save all maps in one shot,
except if you close freemind.

=== Toolbars ===

==== Icon toolbar ====

===== Cross and watebasket look like icons rather than buttons =====
To a novice the delete (red cross) and delete all (wastebasket) icons look like icons
ie add a cross to the map rather than perform operations
especially on the popup "select icon" window.

===== Some icons in left toolbar fall off bottom of toolbar =====

===== Clone icon toolbars on both sides =====
I want to have same icon toolbar on both sides - left and right. If I had icon toolbar on both sides, I could choose the shortest way to the icon.

==== Top toolbar ====
===== Order of icons in top toolbar =====
Would be nice if these icons were in a more standard order (as per other apps)
e.g.
New, Open, save, print, cut,copy, paste with next/previous map buttons more to the right

(Icons in V0.08 RC2 look a lot smarter)

===== Font size pulldown is very wide =====
Pulldown to select font size is stretching and becoming very wide, which doesn't look neat.

===== Visual feedback for toolbar buttons =====
Currently (0.8.1) The buttons in the top toolbar do not show any visual feedback when pushed, so you remain with the doubt to have done anything. -- [[User:Mvalle|Mvalle]] 03-dec-08

===== Customizable top toolbar =====
A few functions are often used so it's more efficient to be able to customize the top toolbar to have those buttons, eg. node background color, node font color are both very useful to highlight different nodes for different purpose. Last applied color should be able to use just by clicking the same button. There should be more this kind of depends on individual preference.
-- [[User:dGuru|dGuru]] 08-Dec-2008

==== New toolbar for format operations ====

===== Move font type and size pulldowns to new format toolbar =====
ie group all formatting functions as per Format menu options onto a format toolbar

===== Add ability to select a default format for text =====
e.g. have a split icon
left part looks like a letter "A" in colour text is currently set to
right part of icon looks like a black down arrowhead which if clicked pulls up a colour picker

===== Add ability to select a default format for lines =====
e.g. have a split icon
left part looks like a line in colour text is currently set to
right part of icon looks like a black down arrowhead which if clicked pulls up a colour picker

===== Add ability to select a default format for clouds =====
e.g. have a split icon
left part looks like a coloured outline of a cloud in colour text is currently set to
right part of icon looks like a black down arrowhead which if clicked pulls up a colour picker

===== One-click selection of cloud color =====
It would be nice not to have to go through the context-menu to change the cloud color. This should be as easy as in v0.7 by just clicking in the toolbar.

==== Enlarge and reduce the text size ====
Enlarge and reduce the text size will be very helpful.

=== Map Overview / Navigation Pane ===
..like seen in MindManager: a small detached window that allows quick overview and repositioning of the visualized map section

===Gestures===
How about the ability to use gestures (mouse or pen) to do basic manipulation?
Click and drag right to enter new node.
Click and drag left to enter new sub-node.

Maybe use middle button click for gestures to avoid conflict with current capabilities.

'''Remark:''' This is already possible. Just use the freeware StrokeIt. It very easily adds gestures to any program. --[[User:Terkor|Terkor]] 18:08, 28 May 2007 (PDT)

=== Outline View ===
It would be really nice to have the option of seeing an outline view - which you could also drag and drop with --[[User:Slashdotted|Slashdotted]] 18:26, 21 Jul 2006 (PDT)

Along the lines of using gestures for manipulation and entry I use FreeMind on a tabletpc. I would like to be able to use inking capabilities.

=== Applet ===
Since you can drag for navigation, why not allow the scrollbars to be disabled
in order to increase screen real estate?

=== MacOS Enhancements ===
Some keystrokes should be remapped (by default) to conform with the keystrokes used on Mac's User Interface, like:
* Delete Child: CMD-BACKSPACE, instead of DELETE (Mac laptops doesn't have a DELETE key)
* Zoom Out: ALT-DOWN, instead of ALT-UP
* Zoom In: ALT-UP, instead of ALT-DOWN (consistent with macos Zoom feature)

Some common keyboard shortcuts should also be implemented:
* Minimize the window to the Dock: CMD-M
* Restore window from the Dock: ALT-1

=== Spell Check ===
I'm a dyslectic - at least am used to type many errors. (Almost) All software I use (to type content) have some form of spell checker supported. And because I also use FreeMind for mindmaps in presentations; they need to contain as less as possible number of writing errors. (Please in any supported language) --[[User:Sent|Sent]] 11:41, 8 Mar 2009 (UTC)

== Maps ==

=== Flowchart for Programming Structure ===
[[Image:Freemind flowchart.PNG|Flowchart M

=== Ability to add icon legend to map ===
It would be nice to be able to add a legend to the map, containing all the icons actually used in that map, with text to explain them.
--[[User:MikeS|MikeS]] 10:56, 4 Sep 2009 (UTC)

Requests for enhancements

2009-09-04T10:45:45Z

MikeS: /* Zoom to fit */

Requests for enhancements

2009-09-04T10:43:10Z

MikeS: /* Improved Table editor */

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We prefer that you send your requests for enhancements here. Please look first if a similar request for enhancement already exists, using Ctrl + F. Also, there is a section of [http://sourceforge.net/tracker/?group_id=7118&atid=357118 requests for enhancements] at FreeMind's project page at SourceForge.

== Features in development ==

2006-07-16. The development team of FreeMind is currently working on the following features. (We cannot guarantee that the features will actually make it into the next release; most of them should.)

* Attributes on nodes
* Filtering which nodes are shown by icons and contained string
* Rich text nodes
* Save All function

=== Purge this list ===
Could this enhancement request be purged when features are implemented? --[[User:Mvalle|Mvalle]] 6:49, 2 Dec 2008

== Project management ==

=== Firefox Integration ===

My suggestion is to integrate FreeMind with Firefox so you can classify anything you download and extract useful knowledge. In case of being a html page also would be great some clipboard features to add selected text to FM notes in a particular node or as a new child etc.. My html notes consist on a short text I write about the webpage, below link to webpage and below selected text of this webpage, then I save the webpage in a directory for later use. Currently I am using FM to organize some info from my html notes and recent html pages (several hundreds) I have downloaded and I would find this feature fantastic. First you download a file/html page with selected/typed/default text as filename and assign selected or typed text to their FM node, then you organize downloads in a new tab in which FreeMind is running.. Wonderful!! (Also persistent notes instead of temporal ones or at least the ability to choose their behaviour would be great too)

To make FreeMind a productive tool with Firefox, at the very least, when you drag the URL icon from the URL toolbar on the top of Firefox to a node in FreeMind, FreeMind should create a single child node with the correct label and link in it. Currently, it creates multiple child nodes with messed-up labels, which require tedious manual cleanup after the drag-n-drop.

=== Ganttproject/Freemind integration ===

It would be very interresting to integrate Ganttproject, for a better
project management. This solution would be very close from JCVGantt pro + mindmanager (http://www.gantt.fr/#).
Both (Freemind and Ganttproject) are GPL, and java coded.
- actually there is already a data converter for this: [http://johanneskutsam.spaces.live.com/blog/cns!1961B7AE7280AAFD!264.entry '''Freemind2gantt converter '''] It now needs a tighter integration and some more intelligent overlap of contents, so that 1:1 conversion is possible (in both directions) --[[User:BoP|BoP]] 05:31, 22 Jul 2007 (PDT)

=== Time management and dependencies ===
Integrate date attributes and a timing view
Allow to set other attributes (people, groups, objects, locations)
Build on top of that a half-hierarchical structure with dependencies

* For some of the software packages leading this field look at: [http://www.matchware.com/en/products/openmind/default.htm "OpenMind 2"] or [http://www.conceptdraw.com "ConceptDraw"]
--[[User:BoP|BoP]] 05:31, 22 Jul 2007 (PDT)

There should be the option for recurring Reminders (e.g. every week, every month, etc.). --[[User:Terkor|Terkor]] 07:29, 19 Aug 2007 (PDT)

== Nodes ==
===Allow nodes to be moved up or down within heirarchial structure===

Allow nodes to be moved up or down within heirarchial structure, where you can allready physically change the distance between nodes it would be great if you move a node too high or too low it shifts it up or down accordingly with the structural fromat of the mind map

=== Allow picture-nodes to be Pasted ===
I've been using FreeMind as a note taker during lectures for a while, and its great. Of course, every once in a while you need to add a picture quickly. I wish FreeMind would allow for me to draw a picture in Paint or whatever and simply Paste it into a node.
-RogerF

''KeepNote'' has a build in ''Insert Screenshot'' function, which is very easy to use. That would enhance note taker jobs enormous. In addition a creation of a journal note with default date and time would be nice.
-JSp

=== Sketch-nodes ===
As a note taker during lectures, FreeMind is great. Of cource every once in a while the lecturer will draw a more complex picture on the board, and suddenly you're out of ways to 'capture' an important part of the lecture. I would like to be able to add a 'Sketch' node, that would bring up a popup Window and a simple SVG editor. It doesnt have to be advanced, but being able to draw circles, ellipses, straight lines, a few colors an line widths etc. would come a long way with respect to FreeMind as a note-taker during lectures!
-RogerF

=== Improved Table editor ===
IMHO, the table feature of FreeMind is great to have, but a little inflexible. I would like to see features such as:
- drag to indicate number of cells (similar to Word)
- insert row, column etc. should be avaiable from the right-click menu
- change background colors

and generally I would encourage that tables are formatted as compact as possible by default.

=== Add Fonts, Especially Strikethrough ===
- I use Freemind for, amongst other things, task management. I'd like the ability to format node text with strikethrough so the placeholder is kept but it's clear on a quick scan that the task has been handled. I find this much easier than, say, using an icon to identify a completed task

=== Automatically selecting a specific node on startup ===

html allows you to access specifically marked sections immediately using the anchor syntax, which is incorporated into the url. But in freemind, all nodes already have unique id's. It would be very convenient if you could refer to a specific node id right after specifying the filename so that freemind could jump to that particular node immediately. For example:

freemind foo.mm -> opens foo.mm and selects the center of the map

freemind foo.mm bar -> opens foo.mm and goes to the node ID'd bar.

This kind of syntax will make it very convenient for a user of freemind to make a network of mindmaps, and to jump in between networks using the hyperlink input. Of course, for this to be useful, there must also be a shortcut to display the current node's unique ID, and a mechanism for freemind to recognize other hyperlinks that are also mindmaps.

-Markd

=== Automatic Numbering of Nodes ===

A key feature of MindJet and Simtech mindmaps is the ability to toggle a numbers on or numbers off view. This makes a large mindmap more workable, because everyone can quickly reference specific nodes by the node number(s). This is especially useful after converting a map to Open Office or Word, so you have a numbered outline. The numbers would be the logical parent-child relationship seen in outlining or data modeling. The number should be displayed above the node text with a dashed line or shading to distinguish it from the node text. The user should also have the option to display numbers with dots, or without dots (to reduce the length). When a node is moved, deleted, etc. - the maps numbers are auto-recalculated to show the new relationships. This enhancement (along with spell check) would make FreeMind a more useable business tool.

GregA

FullACK. The feature should allow to have all/selected nodes [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ISO_2145 ISO2145]-numbered (in map-view or at least on export). I believe this would not be too difficult to implement. (Probably in 0.9.0 this can be done more or less easily by Groovy-scripting, but maybe it would just turn into a standard-feature for everybody, if it was included into one of the standard-menus.)

Thanks, Golgol

Numbering can be easily achieved by having an external plugin, which is a program that analyses the data (node) it receives, and just adds a "number" attribute.

lkcl.

=== Automatic word wrap in Nodetext ===

I'd like to see this feature. I want for example set a default max node width. So the text will wrap when this width is reached. This would make mindmaps more readable and easier to edit.

Edit: I just noticed, that it is possible by giving "width=" to the body tag in html mode (or rich formatting) but it would be nice having this in plain text mode, too.

Edit2: If you set a "width=" in the body TAG the Node will be this wide. The Node should get smaller if the given width is not needed.

nautsch

=== Automatic transition to Edit Long Node ===

When the user starts typing a node, she/he may not know in advance if the text will fit on one line or require multiple lines (Long Node). It would be advisable that pressing ALT-ENTER at the end of a single line node, switches to the Long Node editing window as it does now, but with the cursor already on the second line of the editing window, so that the user can keep typing right away from there. Currently it's necessary to press END and then ENTER to obtain this behavior. The proposed modification would avoid pressing this two extra keys.

Marco

=== Add to alert to a node ===

I do use Freemind to keep track of my current tasks. MindMaps are IMO a very good way to organize to chaos in them (if you know a better tool, please mail hoffi@muskelshirt.de). But since some tasks do contain da deadline, the possibility to add an alert would be very handy (e.g. like Outlook-alerts).

* Tools -> Show Calendar... -> Remind Me At This Date; also see: Tools -> Show Time Sceduler List... --[[User:Terkor|Terkor]] 19:32, 11 Feb 2008 (PST)

=== Sorting nodes ===

It will be very useful to SORT SELECTED NODES at the same hierarchical level like a list. The simplest and fastest sorting rule would be the alphabetical order. It will improve the visibility of a map. It could be added as plugin or function at the same level as the function "join nodes". It would have to work even if the nodes have subnodes. Thanks. Franck --[[User:Fb5|Fb5]] 02:50, 15 Nov 2007 (PST)

=== Synchronised nodes / mirror nodes / relational nodes ===

Some times you might want a node in two locations. What you can do today is to add a link and/or a graphical link. What I would like to is to have mirrored / synchronised nodes. Say that I have node A, and that I want the same node in another location as well. Simply I should be able to Ã¢ÂÂInsert mirror nodeÃ¢ÂÂ, and wupti node A is shown here as well. No matter whether I now edit the node at the new or original location the nodes is changed in both locations (but of course only stores once). If a plugin for this exists then please mail me at freemind@skinny.dk.

Martin

Another more data centric way to look at this is as relational nodes. Instead of restricting the data model to a simple tree you could store the data in a relational format. This would give users the ability to store nodes with many parents.

This would produce the effect described about but would also open up the possibilities of the app for more human like brain dumping. I am almost certain that the human brain does not relate 1 single piece of information to 1 other piece, it is more natural for us to relate it to as many other pieces of info as possible as this helps us to remember.

So... new data model!! Many to many relationships! :-)

A simple way of storing this type of data would be a flat list of nodes with IDs and then another list of relationships with a focus on Parent relationships. There is only a need to store which Parent(s) a node belongs to. This could be none or more than one.

Some other considerations include rendering the data. For e.g. if a user highlights a node which appears in more than one location in the map (i.e. has more than one parent) do you explode both end points, just the one or maybe provide the option to do either.

PH4wks
=== Free-standing nodes ===

The main feature missing from freemind is free standing nodes, not initially connected to anything, which you later organise, making them parents or children or simply just linked to other nodes. This is how our brains work - it's important not to be restricted to an hierarchical model as currrently.
PBL

Yes i definantly agree free standing nodes is essential. Furthermore from this, a more network orientated view of nodes and links would be a lot freeer and natural. So Linking the nodes with links, and then being able to view them in different ways, Selecting different root nodes or groups of nodes, or the main topic as the root node as it is now.

I completely agree. I have long felt that this is the single biggest thing missing from freemind (and most mind-mapping tools). Being limited to a hierarchy under a single node is a very severe limitation. It completely artificially constrains my natural organizational habits and it leads to "uncomfortable" mapping layouts. For example, I prefer to have my parent nodes on the left and my child nodes on the right, but I quickly run out of visual real-estate when working with mindmaps in my lop-sided way. If I could detach nodes and arrange them freely I could see and work with so much more on a single screen. Also, by having free nodes, I could use a single mindmap for a lot more (possibly my whole life) - and I could avoid having to manage or maintain several maps to manage several separate projects. My mind is not "free" without free nodes. :-)

=== Other node print layout for very big maps ===

While working with a map having 4000 nodes - well structured - it is useful to have a plotter to print it on one sheet. On the other hand there are no walls 5 meters high in this office. So I'd like to request an alternative print mode with a 90 degree rotated layout. This would also enable collaboration of 2 and more people in front of this wallpaper. [[User:Noiv|Noiv]]

=== Inheritance of Node Characteristics ===

If the font size/type, colour and background colour of a node have been set then any child nodes that are created (as opposed to moved into place) should inherit those characteristics. --[[User:Anton|Anton]] 12:20, 25 Jul 2008 (PDT)

I wouldn't use the above suggestion much, actually. Instead, I'd want nodes to inherit font size/type, edge styles etc. from their ''siblings''. This makes sense to me as nodes on a particular level would tend to be section headings, which I'd want e.g. in a larger font than the nodes that come below them.

Perhaps there could be the option for both these types of inheritance. For any 'leg' of a map, the user could right click and get a menu listing the various elements which could be formatted (font [+size, +colour], edge [+style, +width, +colour], etc.), and could indicate whether that element is to inherit from Parent, Sibling or No inheritance.

It sounds a little complicated, but I'd like to have that level of control. It'd save a lot of time for large, complex projects.
-- [[User:Doubi|Doubi]] 20:13, 6 Dec 2008 (UTC)

=== ALT/ENTER to close Long Node editing window ===

As you can use ALT+ENTER to open long node editing window, it woult be logical to use the same keys to close this window.

Kast

=== Merge several nodes back into one branch ===

This feature could work as follows:
ctrl-select several nodes. hit "insert". all selected nodes are now connected to the newly created node

Joshua

== Export and Import ==

=== Import from an "interpreter", Export via "programs" ===

Possibly the most important feature to have for FreeMind is to have an "interpreter" plugin, of scripts - external programs - which can "suck in" content that is defined in a SIMPLE (and by simple i don't mean XML) format.

FreeMind should therefore, ultimately and effectively, be a "cacheing" and "display" and "edit" mechanism.

Likewise, for exporting of information, it should be possible to feed internal data to a predefined program (where the program to be used should be an attribute, where the attribute itself can be the result of a decision made from running an external script!!)

Ultimately, therefore, it should be absolutely trivial to do all of the import and export capabilities, listed below, in terms of well-defined and very simple external programs.

(side-note: the external programs can be non-java programs, of course - even shell scripts. java is a really stupid programming language to do this kind of work in: as a statically typed object-orientated language, it's simply not up to the job. it's great for display purposes, and it's great for platform-independence, but that's about all that it's good for)

[http://sourceforge.net/tracker/index.php?func=detail&aid=1687292&group_id=7118&atid=357118 RFE 1687292]

=== Import and Export from HTML and different Wiki formats ===

Simple import/export scripts can be written which have "rules" on understanding the different types of web pages, for example Wikis, and, also, the current "wiki exporter" should be the first plugin created as an "exporter".

It would be trivial for people to then use lynx or wget for example and a few lines of awk or perl to write an HTML "import" plugin. Instead of having to wade through tens of thousands of lines of stupid java (which is only really suitable for display purposes and platform-independence).

Include an option to state whether the notes file should be in a pop-up window, or a link to a separate file in a scrollable window (in the last version I used notes text came up in non-scrollable temporary pop-ups).

===== Export to HTML =====
Exporting to HTML the various labels are styled with a <nowiki><span></nowiki> that has a long style="" entry. It is better to create a set of CSS classes, one for each distinct style, and reference them in the various <nowiki><span></nowiki> blocks. This simplifies also the import into MS Word.
--[[User:Mvalle|Mvalle]] 08:43, 20 Dec 2008 (UTC)

Thinking about cheap export to MS Word a new export to HTML option could be added with every level of the map producing a different <nowiki><hx></hx></nowiki> title. The central node becomes <nowiki><h1></h1></nowiki>, the first branch <nowiki><h2></h2></nowiki> and so on. The node notes could become the text below this level heading. Or the map leaves could become the contained text.
--[[User:Mvalle|Mvalle]] 08:43, 20 Dec 2008 (UTC)

==== Import and Export from Bugtrackers ====

It would be really nice to have import/export plugin scripts which understand the different bugtrackers. FreeMind is already an extremely good project management tool: why isn't it also helping to be the Uber-Project Project?

=== Import and Export databases ===
Any database connectivity would be nice to have,
especially import, be it either via ODBC or MySQL.
Thanks, UndiFineD

Corresponding requests for enhancement.

* [http://sourceforge.net/tracker/index.php?func=detail&aid=1100921&group_id=7118&atid=357118 1100921 : Export JPEG]

=== Filesystem Integration complimenting Import/Export ===
Definitely powerful would be the use of a node to view/edit the contents of a local file instead of an in-program node. This could effectively replace a lot of import/export functions, as a mindmap could be stored as a folder instead of as a single file, so that clients could extract wanted nodes without having to bring their freemind executable. Secondly, while native viewers do not yet exist, it could help users access their data nodes in extraneous formats. Some ideas.

==== Loading viewers for certain data nodes ====
Now that nodes can be given attributes, it isn't too that farfetched to create different kinds of viewers/editors for different kinds of nodes - or to load viewers for those nodes specifically.

==== Completely virtual nodes ====
Likewise, nodes whose content relies entirely on an external text (or other) file could be created which could be parsed back as text to freemind when viewed.

==== Directory operations ====
Freemind's hierarchical structure of node viewing makes it an interesting way to organize directories.

==== Exporting from command line ====
A feature I would really like would be to be able to do export programatically from cmdline.. something like:<br />
<code>freemind-export --flash mymindmap.mm -o mymindmap.html</code>

You not need to export mindmaps, if you want to browse it with flash browser (visorFreemind).
Just use one ÃÂ«smartÃÂ» HTML/Javasript file which takes mindmap name from parameters, like this:
[http://discopal.ispras.ru/mindmaps/mindmaps.html?intro-and-samples.mm], [http://discopal.ispras.ru/mindmaps/mindmaps.html?algorithms-definitions.mm], [http://discopal.ispras.ru/mindmaps/mindmaps.html?algorithms-dtime-dspace.mm].
But this feature (export from command line) will be very useful to export SVG ([http://sourceforge.net/tracker/index.php?func=detail&aid=1865152&group_id=7118&atid=357118 corresponding ticket]). --[[User:StasFomin|StasFomin]] 19:48, 2 Mar 2009 (UTC)

=== Exporting Legend of used Icons ===
It would be nice when a legend would be attached to the exported graphs, explaining the meaning of the icons used in the map. Would support usability for everyone who doesn't know what the freeMind icons should mean; even if they should be intuitive.

comment on the above:

"Yes, I agree too. It would be great also if a TITLE and SUB-TITLES can be placed (and movable) anywhere in the MindMap, so when it is printed out, people know what this mind map is for.

Also, since we can color our own ARROW LINKS, having their descriptions customizable alongside with those colored arrow links inside the legend would be a great enhancement!"

=== Export to OpenOffice ===

: FreeMind-0.8.0 can export mindmaps to OpenOffice Writer files. However, the fonts, colors, and formatting are not exported. A method that works well is to export as HTML, open the exported document in Konqueror (or some other web browse), and copy-and-paste the entire document into OpenOffice Writer.

Unfortunately there seems to be some problem though with opening the files in version 2 of OpenOffice. I haven't had a chance to go and check against the 1.x versions.

: I have the same problem with OOo 1.9.104 (package from Knoppix). I can provide maps where this happens. Regards, [[User:Zapyon|Zapyon]] 14:02, 16 Nov 2006 (PST)

: Freemind .9beta9 exports to OOo 2.2x though it's not pretty.

==== Export to OpenOffice Impress ====

I wonder how difficult it would be to export into Impress presentation. The Nodes cen be Slide Headers, Subnodes can be Outlines and so on. Then Notes can be exported into Slide Notes. One can do a presentation off the screen, give away handouts with full notes to keep.
--[[User:Koaster|Koaster]] 08:48, 7 Aug 2006 (PDT)

* It's not that difficult, at least for simple cases and when ignoring styles/patterns. I just implemented a small xslt-stylesheet which does the job for me. I may set up a project for that (or give it to the contributions). Meanwhile please contact me -- [[User:htgoebel|htgoebel]] 2008-01-08

==== Export Options to Open Document Format .odt ====

Allow user to set options such as:

* number of levels which translate to heading levels
** thereafter use bulleted list levels.

=== Export to Scalable Vector Graphics format (SVG) ===

''Available in FreeMind 0.8.0 RC2.'' Yes! I'd love to see something done with scalable vector graphics, or some such... I really wish Freemind could export to SVG, or maybe even flash... -- Bruce
And happily, developers are thinking the same thing: -- Here's Dimitri on that very possibility in
[http://sourceforge.net/forum/forum.php?thread_id=1031174&forum_id=22101 forum thread].

=== Export to Portable Network Graphics format (PNG) (enhanced) ===

It is already possible to export mindmaps to PNG. But the export function can be enhanced. E.g. the possibility to export PNG pictures with a '''transparent background''' instead of a white background (respectively the color thats used in the presets) would be very handy. Also possibilities to adjust the resolution and PPI (pixels per inch) are very useful when it comes to printing documents with embedded mindmaps in the PNG format. --[[User:UrsusExplorans|UrsusExplorans]] 10:04, 1 Aug 2009 (UTC)

=== Export to Flash or teach Flash to view mm ===

SVG, however, is still not widely supported - not even in desktop browsers, so it is mostly a way to exchange drawings and print. Exporting to Flash or having a Flash viewer that displayed .mm files (after all, ActionScript can now load XML data easily) would enable quick and effortless integration with current Web browsers without requiring them to install the Sun JVM (which can be a major issue in some environments).<br>
Edit: Good news: I was looking for the same and came accross this: http://nobi.com/appleexpo/index-f.html View source to see how it is made, it simply loads the .mm as parameter in a javacript, and I suppose the graphics and rules from freemind is programmed into the .swf. Should be able to take it appart, if noone has the sourcecode for something similar already. [[User:Mskogly|Mskogly]] 15:54, 20 Sep 2005 (PDT)
:This appears done in .9 beta 9. Please test --[[User:Ddaniels|Ddaniels]] 20:40, 22 Mar 2007 (PDT)

=== Support for Embedded Freemind Maps in Pages.Google ===
Embedded maps on free hosts like pages.google would be very cool. Here is a video of my efforts to get Freemind flash maps to work in pages.google.
http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=4967726587301956565&q=freemind+dennis --[[User:Ddaniels|Ddaniels]] 20:40, 22 Mar 2007 (PDT)

=== Export to LaTeX ===

Feb 10,2005. MindMapping concept is perfect when organizing the structure of a document. I
believe that it would be a great feature if freemind could directly export a
mindmap as a LaTeX file (using the text of the main node for the title,
the text of the main branches for \section and so on).

In the mean time (and since I know nothing about java) I wrote
[http://control.cicese.mx/twiki/pub/Main/FreeMindToLaTeX/mm2tex this perl script]
to translate mm->tex. Any improvements are welcome. I will mantain this utility
[http://control.cicese.mx/twiki/bin/view/Main/FreeMindToLaTeX here], but I hope
this feature will be included in freemind one day.

'''June 19, 2007''' The above links to the perl script are broken. Does anyone have it or something similar?

'''17 mei, 2008''' I export the mindmap to OpenOffice and uses OpenOffice to export it to Latex. I use OpenOffice 3.0, not sure if that option is already available in 2.0.

'''9 Feb, 2009''' This is probably the most important feature I'd like to see in freemind; the openoffice conversion trick doesn't work for my needs. The link to the perl script is still broken and the link to Freemindtolatex appears down now too.

=== Export and import to Ganttproject ===

This link takes you directly to the download and instructions for the export / import xslt files
[http://wwwl.kutsam.at/home/johannes/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=15&Itemid=4 : export / import to ganttproject via xslt ]

in Freemind 0.8 you can use "File->Export->Using XSLT" to export a ".gan" file using the xslt file from the link above

=== Export to favorites or bookmarks ===

Requests for enhancements:

* [http://sourceforge.net/tracker/index.php?func=detail&aid=916260&group_id=7118&atid=357118 916260 : Export to Favourites / Bookmarks]

=== Export to ontology formats (OWL, DAML) ===

Requests for enhancements:

* [http://sourceforge.net/tracker/index.php?func=detail&aid=1096791&group_id=7118&atid=357118 1096791 : Export to ontology formats (OWL, DAML)]

=== Export and import to OPML ===

Requests for enhancements:

* [http://sourceforge.net/tracker/index.php?func=detail&aid=940616&group_id=7118&atid=357118 940616 : OPML import / export support]

See also [http://www.opml.org/ OPML]. OPML - Outline Processor Markup Language.

=== Export branch as folder tree ===

A function like "export folder structure" would be useful for the use cases of bookmark manager, and of project preparation. I use [http://sourceforge.net/projects/bkm Bookmark Manager] from SourceForge, a very nice project. I found that importing bookmarks into FreeMind is a great option, if there only was a plugin to export them, Freemind would work as a perfect bookmark manager. Plus, Freemind would work as a nice 'project manager' for creating directory-trees for large projects, at least I see I could find it very usable in my projects which require managing a lot of project files. Creating such structure in Freemind and then exporting it would be very usable. Date: Fri, 16 Apr 2004 18:10:33 +0200

=== Import through any XSLT filter===
The File->Import Menu should have an item "using xslt" (just as File->Export has "using xslt") This would ease the integration of costum transformations (e.g. ganttchart <-> freemind)

lkcl: not recommended. xslt is so bad at doing "programming" that you will have an absolutely _awful_ time. however, if there's a plugin mechanism, and you want to shoot yourself in the head by having an xslt import/export plugin - then great! if the plugin architecture idea is ever taken up, and comes about, i will watch with fascinated horror at your efforts to add an XSLT import plugin...

=== Export and import to GraphViz ===

=== Export to eps ===

=== Integrate with Microsoft Outlook ===

support for adding specially labeled nodes to Outlook's calendar and Outlook's todo list.

Is there a way to integrate the calendar dates for start and completion of events into Outlook.

The export formats allowed in Freemind and the import requirements of Outlook appear to be different.
Is there a format that is acceptable to both of them or a process such as converting to notepad and then into Outlook.

Austin. austin@elanay.net

=== Integrate with Microsoft Office ===

Enable export in EMF (enhanced metafile format). It will help to integrate FreeMind's Mind Maps with Word, Excel or Powerpoint.

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I'm a new user, and a very computer-illiterate one, but if possible would love to see more integration with Windows Word. At the moment I can copy-paste from FreeMind into Word to get an indented list representing my mindmaps, but could see myself better able to use FM for putting together documents if it had more functionality:

(1) Dynamic integration between Word and FM with nodes mapping to (formatted) Word headings.

(2) Text placed in a node's Note appearing under the corresponding heading in Word as body text.

(3) Changes made either through Word or FM being reflected in both the document and the corresponding mindmap (including rearrangements, additions, changes to text etc).

No doubt a tall order, but it can't hurt to ask :)

-KCM

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=== Import/Export in various Calendar formats ===

The idea being that I can import can a list of meetings, or tasks into Freemind. They would be imported into a sub-node and then i can redistribute them in my mindmap as I want. -- Thanx AP

=== Import via XSLT ===

Would be nice to hase the same dialog for importing as the xslt dialog for exporting. That means the user can import any XML with a proper XSL (sure that needs to generate valid .mm, otherwise the importer will throw an error).

=== Export to Executable JAR File ===

Export to an executable JAR file that can be sent to anyone who has Java installed so they can run the mind map in read only mode. The JAR file would contain the Freemind (browser?) JAR and anything else it needs to run, as well as the mind map file I created. This would be extremely useful because it would allow me to send people mind maps who don't have Freemind installed. I just send them the exported JAR, they double click it and they can view my mind map. This is better than PDF or image exporting because people could actually expand and collapse nodes and it's better than HTML export because it would look and work much better, like the applet does. Hopefully it would only include the necessary stuff for read only/browse mode to keep the JAR as small as possible.

=== Integrate Editor of choice ===

I'd like to have the opportunity to integrate my editor of choice (well there are only vim and Emacs, right? *g*). Being able to invoke an "edit with ..." using a keyboard shortcut (Ctrl-e perhaps if I'm able to redefine the existing "Export to HTML"-shortcut) enables me to edit e.g. notes of nodes in my editor.

In my editor, I do have *a lot of possibilities* FreeMind is not likely going to implement at all or at least that fast: spell check with my existing personalized dictionary, my already defined macros, vertical/column edit mode, various syntax highlighting, enhanced navigation possibilities, completion, folding, search/replace also with regular expressions, undo/redo, ...

-- novoid 2009-05-14

:: This would be nice. Would love to do long node editing in gedit on Ubuntu. Firefox has a plugin called "It's All Text" that lets you edit a web page text box in a configurable text editor. It handles things pretty well with opening up in gedit (for me), and then you save and close it and the web page text box is updated. Something similar would be super here, although I'd recommend just jumping straight to the external editor for long node editing, if you've defined one. [[User:Scarpent|Scarpent]] 19:07, 20 Aug 2009 (UTC)

== Searching ==

Requests for enhancements:

* [http://sourceforge.net/tracker/index.php?func=detail&aid=1084091&group_id=7118&atid=357118 1084091 : Boolean Searches]

Further searching requests.
* regular expression search
* incremental search. No popup; with every letter typed, a node containing the string typed so far is found. Can be modelled on Emacs.
* standard global search and replace functionality of text expressions within nodes
* search accross all the maps that happen to be open at the time

Actually, I'd wish that we have search across all maps opened or not. Just like

'find . -name "*.mm" -exec grep -H "long term" {} \; > /tmp/scratch,

but much more user friendly. Ideally, there should be a Google Desktop search plug-in for FreeMind. I wish I knew how to do it.
--[[User:Yubrshen|yushen]] 00:17, 28 Feb 2007 (PST)

=== Plugin architecture for "actions" ===

Searches is a specific category of the general category of "actions", which should themselves simply be external plugins of actions, with an input capability, output capability and an "iterator" capability.

essentially, what is needed is this:

* Internally, the "search" terms that you're performing are stored in a FreeMind database.
so, the text (as it's being typed!) is entered into a list of "Searches".
* The "context" is the location where the search is to be performed.
* Then, an external script is run called "search" which is passed the two nodes:
the search terms as they're being typed, and the "context" i.e. the data to be searched.

Essentially, you're applying subject-predicate-object to the issue.

Then, you could _have_ your "google desktop" search plug-in, because if the data is stored in flat files (instead of XML) and the search term is turned into a flat file, your plugin can return search results by parsing the HTML that comes back from the Google Desktop search and returning new "nodes" or "attributes" in the simple "import" format that was recommended to be added.

== Notes attached to Nodes ==

=== Note enhancements in 0.9 beta 7 ... ===

* As already mentioned in some postings it would be cool if it would be possible to place the note window optionally on each side of the application.

* Further it would be cool if it could be detached from the main-window so that it becomes a kind of tool-window.

* The graphical version of the note window is cool. But it consumes a lot of space ... Is it possible to avoid the nested tabs and put the tabs for "Layout view/HTML Code view" instead as a toggle button on the toolbar? Would save a lot of space and is more useable! Also maybe we could hide the "<END>" Tag in the graphical editor.

* A possibility to set a <nowiki><br></nowiki> instead a <nowiki><p></p></nowiki> in notes would be great. In other programms it's often shift+return. This would lead to less used space in notes.

=== Word wrap for notes ===
The notes are very important and I tend to write a lot of things in them! So it would be helpful to have for the notes the word wrap option already available for nodes.

=== Shortcut for adding a note to a node ===
It would be nice if there was a shortcut for adding a note to a node

In mousing from the selected node to the menu in order to reach the Insert->Note menu item, I often overfly another node: the selection changes, which is a useability feature I like very much - but then the note drops on the newly-selected node, which is not where I wanted it.
*ditto, a shortcut for adding notes would be of great use. --[[User:Goncalopp|Goncalopp]] 08:03, 27 Sep 2007 (PDT)

=== Link to Nodes from Notes===
I wish to have the ability to create links to various nodes on words within the notes pane. This would be a great feature.

I agree.

=== Mechanism to delete a note from a node ===
I have not found a way to delete a note from a node.

:Just delete the text from the note.

In my case this doesn't work - the note icon remains at the node and the notes window keeps appearing if I mouse over such a node. Deleting jsut the text doesn't help. (Version 0.8.1) - Florian

I can confirm the problem isn't just for you. Although it isn't too hard to open the saved file and remove the Note lines. (Version 0.8.1) - vanstrien

=== Option to keep Notes window open ===
Many but not all of the nodes in a map have notes. As I mouse around the map, the Notes window pops into and out of existence. This is distracting: I would like an option to keep the Notes window open, and see its text update if the selected node has a note.

Include with this an option to stick with the current note - and be able to move around the map from node to node without changing the note and still be able to edit it.

=== Option to position Notes window at right ===
I would like the Notes window to be at the right; others may prefer it at the bottom.
Or to undoc the notes node - movable separate window.

=== Attach note to a node ===

Requests for enhancements:

* [http://sourceforge.net/tracker/index.php?func=detail&aid=1043427&group_id=7118&atid=357118 1043427 : Glorified Endnoting]
* [http://sourceforge.net/tracker/?group_id=7118&atid=357118&func=detail&aid=974920 974920 : Add notes/comments to node]
* [http://sourceforge.net/tracker/?group_id=7118&atid=357118&func=detail&aid=671074 671074 : Additional text for a node, displayed in separate text area]
* [http://sourceforge.net/tracker/?group_id=7118&atid=357118&func=detail&aid=521406 521406 : Separate note for a node, displayed upon request only]

Many people want to have a note attached to a node. Some mind mapping programs have this feature. In my view, such a feature creates a basis for splitting of uses. I would expect long nodes to contain paragraphs or even small articles; I have such nodes, both plain and HTML. I also have long nodes containing nicely set HTML tables. An XSLT transforming script can either assume that paragraphs are in the long nodes or that they are in the notes; not both. Different uses would then require different XSLT scripts. Searching would need to be extended to also search through notes. Notes of different nodes, unlike nodes themselves, cannot be made visible on the canvas at the same time. Without note, every piece of the text in the mind map is a node and therefore first class citizen; it is allowed for it to have children, and whatever feature is offered to other nodes (like icons, time reminders, changing of the default color and the like) is offered to it as well.

Screenshots showing how long nodes can be used follow.

[[Image:FreeMindLongNodes.png]]
[[Image:FreeMindLongNodes2.png]]
[[Image:FreeMindLongNodes3.png]]

As this is such a requested feature, I'd like to invite you to discuss pros and cons here. --[[User:Danielpolansky|Danielpolansky]] 11:47, 15 Feb 2005 (PST)

: The main reasons for enabling node text are as follows: a). to speed the process of map construction & brainstorming. many times note text can be added "after" the primary brainstorming of a topic is complete, as the dimension of information is different - usually it is more detailed. b). the second reason is just or even more important, and that is, to enhance "readability" of the map itself. At our company, we teach that a good mindmap should not contain full sentences, but instead, it should have short phrases - even just one or two words. That is, studies have found out people can understand the main point of any topic by "seeing" just a few words. Maps should be "seen" and not "read". Then, when more detail is needed, you just open the specific node, or view it by a mouse-over type operation. So to summarize, SPEED and READABILITY are critical to the maps actual development and use for most people. --[[ User:GregArndt|GregArndt]] 14:15, 15 Feb 2005 (CST-US)

:: I don't get the point of a). Current solution does not prevent anynode from adding long nodes after the first brainstorming phase. In fact, without separate note, you can always add something afterwards as there is no limit to the depth. What concerns b), long nodes can be folded. This prevents map from being cluttered.

:: Admittedly, ''mouse over'' operation is not sufficient to show the long nodes folded behind a short one. Having a quick look at many long nodes, one at the time, is currently not that easy; it requires a lot of single clicks. --[[User:Danielpolansky|Danielpolansky]] 12:42, 19 Feb 2005 (PST)

: Ok, here's my ''go ahead''. So many people want this feature, and so many mind mapping programs have it. As I am not a mind mapper but rather knowledge manager, I can't judge on this issue properly. Let's get surprised. --[[User:Danielpolansky|Danielpolansky]] 12:48, 19 Feb 2005 (PST)

::: Great news. This will be a real positive addition. And for users that like long notes on the map, they can still always do that. Thank you in advance, this is an excellent application that will continue to improve. ==[[ User:GregArndt|GregArndt]] 23:12,, 19 Feb 2005 (USA-CST)

: To me, HTML long nodes impair Readability of large mindmaps. On the other hand, I get the point that notes don't exactly fit into the concept. Why not go for a compromise: Long nodes would consist of (1) a first line of text, which is always visible/editable and (2) a formated long text, which is only visible/editable in a drop-down window. I would also appreciate a simpler way of editing formated long text than HTML tags. Why not using a RTF editor add-in? [[User:RainerFaller|RainerFaller]] 30 Dec 2005

:: I am all for this. I think that if there was some kind of collapsability the long text problem would be solved. It may be because I am used to programming, but to be able to collapse a bit of text is superb. This would mean that a long node would be collapsed into a single line, say the first line. You can still tell what the node is saying with the first line, but the bulk is concealed. Also, I think that if the nodes are resizable it could be resizable, that would solve the problem. Say a really large node is constructed containing an article, you could resize it to create a scrollable text box. You would only be viewing part of the article at a time, but i think that is manageable when the structure of the mindmap on the whole is preserved.--[[User:Peterw|Peterw]] 12:00, 5 Oct 2007 (PDT)

Maybe it could help to add something like a 'keep-folded' property to a node.
Idea behind it:
A node with 'keep-folded' set is not shown, when the parent of it is unfolded. You would need extra handling for setting the property or showing those 'moved to the background' nodes though. But that way a note could just be a node with that property set. I think a property like that could be helpful in other contexts, too. If you use the Mind Map as a todo-list, you could keep done ((sub-)sub-)...)subtasks folded for example.
Hilmar

: '''Notes are essential:''' While you can write really large nodes, a large node will obscure the mindmap. Lets describe it this way: I do want to perform some medical laboratory tests. This is my '''primary node'''. I want to add '''notes''' on the various aspects how tests should be ordered. The '''child nodes''' describe various symptoms and the attached '''notes''' add epidemiological information and detail. The next '''child nodes''' describe these tests based on the parent symptom nodes. Again, '''notes''' offer further details. The problem with notes-as-nodes is, that the huge text size will obscure the siblings (and even the children of those siblings), thus rendering the map ugly and difficult to comprehend. IF the notes would be only on the last hierarchical level, this wouldn't be such a great problem, BUT IF the notes are written on parent nodes, than the nodes-only approach is a mindblocker, not really a FreeMind.

=== Copy/Export note(s) of node(s) ===

WYSIWYG & note editor ... are very inviting for extensive usage of notes.
* at the moment it is not simple to export or copy them alltogether (with relevant nodes). Option for exporting the notes (also when clipboard-copying-pasting) would be very welcome - something like "Copy With Notes", "Export With Notes" or "Print with notes":
** e.g. for Export/OpenOfficeWriter notes are not exported (they were in 0.8) - I understand that xslt-s have to be adapted to the new xml format of mm (<richcontent ... type=note...> instead of <hook ...>)
* Q: can we consider the freeMind mm.xml format as fixed (at least for 0_9_0)?

AlesPoredos

--[[User:ap|ap]] 07:26, 28 Sep 2006 (PDT)

=== Tooltips ===

Having created a map, it might be more natural to enable us to either show the notes as tooltips, or alternatively to add tooltips as seperate children to notes.

--[[User:Slowlearner|Slowlearner]] 12:08, 12 Aug 2009 (GMT)

== Misc ==

=== Please make freemind more colorful ===
Just like Tony Buzan said, mindmap needs to be very colorful to make your brain exciting.
Freemind is just too "grey" right now.

=== Screen clipping ===
If you used Microsoft OneNote, you will notice a very good feature, Screen clipping.
It allows you anytime, switch to your screen, select an area, got a snapshot and paste the picture in your notes by just few clicks.<br>

This is extremly useful if when taking notes for an online document or electrinic book, no matter what you are reading, pdf, html or ppt, just click and drag, you got the picture in your notes.<br>
If freemind will support similar feature, that would be great.<br>

=== Multiple Maps at Startup ===
When I start FreeMind it loads the last map I worked on, which is very good. I can have multiple maps open, which I juse a lot, so I can work on multiple projects at the same time. However when I close FreeMind and open it again, it only loads the last active map. It would be very usefull if it loaded all the maps that was open when FreeMind was closed, so I quickly can continue to work on my ongoing projects.

: Yes, I want this '''very''' much! --[[User:Ase|Ase]] 10:29, 9 Jul 2008 (PDT)
: So do I. Leos
: Me as well. --[[User:Terkor|Terkor]] 02:32, 4 Nov 2008 (UTC)

=== Single Copy Multiple ===
The Single Copy command is used to grab stuff to duplicate without also copying all child nodes. For example I have numbered items that I keep in an "Unresearched" node, and the same numbered items in a "Researched" Node. Instead of entering the node #'s of 1 - 20 several times, I would like to be able to use the Copy Single command while selecting multiple items. Obviously it would have to be renamed "Copy Without Children" or something similar. Just keeping the command the same but adding support for multiple selection would help me a lot. Then I could copy items 1 - 20 and paste them somewhere else in one shot.

: This is definitely a good request. The action for copying without children would have to be renamed from "Single Copy" to "Shallow Copy" or "Copy without Children" as you suggested. --[[User:Danielpolansky|Danielpolansky]] 10:13, 2 Jun 2006 (PDT)

: I would also need something in the same vein. I have a deep tree of actions from which I choose leaves to do today. I would like to keep the classification embodied in the ancestors of any chosen leaf node I copy to the Today FreeMind. If I could click on a node (not just a terminal leaf) and "Copy Ancestors", then paste I would save a lot of time. The Copy Ancestors would copy all ancestors exclusing the single root node. A variation would be to click a series of consecutively embedded nodes and "Copy Chain" which would copy the nodes themselves only, without any other children, and keep the chain as a unit.

=== Print across pages ===
Would be great to have a possibility to print spanning over several pages if mind map is huge.

'''Hint:''' In 0.8.0 this is possible if you deactivate the "scale to one page" checkbox in the page format dialog and enters a scale factor like "1.0". But there seems to be a little bug; if I enter just "1" as scale factor the output is still scaled to fit on one page.

=== Print out of notes ===
I think it is a very good idea to add the possibility to print out the notes together with the map(on a separate page/pages), something like as in the export of HTML sides.

I agree with this suggestion. It makes a lot of sense to be able to print your notes.

=== Print preview ===
I would like to have a print preview dialog to see if my manually set scale factor (defined in the page format dialog) is ideal.

=== Auto scale to fit one page wide for printing ===
I would like to be able to set a map to print "one page wide" rather than just "fit one page".

=== Auto scale to fit several pages ===
As RFE 972845 another has already provided code to have FreeMind scale the output to fit several pages. It would be really nice to have this enhancement in the normal code base.

=== Calculations ===
I think that is good idea to add possibility to associate numeric values with nodes and make top nodes to recursively calculate sum of child nodes' values. This feature will turn FreeMind into '''easy and visual way to do home accounting or resource planning'''. Adding, removing or dragging child nodes between parents must cause sum to update.

More complex feature - adding multiplication factors to parent nodes.
: '''I vote for this.''' I think such a feature would open Freemind to a new business public: those who must build work resources planning/estimations WBS (Work Breakdown Stucture). Excel could be favourably replaced by mind maps softwares with such capabilities.
: From a more technical point of view, I would add that each node should be associated with an '''aggregation function''' like sum (default), average, geometric average, or even user defined aggregation function. Nodes would gather value of their children and aggregate it to set their own value.--[[User:OliGator|OliGator]] 08:55, 22 Oct 2006 (PDT)

: For now, I didn't used the Time plug-in ; my expects would go in two directions (--[[User:JdX|JdX.fr]] 200706222:
: Go-ing to plan a bussiness, I would like to get some Calculations as said above, that I could get back into a calc-like spreadsheet in another window.
: May I imagine better than a number and an aggregation function, I would enjoy to improve in triplet-properties, not only a number and a function for each node... You may know high potential in A.I. for that representation for many qualities (I began to work on wikini.net on that matter..)

=== Support for Unicode and RTL languages ===

I think that the inclusion of better support for Unicode and RTL languages such as Hebrew and Arabic would allow a larger number of people to use Freemind as their mind-mapping tool of choice.

: What support of unicode are you missing? FreeMind is unicode-enabled. --[[User:Danielpolansky|Danielpolansky]] 11:56, 27 Jul 2005 (PDT)

:: It doesn't work with Vietnamese. Try this: HÃÂ NÃ¡Â»Âi, SÃÂ i GÃÂ²n, ChÃ¡Â»Â£ LÃ¡Â»Ân * a ÃÂ¡ ÃÂ Ã¡ÂºÂ£ ÃÂ£ Ã¡ÂºÂ¡ ... [[User:DeltaVictorLima|DeltaVictorLima]] 11:24, 18 Jun 2007 (PDT)

=== Use UTF-8 in the XML file to store unicode characters ===

: FreeMind 0.8.0's utf-8 support is limited, I think. When open file, FreeMind simply loads the file contents into buffer without valid and proper encoding, if .mm file version matches current freemind version. And all Chinese characters encoding as "''&#x...;''" is meaningless for Chinese. I have a patch for this: [[User:Jiangxin/Better_chinese_characters_support]]. --[[User:Jiangxin|Jiangxin]] 11:53, 6 Apr 2006 (PDT)

:: Indeed, FreeMind does not support UTF-8. Maybe it would be better if it would. That would improve the ease with which the XML files can be read directly in plain text editors. --[[User:Danielpolansky|Danielpolansky]] 10:18, 2 Jun 2006 (PDT)

::: Shouldn't the .mm-file be changed to a real XML file first? It does not have a XML declaration, like <?xml version="1.0" encoding="ISO-8859-1"?>... This gives far better support when opening it in standalone XML editors, and you can also validate your XML. --[[User:pahles|pahles]] 21:16, 3 Jun 2006 (UTC+2)

: Vote for this! It is impossible to compare/merge different mindmaps (also process/edit) with ÃÂ«entities gibberishÃÂ» like ÃÂ«по проекту «SAT»ÃÂ»--[[User:StasFomin|StasFomin]] 19:36, 2 Mar 2009 (UTC)

=== Support general graphs rather than trees ===

Some users want FreeMind to support general graphs rather than only trees. To an extent, their wish is covered by what we call arrow links, and what is called connectors in Microsoft Powerpoint. FreeMind's arrow links are not that powerful as connectors, but that can be improved.

Still, FreeMind is not planned to become a general graph editor, or a concept mapper. Some years ago there was a [http://sourceforge.net/forum/forum.php?thread_id=821693&forum_id=22101 discussion] on that in Open Discussion forum, followed by a concluding [http://sourceforge.net/forum/forum.php?thread_id=957873&forum_id=22101 consideration] by me where the final position on the issue is stated together with an explanation. --[[User:Danielpolansky|Danielpolansky]] 11:56, 27 Jul 2005 (PDT)

===Always On===

I would like to minimize to the system tray(for Windows). Or better yet, let's run FreeMind as a transparent window docked to the desktop. Like my brain, I like to always have FreeMind on in the background. Regardless, thanks!

: You can google for RBTray, which lets you minimise anything to the system tray. -- JettLogic

===Better File Operations, Restore Workspace, New File Extension===

On Mac OS X at least, the file dialog is buggy - it does not show network drives or my iDisk. Also, it would be useful to have FreeMind re-open the last edited file (and restore the workspace as it was when the user last quit). Still, the most annoying thing is the .mm filename extension - that extension is tied to Obj-C code files in Mac OS X, and probably on other platforms as well. Maybe .mind or .mmp? -- RuiCarmo

===File Dialog Improvements===

The file dialogs could use some minor improvements. I would like the dialog boxes for load and save to remember what directory they were in and start from there the next time the dialog is open.

Also, if you try to open a file from the "recent files" list but the file no longer exists, there is no warning from freemind. It would be better to have a "file not found" warning, and better still to remove the bad entry from the list when that happens. --fist_187

It would be better not to "remember what directory they were in", but add possibility to choose "Default directory" in Preferences, which will be opened automatically whenever you save or load something. --Elwin

Yes the file dialogs could use some improvements. It should be possible these days to simply use the native OS'en File Open dialogs. IMHO, either that or a full-featured file dialog that a) provides a few shortcuts to frequently used directories, b) remembers the directory used last time, -or- uses a default directory, and c) allows one to create new directories

=== Crosslinking Nodes ===

The possibility to create cross-references between nodes which are
already part of the mindmap tree would be a great feature. In many
real-life mindmaps items could not be categorized in one and only
one category. The possibility to visualize these dependencies would
be a great advantage over other mindmap solutions. Something like
this is already implemented in Freemind by selecting two nodes
and pressing STRG+L.

For enhancing this feature the following aspects should receive attention:
* the application should visualize cross-references in a eye-friendly way
** nodes with cross-references should be directly identifiable (i.e. by color, shape-type, ...)
** mouse-over effects visualize the dependencies with flashing nodes
** dashed grey lines sound visualize cross-dependencies
* cross-references, especially those which reside not current view-context, should be traceable by a hotkey which toggles b+etween the source and the destination node of a link.
* if a source or destination-node is in hinged position the link should be optionally visualized by propagated a parent nod+e as source or destination-node

Is it possible to add links to specific nodes in other FreeMind map files? Perhaps using Request Parameters in the external hyperlink URL? Identifying the target node while creating the link may be tricky. Here is an idea on how that can be done: <br/>
When creating the link, a dialog window with two textboxes can be used. One textbox would be for the hyperlink URL and the other would be for the target node name. The target node name textbox would have an auto-complete feature (with dropdown) that uses a list of node names that were obtained from the target map file. There could be a button next to the URL textbox that starts the node name retrieval process from the target map file. Before hitting the button the target node name textbox is disabled, and it is enabled after the node names have been read. --[[User:EdB|EdB]] 10:37, 2 Sep 2009 (UTC)

=== Unlimited/Arbitrary Attributes ===

We use a couple of different products (including an internally developed one) to manage requirements. In each case we have the ability to assign arbitrary attributes to requirements at any level in the structure (e.g., Type=Priority Value=High or Type=Source Value=Mike Jones). To support migration between Freemind and these requirements management tools, Freemind should allow X number of attributes per requirement. Though I know this concept would scare the minimalists.
-- unknown

And a custom plugin might read these values, then calculate and display something on the map, e.g. an indicator or an aggregate.
-- [[User:abadger|abadger]] 30 May 2006
(or even just set the colour or insert a tick or cross icon) --[[User:Violetlight|Violetlight]] 15:24, 2 Aug 2006 (PDT)

It would be really nice if as well as text attributes, we could support check or radio buttons (e.g. "done", or "priority H/M/L")<br>
A node action or a function key/pattern (see below) could check the box.
--[[User:Violetlight|Violetlight]] 15:22, 2 Aug 2006 (PDT)

=== Node-specific actions ===

At the moment, there is one "action" on a node (discounting the usual edit/cut/paste etc) - navigate to the target link.
<p/>
I can see a reason to have more than one action on a node, depending on the semantics of the map's content, and specifically the storage backend or plugin. For example, a map that was a live visualisation of the tree structure of a website could have an action to navigate to a page, to check it with a W3C validator, to edit the page, to submit it to a search engine etc etc. These actions would be defined by the plugin supplying the data content, or by other plugins resident - e.g. "schedule this node" for the time scheduling plugin or "bookmark this node's target" for a (possible future) Google Bookmarking plugin.
<br>
I can see two (possibly co-existing) methods of implementing this:
# A context-specific node sub-menu cascading off the right button menu called "Actions->"
# A control-right-button menu just for actions on the node
<br>
I'd welcome feedback on whether this is a nutcase idea. --[[User:Violetlight|Violetlight]] 15:16, 2 Aug 2006 (PDT)

===Images in freemind===

I really like the way freemind can use images as nodes. However, one of the problems with adding a lot of images to a map is that they are all different sizes. So, I wrote this php script:
<?php

$tsize = 100; //thumbnail size

function noresize($name)
{
global $argv;
$fullpath = $argv[1] . "$name";
echo "<node TEXT=\"&lt;html&gt;";
echo "&lt;img src=&quot;$fullpath&quot;/&gt; \"";
echo " FOLDED=\"true\">\n</node>\n";
}

function thumbit($name, $w, $h)
{
global $argv;
$fullpath = $argv[1] . "$name";
echo "<node TEXT=\"&lt;html&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;$fullpath&quot;";
echo " width=&quot;$w&quot; height=&quot;$h&quot;\" FOLDED=\"true\">\n";
echo "<node TEXT=\"&lt;html&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;$fullpath&quot;\"";
echo " FOLDED=\"true\">\n</node>\n";
echo "<node LINK=\"$fullpath\" TEXT=\"$name\">\n</node>\n";
echo "</node>\n";
}

if ($argc < 3)
{
die("usage: " . $argv[0] . " IMAGEPATH IMAGE1 [[IMAGE2] ... ]\n");
}

echo "<map version=\"0.7.1\">\n<node TEXT=\"Ian's image generator\"";
echo " FOLDED=\"true\">\n";

for ($i=2; $i<$argc; $i++)
{
$myimg = $argv[$i];
$props = getimagesize($myimg);
$w = $props[0];
$h = $props[1];

if ($w <= $tsize && $h <= $tsize) //too small
{
noresize($myimg);
}
else if ($w < $h) //resize height to 100, scale width
{
$w = intval(($tsize * $w) / $h);
$h = $tsize;
thumbit($myimg, $w, $h);
}
else //resize width to 100, scale height
{
$h = intval(($tsize * $h) / $w);
$w = $tsize;
thumbit($myimg, $w, $h);
}
}

echo "</node>\n</map>\n";
?>
This is a command line PHP script, so to use it under linux you would type something like:
$ php freemindImgGen.php "file:////path/to/prepend/to/images/" image1.jpg [image2.jpg ... ]
This will output the text for a new mind map (direct it to a file of your choice) with each image thumbnailed in its own node. The images should all be in the same directory (for some reason, relative paths for images don't seem to work). Each thumbnailed image will have 2 child nodes: one node with the full size image and one node with the filename of the image as a freemind link.

Anyway, the reason that I'm posting this here in the request section instead of the user contributions section is that I would like to see this behavior ported into freemind itself. This would be a better behavior for when you drag-and-drop an image file into freemind, as it does just about everything you would want to do with an image in one shot. --fist_187

:[[User:lkcl]] - fist_187: this is a fantastic example of an import/export plugin program that should NOT be added into freemind: it should be possible to RUN this program on-demand from FreeMind from WITHIN freemind as a plugin extension.

--[[User:Pdf|pdf]] 22:11, 30 Aug 2009 (UTC): A thumbnail image function is a great idea! Some images can be huge, and thumbnails would be an excellent option. Photographers could make big use of this, but images in general just make an idea map a richer communication tool. In fact, this capability could re-invent the typical image "gallery" that is often a liner row of images, or an unwieldy table, because images would be represented in a hierarchical context of other references or meaning. Of course, a link to the original file always lets a viewer see an image in its full glory.

However, for the general non-programmer user I would implement the user interface like this:

- When an image is inserted, create a thumbnail as a default (or by prompt) to avoid unpleasant surprises of large images taking over the UI and displacing everything else.

- Add an option to convert an image back to normal, or back to thumbnail.

- In preferences, let the user select "thumbnail" as default, or not, and let the user specify the size (as a maximum dimension of either side of the image). Let the user choose whether a prompt appears, or add a check box to the prompt to not ask again. Another useful preference would be to specify a thumbnail directory (default location inside source image directory)

- As another option (or as a future enhancement) the program would either 1)Create new image files to use as thumbnails, or 2)Generate thumbnails on the fly for display only (or read in thumbnails that may already be appended to some image formats by certain images editors) and maybe cache them. The advantage of reading in on the fly is that the size could also be changed on the fly. The downside is the time required for the program to generate on-the-fly images in large maps.

- Provide a link to the file so the user can open the full size version in its associated application.

- When importing a folder of files provide an option to import any images.

- After a folder is imported, provide an option to add images to existing links.

=== Node Cloning or Mirroring (aka soft links) ===

Requests for enhancements:

* [http://sourceforge.net/tracker/index.php?func=detail&aid=1021772&group_id=7118&atid=357118 1021772 : One Node object at different places]

One feature request that has attracted a lot of attention from users is what they call ''node cloning or mirorring''. This amounts to enabling a node to have more than one fathers. That is, such a node appears visually at more places of a map, still, has only one structure and data. Linking a node graphically to more parts of a map is already possible, but users proposing cloning would like to see more visually integrated approach.

Users get encouraged by the fact that the hierarchical application
[http://leo.sf.net/ LEO] already has such a feature.

This feature has been discussed at forums under threads
[http://sourceforge.net/forum/forum.php?thread_id=1022954&forum_id=22101 Cloning of nodes] and [http://sourceforge.net/forum/forum.php?thread_id=1051440&forum_id=22101 Node cloning/mirroring].

: I would REALLY like it if FreeMind supported 'shortcuts', 'soft/hard links', or 'virtual folders'. You know what I mean? Just some manner of having one node (and its sub-nodes) be able to exist in 2 different places at once. Change one clone, the other is affected, delete one clone, they all go away. (with options to make it a copy instead of a clone, etc...) You'd make my day if you'd add this functionality! --anonymous

: Alright, but "cloning" is not a good term for this as it implies having a physical copy of something. Less misleading could be "linking", "mirroring", "redirecting", "pointing", "referring"... --anonymous

:: You are right; cloning is not a proper term. This is the way our users expressed their wishes. --[[User:Danielpolansky|Danielpolansky]] 09:26, 20 Dec 2004 (PST)

: I agree too - soft links would be a great feature -- Brad Langhorst

: Seconded - the suggestion on sourceforge of using a local link, but with a "ghost" display at the current location (instead of jumping to the destination of the link) sounds like the way to go. The side-effect is that you could have a cycle, whereby you are in node A, with child B being a ghost-link to C, expanding C reveals child D which is a ghost-link back to A. -- JettLogic

=== Mindmap-Wikis ===

Creating a mixture of Freemind and a Wiki would be very interesting. It would be shown on the web, and editable by everybody, like a Wiki, but it would not be text-only but a FreeMind's mind map instead.

That is, provide FreeMind user interface to the underlying wiki technology, handling versioning and other issues. Is there any use of wiki markup in this scenario? (lkcl: yes - see "Notes" section!)

: [[User:lkcl]] - all of these things are possible if you split out a plugin architecture for import / export of data.

Current wiki technology like MediaWiki is already quite attractive in its present state. Either FreeMind interface would be the only one, which would in my view discourage most of the users, or FreeMind interface would be alternative to a web interface, which would require FreeMind to understand wiki markup. This considered, I hold such a project for too expensive compared to the value it brings. Quite another issue is collaborative mind mapping. This issue is similar to wiki, but here the wiki name does not properly apply as neither wiki markup nor wiki's versioning concept applies. --[[User:Danielpolansky|Danielpolansky]] 13:24, 18 Feb 2005 (PST)

Ok, GraphViz is not really mindmapping, but oddmuse-wiki in colaboration with graphviz is really fascinating, take a look (and don't forget to follow the "Edit the text of the Page"-link): http://wiki.doomicile.de/LinuxMuleHistory -- HinnerK

: I don't get your point. What is the relevance to the topic discussed here? --[[User:Danielpolansky|Danielpolansky]] 13:28, 18 Feb 2005 (PST)

:: [[User:lkcl]] he's illustrating that the text you see on that page is actually created by simply putting "digraph { ..... }" into the text, you get a really cool graph. in other words, he's illustrating that it would be easy to replace the FreeMind user interface, written in stupid java, by an oddmuse-wiki using the "digraph ...." concept.

I would suggest starting with a simple [http://www.webdav.org/ save-to-WebDAV] option, and then following it up with a standardized [http://www.xmlrpc.com/ XML-RPC] interface (maybe Atom would be too complex). Having some sort of hooks into node editing operations in the code would be useful, so that people could develop plugins of some sort to perform the actual HTTP transactions live from the applet version -- RuiCarmo

The first thing that came to my mind while opening FreeMind for the very first time was: "Would it be possible to integrate Wiki in FreeMind?". Currently I am working with a project management software (named Trac) which integrates a Wiki Engine. It is a kind of colaborative project management solution, and it has encouraged all the team to document and activelly contribute to each otherÃÂ´s tasks.

Maybe WikiFreeMind :-) could be something similar. I donÃÂ´t think that FreeMind being the only one interface to be an issue, I think it would be great if we could use wiki formatting inside FreeMind nodes. It would be easy (a gross guess) to allow ''Wiki-links'' between nodes, or wiki/web-pages ''outside'' the map.

It would not be too difficult to do a kind of serialization of the map as a Wiki Database, each node being a wiki page, following the extension mechanics proposed by WikiMedia, you could allow wiki tags that would keep track of the properties of the node as a serialized wiki-page. ItÃÂ´s pretty much brainstorming, but I think it would be possible to use FreeMind as a Wiki Navigator, and the Web Browser + Wiki Engine as a Node Editor. --[[User:loudenvier|loudenvier]] 17:15, 05 Apr 2005 (BRA)

Have a look at the [http://wikkawiki.org/HomePage WikkaWiki software]. My zero programming skills don't let me to grasp how it works or what it does. But it seems pretty interesting. It allows to insert FreeMind maps into the wiki. [http://wikkawiki.org/MindMapRecentChanges here's a inline example].
--[[User:Calamar|Calamar]] 04:31, 20 Dec 2005 (PST)

: This portion hasn't been edited in a while. With the flash plugin in architecture in place for .9 beta 9 it shouldn't be too much of a problem to create graphical representations of a wiki to Freemind. The user would have to download the wiki page into the Freemind application and then upload the finished product after editing. It might seem like a long round trip but it would be very useful.

: Furthermore, the Flash application should/could be smart enough to detect a wiki word in the Freemind and auto link it.
--[[User:Ddaniels|Ddaniels]] 05:17, 24 Mar 2007 (PDT)

* There is an development approach for mediawiki and freemind (browser): http://www.wikimindmap.org/ which is available with GNU GPL v3. I managed it to get it run after understanding the config in the getpages.php and the index.php and discommenting something out in getpages.php. But it currently does not show some articles and categories. Perhaps someone is able to bring it to a better version: [[:Image:wwm_zip.mm]]. Just rename file extension to zip. --[[User:Hiverider|Hiverider]] 15:08, 26 Mar 2009 (UTC)

===Applet allowing editing mind maps.===

Requests for enhancements:

* [http://sourceforge.net/tracker/index.php?func=detail&aid=1061195&group_id=7118&atid=357118 1061195 : Editor Mode (MindMap Mode) applet]

It would be fine to edit a map via applet and save it to a webserver directory.

: Indeed it would be fine. This is related to integration of mindmaps in wikis. In particular, [http://wikka.jsnx.com/HomePage WikkaWiki] uses freemind applet to show mindmaps in web pages. Unfortunately, mindmap edition is not possible while it is obviously possible for text. Such a capability would allow mindmap to be editable inside a wiki by wiki users. I also think this is more natural and a lot easier to insert mindmap capabilities inside wiki softwares than implement wiki functionnalities inside freemind. Don't you ? --[[User:OliGator|OliGator]] 09:18, 22 Oct 2006 (PDT)

I wonder why the .mm extension is mandatory on the applet. At this point on the web we use Content-type instead of extensions, isn't it? Why then don't use Content-type OR .mm extension to open a map with the applet?

Will be fantastic if the applet could capture drop events. With this enhancement we could use a custom toolbar to add custom snippets or integrate it with our solutions

Leos: Editing capabilities would be great benefit. I use multiple computers and notebooks at the office and at home, so it is nightmare to synchronize their content. If I could just open the map from browser, modify it and click save, I would be very happy. If there are some Java security restrictions, you can implement it via some servlet, I could deploy into my server.

=== Saving maps using WebDAV ===

Let FreeMind read from and save to [http://www.webdav.org WebDAV] server. Repeatedly requested.

According to the WebDAV website,

: WebDAV stands for "Web-based Distributed Authoring and Versioning". It is a set of extensions to the HTTP protocol which allows users to collaboratively edit and manage files on remote web servers.

What's the holdup on integrating WebDav into Freemind? There's a patch available already [[http://www.ubik-products.com/ludowiki/FreeMind FreeMind WebDAV Enhancement]]. Is there anything wrong with that patch or have people just not gotten around to integrating it? This would also address the need of applets and wiki-like functionality.

Working with WebDAV would make for an outstanding creative toolkit.
There is a keen need for a tool like this in our business (long distances; documents cobbled together from Basecamp and IM logs). One consideration: how would changes be merged? And is there an unobtrusive way to identify authors of specific changes and content?

===Changing attributes by depth level.=== Wouldn't it be good if nodes could have levels (defined as outward from the centre) so that you could change color, font and other node properties by level. For instace, all nodes of level two would have red bubbles.

OR Allow user to define default level attributes to be applied when a branch is made. The most common one being font size and edge width. Undefined attributes like colour should flow down. This is just the desired default at creation time and may be changed. Branches further out than the deepest defined default all inherit from previous branch.

===Integrated Google web search===
How about an accessory software that would input FreeMind's XML and conduct Google and Google News searches on all nodes plus their neighbours? If anything useful is found (and there would be less than x hits), it would *wget* them and add links to the material to the map. Run this as a cronjob and your mind map will always have new ideas when you open FreeMind again.

: Seems like a suggestion for a plugin. For sure it does not belong to the core FreeMind. Such a plugin will call external tools like wget which increases the installation costs. --[[User:Danielpolansky|Danielpolansky]] 09:34, 20 Dec 2004 (PST)

===MIDlet for editing with mobile phones===

MIDlet idea entry front-end is a MUST! I want to be able to do mind mapping with my mobile phone and then upload the changes to the main map on my desktop.

: It is not a ''must''. When enabled with importing various other formats, FreeMind can take data from mobile applications. Also, it is not clear why MIDlet should be the technology of choice, if FreeMind shall run on mobile phones. --[[User:Danielpolansky|Danielpolansky]] 09:33, 20 Dec 2004 (PST)

===Have floating textbox for titles or comments===

Hi I would like to request a feature, namely a title and/or comment at the beginning/end of page to be able to use it in presentations, where I would have my name on top right.
I would suggest that there is no link to other nodes just a kind of text box.
Maybe there are more people thinking about this nice addon?

Request for enhancements:
* [http://sourceforge.net/tracker/index.php?func=detail&aid=1167418&group_id=7118&atid=357118 1167418]: Legends

=== An editable tree view (like the html export) ===

With such view I can imagine freemind to be useable an smaller devices like an ipaq running familiar (or ppc). Can you run freemind on such devices? --Alex

=== A non graphic tree view mode ===
Similar request as Alex.
A '''non-graphic''' linear mode would be usefull ! The graphic mode is the best to organise and visualise the information, but a simple linear tree mode is more comfortable for reading and editing large portion of text. It would also allow to access the same databases on a small screen. Freemind has become one of my most important tools on my Pc and I am dreaming to use it on a symbian phone too. Thank you so much. Franck

Il second that, Inspiration also a midn mapping tool used at school does this, translates the mind map into linear. Being able to see the same information in different ways is what computers are amazing at doing. It would be great to see information from different perspectives, Mind map form, linear (for printing essays/or books), Network diagram, etc.

=== Option not to open last opened file upon start ===

Users request that they should get a user option to tell FreeMind not to open the last opened file upon start. Seems like a sensible request to me. --[[User:Danielpolansky|Danielpolansky]] 10:07, 2 Jun 2006 (PDT)

===ToughGraph like dynamic layout===

Requests for enhancements:

* [http://sourceforge.net/tracker/index.php?func=detail&aid=1052556&group_id=7118&atid=357118 1052556 : TouchGraph style dynamic layout]
* [http://sourceforge.net/tracker/index.php?func=detail&aid=909016&group_id=7118&atid=357118 909016 : TouchGraph display mode]

The [[TouchGraph]] interface has more potential than the existing fixed one. Mind maps are not supposed to necessarily be hierarchical, but organically growing and intertwined a lot. In FreeMind I can add links, but they aren't really good if compared with something universal like TouchGraph (GoogleBrowser, WikiBrowser).

I think FreeMind would become much more powerful (not to mention cool looking) if it had a dynamic mode without a root node. It would be great if arbitrary links (not just parent/child) between any nodes were supported, if text size and colors would dynamically adjust according to the distance, relevance and other factors, and if the layout would be dynamic, with the graph rearranging itself on the fly.

More details at the TouchGraph site ([http://www.touchgraph.com/]), and at this page: [http://www.jspwiki.org/PageInfo.jsp?page=TouchGraphWikiBrowser]).

: I disagree with the views presented here. A good news for you is that if you don't like the way FreeMind presents data, you can choose TouchGraph instead. --[[User:Danielpolansky|Danielpolansky]] 09:32, 20 Dec 2004 (PST)

:* Well, in my opinion the links between nodes certainly offer a starting point for improvements. They are more curved than really necessary. --[[User:TMaschler|TMaschler]] 01:46, 17 Feb 2005 (PST)

:* Further, the idea of formatting nodes in function of their distance from the start node (i.e. by style sheets) would greatly enhance the mind map appearance; although it should be possible to overwrite the node formatting style for each node individually. --[[User:TMaschler|TMaschler]] 01:46, 17 Feb 2005 (PST)

:* What about offering a variety of display modes for the nodes (tree view, the current default view, without hierarchy, ...)?

I agree that alternatives to the hierarchical view are important and the whole advantage of using visual mapping in the first place --[[User:Ryba|Ryba]] 17:16, 27 Oct 2005 (PDT)

===More flexible Resize Options===
What about the following resize possibilities: --[[User:TMaschler|TMaschler]] 01:46, 17 Feb 2005 (PST)
* automatically/ dynamically
* by clicking on magnification glass icons (+ and -)

Resizing should be able to resize a node and the text dynamically wraps and changes the size of the box. The current approach requires hard returns to resize the text boxes.--[[User:Ryba|Ryba]] 17:06, 27 Oct 2005 (PDT)

===More Flexible Window Resize and Reformat Options===
Background: We are using Freemind in an internal Wiki to document all the program file paths. Unfortunately, when opened in a browser window, the .mm file shows a couple of hundred pixels of blank area above and to the left of the map, then fails to allow users to scroll all the way to the right so they can see the information. My apologies if the answer is there, but I have not been able to find any information in the forums or help to either reduce the total window size, or to change the map alignment from CENTER to TOP RIGHT. (Help mentions a user.properties file, not present in 9.0.x).

Requests:
1. Allow users to resize the window to match the map size, and/or
2. Either allow users to set map aligment within the window, or change auto-aligment settings to the most efficient space use (generally top left, but not always, which argues for allowing the user to decide).

Thanks for a great application!!

=== Easier to delete nodes ===

A relatively straightforward enhancement: the Node/Remove Node on the popup menu could be moved to the main popup menu, under 'Insert Child Node'. It would probably be better server by being called 'Delete Child Node'. I think it would also be fantastic if it had a shortcut key - Del probably being the most suitable. I find it a right pain to delete nodes (I notice someone submitted an RFE on sourceforge asking for a delete function, clearly not being aware there already was one - I think this indicates it needs moving!)

''David Perez comment'': An alternative I use is to cut the node in order to delete it.

: Nodes will be easy to delete in the next version. The reason why they are not easy to delete currently is that there's no undo available. In the mean time, pressing Ctrl + X should suffice to delete a node. --[[User:Danielpolansky|Danielpolansky]] 09:28, 20 Dec 2004 (PST)

''Torsten GrÃÂ¤ÃÂler comment'':
: Find the line starting with "#keystroke_remove" in the <user home>/freemind/user.properties file and change it to "keystroke_remove = DELETE". Now you can delete a node with the DEL key. This works on my WinXP Pro, but should work on other platforms, too. -- 04:27, 23 Mar 2004

Most of the times you delete something and sooner or later you find out that you actually need that thing again. Undo is good, but once you have closed FreeMind it's lost forever. Wouldn't it be nice to have a .trash file to accompany every .mm file just to make things easier? --Anonymous.

: This is a known issue by now. Deleting nodes is far too easy in FreeMind 0.8.0, in my view anyway. --[[User:Danielpolansky|Danielpolansky]] 06:51, 13 May 2006 (PDT)

===Statistics===

Requests for features:

* [http://sourceforge.net/tracker/index.php?func=detail&aid=1040097&group_id=7118&atid=357118 1040097 : Total Node Count]

Show the statistics

* number of nodes in a map
* number of leafs (childless nodes)
* number of nodes with children

on the ''node'' level or a ''map'' level (once you can do node level, you also can do map level).

===Thousands of new icons===

Enhancing the number and variety of icons to the sufficient amout would definetely increase versatility of FreeMind. Plenty of small pictures it is a must if you want to organize your knowledge (e.g. notes from collage), so that every 'key info' could be easily remembered. The more icons that help associating the information the better - I would like to see pictures of man, men, woman, women, tree, chair, table and so on - any thing you can imagine, categorized. I know I can use external pictures, but it's really inconvenient if I have to look for each picture on the Internet for a few minutes while creating a new map. Built-in icons would be a great help.

: It is clear that a larger icon library would be helpful. --[[User:Danielpolansky|Danielpolansky]] 13:18, 18 Feb 2005 (PST)

it would be great if i would able to add or delete icons in to the toolbar my self. 22.2.05 by erwin

Not sure if the hyperlink arrows count as icons, but it would be good if they could be colour coded; eg blue arrow for a hyperlink to a local file on the local computer, yellow for a file located on the local network, red arrow for a hyperlink to a html site, Green arrow for a local hyperlink

: I use famfamfam.com's general purpose silk icons set in most of my projects, there are over 1000 icons, each one of them is a little gem. There are distributed under the creative common license, I don't know if they can be included and distributed in a open source project .. probably. Still, the best would be an kind of icon manager to allow us to build our own icons libraries and includes some basics libraries by default.

--[[User:h3|h3]] 11:00, 27 Jul 2006

I suggested in another place to have groups of icons, so that the access of all icons gets simplified, and the change of an icon gets simplified too. Here are some examples of groups/categories:
* To be Completed, important/urgent/both/not important
* partial/ complete
* mecanism (ex: "rouages"), GUI, Database,
* draft/under review/finalized (different evident progressing levels)
* analogy with road signal: "sans issue/cul de sac, speed limit, ..."
* communication mean (phone, e-mail, mail...)
* context (work, home, travel)
* art (music, painting, sculpture)???
* time management (date, time, time duration)
* Satisfaction (smiles)
Thanks :-) --[[User:Patco|Patco]]

===Zooming With Scroll Button===

Being able to pan by holding down the right-hand mouse button and twiddling the scroll wheel is great. What would help navigation a little more would be to zoom in and out by holding down, say, the left-hand mouse button.

===New menu entry ''Save All'' ===

Requests for enhancements:

* [http://sourceforge.net/tracker/index.php?func=detail&aid=932817&group_id=7118&atid=357118 932817 : Easy: "Save all"-menu entry]

* [http://sourceforge.net/tracker/?group_id=7118&atid=357118&func=detail&aid=665584 665584 : Add function "Save all", to menus and toolbar]

=== User defined icons ===

Requests for enhancements

* [http://sourceforge.net/tracker/index.php?func=detail&aid=966193&group_id=7118&atid=357118 966193 : User defined icons (similar 883498) - a quick implementation]

=== Keep custom/unknown XML tags when saving ===

Requests for enhancements:

* [http://sourceforge.net/tracker/index.php?func=detail&aid=943713&group_id=7118&atid=357118 943713 : Keep custom/unknown XML tags when saving]

=== Collaborative editing of mind maps ===

Requests for enhancements:

* [http://sourceforge.net/tracker/?group_id=7118&atid=357118&func=detail&aid=869746 869746 : Multi-user collaboration on one map, using tracking of changes ]
* [http://sourceforge.net/tracker/index.php?func=detail&aid=1058763&group_id=7118&atid=357118 1058763 : conference mode / work together online]

Conference-like editing of a shared map. When one user adds a node, other users get display update, and vice versa. Rather demanding request, but also potentially highly useful.

--[[User:Violetlight|Violetlight]] 09:30, 2 Aug 2006 (PDT): Problems to solve in this area:
* Whether to mesh peer to peer (e.g. Jabber/XMPP) or to use notification via a server
* How to perform locking (and whether to use optimistic locking)
* How to resolve conflicts
* How to bring a new change to a collaborating user's attention without being intrusive (say a "delta icon" in the node or something like that?)

=== Allow for mathematical formulas using LaTeX or MathML ===

Requests for enhancements:

* [http://sourceforge.net/tracker/index.php?func=detail&aid=977500&group_id=7118&atid=357118 977500 : include formulas / latex support]

People want to type in mathematical formulas in text markup and see something good looking when not edited.

=== User attributes or tags of a node ===

Requests for enhancements:
* [http://sourceforge.net/tracker/index.php?func=detail&aid=1122973&group_id=7118&atid=357118 1122973 : Allow nodes to "carry" other attributes]

For user editable using a popping up table. File format example:

<node TEXT="Tagged">
<tag NAME="cost" VALUE="500ÃÂ¬"/>
<tag NAME="todo" VALUE="yes"/>
</node>

=== Rich text formatting of nodes ===

Requests for enhancements:

* [http://sourceforge.net/tracker/index.php?func=detail&aid=909694&group_id=7118&atid=357118 909694 : Different text attributes within text nodes]

Rich text formatting includes boldface, italics, font colors, tables and the like. It is already possible using HTML in nodes. What's missing is the GUI support for editing HTML nodes. Another thing missing is pasting of RTF - Rich Text Format directly into FreeMind.

=== Scalable Vector Graphics (SVG) in nodes ===

Nodes could store and view scalable vector graphics (SVG). Currently, nodes certainly can store SVG, but only its source code is displayed. It should be possible that SVG is displayed like graphics. Editing of SVG can be done using external programs like Inkscape, or using an SVG editing component written in Java.

Viewing of SVG could perhaps be achieved using Apache's Batik framework. How fast, and how much more memory consuming it would be is unclear.

=== Enable spell checking ===

Requests for enhancements:

* [http://sourceforge.net/tracker/index.php?func=detail&aid=1080652&group_id=7118&atid=357118 1080652 : Ability to spell Check Text Fields]

=== Add label to edges ===

Requests for enhancements:

* [http://sourceforge.net/tracker/index.php?func=detail&aid=997862&group_id=7118&atid=357118 997862 : Naming of Edges]

: As I see it, this will make the map difficult to read. I can't imagine how to implement this in a visually acceptable manner. --[[User:Danielpolansky|Danielpolansky]] 14:02, 5 Mar 2005 (PST)

: On the other hand, edge labels make a lot of sense with freely positioned nodes introduced in FreeMind 0.8.0. --[[User:Danielpolansky|Danielpolansky]] 09:29, 26 Oct 2005 (PDT)

=== Add label to arrow link ===

Requests for enhancements:

* [http://sourceforge.net/tracker/index.php?func=detail&aid=1214199&group_id=7118&atid=357118 1214199 : labels on arrows]

Sometimes it could be very useful to label arrow link. It may help to better express and easily understand the exact sense (meaning) of specific arrow link.

=== Filter nodes by their icons ===

Requests for enhancements

* [http://sourceforge.net/tracker/index.php?func=detail&aid=1071438&group_id=7118&atid=357118 1071438 : Filter nodes based on icon]

Set filter on a given node, as a list of icon names. When such a filter is set, only those descendands of the filtered node are shown that satisify the filter. A node satisfies the filter, if one of its icons is in the filter's set of icons, or one of its descendants satisfies the filter.

: Filtering based on icons is not very neat, as it does not decouple the meaning from its presentation. But it may be a good interim solution anyway. --[[User:Danielpolansky|Danielpolansky]] 11:02, 20 Feb 2005 (PST)

* It's done in FreeMind 0.9 --[[User:Terkor|Terkor]] 04:21, 18 Aug 2007 (PDT)

=== Insert Current Date and Hour ===

Feb 25,2005. It would be nice to have a button to insert in a node the current date and/or hour. Thanks!

: Makes sense. Can be found in Window's Notepad under the key F5. --[[User:Danielpolansky|Danielpolansky]] 10:06, 26 Feb 2005 (PST)

It would be great if a time stamp would be created automaticaly wehn creating a new nod.
It should only be displayed when a special "Date-Button" is aktive!

: You guys, would you mind stopping shouting at us with your exclamation marks? In English speaking countries, it is not necessary to add an exclamation mark to every second sentence. --[[User:Danielpolansky|Danielpolansky]] 09:31, 26 Oct 2005 (PDT)

==== Simple Trick for KDE Users ====

2005-09-29-11:16:32-PDT

This will be a really nice feature in general. In the mean time, you can use the following method if you are using KDE. Under KDE, you can insert the current date and time (like the one above) into klipper by binding the following command to a key combination (for example, Ctrl-Alt-C):

dcop klipper klipper setClipboardContents `date +"%Y-%m-%d-%H:%M:%S-%Z"`

After this, Ctrl-Alt-C followed by Ctrl-v should allow you to insert the date, in a format of your choice, into any document (including freemind).

=== Support for callto: protocol ===

As pointed out in a [http://sourceforge.net/forum/forum.php?thread_id=1241290&forum_id=22101 forum posting], support for ''callto:'' protocol would be helpful.

If this was fully integrated, it would allow integrated voice and mind-map collaboration. For example passing "opinion sections" of a draft map between participants with a voiceover prior to including them into a collated and agreed version. Another example might be calling between the participants of a (limited) brainstorm as the brainstorm was first diverged and then converged within the mapping tool. --[[User:Violetlight|Violetlight]] 09:17, 2 Aug 2006 (PDT)

=== Support for use as a dashboard ===
Freemind could be an excellent generic front end as a dashboard for updating information if it supported file polling (refresh) or some other automated update. For example, database loading scripts could write their progress using Freemind's XML format. Any user monitoring processes such as these could see at a glance if a process had failed, add in some context dependent metadata, and could produce a log/report from the XML.

=== Ability for arrows to have text associated, or be full nodes ===

Related To [http://sourceforge.net/tracker/index.php?func=detail&aid=1167198&group_id=7118&atid=357118 1167198 non-tree graph (concept map?)]

I have a need in my current project (uni), to show heirarchies of risks, causes, and parties involved. Associated among these varying levels of heirarchies I have created arrows indicating relationship (affects-this, causes-something-else etc.), the color of the arrows indicating the relationship. It would be helpful to be able to put labels on the arrows. Actually more important than this, arrows should be full nodes, Allowing different objects to be attached as children (including other arrows). Admittedly giving arrows the ability to be full nodes may invite abuse & cause complexity, however informational-relations are themselves complex (solution should be as simple as possible, no simpler). Coding would perhaps be more elegent to allow for more than 1 child node in the code, but have a limit placed by higher-level code? (i.e. no children of children, even though the arrow objects themselves may allow for this)

=== Object Styles ===

It would be nice to have the ability to set styles for an object, and be able to select styles (styles would perhaps be associated per object-type) when creating objects.

Objects include nodes, edges and arrow links.

Using styles, the physical formatting shall no longer be set for a node but rather for a style. An example XML representation may be:

<map>
<style ID="S1" LABEL="Urgent" OBJECTTYPE="node"
COLOR="#404040" BACKGROUNDCOLOR="#FFFFE0"/>
<node TEXT="Root">
<node STYLEID="S1" TEXT="Styled node"/>
</node>
</map>

It is not clear if the user may set the ID himself. Then it perhaps should not be ID but rather NAME. XSLT transforming sheets refer either to ID or to NAME rather than to LABEL of style.

=== Hyperlinks to Programs with Arguments ===

In addition to (followable) hyperlinks to web-pages, to local folders, to executable programs, and to executable files (e.g. "datasheet.xls"), it would also be nice to have hyperlinks to programs with arguments and switches such as: "notepad myfile.bat" or "explorer.exe /n,/e,C:\" --[[User:Lhg|Lhg]] 01:11, 18 Apr 2005 (PDT)

Yes...I am using freemind for System Administration: And it is quite excellent, to have nodes for every computer and user on my system with child
nodes for services, nfsmounts, etc... but i would like very much to be able to link to the other computers with executables like

# ssh mynfsserver.mynetwork emacs /etc/exports
or
# ssh mykrb5server.mynetwork emacs /etc/kdc/kdc.conf

=== Show multiple maps in tabs ===

XEmacs shows multiple documents at tabs at the top. Microsoft Excel shows multiple sheets of a document at tabs at the bottom. Although this is not a standard user interface model, seems quite useful for FreeMind. Various users requested this feature. --[[User:Danielpolansky|Danielpolansky]] 11:38, 30 Apr 2005 (PDT)

Could it be possible to have a "restore all tabs" option, as in Firefox? --[[User:Patco|Patco]]

This would definitely be a useful enhancement. Typical use case: I'm managing several projects, I have one "mindmap" for each project, that would allow me to have all the maps open at the same time and accessible with a single click, selecting the one I need to watch at the moment. I might try to code this myself if I ever find the time for that :-P --[[User:Maathieu|Maathieu]] 12:41, 22 Jul 2009 (UTC)

=== Show multiple pages of the one map in tabs ===

ConceptDraw MindMap has this feature. Right-click on a node, select "send to new page", and the node with its children appears in a separate tab in the same document. This avoids the need to spawn extra files when your map becomes unwieldy and you want to chop off a branch. It is hyperlinked to and from its location on the original page.

Why use this instead of exporting to a new file? Because when the "new" map is conceptually part of the original map from which it was extracted, it is tidier and less error-prone to keep it in the same file. It won't get lost. And with a new page, instead of a new file, the user is saved from having to think of a meaningful file name for the extracted section. Node names do not necessarily make good file names.

=== Allow more maps to be shown side by side ===

In XEmacs, Vim or Microsoft Excel, it is possible to see several documents side by side. It would make sense for FreeMind too. Nevertheless, the added value is questionable. --[[User:Danielpolansky|Danielpolansky]] 11:38, 30 Apr 2005 (PDT)

If a few features are added, seeing two documents side by side would have more meaning. Automatic creation of a cloned node that is the root node of a new document is one. Press Ctrl-Enter (for example) would create a new document. This document would have a root node and filename that is the same name as node from the parent document. A line would connect these two nodes on the screen. Note the line is really two lines that connect at the boundary of each window. This type of line would also show visually the link between any two nodes in any two mm-files. Alternatively you can have the second window show a piece of the same document. This piece would include the node the cursor is on in the left pane and all the child nodes.

Another idea is to show a mind map as a menu. Menus are useful because they require very little additional screen space. Click on anything in the menu and it either shows the rest of the tree from the selected node or it evaluates the node which could mean it opens a new mind map, opens a program or does some other action.
--[[User:Mars729|Mars729]] 17:22, 1 Jun 2008 (EDT)

=== Direct pasting of RTF from clipboard ===

In one of the future versions, direct pasting of HTML into FreeMind will be supported; the code for it already exists and has not been published yet. In addition, direct pasting of [http://www.biblioscape.com/rtf15_spec.htm RTF] as HTML would be helpful. A free algorithm for conversion between RTF and HTML is needed for that.

RTF (rich text format) is used in email messages in Microsoft Outlook, and in hierarchical notebooks [http://www.tranglos.com/free/keynote.html Key Note] and [http://www.tuxcards.de/ TuxCards]. --[[User:Danielpolansky|Danielpolansky]] 03:36, 22 May 2005 (PDT)

=== Lock Contents and Hierarchical Position of a Node ===

It will be really nice to be able to lock the contents of a node so it cannot be edited unless it is explicitly unlocked. Similarly, it might be useful to prevent a node from being moved to another position in the hierarchy of the map.

=== Better Placement of New "Secondary" Nodes Relative to the Root Node ===

When adding nodes to the root node, they appear to be placed Right, Left, Right, Left. If some of these secondary nodes are deleted and another one is added to the root node, the side on which it is added appears to be chosen according to the number of secondary nodes on each side.

This seems fair enough, but if some of the secondary nodes have hundreds of child nodes and others only have a few then you can end up with a map which has far more nodes on the right than the left, but still have new secondary nodes added on the right hand side.

How about using the total number of nodes on each side when working out whether a secondary node should be on the right or left of the root node? Alternatively, allow secondary nodes to be dragged onto the other side of the root node (which doesn't appear to be possible currently).

: CTRL+[LEFT,RIGHT,UP,DOWN] moves the node and its children accordingly (at least in 0.9.0 Beta 8)

Can we have complete manual control of all secondary nodes originating from the root - so that each secondary node has its own unique point of origin on the root node which can be moved independently of all other secondary nodes. At the moment all secondary nodes originate left or right. It would be useful if they could originate like different points of the compass. North, north north west, north west, etc. and even points in between.

=== Using basic vector shapes ===

Using basic shapes like line, rectangle, square, circle etc. would by usefull.

=== Treat a node as HTML using an attribute ===
Instead of the cumbersome "<html>" string required at the beginning of the text. And even worse, having to keep the MaxNodeWidth enforced with something like <body width="600">. Why not take a different approach. One that seems like it would have little impact on the code, though I have not read it as of yet...

If html was treated as an attribute like bold and italic as in html="true", then process the entire node as html same as when the string "<html>" is detected at the beginning of the text. There would be a default <style>body {width:<MaxNodeWidth>}</style> in place, though the actual html in the node could override this just the way normal CSS does.

This has '''MAJOR''' implications for the use of the xml file. Though I have not written any XSLT yet for FreeMind yet, I was appalled at the thought of having to strip out this "<html>" string out of every node that used it. And positively frustrated at the idea of having to test for tags used to control width, i.e. <body width="600">. I really thought this crude and that it would slow the proceesing of files that use what is really a most beautifully clean concept.

However, an html attribute does away with all of this and seems to me to be a much more elegant and cleanly way to deal with html....

BTW, it would be very straight forward to write an XSLT transform to upgrade existing .MM files.

I just had another thought, why not go all the way and give each node a MIME type, limited to "text/plain" (default) and "text/html" for now. This leaves the door open to readily process other mime types through plugins, or whatever. In any case the attribute concept is something worth thinking about. --[[User:Danv|danv]] 10:25, 8 Feb 2006 (PST)

=== Add pictures to notes ===
Add a picture to a note of a node. It would be cool to export a map to HTML (Clickable Map) and have the picture only in the note. Whis would be the logical implementation for e.g. [http://freemind.sourceforge.net/docs/features/0_8_0/Features%200.8.0.html overview of new features in 0.8.0]. It would not be needed to create extra nodes for pictures only.

=== Code environment ===

Possibility to insert source code e.g. html (pre does not work...)

: I don't understand what this request is about. You can insert any source code you want into FreeMind's nodes, just that it cannot start with < html >; HTML code can be inserted by setting space as the first character of a node. --[[User:Danielpolansky|Danielpolansky]] 05:51, 29 Apr 2006 (PDT)
--[[User:Danielpolansky|Danielpolansky]] 05:57, 29 Apr 2006 (PDT)

=== Alphabetize Nodes ===
Automatically rearrange a specified node level in alphabetical order. Today I do this manually in certain circumstances. It can be very time consuming to preform this manually, and hopefully it would not be too time consuming to automate. --[[User:Slashdotted|Slashdotted]] 18:22, 21 Jul 2006 (PDT)

=== Order of Nodes ===
According to Buzan Mindmaps should be read clockwise. What every mindmapping tool misses is the fact that nodes on the left side of the center should be added from bottom to top, with the last entered node on the 11 position.

that was the first thing i noticed about freemind also. i have been making mindmaps by hand for years now and they are always clockwise.
also when exporting eg. to html the nodes should be ordered clockwise. maybe i miss some feature, but when i first exported a mindmap the order was somehow from top to bottom (3 from the right, then 2 from the left, then continue with the right side,...)
the other thing is that nodes are always left or right, and not orderered in a circle.
the only way i can work with freemind is to put all nodes on the right side but the map looks more like a list then

=== Selection and Deselection of Icons ===
It would be great if the icon toolbar on the left would show different styles of an icon (selected / not-selected), so one can easily deselect an icon for a node, rather than go through the contextmenue each time

Besides, it would be great if the context menu could allow remove specific icons, not just the last one.

----

As an addendum to this request, it would be really interesting to define a "combo box" type where (to do/project milestone/other actionable state) lists defined in the tree could be updated by clicking the drop down on the combo box instead of having to delete the icon and re-add another one.

=== Reminder nodes - Alerts and possible Outlook / Lotus Notes / etc integration ===
It would be a great additional feature if it was possible to use FreeMind as a reminder tool too. This idea poped into my mind right now, so it's not pretty much developed yet, but if it was possible to mark a node as a reminder then I would have no need to use Outlook to remind me of things to be done. I was reading something on GTD (Gets Things Done) and it connection with MindMaps and I thought that it would be useful to attach reminders to MindMaps/Nodes. There're a couple of approachs to implement it: The first would be to integrate Freemind with Outlook ot Lotus Notes, and then when you tag a node as a reminder it actually creates a reminder inside Outlook or Notes using the node text and context, so that you get reminded by those applications when the reminder alert occurs. The other option is to write an application that is used to alert user of a node reminder. [[User:Loudenvier|Loudenvier]] 11:08, 11 Aug 2006 (PDT)
It would also be fabulous if one could hyperlink from FreeMind to a Lotus Notes database document. Currently, one gets a "This URL is malformed!" error message. Thanks!

=== Demoting Root ===
Allow insert of sibling of root which auto creates a new root. The old root and the new sibling are both attached to it --[[User:Patheros|Patheros]] 11:45, 10 Apr 2007 (PDT)

=== Open Mindmaps in the same already open Freemind ===
In Windows I open my mindmaps by double-clicking on the *.mm file. It would be nice if double-clicking would not always open a new FreeMind. Instead, I like to view the mindmap in the already existing open Freemind application. [[User:wasserratte|wasserratte]] 10:01, 3 May 2007 (CET)

=== WBS Mode ===
I would like to see a WBS Viewing Mode, where the map would be arranged in a top-down hierarchical display. Something like the Organization Chart from Microsoft Office. That would help using FreeMind as a WBS Chart tool.

I would like to see the ability to port a WBS developed with FreeMind into Microsoft Project similar to the plug in for MindMapper. --[[User:Tuneboy|Tuneboy]] 07:58, 27 Nov 2007 (PST)

=== Improve MacOS Binary Package ===
All files should be contained inside the FreeMind.app package, like most other Mac programs.

== Principles of Unix ==

The principles from Unix are that programs should do one thing, and do it well, and to use well-defined inter-communication between those programs. The current design of FreeMind completely violates those rules - mostly because it is written in Java, but definitely because it is written _exclusively_ in Java. However, do not despair! All Is Not Lost!

By splitting FreeMind along very specific lines, it will very quickly be possible to do things like use a completely different viewing front-end (such as a web interface). It will be possible to satisfy one of the RFEs listed here for 'command line only'. It will be possible to use FreeMind as a powerful semantic analysis engine tool.

And none of that is possible because the current design is entirely in some stupid programming language called "java", which should have been put down for its own good, at birth (thank you Sun Microsystems).

For an example of the kind of architecture that you should follow, take a look at http://gnuenterprise.org/. It should be _trivial_ to add in a "database plugin" into gnuenterprise, and to have a gnuenterprise "reports" form viewing the same data and attributes etc. that a FreeMind user is simultaneously looking at.

And it's _not_ difficult - IF you split along the right lines.

[http://sourceforge.net/tracker/index.php?func=detail&aid=1687293&group_id=7118&atid=357118 RFE 1687293]

== User Interface ==

=== Views ===

==== Hoist/Unhoist ====

It would be awesome if FreeMind could allow the 'hoist' of a non-root node. Clicking on the node and choosing 'hoist' would redraw the map showing that node as root, its descendents around it, and the ancestors, which are now descendants, too, hidden.

Watch an example XSLT script, which hoist the anchor from the root to the node where a graphical link, originating at the root, points at. Input sample FreeMind map:

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<map version="0.9.0_Beta_8">
<node ID="Freemind_Link_1870928497" TEXT="a">
<arrowlink DESTINATION="Freemind_Link_731312914" ENDARROW="Default"
ENDINCLINATION="219;0;" ID="Arrow_ID_1222167311" STARTARROW="None"
STARTINCLINATION="219;0;"/>
<node ID="Freemind_Link_530368245" POSITION="right" TEXT="aa">
<node ID="Freemind_Link_29760795" TEXT="aaa"/>
<node ID="Freemind_Link_731312914" TEXT="aab">
<node ID="ID_1690650363" TEXT="aaba"/>
</node>
</node>
<node ID="Freemind_Link_16275782" POSITION="right" TEXT="bb"/>
</node>
</map>

The Hoist XSLT script moving the root along a graphic link:

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<xsl:stylesheet xmlns:xsl="http://www.w3.org/1999/XSL/Transform" version="1.0">
<xsl:template match="*|@*">
<xsl:copy>
<xsl:copy-of select="@*"/>
<xsl:apply-templates/>
</xsl:copy>
</xsl:template>
<xsl:template match="/map">
<xsl:copy>
<xsl:copy-of select="attribute_registry"/>
<xsl:apply-templates select="//node[@ID=/map/node/arrowlink/@DESTINATION]"/>
</xsl:copy>
</xsl:template>
<xsl:template match="//node[@ID=/map/node/arrowlink/@DESTINATION]">
<xsl:copy>
<xsl:copy-of select="*|@*"/>
<xsl:apply-templates select="." mode="aws"/>
</xsl:copy>
</xsl:template>
<xsl:template match="node" mode="aws">
<xsl:if test="parent::node">
<xsl:element name="node">
<xsl:attribute name="TEXT">
<xsl:value-of select="../@TEXT"/>
</xsl:attribute>
<xsl:apply-templates select="preceding-sibling::node"/>
<xsl:apply-templates select="following-sibling::node"/>
<xsl:apply-templates select="parent::node" mode="aws"/>
<xsl:apply-templates select="../attribute"/>
</xsl:element>
</xsl:if>
</xsl:template>
</xsl:stylesheet>

It would be nice, if this would be a function inside FreeMind e.g. right click on a node and in this context menu chose New Root.
[[User:JR|JR]] 06:34, 16 Apr 2008 (PDT)

==== Folding Animation ====
I believe having a very short animation when folding/unfolding a node would increase readability as it whould make it easier to know where nodes where before and where did they moved to.

==== Left toolbar ====
I think we have too much icons on the left, most of it isn't used. I think it could be halved, and only show the user preferred icons, and the rest of the place could be used to dock other tools. --[[User:Zslevi|Zslevi]] 13:03, 1 Nov 2007 (PDT)

Leos: it would be nice, if I could remove some icon from the toolbar or rearrange order of the icons (like in MS Office).

to allow an easy access to all the icons on the left bar, one may group icons that follow the same metaphor (ex: numbers, home/office, crosslight red/green/orange ....) and access to the icon of interest by clicking on the group icon. This could serve also to simplify the change: suppose you have an ordered list with the icons 1, 2, 3 ... or with icons representing different states "draft", "in review", "published" ... then you could click on the icon on a node, and have a contextual menu with all the other icons of the same group (and delete/delete all). You could much more easily change from "in review" to "publish" state :-) --[[User:Patco|Patco]]

==== Notes ====
I think it's a great thing to have notes for nodes, but I would prefer more options on formatting note text. (What about integrating with Open Office Writer?) At least the font size should be set, because the default size is so small and hard to read. --[[User:Zslevi|Zslevi]] 13:03, 1 Nov 2007 (PDT)

==== Zoom to fit ====
It would be nice if on loading a map, the view executes an automatic zoom-to-fit instead of the default 100%. Also the Fit option should be added to the Zoom drop down menu (as Powerpoint does for example). Also a keyboard accelerator should be added for Zoom to Fit (e.g. Ctrl-Shift-Z, they are near each other). Another small thing: if you have a map larger than taller, the current implementation adjust the scale to fit the map horizontally, but leave the map not centered in the vertical direction. Could this also be fixed?
--[[User:Mvalle|mvalle]] 06:14, 2 Dec 2008

=== Windows ===
It would be especially helpful if we could reorganize the arrangement of freemind's windows. For example, nodes with notes appear at the bottom and can't be moved around. In other heirarchical editors, a tree view could appear at the left and the text (notes) could be moved to the right, where a large screen and indentation could make most of the text readable as compared to the bottom of the screen.

=== Keyboard ===
==== F1 is conventionally help ====
F1 is normally a help key in most apps

* When zooming with the keyboard shortcuts it would be better to have
Alt + Up Arrow to zoom-in and Alt + Down Arrow to zoom-out. This is
a more natural way of thinking about zooming.-ZSDM

==== Show a help bar on the bottom of the screen for F keys ====
Have an optional toolbar that can be shown along bottom of screen with buttons that can be clicked with a mouse and operate as per the function keys and also give a hint as to what key does.
e.g.
[F1 help] [F2 hot][F3 green][F4 ] [F5]
And format the text of the key as per the pattern it applies
==== Enforce Default Per-Line Text Width For Long Nodes ====

At least 70% of the nodes are multi-line nodes, and to make all the long nodes look *uniform*, we need to manually insert line breaks for each long node, this can get pretty tedious, and also it's difficult to get all nodes of uniform width. A much better way is to have the system enforce a configurable "long node width", that adds line breaks when necessary. If no such paramater is set, it can default to the current behavior.

This can happen through a default attribute of the <body>-tag i.e. <body width="200px">.

===== Locking Node Focus =====

Currently the node focus is "set" by moving the mouse. The last node that the mouse flys over is the default focus node, and subsequent operations like "insert an icon" is performed will be performed on that node. It would be really helpful to be able to *manually* lock the focus on a node, this way it's easier to set an icon (all the way to the left side of the screen) to the right node.

==== Toggle for Re-centering the Map upon node selection =====

I love FreeMind and yet I still dream of a more and better version. Under the mouse section, I have suggested a toggle to enable and disable the mouse fly-overs select node mechanism. It would also be nice if there was some means to recenter the map upon node selection to make that section of the map the graphical focus.

==== Re-centering the Map with Hypergraph-like navigation tool =====

The most compelling form of refocusing large mind maps are ThinkMap's Visual Thesaurus, The Brain, The WebBrain. Of course, being a user and not a programmer, I can only imagine how much work that might take. Perhaps, you might find it useful to forge a collaboration with the SourceForge Hypergraph Project and ask them to build an export to Hypergraph module for you. One note of caution: Straightforward implementation of a hypergraphs compress large peripheral nodes into a small and unreadable overlapping space. This defeats the value of the hypergraph navigation. Thinkmap has solved that problem by forcing peripheral nodes to be well-spaced for readability.

=== "physical style" could be customized ===

I love the flexibility FreeMind provided to make my mindmap pretty. For each node, I can choose the font size, format, color...The choices are so many that making the changes with mouse is a little bit slow because the choices are buried in many sub-menus. The physical style provides a short-cut. But the styles are not attractive. Why not provide a tool so that the user can define a node format (including font size, format, color and icon et al) and associate it to F3~F9 and Ctrl +F1~F9. So after I type in the content, by pushing one key, the node can be customized within a second.

* It's done exactly this way in FreeMind 0.9 --[[User:Terkor|Terkor]] 19:39, 18 Jul 2007 (PDT)

=== Mouse ===

==== Scroll wheel zoom Operation ====

a) It would be nice to be able to zoom using just the scroll wheel rather than pressing CTRL at the same time. How about a user preference/option to control this. This is similar to many other Apps e.g. Excel ie wheel = zoom or pan

b) The way the scroll wheel works seems opposite to many other programs which is confusing
ie push wheel forward causes a zoom out whereas other apps zoom in

==== Right mouse popup menu text ====
The words "Node up" and "Node down" could be easier to understand if there was a verb in it
e.g.
Move node up
Move node down

The operation of it is great, but as a novice it is not clear if it does
move up a node - ie where current cursor is moves
or
move the node - ie the node is moved to a different position on the diagram

==== Photoshop/Freehand-like Keyboard/Mouse Document Navigation ====
Coming from the graphics department, it would be really nice to have the standard mouse/keyboard navigation style (which by the way is great way of handling oversized documents and going from overview to detail view with just a few clicks):

a) Space toggles View Panning
b) CTRL-Space toggles zoom in (Click to zoom in, zoom centered to position of mouse cursor)
c) CTRL-ALT-Space toggles zoom out (click to zoom out, zoom centered to position of mouse cursor)
Tried to map CTRL-Space to zoom in, which worked, but not on mouseclick but on keydown. Additional ALT key for zoom out was not accepted at all in settings->keys

==== Toggle for Mouse fly-over ====

Elsewhere in this RFE, others have noted that although the mouse fly-over selection mode is great for rapid navigation, there are times when one changes the selection as the mouse cursor moves up to the toolbar. Why not toggle the mouse fly-over by some method. Perhaps one of the most convenient methods would be a left mouse double click on the node to freeze the selection.

=== TouchPad ===

==== Horizontal scroll ====

Horizontal scrolling does not seem to work.

=== Menu ===
==== Toggle toolbar on/off via View Menu ====
Add ability to toggle display of toolbars via the menu
Suggest put it under View menu

Functionality as per RIGHT mouse key on a blank part of the screen

==== Alter wording of sub menu Mode ====
As a novice found it hard to understand the difference between Map and Browse
would have found it easier if it had said
ALT+1 Edit map
ALT+2 Browse map
ALT+3 File

==== Add a save all map icons ====
If you work with several maps, it is impossible to save all maps in one shot,
except if you close freemind.

=== Toolbars ===

==== Icon toolbar ====

===== Cross and watebasket look like icons rather than buttons =====
To a novice the delete (red cross) and delete all (wastebasket) icons look like icons
ie add a cross to the map rather than perform operations
especially on the popup "select icon" window.

===== Some icons in left toolbar fall off bottom of toolbar =====

===== Clone icon toolbars on both sides =====
I want to have same icon toolbar on both sides - left and right. If I had icon toolbar on both sides, I could choose the shortest way to the icon.

==== Top toolbar ====
===== Order of icons in top toolbar =====
Would be nice if these icons were in a more standard order (as per other apps)
e.g.
New, Open, save, print, cut,copy, paste with next/previous map buttons more to the right

(Icons in V0.08 RC2 look a lot smarter)

===== Font size pulldown is very wide =====
Pulldown to select font size is stretching and becoming very wide, which doesn't look neat.

===== Visual feedback for toolbar buttons =====
Currently (0.8.1) The buttons in the top toolbar do not show any visual feedback when pushed, so you remain with the doubt to have done anything. -- [[User:Mvalle|Mvalle]] 03-dec-08

===== Customizable top toolbar =====
A few functions are often used so it's more efficient to be able to customize the top toolbar to have those buttons, eg. node background color, node font color are both very useful to highlight different nodes for different purpose. Last applied color should be able to use just by clicking the same button. There should be more this kind of depends on individual preference.
-- [[User:dGuru|dGuru]] 08-Dec-2008

==== New toolbar for format operations ====

===== Move font type and size pulldowns to new format toolbar =====
ie group all formatting functions as per Format menu options onto a format toolbar

===== Add ability to select a default format for text =====
e.g. have a split icon
left part looks like a letter "A" in colour text is currently set to
right part of icon looks like a black down arrowhead which if clicked pulls up a colour picker

===== Add ability to select a default format for lines =====
e.g. have a split icon
left part looks like a line in colour text is currently set to
right part of icon looks like a black down arrowhead which if clicked pulls up a colour picker

===== Add ability to select a default format for clouds =====
e.g. have a split icon
left part looks like a coloured outline of a cloud in colour text is currently set to
right part of icon looks like a black down arrowhead which if clicked pulls up a colour picker

===== One-click selection of cloud color =====
It would be nice not to have to go through the context-menu to change the cloud color. This should be as easy as in v0.7 by just clicking in the toolbar.

==== Enlarge and reduce the text size ====
Enlarge and reduce the text size will be very helpful.

=== Map Overview / Navigation Pane ===
..like seen in MindManager: a small detached window that allows quick overview and repositioning of the visualized map section

===Gestures===
How about the ability to use gestures (mouse or pen) to do basic manipulation?
Click and drag right to enter new node.
Click and drag left to enter new sub-node.

Maybe use middle button click for gestures to avoid conflict with current capabilities.

'''Remark:''' This is already possible. Just use the freeware StrokeIt. It very easily adds gestures to any program. --[[User:Terkor|Terkor]] 18:08, 28 May 2007 (PDT)

=== Outline View ===
It would be really nice to have the option of seeing an outline view - which you could also drag and drop with --[[User:Slashdotted|Slashdotted]] 18:26, 21 Jul 2006 (PDT)

Along the lines of using gestures for manipulation and entry I use FreeMind on a tabletpc. I would like to be able to use inking capabilities.

=== Applet ===
Since you can drag for navigation, why not allow the scrollbars to be disabled
in order to increase screen real estate?

=== MacOS Enhancements ===
Some keystrokes should be remapped (by default) to conform with the keystrokes used on Mac's User Interface, like:
* Delete Child: CMD-BACKSPACE, instead of DELETE (Mac laptops doesn't have a DELETE key)
* Zoom Out: ALT-DOWN, instead of ALT-UP
* Zoom In: ALT-UP, instead of ALT-DOWN (consistent with macos Zoom feature)

Some common keyboard shortcuts should also be implemented:
* Minimize the window to the Dock: CMD-M
* Restore window from the Dock: ALT-1

=== Spell Check ===
I'm a dyslectic - at least am used to type many errors. (Almost) All software I use (to type content) have some form of spell checker supported. And because I also use FreeMind for mindmaps in presentations; they need to contain as less as possible number of writing errors. (Please in any supported language) --[[User:Sent|Sent]] 11:41, 8 Mar 2009 (UTC)

== Maps ==

=== Flowchart for Programming Structure ===
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== Features in development ==

2006-07-16. The development team of FreeMind is currently working on the following features. (We cannot guarantee that the features will actually make it into the next release; most of them should.)

* Attributes on nodes
* Filtering which nodes are shown by icons and contained string
* Rich text nodes
* Save All function

=== Purge this list ===
Could this enhancement request be purged when features are implemented? --[[User:Mvalle|Mvalle]] 6:49, 2 Dec 2008

== Project management ==

=== Firefox Integration ===

My suggestion is to integrate FreeMind with Firefox so you can classify anything you download and extract useful knowledge. In case of being a html page also would be great some clipboard features to add selected text to FM notes in a particular node or as a new child etc.. My html notes consist on a short text I write about the webpage, below link to webpage and below selected text of this webpage, then I save the webpage in a directory for later use. Currently I am using FM to organize some info from my html notes and recent html pages (several hundreds) I have downloaded and I would find this feature fantastic. First you download a file/html page with selected/typed/default text as filename and assign selected or typed text to their FM node, then you organize downloads in a new tab in which FreeMind is running.. Wonderful!! (Also persistent notes instead of temporal ones or at least the ability to choose their behaviour would be great too)

To make FreeMind a productive tool with Firefox, at the very least, when you drag the URL icon from the URL toolbar on the top of Firefox to a node in FreeMind, FreeMind should create a single child node with the correct label and link in it. Currently, it creates multiple child nodes with messed-up labels, which require tedious manual cleanup after the drag-n-drop.

=== Ganttproject/Freemind integration ===

It would be very interresting to integrate Ganttproject, for a better
project management. This solution would be very close from JCVGantt pro + mindmanager (http://www.gantt.fr/#).
Both (Freemind and Ganttproject) are GPL, and java coded.
- actually there is already a data converter for this: [http://johanneskutsam.spaces.live.com/blog/cns!1961B7AE7280AAFD!264.entry '''Freemind2gantt converter '''] It now needs a tighter integration and some more intelligent overlap of contents, so that 1:1 conversion is possible (in both directions) --[[User:BoP|BoP]] 05:31, 22 Jul 2007 (PDT)

=== Time management and dependencies ===
Integrate date attributes and a timing view
Allow to set other attributes (people, groups, objects, locations)
Build on top of that a half-hierarchical structure with dependencies

* For some of the software packages leading this field look at: [http://www.matchware.com/en/products/openmind/default.htm "OpenMind 2"] or [http://www.conceptdraw.com "ConceptDraw"]
--[[User:BoP|BoP]] 05:31, 22 Jul 2007 (PDT)

There should be the option for recurring Reminders (e.g. every week, every month, etc.). --[[User:Terkor|Terkor]] 07:29, 19 Aug 2007 (PDT)

== Nodes ==
===Allow nodes to be moved up or down within heirarchial structure===

Allow nodes to be moved up or down within heirarchial structure, where you can allready physically change the distance between nodes it would be great if you move a node too high or too low it shifts it up or down accordingly with the structural fromat of the mind map

=== Allow picture-nodes to be Pasted ===
I've been using FreeMind as a note taker during lectures for a while, and its great. Of course, every once in a while you need to add a picture quickly. I wish FreeMind would allow for me to draw a picture in Paint or whatever and simply Paste it into a node.
-RogerF

''KeepNote'' has a build in ''Insert Screenshot'' function, which is very easy to use. That would enhance note taker jobs enormous. In addition a creation of a journal note with default date and time would be nice.
-JSp

=== Sketch-nodes ===
As a note taker during lectures, FreeMind is great. Of cource every once in a while the lecturer will draw a more complex picture on the board, and suddenly you're out of ways to 'capture' an important part of the lecture. I would like to be able to add a 'Sketch' node, that would bring up a popup Window and a simple SVG editor. It doesnt have to be advanced, but being able to draw circles, ellipses, straight lines, a few colors an line widths etc. would come a long way with respect to FreeMind as a note-taker during lectures!
-RogerF

=== Improved Table editor ===
IMHO, the table feature of FreeMind is great to have, but a little inflexible. I would like to see features such as:
- drag to indicate number of cells (similar to Word)
- insert row, column etc. should be avaiable from the right-click menu
- change background colors

=== Add Fonts, Especially Strikethrough ===
- I use Freemind for, amongst other things, task management. I'd like the ability to format node text with strikethrough so the placeholder is kept but it's clear on a quick scan that the task has been handled. I find this much easier than, say, using an icon to identify a completed task

=== Automatically selecting a specific node on startup ===

html allows you to access specifically marked sections immediately using the anchor syntax, which is incorporated into the url. But in freemind, all nodes already have unique id's. It would be very convenient if you could refer to a specific node id right after specifying the filename so that freemind could jump to that particular node immediately. For example:

freemind foo.mm -> opens foo.mm and selects the center of the map

freemind foo.mm bar -> opens foo.mm and goes to the node ID'd bar.

This kind of syntax will make it very convenient for a user of freemind to make a network of mindmaps, and to jump in between networks using the hyperlink input. Of course, for this to be useful, there must also be a shortcut to display the current node's unique ID, and a mechanism for freemind to recognize other hyperlinks that are also mindmaps.

-Markd

=== Automatic Numbering of Nodes ===

A key feature of MindJet and Simtech mindmaps is the ability to toggle a numbers on or numbers off view. This makes a large mindmap more workable, because everyone can quickly reference specific nodes by the node number(s). This is especially useful after converting a map to Open Office or Word, so you have a numbered outline. The numbers would be the logical parent-child relationship seen in outlining or data modeling. The number should be displayed above the node text with a dashed line or shading to distinguish it from the node text. The user should also have the option to display numbers with dots, or without dots (to reduce the length). When a node is moved, deleted, etc. - the maps numbers are auto-recalculated to show the new relationships. This enhancement (along with spell check) would make FreeMind a more useable business tool.

GregA

FullACK. The feature should allow to have all/selected nodes [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ISO_2145 ISO2145]-numbered (in map-view or at least on export). I believe this would not be too difficult to implement. (Probably in 0.9.0 this can be done more or less easily by Groovy-scripting, but maybe it would just turn into a standard-feature for everybody, if it was included into one of the standard-menus.)

Thanks, Golgol

Numbering can be easily achieved by having an external plugin, which is a program that analyses the data (node) it receives, and just adds a "number" attribute.

lkcl.

=== Automatic word wrap in Nodetext ===

I'd like to see this feature. I want for example set a default max node width. So the text will wrap when this width is reached. This would make mindmaps more readable and easier to edit.

Edit: I just noticed, that it is possible by giving "width=" to the body tag in html mode (or rich formatting) but it would be nice having this in plain text mode, too.

Edit2: If you set a "width=" in the body TAG the Node will be this wide. The Node should get smaller if the given width is not needed.

nautsch

=== Automatic transition to Edit Long Node ===

When the user starts typing a node, she/he may not know in advance if the text will fit on one line or require multiple lines (Long Node). It would be advisable that pressing ALT-ENTER at the end of a single line node, switches to the Long Node editing window as it does now, but with the cursor already on the second line of the editing window, so that the user can keep typing right away from there. Currently it's necessary to press END and then ENTER to obtain this behavior. The proposed modification would avoid pressing this two extra keys.

Marco

=== Add to alert to a node ===

I do use Freemind to keep track of my current tasks. MindMaps are IMO a very good way to organize to chaos in them (if you know a better tool, please mail hoffi@muskelshirt.de). But since some tasks do contain da deadline, the possibility to add an alert would be very handy (e.g. like Outlook-alerts).

* Tools -> Show Calendar... -> Remind Me At This Date; also see: Tools -> Show Time Sceduler List... --[[User:Terkor|Terkor]] 19:32, 11 Feb 2008 (PST)

=== Sorting nodes ===

It will be very useful to SORT SELECTED NODES at the same hierarchical level like a list. The simplest and fastest sorting rule would be the alphabetical order. It will improve the visibility of a map. It could be added as plugin or function at the same level as the function "join nodes". It would have to work even if the nodes have subnodes. Thanks. Franck --[[User:Fb5|Fb5]] 02:50, 15 Nov 2007 (PST)

=== Synchronised nodes / mirror nodes / relational nodes ===

Some times you might want a node in two locations. What you can do today is to add a link and/or a graphical link. What I would like to is to have mirrored / synchronised nodes. Say that I have node A, and that I want the same node in another location as well. Simply I should be able to Ã¢ÂÂInsert mirror nodeÃ¢ÂÂ, and wupti node A is shown here as well. No matter whether I now edit the node at the new or original location the nodes is changed in both locations (but of course only stores once). If a plugin for this exists then please mail me at freemind@skinny.dk.

Martin

Another more data centric way to look at this is as relational nodes. Instead of restricting the data model to a simple tree you could store the data in a relational format. This would give users the ability to store nodes with many parents.

This would produce the effect described about but would also open up the possibilities of the app for more human like brain dumping. I am almost certain that the human brain does not relate 1 single piece of information to 1 other piece, it is more natural for us to relate it to as many other pieces of info as possible as this helps us to remember.

So... new data model!! Many to many relationships! :-)

A simple way of storing this type of data would be a flat list of nodes with IDs and then another list of relationships with a focus on Parent relationships. There is only a need to store which Parent(s) a node belongs to. This could be none or more than one.

Some other considerations include rendering the data. For e.g. if a user highlights a node which appears in more than one location in the map (i.e. has more than one parent) do you explode both end points, just the one or maybe provide the option to do either.

PH4wks
=== Free-standing nodes ===

The main feature missing from freemind is free standing nodes, not initially connected to anything, which you later organise, making them parents or children or simply just linked to other nodes. This is how our brains work - it's important not to be restricted to an hierarchical model as currrently.
PBL

Yes i definantly agree free standing nodes is essential. Furthermore from this, a more network orientated view of nodes and links would be a lot freeer and natural. So Linking the nodes with links, and then being able to view them in different ways, Selecting different root nodes or groups of nodes, or the main topic as the root node as it is now.

I completely agree. I have long felt that this is the single biggest thing missing from freemind (and most mind-mapping tools). Being limited to a hierarchy under a single node is a very severe limitation. It completely artificially constrains my natural organizational habits and it leads to "uncomfortable" mapping layouts. For example, I prefer to have my parent nodes on the left and my child nodes on the right, but I quickly run out of visual real-estate when working with mindmaps in my lop-sided way. If I could detach nodes and arrange them freely I could see and work with so much more on a single screen. Also, by having free nodes, I could use a single mindmap for a lot more (possibly my whole life) - and I could avoid having to manage or maintain several maps to manage several separate projects. My mind is not "free" without free nodes. :-)

=== Other node print layout for very big maps ===

While working with a map having 4000 nodes - well structured - it is useful to have a plotter to print it on one sheet. On the other hand there are no walls 5 meters high in this office. So I'd like to request an alternative print mode with a 90 degree rotated layout. This would also enable collaboration of 2 and more people in front of this wallpaper. [[User:Noiv|Noiv]]

=== Inheritance of Node Characteristics ===

If the font size/type, colour and background colour of a node have been set then any child nodes that are created (as opposed to moved into place) should inherit those characteristics. --[[User:Anton|Anton]] 12:20, 25 Jul 2008 (PDT)

I wouldn't use the above suggestion much, actually. Instead, I'd want nodes to inherit font size/type, edge styles etc. from their ''siblings''. This makes sense to me as nodes on a particular level would tend to be section headings, which I'd want e.g. in a larger font than the nodes that come below them.

Perhaps there could be the option for both these types of inheritance. For any 'leg' of a map, the user could right click and get a menu listing the various elements which could be formatted (font [+size, +colour], edge [+style, +width, +colour], etc.), and could indicate whether that element is to inherit from Parent, Sibling or No inheritance.

It sounds a little complicated, but I'd like to have that level of control. It'd save a lot of time for large, complex projects.
-- [[User:Doubi|Doubi]] 20:13, 6 Dec 2008 (UTC)

=== ALT/ENTER to close Long Node editing window ===

As you can use ALT+ENTER to open long node editing window, it woult be logical to use the same keys to close this window.

Kast

=== Merge several nodes back into one branch ===

This feature could work as follows:
ctrl-select several nodes. hit "insert". all selected nodes are now connected to the newly created node

Joshua

== Export and Import ==

=== Import from an "interpreter", Export via "programs" ===

Possibly the most important feature to have for FreeMind is to have an "interpreter" plugin, of scripts - external programs - which can "suck in" content that is defined in a SIMPLE (and by simple i don't mean XML) format.

FreeMind should therefore, ultimately and effectively, be a "cacheing" and "display" and "edit" mechanism.

Likewise, for exporting of information, it should be possible to feed internal data to a predefined program (where the program to be used should be an attribute, where the attribute itself can be the result of a decision made from running an external script!!)

Ultimately, therefore, it should be absolutely trivial to do all of the import and export capabilities, listed below, in terms of well-defined and very simple external programs.

(side-note: the external programs can be non-java programs, of course - even shell scripts. java is a really stupid programming language to do this kind of work in: as a statically typed object-orientated language, it's simply not up to the job. it's great for display purposes, and it's great for platform-independence, but that's about all that it's good for)

[http://sourceforge.net/tracker/index.php?func=detail&aid=1687292&group_id=7118&atid=357118 RFE 1687292]

=== Import and Export from HTML and different Wiki formats ===

Simple import/export scripts can be written which have "rules" on understanding the different types of web pages, for example Wikis, and, also, the current "wiki exporter" should be the first plugin created as an "exporter".

It would be trivial for people to then use lynx or wget for example and a few lines of awk or perl to write an HTML "import" plugin. Instead of having to wade through tens of thousands of lines of stupid java (which is only really suitable for display purposes and platform-independence).

Include an option to state whether the notes file should be in a pop-up window, or a link to a separate file in a scrollable window (in the last version I used notes text came up in non-scrollable temporary pop-ups).

===== Export to HTML =====
Exporting to HTML the various labels are styled with a <nowiki><span></nowiki> that has a long style="" entry. It is better to create a set of CSS classes, one for each distinct style, and reference them in the various <nowiki><span></nowiki> blocks. This simplifies also the import into MS Word.
--[[User:Mvalle|Mvalle]] 08:43, 20 Dec 2008 (UTC)

Thinking about cheap export to MS Word a new export to HTML option could be added with every level of the map producing a different <nowiki><hx></hx></nowiki> title. The central node becomes <nowiki><h1></h1></nowiki>, the first branch <nowiki><h2></h2></nowiki> and so on. The node notes could become the text below this level heading. Or the map leaves could become the contained text.
--[[User:Mvalle|Mvalle]] 08:43, 20 Dec 2008 (UTC)

==== Import and Export from Bugtrackers ====

It would be really nice to have import/export plugin scripts which understand the different bugtrackers. FreeMind is already an extremely good project management tool: why isn't it also helping to be the Uber-Project Project?

=== Import and Export databases ===
Any database connectivity would be nice to have,
especially import, be it either via ODBC or MySQL.
Thanks, UndiFineD

Corresponding requests for enhancement.

* [http://sourceforge.net/tracker/index.php?func=detail&aid=1100921&group_id=7118&atid=357118 1100921 : Export JPEG]

=== Filesystem Integration complimenting Import/Export ===
Definitely powerful would be the use of a node to view/edit the contents of a local file instead of an in-program node. This could effectively replace a lot of import/export functions, as a mindmap could be stored as a folder instead of as a single file, so that clients could extract wanted nodes without having to bring their freemind executable. Secondly, while native viewers do not yet exist, it could help users access their data nodes in extraneous formats. Some ideas.

==== Loading viewers for certain data nodes ====
Now that nodes can be given attributes, it isn't too that farfetched to create different kinds of viewers/editors for different kinds of nodes - or to load viewers for those nodes specifically.

==== Completely virtual nodes ====
Likewise, nodes whose content relies entirely on an external text (or other) file could be created which could be parsed back as text to freemind when viewed.

==== Directory operations ====
Freemind's hierarchical structure of node viewing makes it an interesting way to organize directories.

==== Exporting from command line ====
A feature I would really like would be to be able to do export programatically from cmdline.. something like:<br />
<code>freemind-export --flash mymindmap.mm -o mymindmap.html</code>

You not need to export mindmaps, if you want to browse it with flash browser (visorFreemind).
Just use one ÃÂ«smartÃÂ» HTML/Javasript file which takes mindmap name from parameters, like this:
[http://discopal.ispras.ru/mindmaps/mindmaps.html?intro-and-samples.mm], [http://discopal.ispras.ru/mindmaps/mindmaps.html?algorithms-definitions.mm], [http://discopal.ispras.ru/mindmaps/mindmaps.html?algorithms-dtime-dspace.mm].
But this feature (export from command line) will be very useful to export SVG ([http://sourceforge.net/tracker/index.php?func=detail&aid=1865152&group_id=7118&atid=357118 corresponding ticket]). --[[User:StasFomin|StasFomin]] 19:48, 2 Mar 2009 (UTC)

=== Exporting Legend of used Icons ===
It would be nice when a legend would be attached to the exported graphs, explaining the meaning of the icons used in the map. Would support usability for everyone who doesn't know what the freeMind icons should mean; even if they should be intuitive.

comment on the above:

"Yes, I agree too. It would be great also if a TITLE and SUB-TITLES can be placed (and movable) anywhere in the MindMap, so when it is printed out, people know what this mind map is for.

Also, since we can color our own ARROW LINKS, having their descriptions customizable alongside with those colored arrow links inside the legend would be a great enhancement!"

=== Export to OpenOffice ===

: FreeMind-0.8.0 can export mindmaps to OpenOffice Writer files. However, the fonts, colors, and formatting are not exported. A method that works well is to export as HTML, open the exported document in Konqueror (or some other web browse), and copy-and-paste the entire document into OpenOffice Writer.

Unfortunately there seems to be some problem though with opening the files in version 2 of OpenOffice. I haven't had a chance to go and check against the 1.x versions.

: I have the same problem with OOo 1.9.104 (package from Knoppix). I can provide maps where this happens. Regards, [[User:Zapyon|Zapyon]] 14:02, 16 Nov 2006 (PST)

: Freemind .9beta9 exports to OOo 2.2x though it's not pretty.

==== Export to OpenOffice Impress ====

I wonder how difficult it would be to export into Impress presentation. The Nodes cen be Slide Headers, Subnodes can be Outlines and so on. Then Notes can be exported into Slide Notes. One can do a presentation off the screen, give away handouts with full notes to keep.
--[[User:Koaster|Koaster]] 08:48, 7 Aug 2006 (PDT)

* It's not that difficult, at least for simple cases and when ignoring styles/patterns. I just implemented a small xslt-stylesheet which does the job for me. I may set up a project for that (or give it to the contributions). Meanwhile please contact me -- [[User:htgoebel|htgoebel]] 2008-01-08

==== Export Options to Open Document Format .odt ====

Allow user to set options such as:

* number of levels which translate to heading levels
** thereafter use bulleted list levels.

=== Export to Scalable Vector Graphics format (SVG) ===

''Available in FreeMind 0.8.0 RC2.'' Yes! I'd love to see something done with scalable vector graphics, or some such... I really wish Freemind could export to SVG, or maybe even flash... -- Bruce
And happily, developers are thinking the same thing: -- Here's Dimitri on that very possibility in
[http://sourceforge.net/forum/forum.php?thread_id=1031174&forum_id=22101 forum thread].

=== Export to Portable Network Graphics format (PNG) (enhanced) ===

It is already possible to export mindmaps to PNG. But the export function can be enhanced. E.g. the possibility to export PNG pictures with a '''transparent background''' instead of a white background (respectively the color thats used in the presets) would be very handy. Also possibilities to adjust the resolution and PPI (pixels per inch) are very useful when it comes to printing documents with embedded mindmaps in the PNG format. --[[User:UrsusExplorans|UrsusExplorans]] 10:04, 1 Aug 2009 (UTC)

=== Export to Flash or teach Flash to view mm ===

SVG, however, is still not widely supported - not even in desktop browsers, so it is mostly a way to exchange drawings and print. Exporting to Flash or having a Flash viewer that displayed .mm files (after all, ActionScript can now load XML data easily) would enable quick and effortless integration with current Web browsers without requiring them to install the Sun JVM (which can be a major issue in some environments).<br>
Edit: Good news: I was looking for the same and came accross this: http://nobi.com/appleexpo/index-f.html View source to see how it is made, it simply loads the .mm as parameter in a javacript, and I suppose the graphics and rules from freemind is programmed into the .swf. Should be able to take it appart, if noone has the sourcecode for something similar already. [[User:Mskogly|Mskogly]] 15:54, 20 Sep 2005 (PDT)
:This appears done in .9 beta 9. Please test --[[User:Ddaniels|Ddaniels]] 20:40, 22 Mar 2007 (PDT)

=== Support for Embedded Freemind Maps in Pages.Google ===
Embedded maps on free hosts like pages.google would be very cool. Here is a video of my efforts to get Freemind flash maps to work in pages.google.
http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=4967726587301956565&q=freemind+dennis --[[User:Ddaniels|Ddaniels]] 20:40, 22 Mar 2007 (PDT)

=== Export to LaTeX ===

Feb 10,2005. MindMapping concept is perfect when organizing the structure of a document. I
believe that it would be a great feature if freemind could directly export a
mindmap as a LaTeX file (using the text of the main node for the title,
the text of the main branches for \section and so on).

In the mean time (and since I know nothing about java) I wrote
[http://control.cicese.mx/twiki/pub/Main/FreeMindToLaTeX/mm2tex this perl script]
to translate mm->tex. Any improvements are welcome. I will mantain this utility
[http://control.cicese.mx/twiki/bin/view/Main/FreeMindToLaTeX here], but I hope
this feature will be included in freemind one day.

'''June 19, 2007''' The above links to the perl script are broken. Does anyone have it or something similar?

'''17 mei, 2008''' I export the mindmap to OpenOffice and uses OpenOffice to export it to Latex. I use OpenOffice 3.0, not sure if that option is already available in 2.0.

'''9 Feb, 2009''' This is probably the most important feature I'd like to see in freemind; the openoffice conversion trick doesn't work for my needs. The link to the perl script is still broken and the link to Freemindtolatex appears down now too.

=== Export and import to Ganttproject ===

This link takes you directly to the download and instructions for the export / import xslt files
[http://wwwl.kutsam.at/home/johannes/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=15&Itemid=4 : export / import to ganttproject via xslt ]

in Freemind 0.8 you can use "File->Export->Using XSLT" to export a ".gan" file using the xslt file from the link above

=== Export to favorites or bookmarks ===

Requests for enhancements:

* [http://sourceforge.net/tracker/index.php?func=detail&aid=916260&group_id=7118&atid=357118 916260 : Export to Favourites / Bookmarks]

=== Export to ontology formats (OWL, DAML) ===

Requests for enhancements:

* [http://sourceforge.net/tracker/index.php?func=detail&aid=1096791&group_id=7118&atid=357118 1096791 : Export to ontology formats (OWL, DAML)]

=== Export and import to OPML ===

Requests for enhancements:

* [http://sourceforge.net/tracker/index.php?func=detail&aid=940616&group_id=7118&atid=357118 940616 : OPML import / export support]

See also [http://www.opml.org/ OPML]. OPML - Outline Processor Markup Language.

=== Export branch as folder tree ===

A function like "export folder structure" would be useful for the use cases of bookmark manager, and of project preparation. I use [http://sourceforge.net/projects/bkm Bookmark Manager] from SourceForge, a very nice project. I found that importing bookmarks into FreeMind is a great option, if there only was a plugin to export them, Freemind would work as a perfect bookmark manager. Plus, Freemind would work as a nice 'project manager' for creating directory-trees for large projects, at least I see I could find it very usable in my projects which require managing a lot of project files. Creating such structure in Freemind and then exporting it would be very usable. Date: Fri, 16 Apr 2004 18:10:33 +0200

=== Import through any XSLT filter===
The File->Import Menu should have an item "using xslt" (just as File->Export has "using xslt") This would ease the integration of costum transformations (e.g. ganttchart <-> freemind)

lkcl: not recommended. xslt is so bad at doing "programming" that you will have an absolutely _awful_ time. however, if there's a plugin mechanism, and you want to shoot yourself in the head by having an xslt import/export plugin - then great! if the plugin architecture idea is ever taken up, and comes about, i will watch with fascinated horror at your efforts to add an XSLT import plugin...

=== Export and import to GraphViz ===

=== Export to eps ===

=== Integrate with Microsoft Outlook ===

support for adding specially labeled nodes to Outlook's calendar and Outlook's todo list.

Is there a way to integrate the calendar dates for start and completion of events into Outlook.

The export formats allowed in Freemind and the import requirements of Outlook appear to be different.
Is there a format that is acceptable to both of them or a process such as converting to notepad and then into Outlook.

Austin. austin@elanay.net

=== Integrate with Microsoft Office ===

Enable export in EMF (enhanced metafile format). It will help to integrate FreeMind's Mind Maps with Word, Excel or Powerpoint.

---

I'm a new user, and a very computer-illiterate one, but if possible would love to see more integration with Windows Word. At the moment I can copy-paste from FreeMind into Word to get an indented list representing my mindmaps, but could see myself better able to use FM for putting together documents if it had more functionality:

(1) Dynamic integration between Word and FM with nodes mapping to (formatted) Word headings.

(2) Text placed in a node's Note appearing under the corresponding heading in Word as body text.

(3) Changes made either through Word or FM being reflected in both the document and the corresponding mindmap (including rearrangements, additions, changes to text etc).

No doubt a tall order, but it can't hurt to ask :)

-KCM

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=== Import/Export in various Calendar formats ===

The idea being that I can import can a list of meetings, or tasks into Freemind. They would be imported into a sub-node and then i can redistribute them in my mindmap as I want. -- Thanx AP

=== Import via XSLT ===

Would be nice to hase the same dialog for importing as the xslt dialog for exporting. That means the user can import any XML with a proper XSL (sure that needs to generate valid .mm, otherwise the importer will throw an error).

=== Export to Executable JAR File ===

Export to an executable JAR file that can be sent to anyone who has Java installed so they can run the mind map in read only mode. The JAR file would contain the Freemind (browser?) JAR and anything else it needs to run, as well as the mind map file I created. This would be extremely useful because it would allow me to send people mind maps who don't have Freemind installed. I just send them the exported JAR, they double click it and they can view my mind map. This is better than PDF or image exporting because people could actually expand and collapse nodes and it's better than HTML export because it would look and work much better, like the applet does. Hopefully it would only include the necessary stuff for read only/browse mode to keep the JAR as small as possible.

=== Integrate Editor of choice ===

I'd like to have the opportunity to integrate my editor of choice (well there are only vim and Emacs, right? *g*). Being able to invoke an "edit with ..." using a keyboard shortcut (Ctrl-e perhaps if I'm able to redefine the existing "Export to HTML"-shortcut) enables me to edit e.g. notes of nodes in my editor.

In my editor, I do have *a lot of possibilities* FreeMind is not likely going to implement at all or at least that fast: spell check with my existing personalized dictionary, my already defined macros, vertical/column edit mode, various syntax highlighting, enhanced navigation possibilities, completion, folding, search/replace also with regular expressions, undo/redo, ...

-- novoid 2009-05-14

:: This would be nice. Would love to do long node editing in gedit on Ubuntu. Firefox has a plugin called "It's All Text" that lets you edit a web page text box in a configurable text editor. It handles things pretty well with opening up in gedit (for me), and then you save and close it and the web page text box is updated. Something similar would be super here, although I'd recommend just jumping straight to the external editor for long node editing, if you've defined one. [[User:Scarpent|Scarpent]] 19:07, 20 Aug 2009 (UTC)

== Searching ==

Requests for enhancements:

* [http://sourceforge.net/tracker/index.php?func=detail&aid=1084091&group_id=7118&atid=357118 1084091 : Boolean Searches]

Further searching requests.
* regular expression search
* incremental search. No popup; with every letter typed, a node containing the string typed so far is found. Can be modelled on Emacs.
* standard global search and replace functionality of text expressions within nodes
* search accross all the maps that happen to be open at the time

Actually, I'd wish that we have search across all maps opened or not. Just like

'find . -name "*.mm" -exec grep -H "long term" {} \; > /tmp/scratch,

but much more user friendly. Ideally, there should be a Google Desktop search plug-in for FreeMind. I wish I knew how to do it.
--[[User:Yubrshen|yushen]] 00:17, 28 Feb 2007 (PST)

=== Plugin architecture for "actions" ===

Searches is a specific category of the general category of "actions", which should themselves simply be external plugins of actions, with an input capability, output capability and an "iterator" capability.

essentially, what is needed is this:

* Internally, the "search" terms that you're performing are stored in a FreeMind database.
so, the text (as it's being typed!) is entered into a list of "Searches".
* The "context" is the location where the search is to be performed.
* Then, an external script is run called "search" which is passed the two nodes:
the search terms as they're being typed, and the "context" i.e. the data to be searched.

Essentially, you're applying subject-predicate-object to the issue.

Then, you could _have_ your "google desktop" search plug-in, because if the data is stored in flat files (instead of XML) and the search term is turned into a flat file, your plugin can return search results by parsing the HTML that comes back from the Google Desktop search and returning new "nodes" or "attributes" in the simple "import" format that was recommended to be added.

== Notes attached to Nodes ==

=== Note enhancements in 0.9 beta 7 ... ===

* As already mentioned in some postings it would be cool if it would be possible to place the note window optionally on each side of the application.

* Further it would be cool if it could be detached from the main-window so that it becomes a kind of tool-window.

* The graphical version of the note window is cool. But it consumes a lot of space ... Is it possible to avoid the nested tabs and put the tabs for "Layout view/HTML Code view" instead as a toggle button on the toolbar? Would save a lot of space and is more useable! Also maybe we could hide the "<END>" Tag in the graphical editor.

* A possibility to set a <nowiki><br></nowiki> instead a <nowiki><p></p></nowiki> in notes would be great. In other programms it's often shift+return. This would lead to less used space in notes.

=== Word wrap for notes ===
The notes are very important and I tend to write a lot of things in them! So it would be helpful to have for the notes the word wrap option already available for nodes.

=== Shortcut for adding a note to a node ===
It would be nice if there was a shortcut for adding a note to a node

In mousing from the selected node to the menu in order to reach the Insert->Note menu item, I often overfly another node: the selection changes, which is a useability feature I like very much - but then the note drops on the newly-selected node, which is not where I wanted it.
*ditto, a shortcut for adding notes would be of great use. --[[User:Goncalopp|Goncalopp]] 08:03, 27 Sep 2007 (PDT)

=== Link to Nodes from Notes===
I wish to have the ability to create links to various nodes on words within the notes pane. This would be a great feature.

I agree.

=== Mechanism to delete a note from a node ===
I have not found a way to delete a note from a node.

:Just delete the text from the note.

In my case this doesn't work - the note icon remains at the node and the notes window keeps appearing if I mouse over such a node. Deleting jsut the text doesn't help. (Version 0.8.1) - Florian

I can confirm the problem isn't just for you. Although it isn't too hard to open the saved file and remove the Note lines. (Version 0.8.1) - vanstrien

=== Option to keep Notes window open ===
Many but not all of the nodes in a map have notes. As I mouse around the map, the Notes window pops into and out of existence. This is distracting: I would like an option to keep the Notes window open, and see its text update if the selected node has a note.

Include with this an option to stick with the current note - and be able to move around the map from node to node without changing the note and still be able to edit it.

=== Option to position Notes window at right ===
I would like the Notes window to be at the right; others may prefer it at the bottom.
Or to undoc the notes node - movable separate window.

=== Attach note to a node ===

Requests for enhancements:

* [http://sourceforge.net/tracker/index.php?func=detail&aid=1043427&group_id=7118&atid=357118 1043427 : Glorified Endnoting]
* [http://sourceforge.net/tracker/?group_id=7118&atid=357118&func=detail&aid=974920 974920 : Add notes/comments to node]
* [http://sourceforge.net/tracker/?group_id=7118&atid=357118&func=detail&aid=671074 671074 : Additional text for a node, displayed in separate text area]
* [http://sourceforge.net/tracker/?group_id=7118&atid=357118&func=detail&aid=521406 521406 : Separate note for a node, displayed upon request only]

Many people want to have a note attached to a node. Some mind mapping programs have this feature. In my view, such a feature creates a basis for splitting of uses. I would expect long nodes to contain paragraphs or even small articles; I have such nodes, both plain and HTML. I also have long nodes containing nicely set HTML tables. An XSLT transforming script can either assume that paragraphs are in the long nodes or that they are in the notes; not both. Different uses would then require different XSLT scripts. Searching would need to be extended to also search through notes. Notes of different nodes, unlike nodes themselves, cannot be made visible on the canvas at the same time. Without note, every piece of the text in the mind map is a node and therefore first class citizen; it is allowed for it to have children, and whatever feature is offered to other nodes (like icons, time reminders, changing of the default color and the like) is offered to it as well.

Screenshots showing how long nodes can be used follow.

[[Image:FreeMindLongNodes.png]]
[[Image:FreeMindLongNodes2.png]]
[[Image:FreeMindLongNodes3.png]]

As this is such a requested feature, I'd like to invite you to discuss pros and cons here. --[[User:Danielpolansky|Danielpolansky]] 11:47, 15 Feb 2005 (PST)

: The main reasons for enabling node text are as follows: a). to speed the process of map construction & brainstorming. many times note text can be added "after" the primary brainstorming of a topic is complete, as the dimension of information is different - usually it is more detailed. b). the second reason is just or even more important, and that is, to enhance "readability" of the map itself. At our company, we teach that a good mindmap should not contain full sentences, but instead, it should have short phrases - even just one or two words. That is, studies have found out people can understand the main point of any topic by "seeing" just a few words. Maps should be "seen" and not "read". Then, when more detail is needed, you just open the specific node, or view it by a mouse-over type operation. So to summarize, SPEED and READABILITY are critical to the maps actual development and use for most people. --[[ User:GregArndt|GregArndt]] 14:15, 15 Feb 2005 (CST-US)

:: I don't get the point of a). Current solution does not prevent anynode from adding long nodes after the first brainstorming phase. In fact, without separate note, you can always add something afterwards as there is no limit to the depth. What concerns b), long nodes can be folded. This prevents map from being cluttered.

:: Admittedly, ''mouse over'' operation is not sufficient to show the long nodes folded behind a short one. Having a quick look at many long nodes, one at the time, is currently not that easy; it requires a lot of single clicks. --[[User:Danielpolansky|Danielpolansky]] 12:42, 19 Feb 2005 (PST)

: Ok, here's my ''go ahead''. So many people want this feature, and so many mind mapping programs have it. As I am not a mind mapper but rather knowledge manager, I can't judge on this issue properly. Let's get surprised. --[[User:Danielpolansky|Danielpolansky]] 12:48, 19 Feb 2005 (PST)

::: Great news. This will be a real positive addition. And for users that like long notes on the map, they can still always do that. Thank you in advance, this is an excellent application that will continue to improve. ==[[ User:GregArndt|GregArndt]] 23:12,, 19 Feb 2005 (USA-CST)

: To me, HTML long nodes impair Readability of large mindmaps. On the other hand, I get the point that notes don't exactly fit into the concept. Why not go for a compromise: Long nodes would consist of (1) a first line of text, which is always visible/editable and (2) a formated long text, which is only visible/editable in a drop-down window. I would also appreciate a simpler way of editing formated long text than HTML tags. Why not using a RTF editor add-in? [[User:RainerFaller|RainerFaller]] 30 Dec 2005

:: I am all for this. I think that if there was some kind of collapsability the long text problem would be solved. It may be because I am used to programming, but to be able to collapse a bit of text is superb. This would mean that a long node would be collapsed into a single line, say the first line. You can still tell what the node is saying with the first line, but the bulk is concealed. Also, I think that if the nodes are resizable it could be resizable, that would solve the problem. Say a really large node is constructed containing an article, you could resize it to create a scrollable text box. You would only be viewing part of the article at a time, but i think that is manageable when the structure of the mindmap on the whole is preserved.--[[User:Peterw|Peterw]] 12:00, 5 Oct 2007 (PDT)

Maybe it could help to add something like a 'keep-folded' property to a node.
Idea behind it:
A node with 'keep-folded' set is not shown, when the parent of it is unfolded. You would need extra handling for setting the property or showing those 'moved to the background' nodes though. But that way a note could just be a node with that property set. I think a property like that could be helpful in other contexts, too. If you use the Mind Map as a todo-list, you could keep done ((sub-)sub-)...)subtasks folded for example.
Hilmar

: '''Notes are essential:''' While you can write really large nodes, a large node will obscure the mindmap. Lets describe it this way: I do want to perform some medical laboratory tests. This is my '''primary node'''. I want to add '''notes''' on the various aspects how tests should be ordered. The '''child nodes''' describe various symptoms and the attached '''notes''' add epidemiological information and detail. The next '''child nodes''' describe these tests based on the parent symptom nodes. Again, '''notes''' offer further details. The problem with notes-as-nodes is, that the huge text size will obscure the siblings (and even the children of those siblings), thus rendering the map ugly and difficult to comprehend. IF the notes would be only on the last hierarchical level, this wouldn't be such a great problem, BUT IF the notes are written on parent nodes, than the nodes-only approach is a mindblocker, not really a FreeMind.

=== Copy/Export note(s) of node(s) ===

WYSIWYG & note editor ... are very inviting for extensive usage of notes.
* at the moment it is not simple to export or copy them alltogether (with relevant nodes). Option for exporting the notes (also when clipboard-copying-pasting) would be very welcome - something like "Copy With Notes", "Export With Notes" or "Print with notes":
** e.g. for Export/OpenOfficeWriter notes are not exported (they were in 0.8) - I understand that xslt-s have to be adapted to the new xml format of mm (<richcontent ... type=note...> instead of <hook ...>)
* Q: can we consider the freeMind mm.xml format as fixed (at least for 0_9_0)?

AlesPoredos

--[[User:ap|ap]] 07:26, 28 Sep 2006 (PDT)

=== Tooltips ===

Having created a map, it might be more natural to enable us to either show the notes as tooltips, or alternatively to add tooltips as seperate children to notes.

--[[User:Slowlearner|Slowlearner]] 12:08, 12 Aug 2009 (GMT)

== Misc ==

=== Please make freemind more colorful ===
Just like Tony Buzan said, mindmap needs to be very colorful to make your brain exciting.
Freemind is just too "grey" right now.

=== Screen clipping ===
If you used Microsoft OneNote, you will notice a very good feature, Screen clipping.
It allows you anytime, switch to your screen, select an area, got a snapshot and paste the picture in your notes by just few clicks.<br>

This is extremly useful if when taking notes for an online document or electrinic book, no matter what you are reading, pdf, html or ppt, just click and drag, you got the picture in your notes.<br>
If freemind will support similar feature, that would be great.<br>

=== Multiple Maps at Startup ===
When I start FreeMind it loads the last map I worked on, which is very good. I can have multiple maps open, which I juse a lot, so I can work on multiple projects at the same time. However when I close FreeMind and open it again, it only loads the last active map. It would be very usefull if it loaded all the maps that was open when FreeMind was closed, so I quickly can continue to work on my ongoing projects.

: Yes, I want this '''very''' much! --[[User:Ase|Ase]] 10:29, 9 Jul 2008 (PDT)
: So do I. Leos
: Me as well. --[[User:Terkor|Terkor]] 02:32, 4 Nov 2008 (UTC)

=== Single Copy Multiple ===
The Single Copy command is used to grab stuff to duplicate without also copying all child nodes. For example I have numbered items that I keep in an "Unresearched" node, and the same numbered items in a "Researched" Node. Instead of entering the node #'s of 1 - 20 several times, I would like to be able to use the Copy Single command while selecting multiple items. Obviously it would have to be renamed "Copy Without Children" or something similar. Just keeping the command the same but adding support for multiple selection would help me a lot. Then I could copy items 1 - 20 and paste them somewhere else in one shot.

: This is definitely a good request. The action for copying without children would have to be renamed from "Single Copy" to "Shallow Copy" or "Copy without Children" as you suggested. --[[User:Danielpolansky|Danielpolansky]] 10:13, 2 Jun 2006 (PDT)

: I would also need something in the same vein. I have a deep tree of actions from which I choose leaves to do today. I would like to keep the classification embodied in the ancestors of any chosen leaf node I copy to the Today FreeMind. If I could click on a node (not just a terminal leaf) and "Copy Ancestors", then paste I would save a lot of time. The Copy Ancestors would copy all ancestors exclusing the single root node. A variation would be to click a series of consecutively embedded nodes and "Copy Chain" which would copy the nodes themselves only, without any other children, and keep the chain as a unit.

=== Print across pages ===
Would be great to have a possibility to print spanning over several pages if mind map is huge.

'''Hint:''' In 0.8.0 this is possible if you deactivate the "scale to one page" checkbox in the page format dialog and enters a scale factor like "1.0". But there seems to be a little bug; if I enter just "1" as scale factor the output is still scaled to fit on one page.

=== Print out of notes ===
I think it is a very good idea to add the possibility to print out the notes together with the map(on a separate page/pages), something like as in the export of HTML sides.

I agree with this suggestion. It makes a lot of sense to be able to print your notes.

=== Print preview ===
I would like to have a print preview dialog to see if my manually set scale factor (defined in the page format dialog) is ideal.

=== Auto scale to fit one page wide for printing ===
I would like to be able to set a map to print "one page wide" rather than just "fit one page".

=== Auto scale to fit several pages ===
As RFE 972845 another has already provided code to have FreeMind scale the output to fit several pages. It would be really nice to have this enhancement in the normal code base.

=== Calculations ===
I think that is good idea to add possibility to associate numeric values with nodes and make top nodes to recursively calculate sum of child nodes' values. This feature will turn FreeMind into '''easy and visual way to do home accounting or resource planning'''. Adding, removing or dragging child nodes between parents must cause sum to update.

More complex feature - adding multiplication factors to parent nodes.
: '''I vote for this.''' I think such a feature would open Freemind to a new business public: those who must build work resources planning/estimations WBS (Work Breakdown Stucture). Excel could be favourably replaced by mind maps softwares with such capabilities.
: From a more technical point of view, I would add that each node should be associated with an '''aggregation function''' like sum (default), average, geometric average, or even user defined aggregation function. Nodes would gather value of their children and aggregate it to set their own value.--[[User:OliGator|OliGator]] 08:55, 22 Oct 2006 (PDT)

: For now, I didn't used the Time plug-in ; my expects would go in two directions (--[[User:JdX|JdX.fr]] 200706222:
: Go-ing to plan a bussiness, I would like to get some Calculations as said above, that I could get back into a calc-like spreadsheet in another window.
: May I imagine better than a number and an aggregation function, I would enjoy to improve in triplet-properties, not only a number and a function for each node... You may know high potential in A.I. for that representation for many qualities (I began to work on wikini.net on that matter..)

=== Support for Unicode and RTL languages ===

I think that the inclusion of better support for Unicode and RTL languages such as Hebrew and Arabic would allow a larger number of people to use Freemind as their mind-mapping tool of choice.

: What support of unicode are you missing? FreeMind is unicode-enabled. --[[User:Danielpolansky|Danielpolansky]] 11:56, 27 Jul 2005 (PDT)

:: It doesn't work with Vietnamese. Try this: HÃÂ NÃ¡Â»Âi, SÃÂ i GÃÂ²n, ChÃ¡Â»Â£ LÃ¡Â»Ân * a ÃÂ¡ ÃÂ Ã¡ÂºÂ£ ÃÂ£ Ã¡ÂºÂ¡ ... [[User:DeltaVictorLima|DeltaVictorLima]] 11:24, 18 Jun 2007 (PDT)

=== Use UTF-8 in the XML file to store unicode characters ===

: FreeMind 0.8.0's utf-8 support is limited, I think. When open file, FreeMind simply loads the file contents into buffer without valid and proper encoding, if .mm file version matches current freemind version. And all Chinese characters encoding as "''&#x...;''" is meaningless for Chinese. I have a patch for this: [[User:Jiangxin/Better_chinese_characters_support]]. --[[User:Jiangxin|Jiangxin]] 11:53, 6 Apr 2006 (PDT)

:: Indeed, FreeMind does not support UTF-8. Maybe it would be better if it would. That would improve the ease with which the XML files can be read directly in plain text editors. --[[User:Danielpolansky|Danielpolansky]] 10:18, 2 Jun 2006 (PDT)

::: Shouldn't the .mm-file be changed to a real XML file first? It does not have a XML declaration, like <?xml version="1.0" encoding="ISO-8859-1"?>... This gives far better support when opening it in standalone XML editors, and you can also validate your XML. --[[User:pahles|pahles]] 21:16, 3 Jun 2006 (UTC+2)

: Vote for this! It is impossible to compare/merge different mindmaps (also process/edit) with ÃÂ«entities gibberishÃÂ» like ÃÂ«по проекту «SAT»ÃÂ»--[[User:StasFomin|StasFomin]] 19:36, 2 Mar 2009 (UTC)

=== Support general graphs rather than trees ===

Some users want FreeMind to support general graphs rather than only trees. To an extent, their wish is covered by what we call arrow links, and what is called connectors in Microsoft Powerpoint. FreeMind's arrow links are not that powerful as connectors, but that can be improved.

Still, FreeMind is not planned to become a general graph editor, or a concept mapper. Some years ago there was a [http://sourceforge.net/forum/forum.php?thread_id=821693&forum_id=22101 discussion] on that in Open Discussion forum, followed by a concluding [http://sourceforge.net/forum/forum.php?thread_id=957873&forum_id=22101 consideration] by me where the final position on the issue is stated together with an explanation. --[[User:Danielpolansky|Danielpolansky]] 11:56, 27 Jul 2005 (PDT)

===Always On===

I would like to minimize to the system tray(for Windows). Or better yet, let's run FreeMind as a transparent window docked to the desktop. Like my brain, I like to always have FreeMind on in the background. Regardless, thanks!

: You can google for RBTray, which lets you minimise anything to the system tray. -- JettLogic

===Better File Operations, Restore Workspace, New File Extension===

On Mac OS X at least, the file dialog is buggy - it does not show network drives or my iDisk. Also, it would be useful to have FreeMind re-open the last edited file (and restore the workspace as it was when the user last quit). Still, the most annoying thing is the .mm filename extension - that extension is tied to Obj-C code files in Mac OS X, and probably on other platforms as well. Maybe .mind or .mmp? -- RuiCarmo

===File Dialog Improvements===

The file dialogs could use some minor improvements. I would like the dialog boxes for load and save to remember what directory they were in and start from there the next time the dialog is open.

Also, if you try to open a file from the "recent files" list but the file no longer exists, there is no warning from freemind. It would be better to have a "file not found" warning, and better still to remove the bad entry from the list when that happens. --fist_187

It would be better not to "remember what directory they were in", but add possibility to choose "Default directory" in Preferences, which will be opened automatically whenever you save or load something. --Elwin

Yes the file dialogs could use some improvements. It should be possible these days to simply use the native OS'en File Open dialogs. IMHO, either that or a full-featured file dialog that a) provides a few shortcuts to frequently used directories, b) remembers the directory used last time, -or- uses a default directory, and c) allows one to create new directories

=== Crosslinking Nodes ===

The possibility to create cross-references between nodes which are
already part of the mindmap tree would be a great feature. In many
real-life mindmaps items could not be categorized in one and only
one category. The possibility to visualize these dependencies would
be a great advantage over other mindmap solutions. Something like
this is already implemented in Freemind by selecting two nodes
and pressing STRG+L.

For enhancing this feature the following aspects should receive attention:
* the application should visualize cross-references in a eye-friendly way
** nodes with cross-references should be directly identifiable (i.e. by color, shape-type, ...)
** mouse-over effects visualize the dependencies with flashing nodes
** dashed grey lines sound visualize cross-dependencies
* cross-references, especially those which reside not current view-context, should be traceable by a hotkey which toggles b+etween the source and the destination node of a link.
* if a source or destination-node is in hinged position the link should be optionally visualized by propagated a parent nod+e as source or destination-node

Is it possible to add links to specific nodes in other FreeMind map files? Perhaps using Request Parameters in the external hyperlink URL? Identifying the target node while creating the link may be tricky. Here is an idea on how that can be done: <br/>
When creating the link, a dialog window with two textboxes can be used. One textbox would be for the hyperlink URL and the other would be for the target node name. The target node name textbox would have an auto-complete feature (with dropdown) that uses a list of node names that were obtained from the target map file. There could be a button next to the URL textbox that starts the node name retrieval process from the target map file. Before hitting the button the target node name textbox is disabled, and it is enabled after the node names have been read. --[[User:EdB|EdB]] 10:37, 2 Sep 2009 (UTC)

=== Unlimited/Arbitrary Attributes ===

We use a couple of different products (including an internally developed one) to manage requirements. In each case we have the ability to assign arbitrary attributes to requirements at any level in the structure (e.g., Type=Priority Value=High or Type=Source Value=Mike Jones). To support migration between Freemind and these requirements management tools, Freemind should allow X number of attributes per requirement. Though I know this concept would scare the minimalists.
-- unknown

And a custom plugin might read these values, then calculate and display something on the map, e.g. an indicator or an aggregate.
-- [[User:abadger|abadger]] 30 May 2006
(or even just set the colour or insert a tick or cross icon) --[[User:Violetlight|Violetlight]] 15:24, 2 Aug 2006 (PDT)

It would be really nice if as well as text attributes, we could support check or radio buttons (e.g. "done", or "priority H/M/L")<br>
A node action or a function key/pattern (see below) could check the box.
--[[User:Violetlight|Violetlight]] 15:22, 2 Aug 2006 (PDT)

=== Node-specific actions ===

At the moment, there is one "action" on a node (discounting the usual edit/cut/paste etc) - navigate to the target link.
<p/>
I can see a reason to have more than one action on a node, depending on the semantics of the map's content, and specifically the storage backend or plugin. For example, a map that was a live visualisation of the tree structure of a website could have an action to navigate to a page, to check it with a W3C validator, to edit the page, to submit it to a search engine etc etc. These actions would be defined by the plugin supplying the data content, or by other plugins resident - e.g. "schedule this node" for the time scheduling plugin or "bookmark this node's target" for a (possible future) Google Bookmarking plugin.
<br>
I can see two (possibly co-existing) methods of implementing this:
# A context-specific node sub-menu cascading off the right button menu called "Actions->"
# A control-right-button menu just for actions on the node
<br>
I'd welcome feedback on whether this is a nutcase idea. --[[User:Violetlight|Violetlight]] 15:16, 2 Aug 2006 (PDT)

===Images in freemind===

I really like the way freemind can use images as nodes. However, one of the problems with adding a lot of images to a map is that they are all different sizes. So, I wrote this php script:
<?php

$tsize = 100; //thumbnail size

function noresize($name)
{
global $argv;
$fullpath = $argv[1] . "$name";
echo "<node TEXT=\"&lt;html&gt;";
echo "&lt;img src=&quot;$fullpath&quot;/&gt; \"";
echo " FOLDED=\"true\">\n</node>\n";
}

function thumbit($name, $w, $h)
{
global $argv;
$fullpath = $argv[1] . "$name";
echo "<node TEXT=\"&lt;html&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;$fullpath&quot;";
echo " width=&quot;$w&quot; height=&quot;$h&quot;\" FOLDED=\"true\">\n";
echo "<node TEXT=\"&lt;html&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;$fullpath&quot;\"";
echo " FOLDED=\"true\">\n</node>\n";
echo "<node LINK=\"$fullpath\" TEXT=\"$name\">\n</node>\n";
echo "</node>\n";
}

if ($argc < 3)
{
die("usage: " . $argv[0] . " IMAGEPATH IMAGE1 [[IMAGE2] ... ]\n");
}

echo "<map version=\"0.7.1\">\n<node TEXT=\"Ian's image generator\"";
echo " FOLDED=\"true\">\n";

for ($i=2; $i<$argc; $i++)
{
$myimg = $argv[$i];
$props = getimagesize($myimg);
$w = $props[0];
$h = $props[1];

if ($w <= $tsize && $h <= $tsize) //too small
{
noresize($myimg);
}
else if ($w < $h) //resize height to 100, scale width
{
$w = intval(($tsize * $w) / $h);
$h = $tsize;
thumbit($myimg, $w, $h);
}
else //resize width to 100, scale height
{
$h = intval(($tsize * $h) / $w);
$w = $tsize;
thumbit($myimg, $w, $h);
}
}

echo "</node>\n</map>\n";
?>
This is a command line PHP script, so to use it under linux you would type something like:
$ php freemindImgGen.php "file:////path/to/prepend/to/images/" image1.jpg [image2.jpg ... ]
This will output the text for a new mind map (direct it to a file of your choice) with each image thumbnailed in its own node. The images should all be in the same directory (for some reason, relative paths for images don't seem to work). Each thumbnailed image will have 2 child nodes: one node with the full size image and one node with the filename of the image as a freemind link.

Anyway, the reason that I'm posting this here in the request section instead of the user contributions section is that I would like to see this behavior ported into freemind itself. This would be a better behavior for when you drag-and-drop an image file into freemind, as it does just about everything you would want to do with an image in one shot. --fist_187

:[[User:lkcl]] - fist_187: this is a fantastic example of an import/export plugin program that should NOT be added into freemind: it should be possible to RUN this program on-demand from FreeMind from WITHIN freemind as a plugin extension.

--[[User:Pdf|pdf]] 22:11, 30 Aug 2009 (UTC): A thumbnail image function is a great idea! Some images can be huge, and thumbnails would be an excellent option. Photographers could make big use of this, but images in general just make an idea map a richer communication tool. In fact, this capability could re-invent the typical image "gallery" that is often a liner row of images, or an unwieldy table, because images would be represented in a hierarchical context of other references or meaning. Of course, a link to the original file always lets a viewer see an image in its full glory.

However, for the general non-programmer user I would implement the user interface like this:

- When an image is inserted, create a thumbnail as a default (or by prompt) to avoid unpleasant surprises of large images taking over the UI and displacing everything else.

- Add an option to convert an image back to normal, or back to thumbnail.

- In preferences, let the user select "thumbnail" as default, or not, and let the user specify the size (as a maximum dimension of either side of the image). Let the user choose whether a prompt appears, or add a check box to the prompt to not ask again. Another useful preference would be to specify a thumbnail directory (default location inside source image directory)

- As another option (or as a future enhancement) the program would either 1)Create new image files to use as thumbnails, or 2)Generate thumbnails on the fly for display only (or read in thumbnails that may already be appended to some image formats by certain images editors) and maybe cache them. The advantage of reading in on the fly is that the size could also be changed on the fly. The downside is the time required for the program to generate on-the-fly images in large maps.

- Provide a link to the file so the user can open the full size version in its associated application.

- When importing a folder of files provide an option to import any images.

- After a folder is imported, provide an option to add images to existing links.

=== Node Cloning or Mirroring (aka soft links) ===

Requests for enhancements:

* [http://sourceforge.net/tracker/index.php?func=detail&aid=1021772&group_id=7118&atid=357118 1021772 : One Node object at different places]

One feature request that has attracted a lot of attention from users is what they call ''node cloning or mirorring''. This amounts to enabling a node to have more than one fathers. That is, such a node appears visually at more places of a map, still, has only one structure and data. Linking a node graphically to more parts of a map is already possible, but users proposing cloning would like to see more visually integrated approach.

Users get encouraged by the fact that the hierarchical application
[http://leo.sf.net/ LEO] already has such a feature.

This feature has been discussed at forums under threads
[http://sourceforge.net/forum/forum.php?thread_id=1022954&forum_id=22101 Cloning of nodes] and [http://sourceforge.net/forum/forum.php?thread_id=1051440&forum_id=22101 Node cloning/mirroring].

: I would REALLY like it if FreeMind supported 'shortcuts', 'soft/hard links', or 'virtual folders'. You know what I mean? Just some manner of having one node (and its sub-nodes) be able to exist in 2 different places at once. Change one clone, the other is affected, delete one clone, they all go away. (with options to make it a copy instead of a clone, etc...) You'd make my day if you'd add this functionality! --anonymous

: Alright, but "cloning" is not a good term for this as it implies having a physical copy of something. Less misleading could be "linking", "mirroring", "redirecting", "pointing", "referring"... --anonymous

:: You are right; cloning is not a proper term. This is the way our users expressed their wishes. --[[User:Danielpolansky|Danielpolansky]] 09:26, 20 Dec 2004 (PST)

: I agree too - soft links would be a great feature -- Brad Langhorst

: Seconded - the suggestion on sourceforge of using a local link, but with a "ghost" display at the current location (instead of jumping to the destination of the link) sounds like the way to go. The side-effect is that you could have a cycle, whereby you are in node A, with child B being a ghost-link to C, expanding C reveals child D which is a ghost-link back to A. -- JettLogic

=== Mindmap-Wikis ===

Creating a mixture of Freemind and a Wiki would be very interesting. It would be shown on the web, and editable by everybody, like a Wiki, but it would not be text-only but a FreeMind's mind map instead.

That is, provide FreeMind user interface to the underlying wiki technology, handling versioning and other issues. Is there any use of wiki markup in this scenario? (lkcl: yes - see "Notes" section!)

: [[User:lkcl]] - all of these things are possible if you split out a plugin architecture for import / export of data.

Current wiki technology like MediaWiki is already quite attractive in its present state. Either FreeMind interface would be the only one, which would in my view discourage most of the users, or FreeMind interface would be alternative to a web interface, which would require FreeMind to understand wiki markup. This considered, I hold such a project for too expensive compared to the value it brings. Quite another issue is collaborative mind mapping. This issue is similar to wiki, but here the wiki name does not properly apply as neither wiki markup nor wiki's versioning concept applies. --[[User:Danielpolansky|Danielpolansky]] 13:24, 18 Feb 2005 (PST)

Ok, GraphViz is not really mindmapping, but oddmuse-wiki in colaboration with graphviz is really fascinating, take a look (and don't forget to follow the "Edit the text of the Page"-link): http://wiki.doomicile.de/LinuxMuleHistory -- HinnerK

: I don't get your point. What is the relevance to the topic discussed here? --[[User:Danielpolansky|Danielpolansky]] 13:28, 18 Feb 2005 (PST)

:: [[User:lkcl]] he's illustrating that the text you see on that page is actually created by simply putting "digraph { ..... }" into the text, you get a really cool graph. in other words, he's illustrating that it would be easy to replace the FreeMind user interface, written in stupid java, by an oddmuse-wiki using the "digraph ...." concept.

I would suggest starting with a simple [http://www.webdav.org/ save-to-WebDAV] option, and then following it up with a standardized [http://www.xmlrpc.com/ XML-RPC] interface (maybe Atom would be too complex). Having some sort of hooks into node editing operations in the code would be useful, so that people could develop plugins of some sort to perform the actual HTTP transactions live from the applet version -- RuiCarmo

The first thing that came to my mind while opening FreeMind for the very first time was: "Would it be possible to integrate Wiki in FreeMind?". Currently I am working with a project management software (named Trac) which integrates a Wiki Engine. It is a kind of colaborative project management solution, and it has encouraged all the team to document and activelly contribute to each otherÃÂ´s tasks.

Maybe WikiFreeMind :-) could be something similar. I donÃÂ´t think that FreeMind being the only one interface to be an issue, I think it would be great if we could use wiki formatting inside FreeMind nodes. It would be easy (a gross guess) to allow ''Wiki-links'' between nodes, or wiki/web-pages ''outside'' the map.

It would not be too difficult to do a kind of serialization of the map as a Wiki Database, each node being a wiki page, following the extension mechanics proposed by WikiMedia, you could allow wiki tags that would keep track of the properties of the node as a serialized wiki-page. ItÃÂ´s pretty much brainstorming, but I think it would be possible to use FreeMind as a Wiki Navigator, and the Web Browser + Wiki Engine as a Node Editor. --[[User:loudenvier|loudenvier]] 17:15, 05 Apr 2005 (BRA)

Have a look at the [http://wikkawiki.org/HomePage WikkaWiki software]. My zero programming skills don't let me to grasp how it works or what it does. But it seems pretty interesting. It allows to insert FreeMind maps into the wiki. [http://wikkawiki.org/MindMapRecentChanges here's a inline example].
--[[User:Calamar|Calamar]] 04:31, 20 Dec 2005 (PST)

: This portion hasn't been edited in a while. With the flash plugin in architecture in place for .9 beta 9 it shouldn't be too much of a problem to create graphical representations of a wiki to Freemind. The user would have to download the wiki page into the Freemind application and then upload the finished product after editing. It might seem like a long round trip but it would be very useful.

: Furthermore, the Flash application should/could be smart enough to detect a wiki word in the Freemind and auto link it.
--[[User:Ddaniels|Ddaniels]] 05:17, 24 Mar 2007 (PDT)

* There is an development approach for mediawiki and freemind (browser): http://www.wikimindmap.org/ which is available with GNU GPL v3. I managed it to get it run after understanding the config in the getpages.php and the index.php and discommenting something out in getpages.php. But it currently does not show some articles and categories. Perhaps someone is able to bring it to a better version: [[:Image:wwm_zip.mm]]. Just rename file extension to zip. --[[User:Hiverider|Hiverider]] 15:08, 26 Mar 2009 (UTC)

===Applet allowing editing mind maps.===

Requests for enhancements:

* [http://sourceforge.net/tracker/index.php?func=detail&aid=1061195&group_id=7118&atid=357118 1061195 : Editor Mode (MindMap Mode) applet]

It would be fine to edit a map via applet and save it to a webserver directory.

: Indeed it would be fine. This is related to integration of mindmaps in wikis. In particular, [http://wikka.jsnx.com/HomePage WikkaWiki] uses freemind applet to show mindmaps in web pages. Unfortunately, mindmap edition is not possible while it is obviously possible for text. Such a capability would allow mindmap to be editable inside a wiki by wiki users. I also think this is more natural and a lot easier to insert mindmap capabilities inside wiki softwares than implement wiki functionnalities inside freemind. Don't you ? --[[User:OliGator|OliGator]] 09:18, 22 Oct 2006 (PDT)

I wonder why the .mm extension is mandatory on the applet. At this point on the web we use Content-type instead of extensions, isn't it? Why then don't use Content-type OR .mm extension to open a map with the applet?

Will be fantastic if the applet could capture drop events. With this enhancement we could use a custom toolbar to add custom snippets or integrate it with our solutions

Leos: Editing capabilities would be great benefit. I use multiple computers and notebooks at the office and at home, so it is nightmare to synchronize their content. If I could just open the map from browser, modify it and click save, I would be very happy. If there are some Java security restrictions, you can implement it via some servlet, I could deploy into my server.

=== Saving maps using WebDAV ===

Let FreeMind read from and save to [http://www.webdav.org WebDAV] server. Repeatedly requested.

According to the WebDAV website,

: WebDAV stands for "Web-based Distributed Authoring and Versioning". It is a set of extensions to the HTTP protocol which allows users to collaboratively edit and manage files on remote web servers.

What's the holdup on integrating WebDav into Freemind? There's a patch available already [[http://www.ubik-products.com/ludowiki/FreeMind FreeMind WebDAV Enhancement]]. Is there anything wrong with that patch or have people just not gotten around to integrating it? This would also address the need of applets and wiki-like functionality.

Working with WebDAV would make for an outstanding creative toolkit.
There is a keen need for a tool like this in our business (long distances; documents cobbled together from Basecamp and IM logs). One consideration: how would changes be merged? And is there an unobtrusive way to identify authors of specific changes and content?

===Changing attributes by depth level.=== Wouldn't it be good if nodes could have levels (defined as outward from the centre) so that you could change color, font and other node properties by level. For instace, all nodes of level two would have red bubbles.

OR Allow user to define default level attributes to be applied when a branch is made. The most common one being font size and edge width. Undefined attributes like colour should flow down. This is just the desired default at creation time and may be changed. Branches further out than the deepest defined default all inherit from previous branch.

===Integrated Google web search===
How about an accessory software that would input FreeMind's XML and conduct Google and Google News searches on all nodes plus their neighbours? If anything useful is found (and there would be less than x hits), it would *wget* them and add links to the material to the map. Run this as a cronjob and your mind map will always have new ideas when you open FreeMind again.

: Seems like a suggestion for a plugin. For sure it does not belong to the core FreeMind. Such a plugin will call external tools like wget which increases the installation costs. --[[User:Danielpolansky|Danielpolansky]] 09:34, 20 Dec 2004 (PST)

===MIDlet for editing with mobile phones===

MIDlet idea entry front-end is a MUST! I want to be able to do mind mapping with my mobile phone and then upload the changes to the main map on my desktop.

: It is not a ''must''. When enabled with importing various other formats, FreeMind can take data from mobile applications. Also, it is not clear why MIDlet should be the technology of choice, if FreeMind shall run on mobile phones. --[[User:Danielpolansky|Danielpolansky]] 09:33, 20 Dec 2004 (PST)

===Have floating textbox for titles or comments===

Hi I would like to request a feature, namely a title and/or comment at the beginning/end of page to be able to use it in presentations, where I would have my name on top right.
I would suggest that there is no link to other nodes just a kind of text box.
Maybe there are more people thinking about this nice addon?

Request for enhancements:
* [http://sourceforge.net/tracker/index.php?func=detail&aid=1167418&group_id=7118&atid=357118 1167418]: Legends

=== An editable tree view (like the html export) ===

With such view I can imagine freemind to be useable an smaller devices like an ipaq running familiar (or ppc). Can you run freemind on such devices? --Alex

=== A non graphic tree view mode ===
Similar request as Alex.
A '''non-graphic''' linear mode would be usefull ! The graphic mode is the best to organise and visualise the information, but a simple linear tree mode is more comfortable for reading and editing large portion of text. It would also allow to access the same databases on a small screen. Freemind has become one of my most important tools on my Pc and I am dreaming to use it on a symbian phone too. Thank you so much. Franck

Il second that, Inspiration also a midn mapping tool used at school does this, translates the mind map into linear. Being able to see the same information in different ways is what computers are amazing at doing. It would be great to see information from different perspectives, Mind map form, linear (for printing essays/or books), Network diagram, etc.

=== Option not to open last opened file upon start ===

Users request that they should get a user option to tell FreeMind not to open the last opened file upon start. Seems like a sensible request to me. --[[User:Danielpolansky|Danielpolansky]] 10:07, 2 Jun 2006 (PDT)

===ToughGraph like dynamic layout===

Requests for enhancements:

* [http://sourceforge.net/tracker/index.php?func=detail&aid=1052556&group_id=7118&atid=357118 1052556 : TouchGraph style dynamic layout]
* [http://sourceforge.net/tracker/index.php?func=detail&aid=909016&group_id=7118&atid=357118 909016 : TouchGraph display mode]

The [[TouchGraph]] interface has more potential than the existing fixed one. Mind maps are not supposed to necessarily be hierarchical, but organically growing and intertwined a lot. In FreeMind I can add links, but they aren't really good if compared with something universal like TouchGraph (GoogleBrowser, WikiBrowser).

I think FreeMind would become much more powerful (not to mention cool looking) if it had a dynamic mode without a root node. It would be great if arbitrary links (not just parent/child) between any nodes were supported, if text size and colors would dynamically adjust according to the distance, relevance and other factors, and if the layout would be dynamic, with the graph rearranging itself on the fly.

More details at the TouchGraph site ([http://www.touchgraph.com/]), and at this page: [http://www.jspwiki.org/PageInfo.jsp?page=TouchGraphWikiBrowser]).

: I disagree with the views presented here. A good news for you is that if you don't like the way FreeMind presents data, you can choose TouchGraph instead. --[[User:Danielpolansky|Danielpolansky]] 09:32, 20 Dec 2004 (PST)

:* Well, in my opinion the links between nodes certainly offer a starting point for improvements. They are more curved than really necessary. --[[User:TMaschler|TMaschler]] 01:46, 17 Feb 2005 (PST)

:* Further, the idea of formatting nodes in function of their distance from the start node (i.e. by style sheets) would greatly enhance the mind map appearance; although it should be possible to overwrite the node formatting style for each node individually. --[[User:TMaschler|TMaschler]] 01:46, 17 Feb 2005 (PST)

:* What about offering a variety of display modes for the nodes (tree view, the current default view, without hierarchy, ...)?

I agree that alternatives to the hierarchical view are important and the whole advantage of using visual mapping in the first place --[[User:Ryba|Ryba]] 17:16, 27 Oct 2005 (PDT)

===More flexible Resize Options===
What about the following resize possibilities: --[[User:TMaschler|TMaschler]] 01:46, 17 Feb 2005 (PST)
* automatically/ dynamically
* by clicking on magnification glass icons (+ and -)

Resizing should be able to resize a node and the text dynamically wraps and changes the size of the box. The current approach requires hard returns to resize the text boxes.--[[User:Ryba|Ryba]] 17:06, 27 Oct 2005 (PDT)

===More Flexible Window Resize and Reformat Options===
Background: We are using Freemind in an internal Wiki to document all the program file paths. Unfortunately, when opened in a browser window, the .mm file shows a couple of hundred pixels of blank area above and to the left of the map, then fails to allow users to scroll all the way to the right so they can see the information. My apologies if the answer is there, but I have not been able to find any information in the forums or help to either reduce the total window size, or to change the map alignment from CENTER to TOP RIGHT. (Help mentions a user.properties file, not present in 9.0.x).

Requests:
1. Allow users to resize the window to match the map size, and/or
2. Either allow users to set map aligment within the window, or change auto-aligment settings to the most efficient space use (generally top left, but not always, which argues for allowing the user to decide).

Thanks for a great application!!

=== Easier to delete nodes ===

A relatively straightforward enhancement: the Node/Remove Node on the popup menu could be moved to the main popup menu, under 'Insert Child Node'. It would probably be better server by being called 'Delete Child Node'. I think it would also be fantastic if it had a shortcut key - Del probably being the most suitable. I find it a right pain to delete nodes (I notice someone submitted an RFE on sourceforge asking for a delete function, clearly not being aware there already was one - I think this indicates it needs moving!)

''David Perez comment'': An alternative I use is to cut the node in order to delete it.

: Nodes will be easy to delete in the next version. The reason why they are not easy to delete currently is that there's no undo available. In the mean time, pressing Ctrl + X should suffice to delete a node. --[[User:Danielpolansky|Danielpolansky]] 09:28, 20 Dec 2004 (PST)

''Torsten GrÃÂ¤ÃÂler comment'':
: Find the line starting with "#keystroke_remove" in the <user home>/freemind/user.properties file and change it to "keystroke_remove = DELETE". Now you can delete a node with the DEL key. This works on my WinXP Pro, but should work on other platforms, too. -- 04:27, 23 Mar 2004

Most of the times you delete something and sooner or later you find out that you actually need that thing again. Undo is good, but once you have closed FreeMind it's lost forever. Wouldn't it be nice to have a .trash file to accompany every .mm file just to make things easier? --Anonymous.

: This is a known issue by now. Deleting nodes is far too easy in FreeMind 0.8.0, in my view anyway. --[[User:Danielpolansky|Danielpolansky]] 06:51, 13 May 2006 (PDT)

===Statistics===

Requests for features:

* [http://sourceforge.net/tracker/index.php?func=detail&aid=1040097&group_id=7118&atid=357118 1040097 : Total Node Count]

Show the statistics

* number of nodes in a map
* number of leafs (childless nodes)
* number of nodes with children

on the ''node'' level or a ''map'' level (once you can do node level, you also can do map level).

===Thousands of new icons===

Enhancing the number and variety of icons to the sufficient amout would definetely increase versatility of FreeMind. Plenty of small pictures it is a must if you want to organize your knowledge (e.g. notes from collage), so that every 'key info' could be easily remembered. The more icons that help associating the information the better - I would like to see pictures of man, men, woman, women, tree, chair, table and so on - any thing you can imagine, categorized. I know I can use external pictures, but it's really inconvenient if I have to look for each picture on the Internet for a few minutes while creating a new map. Built-in icons would be a great help.

: It is clear that a larger icon library would be helpful. --[[User:Danielpolansky|Danielpolansky]] 13:18, 18 Feb 2005 (PST)

it would be great if i would able to add or delete icons in to the toolbar my self. 22.2.05 by erwin

Not sure if the hyperlink arrows count as icons, but it would be good if they could be colour coded; eg blue arrow for a hyperlink to a local file on the local computer, yellow for a file located on the local network, red arrow for a hyperlink to a html site, Green arrow for a local hyperlink

: I use famfamfam.com's general purpose silk icons set in most of my projects, there are over 1000 icons, each one of them is a little gem. There are distributed under the creative common license, I don't know if they can be included and distributed in a open source project .. probably. Still, the best would be an kind of icon manager to allow us to build our own icons libraries and includes some basics libraries by default.

--[[User:h3|h3]] 11:00, 27 Jul 2006

I suggested in another place to have groups of icons, so that the access of all icons gets simplified, and the change of an icon gets simplified too. Here are some examples of groups/categories:
* To be Completed, important/urgent/both/not important
* partial/ complete
* mecanism (ex: "rouages"), GUI, Database,
* draft/under review/finalized (different evident progressing levels)
* analogy with road signal: "sans issue/cul de sac, speed limit, ..."
* communication mean (phone, e-mail, mail...)
* context (work, home, travel)
* art (music, painting, sculpture)???
* time management (date, time, time duration)
* Satisfaction (smiles)
Thanks :-) --[[User:Patco|Patco]]

===Zooming With Scroll Button===

Being able to pan by holding down the right-hand mouse button and twiddling the scroll wheel is great. What would help navigation a little more would be to zoom in and out by holding down, say, the left-hand mouse button.

===New menu entry ''Save All'' ===

Requests for enhancements:

* [http://sourceforge.net/tracker/index.php?func=detail&aid=932817&group_id=7118&atid=357118 932817 : Easy: "Save all"-menu entry]

* [http://sourceforge.net/tracker/?group_id=7118&atid=357118&func=detail&aid=665584 665584 : Add function "Save all", to menus and toolbar]

=== User defined icons ===

Requests for enhancements

* [http://sourceforge.net/tracker/index.php?func=detail&aid=966193&group_id=7118&atid=357118 966193 : User defined icons (similar 883498) - a quick implementation]

=== Keep custom/unknown XML tags when saving ===

Requests for enhancements:

* [http://sourceforge.net/tracker/index.php?func=detail&aid=943713&group_id=7118&atid=357118 943713 : Keep custom/unknown XML tags when saving]

=== Collaborative editing of mind maps ===

Requests for enhancements:

* [http://sourceforge.net/tracker/?group_id=7118&atid=357118&func=detail&aid=869746 869746 : Multi-user collaboration on one map, using tracking of changes ]
* [http://sourceforge.net/tracker/index.php?func=detail&aid=1058763&group_id=7118&atid=357118 1058763 : conference mode / work together online]

Conference-like editing of a shared map. When one user adds a node, other users get display update, and vice versa. Rather demanding request, but also potentially highly useful.

--[[User:Violetlight|Violetlight]] 09:30, 2 Aug 2006 (PDT): Problems to solve in this area:
* Whether to mesh peer to peer (e.g. Jabber/XMPP) or to use notification via a server
* How to perform locking (and whether to use optimistic locking)
* How to resolve conflicts
* How to bring a new change to a collaborating user's attention without being intrusive (say a "delta icon" in the node or something like that?)

=== Allow for mathematical formulas using LaTeX or MathML ===

Requests for enhancements:

* [http://sourceforge.net/tracker/index.php?func=detail&aid=977500&group_id=7118&atid=357118 977500 : include formulas / latex support]

People want to type in mathematical formulas in text markup and see something good looking when not edited.

=== User attributes or tags of a node ===

Requests for enhancements:
* [http://sourceforge.net/tracker/index.php?func=detail&aid=1122973&group_id=7118&atid=357118 1122973 : Allow nodes to "carry" other attributes]

For user editable using a popping up table. File format example:

<node TEXT="Tagged">
<tag NAME="cost" VALUE="500ÃÂ¬"/>
<tag NAME="todo" VALUE="yes"/>
</node>

=== Rich text formatting of nodes ===

Requests for enhancements:

* [http://sourceforge.net/tracker/index.php?func=detail&aid=909694&group_id=7118&atid=357118 909694 : Different text attributes within text nodes]

Rich text formatting includes boldface, italics, font colors, tables and the like. It is already possible using HTML in nodes. What's missing is the GUI support for editing HTML nodes. Another thing missing is pasting of RTF - Rich Text Format directly into FreeMind.

=== Scalable Vector Graphics (SVG) in nodes ===

Nodes could store and view scalable vector graphics (SVG). Currently, nodes certainly can store SVG, but only its source code is displayed. It should be possible that SVG is displayed like graphics. Editing of SVG can be done using external programs like Inkscape, or using an SVG editing component written in Java.

Viewing of SVG could perhaps be achieved using Apache's Batik framework. How fast, and how much more memory consuming it would be is unclear.

=== Enable spell checking ===

Requests for enhancements:

* [http://sourceforge.net/tracker/index.php?func=detail&aid=1080652&group_id=7118&atid=357118 1080652 : Ability to spell Check Text Fields]

=== Add label to edges ===

Requests for enhancements:

* [http://sourceforge.net/tracker/index.php?func=detail&aid=997862&group_id=7118&atid=357118 997862 : Naming of Edges]

: As I see it, this will make the map difficult to read. I can't imagine how to implement this in a visually acceptable manner. --[[User:Danielpolansky|Danielpolansky]] 14:02, 5 Mar 2005 (PST)

: On the other hand, edge labels make a lot of sense with freely positioned nodes introduced in FreeMind 0.8.0. --[[User:Danielpolansky|Danielpolansky]] 09:29, 26 Oct 2005 (PDT)

=== Add label to arrow link ===

Requests for enhancements:

* [http://sourceforge.net/tracker/index.php?func=detail&aid=1214199&group_id=7118&atid=357118 1214199 : labels on arrows]

Sometimes it could be very useful to label arrow link. It may help to better express and easily understand the exact sense (meaning) of specific arrow link.

=== Filter nodes by their icons ===

Requests for enhancements

* [http://sourceforge.net/tracker/index.php?func=detail&aid=1071438&group_id=7118&atid=357118 1071438 : Filter nodes based on icon]

Set filter on a given node, as a list of icon names. When such a filter is set, only those descendands of the filtered node are shown that satisify the filter. A node satisfies the filter, if one of its icons is in the filter's set of icons, or one of its descendants satisfies the filter.

: Filtering based on icons is not very neat, as it does not decouple the meaning from its presentation. But it may be a good interim solution anyway. --[[User:Danielpolansky|Danielpolansky]] 11:02, 20 Feb 2005 (PST)

* It's done in FreeMind 0.9 --[[User:Terkor|Terkor]] 04:21, 18 Aug 2007 (PDT)

=== Insert Current Date and Hour ===

Feb 25,2005. It would be nice to have a button to insert in a node the current date and/or hour. Thanks!

: Makes sense. Can be found in Window's Notepad under the key F5. --[[User:Danielpolansky|Danielpolansky]] 10:06, 26 Feb 2005 (PST)

It would be great if a time stamp would be created automaticaly wehn creating a new nod.
It should only be displayed when a special "Date-Button" is aktive!

: You guys, would you mind stopping shouting at us with your exclamation marks? In English speaking countries, it is not necessary to add an exclamation mark to every second sentence. --[[User:Danielpolansky|Danielpolansky]] 09:31, 26 Oct 2005 (PDT)

==== Simple Trick for KDE Users ====

2005-09-29-11:16:32-PDT

This will be a really nice feature in general. In the mean time, you can use the following method if you are using KDE. Under KDE, you can insert the current date and time (like the one above) into klipper by binding the following command to a key combination (for example, Ctrl-Alt-C):

dcop klipper klipper setClipboardContents `date +"%Y-%m-%d-%H:%M:%S-%Z"`

After this, Ctrl-Alt-C followed by Ctrl-v should allow you to insert the date, in a format of your choice, into any document (including freemind).

=== Support for callto: protocol ===

As pointed out in a [http://sourceforge.net/forum/forum.php?thread_id=1241290&forum_id=22101 forum posting], support for ''callto:'' protocol would be helpful.

If this was fully integrated, it would allow integrated voice and mind-map collaboration. For example passing "opinion sections" of a draft map between participants with a voiceover prior to including them into a collated and agreed version. Another example might be calling between the participants of a (limited) brainstorm as the brainstorm was first diverged and then converged within the mapping tool. --[[User:Violetlight|Violetlight]] 09:17, 2 Aug 2006 (PDT)

=== Support for use as a dashboard ===
Freemind could be an excellent generic front end as a dashboard for updating information if it supported file polling (refresh) or some other automated update. For example, database loading scripts could write their progress using Freemind's XML format. Any user monitoring processes such as these could see at a glance if a process had failed, add in some context dependent metadata, and could produce a log/report from the XML.

=== Ability for arrows to have text associated, or be full nodes ===

Related To [http://sourceforge.net/tracker/index.php?func=detail&aid=1167198&group_id=7118&atid=357118 1167198 non-tree graph (concept map?)]

I have a need in my current project (uni), to show heirarchies of risks, causes, and parties involved. Associated among these varying levels of heirarchies I have created arrows indicating relationship (affects-this, causes-something-else etc.), the color of the arrows indicating the relationship. It would be helpful to be able to put labels on the arrows. Actually more important than this, arrows should be full nodes, Allowing different objects to be attached as children (including other arrows). Admittedly giving arrows the ability to be full nodes may invite abuse & cause complexity, however informational-relations are themselves complex (solution should be as simple as possible, no simpler). Coding would perhaps be more elegent to allow for more than 1 child node in the code, but have a limit placed by higher-level code? (i.e. no children of children, even though the arrow objects themselves may allow for this)

=== Object Styles ===

It would be nice to have the ability to set styles for an object, and be able to select styles (styles would perhaps be associated per object-type) when creating objects.

Objects include nodes, edges and arrow links.

Using styles, the physical formatting shall no longer be set for a node but rather for a style. An example XML representation may be:

<map>
<style ID="S1" LABEL="Urgent" OBJECTTYPE="node"
COLOR="#404040" BACKGROUNDCOLOR="#FFFFE0"/>
<node TEXT="Root">
<node STYLEID="S1" TEXT="Styled node"/>
</node>
</map>

It is not clear if the user may set the ID himself. Then it perhaps should not be ID but rather NAME. XSLT transforming sheets refer either to ID or to NAME rather than to LABEL of style.

=== Hyperlinks to Programs with Arguments ===

In addition to (followable) hyperlinks to web-pages, to local folders, to executable programs, and to executable files (e.g. "datasheet.xls"), it would also be nice to have hyperlinks to programs with arguments and switches such as: "notepad myfile.bat" or "explorer.exe /n,/e,C:\" --[[User:Lhg|Lhg]] 01:11, 18 Apr 2005 (PDT)

Yes...I am using freemind for System Administration: And it is quite excellent, to have nodes for every computer and user on my system with child
nodes for services, nfsmounts, etc... but i would like very much to be able to link to the other computers with executables like

# ssh mynfsserver.mynetwork emacs /etc/exports
or
# ssh mykrb5server.mynetwork emacs /etc/kdc/kdc.conf

=== Show multiple maps in tabs ===

XEmacs shows multiple documents at tabs at the top. Microsoft Excel shows multiple sheets of a document at tabs at the bottom. Although this is not a standard user interface model, seems quite useful for FreeMind. Various users requested this feature. --[[User:Danielpolansky|Danielpolansky]] 11:38, 30 Apr 2005 (PDT)

Could it be possible to have a "restore all tabs" option, as in Firefox? --[[User:Patco|Patco]]

This would definitely be a useful enhancement. Typical use case: I'm managing several projects, I have one "mindmap" for each project, that would allow me to have all the maps open at the same time and accessible with a single click, selecting the one I need to watch at the moment. I might try to code this myself if I ever find the time for that :-P --[[User:Maathieu|Maathieu]] 12:41, 22 Jul 2009 (UTC)

=== Show multiple pages of the one map in tabs ===

ConceptDraw MindMap has this feature. Right-click on a node, select "send to new page", and the node with its children appears in a separate tab in the same document. This avoids the need to spawn extra files when your map becomes unwieldy and you want to chop off a branch. It is hyperlinked to and from its location on the original page.

Why use this instead of exporting to a new file? Because when the "new" map is conceptually part of the original map from which it was extracted, it is tidier and less error-prone to keep it in the same file. It won't get lost. And with a new page, instead of a new file, the user is saved from having to think of a meaningful file name for the extracted section. Node names do not necessarily make good file names.

=== Allow more maps to be shown side by side ===

In XEmacs, Vim or Microsoft Excel, it is possible to see several documents side by side. It would make sense for FreeMind too. Nevertheless, the added value is questionable. --[[User:Danielpolansky|Danielpolansky]] 11:38, 30 Apr 2005 (PDT)

If a few features are added, seeing two documents side by side would have more meaning. Automatic creation of a cloned node that is the root node of a new document is one. Press Ctrl-Enter (for example) would create a new document. This document would have a root node and filename that is the same name as node from the parent document. A line would connect these two nodes on the screen. Note the line is really two lines that connect at the boundary of each window. This type of line would also show visually the link between any two nodes in any two mm-files. Alternatively you can have the second window show a piece of the same document. This piece would include the node the cursor is on in the left pane and all the child nodes.

Another idea is to show a mind map as a menu. Menus are useful because they require very little additional screen space. Click on anything in the menu and it either shows the rest of the tree from the selected node or it evaluates the node which could mean it opens a new mind map, opens a program or does some other action.
--[[User:Mars729|Mars729]] 17:22, 1 Jun 2008 (EDT)

=== Direct pasting of RTF from clipboard ===

In one of the future versions, direct pasting of HTML into FreeMind will be supported; the code for it already exists and has not been published yet. In addition, direct pasting of [http://www.biblioscape.com/rtf15_spec.htm RTF] as HTML would be helpful. A free algorithm for conversion between RTF and HTML is needed for that.

RTF (rich text format) is used in email messages in Microsoft Outlook, and in hierarchical notebooks [http://www.tranglos.com/free/keynote.html Key Note] and [http://www.tuxcards.de/ TuxCards]. --[[User:Danielpolansky|Danielpolansky]] 03:36, 22 May 2005 (PDT)

=== Lock Contents and Hierarchical Position of a Node ===

It will be really nice to be able to lock the contents of a node so it cannot be edited unless it is explicitly unlocked. Similarly, it might be useful to prevent a node from being moved to another position in the hierarchy of the map.

=== Better Placement of New "Secondary" Nodes Relative to the Root Node ===

When adding nodes to the root node, they appear to be placed Right, Left, Right, Left. If some of these secondary nodes are deleted and another one is added to the root node, the side on which it is added appears to be chosen according to the number of secondary nodes on each side.

This seems fair enough, but if some of the secondary nodes have hundreds of child nodes and others only have a few then you can end up with a map which has far more nodes on the right than the left, but still have new secondary nodes added on the right hand side.

How about using the total number of nodes on each side when working out whether a secondary node should be on the right or left of the root node? Alternatively, allow secondary nodes to be dragged onto the other side of the root node (which doesn't appear to be possible currently).

: CTRL+[LEFT,RIGHT,UP,DOWN] moves the node and its children accordingly (at least in 0.9.0 Beta 8)

Can we have complete manual control of all secondary nodes originating from the root - so that each secondary node has its own unique point of origin on the root node which can be moved independently of all other secondary nodes. At the moment all secondary nodes originate left or right. It would be useful if they could originate like different points of the compass. North, north north west, north west, etc. and even points in between.

=== Using basic vector shapes ===

Using basic shapes like line, rectangle, square, circle etc. would by usefull.

=== Treat a node as HTML using an attribute ===
Instead of the cumbersome "<html>" string required at the beginning of the text. And even worse, having to keep the MaxNodeWidth enforced with something like <body width="600">. Why not take a different approach. One that seems like it would have little impact on the code, though I have not read it as of yet...

If html was treated as an attribute like bold and italic as in html="true", then process the entire node as html same as when the string "<html>" is detected at the beginning of the text. There would be a default <style>body {width:<MaxNodeWidth>}</style> in place, though the actual html in the node could override this just the way normal CSS does.

This has '''MAJOR''' implications for the use of the xml file. Though I have not written any XSLT yet for FreeMind yet, I was appalled at the thought of having to strip out this "<html>" string out of every node that used it. And positively frustrated at the idea of having to test for tags used to control width, i.e. <body width="600">. I really thought this crude and that it would slow the proceesing of files that use what is really a most beautifully clean concept.

However, an html attribute does away with all of this and seems to me to be a much more elegant and cleanly way to deal with html....

BTW, it would be very straight forward to write an XSLT transform to upgrade existing .MM files.

I just had another thought, why not go all the way and give each node a MIME type, limited to "text/plain" (default) and "text/html" for now. This leaves the door open to readily process other mime types through plugins, or whatever. In any case the attribute concept is something worth thinking about. --[[User:Danv|danv]] 10:25, 8 Feb 2006 (PST)

=== Add pictures to notes ===
Add a picture to a note of a node. It would be cool to export a map to HTML (Clickable Map) and have the picture only in the note. Whis would be the logical implementation for e.g. [http://freemind.sourceforge.net/docs/features/0_8_0/Features%200.8.0.html overview of new features in 0.8.0]. It would not be needed to create extra nodes for pictures only.

=== Code environment ===

Possibility to insert source code e.g. html (pre does not work...)

: I don't understand what this request is about. You can insert any source code you want into FreeMind's nodes, just that it cannot start with < html >; HTML code can be inserted by setting space as the first character of a node. --[[User:Danielpolansky|Danielpolansky]] 05:51, 29 Apr 2006 (PDT)
--[[User:Danielpolansky|Danielpolansky]] 05:57, 29 Apr 2006 (PDT)

=== Alphabetize Nodes ===
Automatically rearrange a specified node level in alphabetical order. Today I do this manually in certain circumstances. It can be very time consuming to preform this manually, and hopefully it would not be too time consuming to automate. --[[User:Slashdotted|Slashdotted]] 18:22, 21 Jul 2006 (PDT)

=== Order of Nodes ===
According to Buzan Mindmaps should be read clockwise. What every mindmapping tool misses is the fact that nodes on the left side of the center should be added from bottom to top, with the last entered node on the 11 position.

that was the first thing i noticed about freemind also. i have been making mindmaps by hand for years now and they are always clockwise.
also when exporting eg. to html the nodes should be ordered clockwise. maybe i miss some feature, but when i first exported a mindmap the order was somehow from top to bottom (3 from the right, then 2 from the left, then continue with the right side,...)
the other thing is that nodes are always left or right, and not orderered in a circle.
the only way i can work with freemind is to put all nodes on the right side but the map looks more like a list then

=== Selection and Deselection of Icons ===
It would be great if the icon toolbar on the left would show different styles of an icon (selected / not-selected), so one can easily deselect an icon for a node, rather than go through the contextmenue each time

Besides, it would be great if the context menu could allow remove specific icons, not just the last one.

----

As an addendum to this request, it would be really interesting to define a "combo box" type where (to do/project milestone/other actionable state) lists defined in the tree could be updated by clicking the drop down on the combo box instead of having to delete the icon and re-add another one.

=== Reminder nodes - Alerts and possible Outlook / Lotus Notes / etc integration ===
It would be a great additional feature if it was possible to use FreeMind as a reminder tool too. This idea poped into my mind right now, so it's not pretty much developed yet, but if it was possible to mark a node as a reminder then I would have no need to use Outlook to remind me of things to be done. I was reading something on GTD (Gets Things Done) and it connection with MindMaps and I thought that it would be useful to attach reminders to MindMaps/Nodes. There're a couple of approachs to implement it: The first would be to integrate Freemind with Outlook ot Lotus Notes, and then when you tag a node as a reminder it actually creates a reminder inside Outlook or Notes using the node text and context, so that you get reminded by those applications when the reminder alert occurs. The other option is to write an application that is used to alert user of a node reminder. [[User:Loudenvier|Loudenvier]] 11:08, 11 Aug 2006 (PDT)
It would also be fabulous if one could hyperlink from FreeMind to a Lotus Notes database document. Currently, one gets a "This URL is malformed!" error message. Thanks!

=== Demoting Root ===
Allow insert of sibling of root which auto creates a new root. The old root and the new sibling are both attached to it --[[User:Patheros|Patheros]] 11:45, 10 Apr 2007 (PDT)

=== Open Mindmaps in the same already open Freemind ===
In Windows I open my mindmaps by double-clicking on the *.mm file. It would be nice if double-clicking would not always open a new FreeMind. Instead, I like to view the mindmap in the already existing open Freemind application. [[User:wasserratte|wasserratte]] 10:01, 3 May 2007 (CET)

=== WBS Mode ===
I would like to see a WBS Viewing Mode, where the map would be arranged in a top-down hierarchical display. Something like the Organization Chart from Microsoft Office. That would help using FreeMind as a WBS Chart tool.

I would like to see the ability to port a WBS developed with FreeMind into Microsoft Project similar to the plug in for MindMapper. --[[User:Tuneboy|Tuneboy]] 07:58, 27 Nov 2007 (PST)

=== Improve MacOS Binary Package ===
All files should be contained inside the FreeMind.app package, like most other Mac programs.

== Principles of Unix ==

The principles from Unix are that programs should do one thing, and do it well, and to use well-defined inter-communication between those programs. The current design of FreeMind completely violates those rules - mostly because it is written in Java, but definitely because it is written _exclusively_ in Java. However, do not despair! All Is Not Lost!

By splitting FreeMind along very specific lines, it will very quickly be possible to do things like use a completely different viewing front-end (such as a web interface). It will be possible to satisfy one of the RFEs listed here for 'command line only'. It will be possible to use FreeMind as a powerful semantic analysis engine tool.

And none of that is possible because the current design is entirely in some stupid programming language called "java", which should have been put down for its own good, at birth (thank you Sun Microsystems).

For an example of the kind of architecture that you should follow, take a look at http://gnuenterprise.org/. It should be _trivial_ to add in a "database plugin" into gnuenterprise, and to have a gnuenterprise "reports" form viewing the same data and attributes etc. that a FreeMind user is simultaneously looking at.

And it's _not_ difficult - IF you split along the right lines.

[http://sourceforge.net/tracker/index.php?func=detail&aid=1687293&group_id=7118&atid=357118 RFE 1687293]

== User Interface ==

=== Views ===

==== Hoist/Unhoist ====

It would be awesome if FreeMind could allow the 'hoist' of a non-root node. Clicking on the node and choosing 'hoist' would redraw the map showing that node as root, its descendents around it, and the ancestors, which are now descendants, too, hidden.

Watch an example XSLT script, which hoist the anchor from the root to the node where a graphical link, originating at the root, points at. Input sample FreeMind map:

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<map version="0.9.0_Beta_8">
<node ID="Freemind_Link_1870928497" TEXT="a">
<arrowlink DESTINATION="Freemind_Link_731312914" ENDARROW="Default"
ENDINCLINATION="219;0;" ID="Arrow_ID_1222167311" STARTARROW="None"
STARTINCLINATION="219;0;"/>
<node ID="Freemind_Link_530368245" POSITION="right" TEXT="aa">
<node ID="Freemind_Link_29760795" TEXT="aaa"/>
<node ID="Freemind_Link_731312914" TEXT="aab">
<node ID="ID_1690650363" TEXT="aaba"/>
</node>
</node>
<node ID="Freemind_Link_16275782" POSITION="right" TEXT="bb"/>
</node>
</map>

The Hoist XSLT script moving the root along a graphic link:

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<xsl:stylesheet xmlns:xsl="http://www.w3.org/1999/XSL/Transform" version="1.0">
<xsl:template match="*|@*">
<xsl:copy>
<xsl:copy-of select="@*"/>
<xsl:apply-templates/>
</xsl:copy>
</xsl:template>
<xsl:template match="/map">
<xsl:copy>
<xsl:copy-of select="attribute_registry"/>
<xsl:apply-templates select="//node[@ID=/map/node/arrowlink/@DESTINATION]"/>
</xsl:copy>
</xsl:template>
<xsl:template match="//node[@ID=/map/node/arrowlink/@DESTINATION]">
<xsl:copy>
<xsl:copy-of select="*|@*"/>
<xsl:apply-templates select="." mode="aws"/>
</xsl:copy>
</xsl:template>
<xsl:template match="node" mode="aws">
<xsl:if test="parent::node">
<xsl:element name="node">
<xsl:attribute name="TEXT">
<xsl:value-of select="../@TEXT"/>
</xsl:attribute>
<xsl:apply-templates select="preceding-sibling::node"/>
<xsl:apply-templates select="following-sibling::node"/>
<xsl:apply-templates select="parent::node" mode="aws"/>
<xsl:apply-templates select="../attribute"/>
</xsl:element>
</xsl:if>
</xsl:template>
</xsl:stylesheet>

It would be nice, if this would be a function inside FreeMind e.g. right click on a node and in this context menu chose New Root.
[[User:JR|JR]] 06:34, 16 Apr 2008 (PDT)

==== Folding Animation ====
I believe having a very short animation when folding/unfolding a node would increase readability as it whould make it easier to know where nodes where before and where did they moved to.

==== Left toolbar ====
I think we have too much icons on the left, most of it isn't used. I think it could be halved, and only show the user preferred icons, and the rest of the place could be used to dock other tools. --[[User:Zslevi|Zslevi]] 13:03, 1 Nov 2007 (PDT)

Leos: it would be nice, if I could remove some icon from the toolbar or rearrange order of the icons (like in MS Office).

to allow an easy access to all the icons on the left bar, one may group icons that follow the same metaphor (ex: numbers, home/office, crosslight red/green/orange ....) and access to the icon of interest by clicking on the group icon. This could serve also to simplify the change: suppose you have an ordered list with the icons 1, 2, 3 ... or with icons representing different states "draft", "in review", "published" ... then you could click on the icon on a node, and have a contextual menu with all the other icons of the same group (and delete/delete all). You could much more easily change from "in review" to "publish" state :-) --[[User:Patco|Patco]]

==== Notes ====
I think it's a great thing to have notes for nodes, but I would prefer more options on formatting note text. (What about integrating with Open Office Writer?) At least the font size should be set, because the default size is so small and hard to read. --[[User:Zslevi|Zslevi]] 13:03, 1 Nov 2007 (PDT)

==== Zoom to fit ====
It would be nice if on loading a map, the view executes an automatic zoom-to-fit instead of the default 100%. Also the Fit option should be added to the Zoom drop down menu (as Powerpoint does for example). Also a keyboard accelerator should be added for Zoom to Fit (e.g. Ctrl-Shift-Z, they are near each other). Another small thing: if you have a map larger than taller, the current implementation adjust the scale to fit the map horizontally, but leave the map not centered in the vertical direction. Could this also be fixed?
--[[User:Mvalle|mvalle]] 06:14, 2 Dec 2008

=== Windows ===
It would be especially helpful if we could reorganize the arrangement of freemind's windows. For example, nodes with notes appear at the bottom and can't be moved around. In other heirarchical editors, a tree view could appear at the left and the text (notes) could be moved to the right, where a large screen and indentation could make most of the text readable as compared to the bottom of the screen.

=== Keyboard ===
==== F1 is conventionally help ====
F1 is normally a help key in most apps

* When zooming with the keyboard shortcuts it would be better to have
Alt + Up Arrow to zoom-in and Alt + Down Arrow to zoom-out. This is
a more natural way of thinking about zooming.-ZSDM

==== Show a help bar on the bottom of the screen for F keys ====
Have an optional toolbar that can be shown along bottom of screen with buttons that can be clicked with a mouse and operate as per the function keys and also give a hint as to what key does.
e.g.
[F1 help] [F2 hot][F3 green][F4 ] [F5]
And format the text of the key as per the pattern it applies
==== Enforce Default Per-Line Text Width For Long Nodes ====

At least 70% of the nodes are multi-line nodes, and to make all the long nodes look *uniform*, we need to manually insert line breaks for each long node, this can get pretty tedious, and also it's difficult to get all nodes of uniform width. A much better way is to have the system enforce a configurable "long node width", that adds line breaks when necessary. If no such paramater is set, it can default to the current behavior.

This can happen through a default attribute of the <body>-tag i.e. <body width="200px">.

===== Locking Node Focus =====

Currently the node focus is "set" by moving the mouse. The last node that the mouse flys over is the default focus node, and subsequent operations like "insert an icon" is performed will be performed on that node. It would be really helpful to be able to *manually* lock the focus on a node, this way it's easier to set an icon (all the way to the left side of the screen) to the right node.

==== Toggle for Re-centering the Map upon node selection =====

I love FreeMind and yet I still dream of a more and better version. Under the mouse section, I have suggested a toggle to enable and disable the mouse fly-overs select node mechanism. It would also be nice if there was some means to recenter the map upon node selection to make that section of the map the graphical focus.

==== Re-centering the Map with Hypergraph-like navigation tool =====

The most compelling form of refocusing large mind maps are ThinkMap's Visual Thesaurus, The Brain, The WebBrain. Of course, being a user and not a programmer, I can only imagine how much work that might take. Perhaps, you might find it useful to forge a collaboration with the SourceForge Hypergraph Project and ask them to build an export to Hypergraph module for you. One note of caution: Straightforward implementation of a hypergraphs compress large peripheral nodes into a small and unreadable overlapping space. This defeats the value of the hypergraph navigation. Thinkmap has solved that problem by forcing peripheral nodes to be well-spaced for readability.

=== "physical style" could be customized ===

I love the flexibility FreeMind provided to make my mindmap pretty. For each node, I can choose the font size, format, color...The choices are so many that making the changes with mouse is a little bit slow because the choices are buried in many sub-menus. The physical style provides a short-cut. But the styles are not attractive. Why not provide a tool so that the user can define a node format (including font size, format, color and icon et al) and associate it to F3~F9 and Ctrl +F1~F9. So after I type in the content, by pushing one key, the node can be customized within a second.

* It's done exactly this way in FreeMind 0.9 --[[User:Terkor|Terkor]] 19:39, 18 Jul 2007 (PDT)

=== Mouse ===

==== Scroll wheel zoom Operation ====

a) It would be nice to be able to zoom using just the scroll wheel rather than pressing CTRL at the same time. How about a user preference/option to control this. This is similar to many other Apps e.g. Excel ie wheel = zoom or pan

b) The way the scroll wheel works seems opposite to many other programs which is confusing
ie push wheel forward causes a zoom out whereas other apps zoom in

==== Right mouse popup menu text ====
The words "Node up" and "Node down" could be easier to understand if there was a verb in it
e.g.
Move node up
Move node down

The operation of it is great, but as a novice it is not clear if it does
move up a node - ie where current cursor is moves
or
move the node - ie the node is moved to a different position on the diagram

==== Photoshop/Freehand-like Keyboard/Mouse Document Navigation ====
Coming from the graphics department, it would be really nice to have the standard mouse/keyboard navigation style (which by the way is great way of handling oversized documents and going from overview to detail view with just a few clicks):

a) Space toggles View Panning
b) CTRL-Space toggles zoom in (Click to zoom in, zoom centered to position of mouse cursor)
c) CTRL-ALT-Space toggles zoom out (click to zoom out, zoom centered to position of mouse cursor)
Tried to map CTRL-Space to zoom in, which worked, but not on mouseclick but on keydown. Additional ALT key for zoom out was not accepted at all in settings->keys

==== Toggle for Mouse fly-over ====

Elsewhere in this RFE, others have noted that although the mouse fly-over selection mode is great for rapid navigation, there are times when one changes the selection as the mouse cursor moves up to the toolbar. Why not toggle the mouse fly-over by some method. Perhaps one of the most convenient methods would be a left mouse double click on the node to freeze the selection.

=== TouchPad ===

==== Horizontal scroll ====

Horizontal scrolling does not seem to work.

=== Menu ===
==== Toggle toolbar on/off via View Menu ====
Add ability to toggle display of toolbars via the menu
Suggest put it under View menu

Functionality as per RIGHT mouse key on a blank part of the screen

==== Alter wording of sub menu Mode ====
As a novice found it hard to understand the difference between Map and Browse
would have found it easier if it had said
ALT+1 Edit map
ALT+2 Browse map
ALT+3 File

==== Add a save all map icons ====
If you work with several maps, it is impossible to save all maps in one shot,
except if you close freemind.

=== Toolbars ===

==== Icon toolbar ====

===== Cross and watebasket look like icons rather than buttons =====
To a novice the delete (red cross) and delete all (wastebasket) icons look like icons
ie add a cross to the map rather than perform operations
especially on the popup "select icon" window.

===== Some icons in left toolbar fall off bottom of toolbar =====

===== Clone icon toolbars on both sides =====
I want to have same icon toolbar on both sides - left and right. If I had icon toolbar on both sides, I could choose the shortest way to the icon.

==== Top toolbar ====
===== Order of icons in top toolbar =====
Would be nice if these icons were in a more standard order (as per other apps)
e.g.
New, Open, save, print, cut,copy, paste with next/previous map buttons more to the right

(Icons in V0.08 RC2 look a lot smarter)

===== Font size pulldown is very wide =====
Pulldown to select font size is stretching and becoming very wide, which doesn't look neat.

===== Visual feedback for toolbar buttons =====
Currently (0.8.1) The buttons in the top toolbar do not show any visual feedback when pushed, so you remain with the doubt to have done anything. -- [[User:Mvalle|Mvalle]] 03-dec-08

===== Customizable top toolbar =====
A few functions are often used so it's more efficient to be able to customize the top toolbar to have those buttons, eg. node background color, node font color are both very useful to highlight different nodes for different purpose. Last applied color should be able to use just by clicking the same button. There should be more this kind of depends on individual preference.
-- [[User:dGuru|dGuru]] 08-Dec-2008

==== New toolbar for format operations ====

===== Move font type and size pulldowns to new format toolbar =====
ie group all formatting functions as per Format menu options onto a format toolbar

===== Add ability to select a default format for text =====
e.g. have a split icon
left part looks like a letter "A" in colour text is currently set to
right part of icon looks like a black down arrowhead which if clicked pulls up a colour picker

===== Add ability to select a default format for lines =====
e.g. have a split icon
left part looks like a line in colour text is currently set to
right part of icon looks like a black down arrowhead which if clicked pulls up a colour picker

===== Add ability to select a default format for clouds =====
e.g. have a split icon
left part looks like a coloured outline of a cloud in colour text is currently set to
right part of icon looks like a black down arrowhead which if clicked pulls up a colour picker

===== One-click selection of cloud color =====
It would be nice not to have to go through the context-menu to change the cloud color. This should be as easy as in v0.7 by just clicking in the toolbar.

==== Enlarge and reduce the text size ====
Enlarge and reduce the text size will be very helpful.

=== Map Overview / Navigation Pane ===
..like seen in MindManager: a small detached window that allows quick overview and repositioning of the visualized map section

===Gestures===
How about the ability to use gestures (mouse or pen) to do basic manipulation?
Click and drag right to enter new node.
Click and drag left to enter new sub-node.

Maybe use middle button click for gestures to avoid conflict with current capabilities.

'''Remark:''' This is already possible. Just use the freeware StrokeIt. It very easily adds gestures to any program. --[[User:Terkor|Terkor]] 18:08, 28 May 2007 (PDT)

=== Outline View ===
It would be really nice to have the option of seeing an outline view - which you could also drag and drop with --[[User:Slashdotted|Slashdotted]] 18:26, 21 Jul 2006 (PDT)

Along the lines of using gestures for manipulation and entry I use FreeMind on a tabletpc. I would like to be able to use inking capabilities.

=== Applet ===
Since you can drag for navigation, why not allow the scrollbars to be disabled
in order to increase screen real estate?

=== MacOS Enhancements ===
Some keystrokes should be remapped (by default) to conform with the keystrokes used on Mac's User Interface, like:
* Delete Child: CMD-BACKSPACE, instead of DELETE (Mac laptops doesn't have a DELETE key)
* Zoom Out: ALT-DOWN, instead of ALT-UP
* Zoom In: ALT-UP, instead of ALT-DOWN (consistent with macos Zoom feature)

Some common keyboard shortcuts should also be implemented:
* Minimize the window to the Dock: CMD-M
* Restore window from the Dock: ALT-1

=== Spell Check ===
I'm a dyslectic - at least am used to type many errors. (Almost) All software I use (to type content) have some form of spell checker supported. And because I also use FreeMind for mindmaps in presentations; they need to contain as less as possible number of writing errors. (Please in any supported language) --[[User:Sent|Sent]] 11:41, 8 Mar 2009 (UTC)

== Maps ==

=== Flowchart for Programming Structure ===
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We prefer that you send your requests for enhancements here. Please look first if a similar request for enhancement already exists, using Ctrl + F. Also, there is a section of [http://sourceforge.net/tracker/?group_id=7118&atid=357118 requests for enhancements] at FreeMind's project page at SourceForge.

== Features in development ==

2006-07-16. The development team of FreeMind is currently working on the following features. (We cannot guarantee that the features will actually make it into the next release; most of them should.)

* Attributes on nodes
* Filtering which nodes are shown by icons and contained string
* Rich text nodes
* Save All function

=== Purge this list ===
Could this enhancement request be purged when features are implemented? --[[User:Mvalle|Mvalle]] 6:49, 2 Dec 2008

== Project management ==

=== Firefox Integration ===

My suggestion is to integrate FreeMind with Firefox so you can classify anything you download and extract useful knowledge. In case of being a html page also would be great some clipboard features to add selected text to FM notes in a particular node or as a new child etc.. My html notes consist on a short text I write about the webpage, below link to webpage and below selected text of this webpage, then I save the webpage in a directory for later use. Currently I am using FM to organize some info from my html notes and recent html pages (several hundreds) I have downloaded and I would find this feature fantastic. First you download a file/html page with selected/typed/default text as filename and assign selected or typed text to their FM node, then you organize downloads in a new tab in which FreeMind is running.. Wonderful!! (Also persistent notes instead of temporal ones or at least the ability to choose their behaviour would be great too)

To make FreeMind a productive tool with Firefox, at the very least, when you drag the URL icon from the URL toolbar on the top of Firefox to a node in FreeMind, FreeMind should create a single child node with the correct label and link in it. Currently, it creates multiple child nodes with messed-up labels, which require tedious manual cleanup after the drag-n-drop.

=== Ganttproject/Freemind integration ===

It would be very interresting to integrate Ganttproject, for a better
project management. This solution would be very close from JCVGantt pro + mindmanager (http://www.gantt.fr/#).
Both (Freemind and Ganttproject) are GPL, and java coded.
- actually there is already a data converter for this: [http://johanneskutsam.spaces.live.com/blog/cns!1961B7AE7280AAFD!264.entry '''Freemind2gantt converter '''] It now needs a tighter integration and some more intelligent overlap of contents, so that 1:1 conversion is possible (in both directions) --[[User:BoP|BoP]] 05:31, 22 Jul 2007 (PDT)

=== Time management and dependencies ===
Integrate date attributes and a timing view
Allow to set other attributes (people, groups, objects, locations)
Build on top of that a half-hierarchical structure with dependencies

* For some of the software packages leading this field look at: [http://www.matchware.com/en/products/openmind/default.htm "OpenMind 2"] or [http://www.conceptdraw.com "ConceptDraw"]
--[[User:BoP|BoP]] 05:31, 22 Jul 2007 (PDT)

There should be the option for recurring Reminders (e.g. every week, every month, etc.). --[[User:Terkor|Terkor]] 07:29, 19 Aug 2007 (PDT)

== Nodes ==
===Allow nodes to be moved up or down within heirarchial structure===

Allow nodes to be moved up or down within heirarchial structure, where you can allready physically change the distance between nodes it would be great if you move a node too high or too low it shifts it up or down accordingly with the structural fromat of the mind map

=== Allow picture-nodes to be Pasted ===
I've been using FreeMind as a note taker during lectures for a while, and its great. Of course, every once in a while you need to add a picture quickly. I wish FreeMind would allow for me to draw a picture in Paint or whatever and simply Paste it into a node.
-RogerF

''KeepNote'' has a build in ''Insert Screenshot'' function, which is very easy to use. That would enhance note taker jobs enormous. In addition a creation of a journal note with default date and time would be nice.
-JSp

=== Sketch-nodes ===
As a note taker during lectures, FreeMind is great. Of cource every once in a while the lecturer will draw a more complex picture on the board, and suddenly you're out of ways to 'capture' an important part of the lecture. I would like to be able to add a 'Sketch' node, that would bring up a popup Window and a simple SVG editor. It doesnt have to be advanced, but being able to draw circles, ellipses, straight lines, a few colors an line widths etc. would come a long way with respect to FreeMind as a note-taker during lectures!
-RogerF

=== Improved Table editor ===
IMHO, the table feature of FreeMind is great to have, but a little inflexible. I would like to see features such as:
- drag to indicate number of cells (similar to Word)
- insert row, column etc. should be avaiable from the right-click menu
- change background colors

=== Add Fonts, Especially Strikethrough ===
- I use Freemind for, amongst other things, task management. I'd like the ability to format node text with strikethrough so the placeholder is kept but it's clear on a quick scan that the task has been handled. I find this much easier than, say, using an icon to identify a completed task

and generally I would encourage that tables are formatted as compact as possible by default.

=== Automatically selecting a specific node on startup ===

html allows you to access specifically marked sections immediately using the anchor syntax, which is incorporated into the url. But in freemind, all nodes already have unique id's. It would be very convenient if you could refer to a specific node id right after specifying the filename so that freemind could jump to that particular node immediately. For example:

freemind foo.mm -> opens foo.mm and selects the center of the map

freemind foo.mm bar -> opens foo.mm and goes to the node ID'd bar.

This kind of syntax will make it very convenient for a user of freemind to make a network of mindmaps, and to jump in between networks using the hyperlink input. Of course, for this to be useful, there must also be a shortcut to display the current node's unique ID, and a mechanism for freemind to recognize other hyperlinks that are also mindmaps.

-Markd

=== Automatic Numbering of Nodes ===

A key feature of MindJet and Simtech mindmaps is the ability to toggle a numbers on or numbers off view. This makes a large mindmap more workable, because everyone can quickly reference specific nodes by the node number(s). This is especially useful after converting a map to Open Office or Word, so you have a numbered outline. The numbers would be the logical parent-child relationship seen in outlining or data modeling. The number should be displayed above the node text with a dashed line or shading to distinguish it from the node text. The user should also have the option to display numbers with dots, or without dots (to reduce the length). When a node is moved, deleted, etc. - the maps numbers are auto-recalculated to show the new relationships. This enhancement (along with spell check) would make FreeMind a more useable business tool.

GregA

FullACK. The feature should allow to have all/selected nodes [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ISO_2145 ISO2145]-numbered (in map-view or at least on export). I believe this would not be too difficult to implement. (Probably in 0.9.0 this can be done more or less easily by Groovy-scripting, but maybe it would just turn into a standard-feature for everybody, if it was included into one of the standard-menus.)

Thanks, Golgol

Numbering can be easily achieved by having an external plugin, which is a program that analyses the data (node) it receives, and just adds a "number" attribute.

lkcl.

=== Automatic word wrap in Nodetext ===

I'd like to see this feature. I want for example set a default max node width. So the text will wrap when this width is reached. This would make mindmaps more readable and easier to edit.

Edit: I just noticed, that it is possible by giving "width=" to the body tag in html mode (or rich formatting) but it would be nice having this in plain text mode, too.

Edit2: If you set a "width=" in the body TAG the Node will be this wide. The Node should get smaller if the given width is not needed.

nautsch

=== Automatic transition to Edit Long Node ===

When the user starts typing a node, she/he may not know in advance if the text will fit on one line or require multiple lines (Long Node). It would be advisable that pressing ALT-ENTER at the end of a single line node, switches to the Long Node editing window as it does now, but with the cursor already on the second line of the editing window, so that the user can keep typing right away from there. Currently it's necessary to press END and then ENTER to obtain this behavior. The proposed modification would avoid pressing this two extra keys.

Marco

=== Add to alert to a node ===

I do use Freemind to keep track of my current tasks. MindMaps are IMO a very good way to organize to chaos in them (if you know a better tool, please mail hoffi@muskelshirt.de). But since some tasks do contain da deadline, the possibility to add an alert would be very handy (e.g. like Outlook-alerts).

* Tools -> Show Calendar... -> Remind Me At This Date; also see: Tools -> Show Time Sceduler List... --[[User:Terkor|Terkor]] 19:32, 11 Feb 2008 (PST)

=== Sorting nodes ===

It will be very useful to SORT SELECTED NODES at the same hierarchical level like a list. The simplest and fastest sorting rule would be the alphabetical order. It will improve the visibility of a map. It could be added as plugin or function at the same level as the function "join nodes". It would have to work even if the nodes have subnodes. Thanks. Franck --[[User:Fb5|Fb5]] 02:50, 15 Nov 2007 (PST)

=== Synchronised nodes / mirror nodes / relational nodes ===

Some times you might want a node in two locations. What you can do today is to add a link and/or a graphical link. What I would like to is to have mirrored / synchronised nodes. Say that I have node A, and that I want the same node in another location as well. Simply I should be able to Ã¢ÂÂInsert mirror nodeÃ¢ÂÂ, and wupti node A is shown here as well. No matter whether I now edit the node at the new or original location the nodes is changed in both locations (but of course only stores once). If a plugin for this exists then please mail me at freemind@skinny.dk.

Martin

Another more data centric way to look at this is as relational nodes. Instead of restricting the data model to a simple tree you could store the data in a relational format. This would give users the ability to store nodes with many parents.

This would produce the effect described about but would also open up the possibilities of the app for more human like brain dumping. I am almost certain that the human brain does not relate 1 single piece of information to 1 other piece, it is more natural for us to relate it to as many other pieces of info as possible as this helps us to remember.

So... new data model!! Many to many relationships! :-)

A simple way of storing this type of data would be a flat list of nodes with IDs and then another list of relationships with a focus on Parent relationships. There is only a need to store which Parent(s) a node belongs to. This could be none or more than one.

Some other considerations include rendering the data. For e.g. if a user highlights a node which appears in more than one location in the map (i.e. has more than one parent) do you explode both end points, just the one or maybe provide the option to do either.

PH4wks
=== Free-standing nodes ===

The main feature missing from freemind is free standing nodes, not initially connected to anything, which you later organise, making them parents or children or simply just linked to other nodes. This is how our brains work - it's important not to be restricted to an hierarchical model as currrently.
PBL

Yes i definantly agree free standing nodes is essential. Furthermore from this, a more network orientated view of nodes and links would be a lot freeer and natural. So Linking the nodes with links, and then being able to view them in different ways, Selecting different root nodes or groups of nodes, or the main topic as the root node as it is now.

I completely agree. I have long felt that this is the single biggest thing missing from freemind (and most mind-mapping tools). Being limited to a hierarchy under a single node is a very severe limitation. It completely artificially constrains my natural organizational habits and it leads to "uncomfortable" mapping layouts. For example, I prefer to have my parent nodes on the left and my child nodes on the right, but I quickly run out of visual real-estate when working with mindmaps in my lop-sided way. If I could detach nodes and arrange them freely I could see and work with so much more on a single screen. Also, by having free nodes, I could use a single mindmap for a lot more (possibly my whole life) - and I could avoid having to manage or maintain several maps to manage several separate projects. My mind is not "free" without free nodes. :-)

=== Other node print layout for very big maps ===

While working with a map having 4000 nodes - well structured - it is useful to have a plotter to print it on one sheet. On the other hand there are no walls 5 meters high in this office. So I'd like to request an alternative print mode with a 90 degree rotated layout. This would also enable collaboration of 2 and more people in front of this wallpaper. [[User:Noiv|Noiv]]

=== Inheritance of Node Characteristics ===

If the font size/type, colour and background colour of a node have been set then any child nodes that are created (as opposed to moved into place) should inherit those characteristics. --[[User:Anton|Anton]] 12:20, 25 Jul 2008 (PDT)

I wouldn't use the above suggestion much, actually. Instead, I'd want nodes to inherit font size/type, edge styles etc. from their ''siblings''. This makes sense to me as nodes on a particular level would tend to be section headings, which I'd want e.g. in a larger font than the nodes that come below them.

Perhaps there could be the option for both these types of inheritance. For any 'leg' of a map, the user could right click and get a menu listing the various elements which could be formatted (font [+size, +colour], edge [+style, +width, +colour], etc.), and could indicate whether that element is to inherit from Parent, Sibling or No inheritance.

It sounds a little complicated, but I'd like to have that level of control. It'd save a lot of time for large, complex projects.
-- [[User:Doubi|Doubi]] 20:13, 6 Dec 2008 (UTC)

=== ALT/ENTER to close Long Node editing window ===

As you can use ALT+ENTER to open long node editing window, it woult be logical to use the same keys to close this window.

Kast

=== Merge several nodes back into one branch ===

This feature could work as follows:
ctrl-select several nodes. hit "insert". all selected nodes are now connected to the newly created node

Joshua

== Export and Import ==

=== Import from an "interpreter", Export via "programs" ===

Possibly the most important feature to have for FreeMind is to have an "interpreter" plugin, of scripts - external programs - which can "suck in" content that is defined in a SIMPLE (and by simple i don't mean XML) format.

FreeMind should therefore, ultimately and effectively, be a "cacheing" and "display" and "edit" mechanism.

Likewise, for exporting of information, it should be possible to feed internal data to a predefined program (where the program to be used should be an attribute, where the attribute itself can be the result of a decision made from running an external script!!)

Ultimately, therefore, it should be absolutely trivial to do all of the import and export capabilities, listed below, in terms of well-defined and very simple external programs.

(side-note: the external programs can be non-java programs, of course - even shell scripts. java is a really stupid programming language to do this kind of work in: as a statically typed object-orientated language, it's simply not up to the job. it's great for display purposes, and it's great for platform-independence, but that's about all that it's good for)

[http://sourceforge.net/tracker/index.php?func=detail&aid=1687292&group_id=7118&atid=357118 RFE 1687292]

=== Import and Export from HTML and different Wiki formats ===

Simple import/export scripts can be written which have "rules" on understanding the different types of web pages, for example Wikis, and, also, the current "wiki exporter" should be the first plugin created as an "exporter".

It would be trivial for people to then use lynx or wget for example and a few lines of awk or perl to write an HTML "import" plugin. Instead of having to wade through tens of thousands of lines of stupid java (which is only really suitable for display purposes and platform-independence).

Include an option to state whether the notes file should be in a pop-up window, or a link to a separate file in a scrollable window (in the last version I used notes text came up in non-scrollable temporary pop-ups).

===== Export to HTML =====
Exporting to HTML the various labels are styled with a <nowiki><span></nowiki> that has a long style="" entry. It is better to create a set of CSS classes, one for each distinct style, and reference them in the various <nowiki><span></nowiki> blocks. This simplifies also the import into MS Word.
--[[User:Mvalle|Mvalle]] 08:43, 20 Dec 2008 (UTC)

Thinking about cheap export to MS Word a new export to HTML option could be added with every level of the map producing a different <nowiki><hx></hx></nowiki> title. The central node becomes <nowiki><h1></h1></nowiki>, the first branch <nowiki><h2></h2></nowiki> and so on. The node notes could become the text below this level heading. Or the map leaves could become the contained text.
--[[User:Mvalle|Mvalle]] 08:43, 20 Dec 2008 (UTC)

==== Import and Export from Bugtrackers ====

It would be really nice to have import/export plugin scripts which understand the different bugtrackers. FreeMind is already an extremely good project management tool: why isn't it also helping to be the Uber-Project Project?

=== Import and Export databases ===
Any database connectivity would be nice to have,
especially import, be it either via ODBC or MySQL.
Thanks, UndiFineD

Corresponding requests for enhancement.

* [http://sourceforge.net/tracker/index.php?func=detail&aid=1100921&group_id=7118&atid=357118 1100921 : Export JPEG]

=== Filesystem Integration complimenting Import/Export ===
Definitely powerful would be the use of a node to view/edit the contents of a local file instead of an in-program node. This could effectively replace a lot of import/export functions, as a mindmap could be stored as a folder instead of as a single file, so that clients could extract wanted nodes without having to bring their freemind executable. Secondly, while native viewers do not yet exist, it could help users access their data nodes in extraneous formats. Some ideas.

==== Loading viewers for certain data nodes ====
Now that nodes can be given attributes, it isn't too that farfetched to create different kinds of viewers/editors for different kinds of nodes - or to load viewers for those nodes specifically.

==== Completely virtual nodes ====
Likewise, nodes whose content relies entirely on an external text (or other) file could be created which could be parsed back as text to freemind when viewed.

==== Directory operations ====
Freemind's hierarchical structure of node viewing makes it an interesting way to organize directories.

==== Exporting from command line ====
A feature I would really like would be to be able to do export programatically from cmdline.. something like:<br />
<code>freemind-export --flash mymindmap.mm -o mymindmap.html</code>

You not need to export mindmaps, if you want to browse it with flash browser (visorFreemind).
Just use one ÃÂ«smartÃÂ» HTML/Javasript file which takes mindmap name from parameters, like this:
[http://discopal.ispras.ru/mindmaps/mindmaps.html?intro-and-samples.mm], [http://discopal.ispras.ru/mindmaps/mindmaps.html?algorithms-definitions.mm], [http://discopal.ispras.ru/mindmaps/mindmaps.html?algorithms-dtime-dspace.mm].
But this feature (export from command line) will be very useful to export SVG ([http://sourceforge.net/tracker/index.php?func=detail&aid=1865152&group_id=7118&atid=357118 corresponding ticket]). --[[User:StasFomin|StasFomin]] 19:48, 2 Mar 2009 (UTC)

=== Exporting Legend of used Icons ===
It would be nice when a legend would be attached to the exported graphs, explaining the meaning of the icons used in the map. Would support usability for everyone who doesn't know what the freeMind icons should mean; even if they should be intuitive.

comment on the above:

"Yes, I agree too. It would be great also if a TITLE and SUB-TITLES can be placed (and movable) anywhere in the MindMap, so when it is printed out, people know what this mind map is for.

Also, since we can color our own ARROW LINKS, having their descriptions customizable alongside with those colored arrow links inside the legend would be a great enhancement!"

=== Export to OpenOffice ===

: FreeMind-0.8.0 can export mindmaps to OpenOffice Writer files. However, the fonts, colors, and formatting are not exported. A method that works well is to export as HTML, open the exported document in Konqueror (or some other web browse), and copy-and-paste the entire document into OpenOffice Writer.

Unfortunately there seems to be some problem though with opening the files in version 2 of OpenOffice. I haven't had a chance to go and check against the 1.x versions.

: I have the same problem with OOo 1.9.104 (package from Knoppix). I can provide maps where this happens. Regards, [[User:Zapyon|Zapyon]] 14:02, 16 Nov 2006 (PST)

: Freemind .9beta9 exports to OOo 2.2x though it's not pretty.

==== Export to OpenOffice Impress ====

I wonder how difficult it would be to export into Impress presentation. The Nodes cen be Slide Headers, Subnodes can be Outlines and so on. Then Notes can be exported into Slide Notes. One can do a presentation off the screen, give away handouts with full notes to keep.
--[[User:Koaster|Koaster]] 08:48, 7 Aug 2006 (PDT)

* It's not that difficult, at least for simple cases and when ignoring styles/patterns. I just implemented a small xslt-stylesheet which does the job for me. I may set up a project for that (or give it to the contributions). Meanwhile please contact me -- [[User:htgoebel|htgoebel]] 2008-01-08

==== Export Options to Open Document Format .odt ====

Allow user to set options such as:

* number of levels which translate to heading levels
** thereafter use bulleted list levels.

=== Export to Scalable Vector Graphics format (SVG) ===

''Available in FreeMind 0.8.0 RC2.'' Yes! I'd love to see something done with scalable vector graphics, or some such... I really wish Freemind could export to SVG, or maybe even flash... -- Bruce
And happily, developers are thinking the same thing: -- Here's Dimitri on that very possibility in
[http://sourceforge.net/forum/forum.php?thread_id=1031174&forum_id=22101 forum thread].

=== Export to Portable Network Graphics format (PNG) (enhanced) ===

It is already possible to export mindmaps to PNG. But the export function can be enhanced. E.g. the possibility to export PNG pictures with a '''transparent background''' instead of a white background (respectively the color thats used in the presets) would be very handy. Also possibilities to adjust the resolution and PPI (pixels per inch) are very useful when it comes to printing documents with embedded mindmaps in the PNG format. --[[User:UrsusExplorans|UrsusExplorans]] 10:04, 1 Aug 2009 (UTC)

=== Export to Flash or teach Flash to view mm ===

SVG, however, is still not widely supported - not even in desktop browsers, so it is mostly a way to exchange drawings and print. Exporting to Flash or having a Flash viewer that displayed .mm files (after all, ActionScript can now load XML data easily) would enable quick and effortless integration with current Web browsers without requiring them to install the Sun JVM (which can be a major issue in some environments).<br>
Edit: Good news: I was looking for the same and came accross this: http://nobi.com/appleexpo/index-f.html View source to see how it is made, it simply loads the .mm as parameter in a javacript, and I suppose the graphics and rules from freemind is programmed into the .swf. Should be able to take it appart, if noone has the sourcecode for something similar already. [[User:Mskogly|Mskogly]] 15:54, 20 Sep 2005 (PDT)
:This appears done in .9 beta 9. Please test --[[User:Ddaniels|Ddaniels]] 20:40, 22 Mar 2007 (PDT)

=== Support for Embedded Freemind Maps in Pages.Google ===
Embedded maps on free hosts like pages.google would be very cool. Here is a video of my efforts to get Freemind flash maps to work in pages.google.
http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=4967726587301956565&q=freemind+dennis --[[User:Ddaniels|Ddaniels]] 20:40, 22 Mar 2007 (PDT)

=== Export to LaTeX ===

Feb 10,2005. MindMapping concept is perfect when organizing the structure of a document. I
believe that it would be a great feature if freemind could directly export a
mindmap as a LaTeX file (using the text of the main node for the title,
the text of the main branches for \section and so on).

In the mean time (and since I know nothing about java) I wrote
[http://control.cicese.mx/twiki/pub/Main/FreeMindToLaTeX/mm2tex this perl script]
to translate mm->tex. Any improvements are welcome. I will mantain this utility
[http://control.cicese.mx/twiki/bin/view/Main/FreeMindToLaTeX here], but I hope
this feature will be included in freemind one day.

'''June 19, 2007''' The above links to the perl script are broken. Does anyone have it or something similar?

'''17 mei, 2008''' I export the mindmap to OpenOffice and uses OpenOffice to export it to Latex. I use OpenOffice 3.0, not sure if that option is already available in 2.0.

'''9 Feb, 2009''' This is probably the most important feature I'd like to see in freemind; the openoffice conversion trick doesn't work for my needs. The link to the perl script is still broken and the link to Freemindtolatex appears down now too.

=== Export and import to Ganttproject ===

This link takes you directly to the download and instructions for the export / import xslt files
[http://wwwl.kutsam.at/home/johannes/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=15&Itemid=4 : export / import to ganttproject via xslt ]

in Freemind 0.8 you can use "File->Export->Using XSLT" to export a ".gan" file using the xslt file from the link above

=== Export to favorites or bookmarks ===

Requests for enhancements:

* [http://sourceforge.net/tracker/index.php?func=detail&aid=916260&group_id=7118&atid=357118 916260 : Export to Favourites / Bookmarks]

=== Export to ontology formats (OWL, DAML) ===

Requests for enhancements:

* [http://sourceforge.net/tracker/index.php?func=detail&aid=1096791&group_id=7118&atid=357118 1096791 : Export to ontology formats (OWL, DAML)]

=== Export and import to OPML ===

Requests for enhancements:

* [http://sourceforge.net/tracker/index.php?func=detail&aid=940616&group_id=7118&atid=357118 940616 : OPML import / export support]

See also [http://www.opml.org/ OPML]. OPML - Outline Processor Markup Language.

=== Export branch as folder tree ===

A function like "export folder structure" would be useful for the use cases of bookmark manager, and of project preparation. I use [http://sourceforge.net/projects/bkm Bookmark Manager] from SourceForge, a very nice project. I found that importing bookmarks into FreeMind is a great option, if there only was a plugin to export them, Freemind would work as a perfect bookmark manager. Plus, Freemind would work as a nice 'project manager' for creating directory-trees for large projects, at least I see I could find it very usable in my projects which require managing a lot of project files. Creating such structure in Freemind and then exporting it would be very usable. Date: Fri, 16 Apr 2004 18:10:33 +0200

=== Import through any XSLT filter===
The File->Import Menu should have an item "using xslt" (just as File->Export has "using xslt") This would ease the integration of costum transformations (e.g. ganttchart <-> freemind)

lkcl: not recommended. xslt is so bad at doing "programming" that you will have an absolutely _awful_ time. however, if there's a plugin mechanism, and you want to shoot yourself in the head by having an xslt import/export plugin - then great! if the plugin architecture idea is ever taken up, and comes about, i will watch with fascinated horror at your efforts to add an XSLT import plugin...

=== Export and import to GraphViz ===

=== Export to eps ===

=== Integrate with Microsoft Outlook ===

support for adding specially labeled nodes to Outlook's calendar and Outlook's todo list.

Is there a way to integrate the calendar dates for start and completion of events into Outlook.

The export formats allowed in Freemind and the import requirements of Outlook appear to be different.
Is there a format that is acceptable to both of them or a process such as converting to notepad and then into Outlook.

Austin. austin@elanay.net

=== Integrate with Microsoft Office ===

Enable export in EMF (enhanced metafile format). It will help to integrate FreeMind's Mind Maps with Word, Excel or Powerpoint.

---

I'm a new user, and a very computer-illiterate one, but if possible would love to see more integration with Windows Word. At the moment I can copy-paste from FreeMind into Word to get an indented list representing my mindmaps, but could see myself better able to use FM for putting together documents if it had more functionality:

(1) Dynamic integration between Word and FM with nodes mapping to (formatted) Word headings.

(2) Text placed in a node's Note appearing under the corresponding heading in Word as body text.

(3) Changes made either through Word or FM being reflected in both the document and the corresponding mindmap (including rearrangements, additions, changes to text etc).

No doubt a tall order, but it can't hurt to ask :)

-KCM

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=== Import/Export in various Calendar formats ===

The idea being that I can import can a list of meetings, or tasks into Freemind. They would be imported into a sub-node and then i can redistribute them in my mindmap as I want. -- Thanx AP

=== Import via XSLT ===

Would be nice to hase the same dialog for importing as the xslt dialog for exporting. That means the user can import any XML with a proper XSL (sure that needs to generate valid .mm, otherwise the importer will throw an error).

=== Export to Executable JAR File ===

Export to an executable JAR file that can be sent to anyone who has Java installed so they can run the mind map in read only mode. The JAR file would contain the Freemind (browser?) JAR and anything else it needs to run, as well as the mind map file I created. This would be extremely useful because it would allow me to send people mind maps who don't have Freemind installed. I just send them the exported JAR, they double click it and they can view my mind map. This is better than PDF or image exporting because people could actually expand and collapse nodes and it's better than HTML export because it would look and work much better, like the applet does. Hopefully it would only include the necessary stuff for read only/browse mode to keep the JAR as small as possible.

=== Integrate Editor of choice ===

I'd like to have the opportunity to integrate my editor of choice (well there are only vim and Emacs, right? *g*). Being able to invoke an "edit with ..." using a keyboard shortcut (Ctrl-e perhaps if I'm able to redefine the existing "Export to HTML"-shortcut) enables me to edit e.g. notes of nodes in my editor.

In my editor, I do have *a lot of possibilities* FreeMind is not likely going to implement at all or at least that fast: spell check with my existing personalized dictionary, my already defined macros, vertical/column edit mode, various syntax highlighting, enhanced navigation possibilities, completion, folding, search/replace also with regular expressions, undo/redo, ...

-- novoid 2009-05-14

:: This would be nice. Would love to do long node editing in gedit on Ubuntu. Firefox has a plugin called "It's All Text" that lets you edit a web page text box in a configurable text editor. It handles things pretty well with opening up in gedit (for me), and then you save and close it and the web page text box is updated. Something similar would be super here, although I'd recommend just jumping straight to the external editor for long node editing, if you've defined one. [[User:Scarpent|Scarpent]] 19:07, 20 Aug 2009 (UTC)

== Searching ==

Requests for enhancements:

* [http://sourceforge.net/tracker/index.php?func=detail&aid=1084091&group_id=7118&atid=357118 1084091 : Boolean Searches]

Further searching requests.
* regular expression search
* incremental search. No popup; with every letter typed, a node containing the string typed so far is found. Can be modelled on Emacs.
* standard global search and replace functionality of text expressions within nodes
* search accross all the maps that happen to be open at the time

Actually, I'd wish that we have search across all maps opened or not. Just like

'find . -name "*.mm" -exec grep -H "long term" {} \; > /tmp/scratch,

but much more user friendly. Ideally, there should be a Google Desktop search plug-in for FreeMind. I wish I knew how to do it.
--[[User:Yubrshen|yushen]] 00:17, 28 Feb 2007 (PST)

=== Plugin architecture for "actions" ===

Searches is a specific category of the general category of "actions", which should themselves simply be external plugins of actions, with an input capability, output capability and an "iterator" capability.

essentially, what is needed is this:

* Internally, the "search" terms that you're performing are stored in a FreeMind database.
so, the text (as it's being typed!) is entered into a list of "Searches".
* The "context" is the location where the search is to be performed.
* Then, an external script is run called "search" which is passed the two nodes:
the search terms as they're being typed, and the "context" i.e. the data to be searched.

Essentially, you're applying subject-predicate-object to the issue.

Then, you could _have_ your "google desktop" search plug-in, because if the data is stored in flat files (instead of XML) and the search term is turned into a flat file, your plugin can return search results by parsing the HTML that comes back from the Google Desktop search and returning new "nodes" or "attributes" in the simple "import" format that was recommended to be added.

== Notes attached to Nodes ==

=== Note enhancements in 0.9 beta 7 ... ===

* As already mentioned in some postings it would be cool if it would be possible to place the note window optionally on each side of the application.

* Further it would be cool if it could be detached from the main-window so that it becomes a kind of tool-window.

* The graphical version of the note window is cool. But it consumes a lot of space ... Is it possible to avoid the nested tabs and put the tabs for "Layout view/HTML Code view" instead as a toggle button on the toolbar? Would save a lot of space and is more useable! Also maybe we could hide the "<END>" Tag in the graphical editor.

* A possibility to set a <nowiki><br></nowiki> instead a <nowiki><p></p></nowiki> in notes would be great. In other programms it's often shift+return. This would lead to less used space in notes.

=== Word wrap for notes ===
The notes are very important and I tend to write a lot of things in them! So it would be helpful to have for the notes the word wrap option already available for nodes.

=== Shortcut for adding a note to a node ===
It would be nice if there was a shortcut for adding a note to a node

In mousing from the selected node to the menu in order to reach the Insert->Note menu item, I often overfly another node: the selection changes, which is a useability feature I like very much - but then the note drops on the newly-selected node, which is not where I wanted it.
*ditto, a shortcut for adding notes would be of great use. --[[User:Goncalopp|Goncalopp]] 08:03, 27 Sep 2007 (PDT)

=== Link to Nodes from Notes===
I wish to have the ability to create links to various nodes on words within the notes pane. This would be a great feature.

I agree.

=== Mechanism to delete a note from a node ===
I have not found a way to delete a note from a node.

:Just delete the text from the note.

In my case this doesn't work - the note icon remains at the node and the notes window keeps appearing if I mouse over such a node. Deleting jsut the text doesn't help. (Version 0.8.1) - Florian

I can confirm the problem isn't just for you. Although it isn't too hard to open the saved file and remove the Note lines. (Version 0.8.1) - vanstrien

=== Option to keep Notes window open ===
Many but not all of the nodes in a map have notes. As I mouse around the map, the Notes window pops into and out of existence. This is distracting: I would like an option to keep the Notes window open, and see its text update if the selected node has a note.

Include with this an option to stick with the current note - and be able to move around the map from node to node without changing the note and still be able to edit it.

=== Option to position Notes window at right ===
I would like the Notes window to be at the right; others may prefer it at the bottom.
Or to undoc the notes node - movable separate window.

=== Attach note to a node ===

Requests for enhancements:

* [http://sourceforge.net/tracker/index.php?func=detail&aid=1043427&group_id=7118&atid=357118 1043427 : Glorified Endnoting]
* [http://sourceforge.net/tracker/?group_id=7118&atid=357118&func=detail&aid=974920 974920 : Add notes/comments to node]
* [http://sourceforge.net/tracker/?group_id=7118&atid=357118&func=detail&aid=671074 671074 : Additional text for a node, displayed in separate text area]
* [http://sourceforge.net/tracker/?group_id=7118&atid=357118&func=detail&aid=521406 521406 : Separate note for a node, displayed upon request only]

Many people want to have a note attached to a node. Some mind mapping programs have this feature. In my view, such a feature creates a basis for splitting of uses. I would expect long nodes to contain paragraphs or even small articles; I have such nodes, both plain and HTML. I also have long nodes containing nicely set HTML tables. An XSLT transforming script can either assume that paragraphs are in the long nodes or that they are in the notes; not both. Different uses would then require different XSLT scripts. Searching would need to be extended to also search through notes. Notes of different nodes, unlike nodes themselves, cannot be made visible on the canvas at the same time. Without note, every piece of the text in the mind map is a node and therefore first class citizen; it is allowed for it to have children, and whatever feature is offered to other nodes (like icons, time reminders, changing of the default color and the like) is offered to it as well.

Screenshots showing how long nodes can be used follow.

[[Image:FreeMindLongNodes.png]]
[[Image:FreeMindLongNodes2.png]]
[[Image:FreeMindLongNodes3.png]]

As this is such a requested feature, I'd like to invite you to discuss pros and cons here. --[[User:Danielpolansky|Danielpolansky]] 11:47, 15 Feb 2005 (PST)

: The main reasons for enabling node text are as follows: a). to speed the process of map construction & brainstorming. many times note text can be added "after" the primary brainstorming of a topic is complete, as the dimension of information is different - usually it is more detailed. b). the second reason is just or even more important, and that is, to enhance "readability" of the map itself. At our company, we teach that a good mindmap should not contain full sentences, but instead, it should have short phrases - even just one or two words. That is, studies have found out people can understand the main point of any topic by "seeing" just a few words. Maps should be "seen" and not "read". Then, when more detail is needed, you just open the specific node, or view it by a mouse-over type operation. So to summarize, SPEED and READABILITY are critical to the maps actual development and use for most people. --[[ User:GregArndt|GregArndt]] 14:15, 15 Feb 2005 (CST-US)

:: I don't get the point of a). Current solution does not prevent anynode from adding long nodes after the first brainstorming phase. In fact, without separate note, you can always add something afterwards as there is no limit to the depth. What concerns b), long nodes can be folded. This prevents map from being cluttered.

:: Admittedly, ''mouse over'' operation is not sufficient to show the long nodes folded behind a short one. Having a quick look at many long nodes, one at the time, is currently not that easy; it requires a lot of single clicks. --[[User:Danielpolansky|Danielpolansky]] 12:42, 19 Feb 2005 (PST)

: Ok, here's my ''go ahead''. So many people want this feature, and so many mind mapping programs have it. As I am not a mind mapper but rather knowledge manager, I can't judge on this issue properly. Let's get surprised. --[[User:Danielpolansky|Danielpolansky]] 12:48, 19 Feb 2005 (PST)

::: Great news. This will be a real positive addition. And for users that like long notes on the map, they can still always do that. Thank you in advance, this is an excellent application that will continue to improve. ==[[ User:GregArndt|GregArndt]] 23:12,, 19 Feb 2005 (USA-CST)

: To me, HTML long nodes impair Readability of large mindmaps. On the other hand, I get the point that notes don't exactly fit into the concept. Why not go for a compromise: Long nodes would consist of (1) a first line of text, which is always visible/editable and (2) a formated long text, which is only visible/editable in a drop-down window. I would also appreciate a simpler way of editing formated long text than HTML tags. Why not using a RTF editor add-in? [[User:RainerFaller|RainerFaller]] 30 Dec 2005

:: I am all for this. I think that if there was some kind of collapsability the long text problem would be solved. It may be because I am used to programming, but to be able to collapse a bit of text is superb. This would mean that a long node would be collapsed into a single line, say the first line. You can still tell what the node is saying with the first line, but the bulk is concealed. Also, I think that if the nodes are resizable it could be resizable, that would solve the problem. Say a really large node is constructed containing an article, you could resize it to create a scrollable text box. You would only be viewing part of the article at a time, but i think that is manageable when the structure of the mindmap on the whole is preserved.--[[User:Peterw|Peterw]] 12:00, 5 Oct 2007 (PDT)

Maybe it could help to add something like a 'keep-folded' property to a node.
Idea behind it:
A node with 'keep-folded' set is not shown, when the parent of it is unfolded. You would need extra handling for setting the property or showing those 'moved to the background' nodes though. But that way a note could just be a node with that property set. I think a property like that could be helpful in other contexts, too. If you use the Mind Map as a todo-list, you could keep done ((sub-)sub-)...)subtasks folded for example.
Hilmar

: '''Notes are essential:''' While you can write really large nodes, a large node will obscure the mindmap. Lets describe it this way: I do want to perform some medical laboratory tests. This is my '''primary node'''. I want to add '''notes''' on the various aspects how tests should be ordered. The '''child nodes''' describe various symptoms and the attached '''notes''' add epidemiological information and detail. The next '''child nodes''' describe these tests based on the parent symptom nodes. Again, '''notes''' offer further details. The problem with notes-as-nodes is, that the huge text size will obscure the siblings (and even the children of those siblings), thus rendering the map ugly and difficult to comprehend. IF the notes would be only on the last hierarchical level, this wouldn't be such a great problem, BUT IF the notes are written on parent nodes, than the nodes-only approach is a mindblocker, not really a FreeMind.

=== Copy/Export note(s) of node(s) ===

WYSIWYG & note editor ... are very inviting for extensive usage of notes.
* at the moment it is not simple to export or copy them alltogether (with relevant nodes). Option for exporting the notes (also when clipboard-copying-pasting) would be very welcome - something like "Copy With Notes", "Export With Notes" or "Print with notes":
** e.g. for Export/OpenOfficeWriter notes are not exported (they were in 0.8) - I understand that xslt-s have to be adapted to the new xml format of mm (<richcontent ... type=note...> instead of <hook ...>)
* Q: can we consider the freeMind mm.xml format as fixed (at least for 0_9_0)?

AlesPoredos

--[[User:ap|ap]] 07:26, 28 Sep 2006 (PDT)

=== Tooltips ===

Having created a map, it might be more natural to enable us to either show the notes as tooltips, or alternatively to add tooltips as seperate children to notes.

--[[User:Slowlearner|Slowlearner]] 12:08, 12 Aug 2009 (GMT)

== Misc ==

=== Please make freemind more colorful ===
Just like Tony Buzan said, mindmap needs to be very colorful to make your brain exciting.
Freemind is just too "grey" right now.

=== Screen clipping ===
If you used Microsoft OneNote, you will notice a very good feature, Screen clipping.
It allows you anytime, switch to your screen, select an area, got a snapshot and paste the picture in your notes by just few clicks.<br>

This is extremly useful if when taking notes for an online document or electrinic book, no matter what you are reading, pdf, html or ppt, just click and drag, you got the picture in your notes.<br>
If freemind will support similar feature, that would be great.<br>

=== Multiple Maps at Startup ===
When I start FreeMind it loads the last map I worked on, which is very good. I can have multiple maps open, which I juse a lot, so I can work on multiple projects at the same time. However when I close FreeMind and open it again, it only loads the last active map. It would be very usefull if it loaded all the maps that was open when FreeMind was closed, so I quickly can continue to work on my ongoing projects.

: Yes, I want this '''very''' much! --[[User:Ase|Ase]] 10:29, 9 Jul 2008 (PDT)
: So do I. Leos
: Me as well. --[[User:Terkor|Terkor]] 02:32, 4 Nov 2008 (UTC)

=== Single Copy Multiple ===
The Single Copy command is used to grab stuff to duplicate without also copying all child nodes. For example I have numbered items that I keep in an "Unresearched" node, and the same numbered items in a "Researched" Node. Instead of entering the node #'s of 1 - 20 several times, I would like to be able to use the Copy Single command while selecting multiple items. Obviously it would have to be renamed "Copy Without Children" or something similar. Just keeping the command the same but adding support for multiple selection would help me a lot. Then I could copy items 1 - 20 and paste them somewhere else in one shot.

: This is definitely a good request. The action for copying without children would have to be renamed from "Single Copy" to "Shallow Copy" or "Copy without Children" as you suggested. --[[User:Danielpolansky|Danielpolansky]] 10:13, 2 Jun 2006 (PDT)

: I would also need something in the same vein. I have a deep tree of actions from which I choose leaves to do today. I would like to keep the classification embodied in the ancestors of any chosen leaf node I copy to the Today FreeMind. If I could click on a node (not just a terminal leaf) and "Copy Ancestors", then paste I would save a lot of time. The Copy Ancestors would copy all ancestors exclusing the single root node. A variation would be to click a series of consecutively embedded nodes and "Copy Chain" which would copy the nodes themselves only, without any other children, and keep the chain as a unit.

=== Print across pages ===
Would be great to have a possibility to print spanning over several pages if mind map is huge.

'''Hint:''' In 0.8.0 this is possible if you deactivate the "scale to one page" checkbox in the page format dialog and enters a scale factor like "1.0". But there seems to be a little bug; if I enter just "1" as scale factor the output is still scaled to fit on one page.

=== Print out of notes ===
I think it is a very good idea to add the possibility to print out the notes together with the map(on a separate page/pages), something like as in the export of HTML sides.

I agree with this suggestion. It makes a lot of sense to be able to print your notes.

=== Print preview ===
I would like to have a print preview dialog to see if my manually set scale factor (defined in the page format dialog) is ideal.

=== Auto scale to fit one page wide for printing ===
I would like to be able to set a map to print "one page wide" rather than just "fit one page".

=== Auto scale to fit several pages ===
As RFE 972845 another has already provided code to have FreeMind scale the output to fit several pages. It would be really nice to have this enhancement in the normal code base.

=== Calculations ===
I think that is good idea to add possibility to associate numeric values with nodes and make top nodes to recursively calculate sum of child nodes' values. This feature will turn FreeMind into '''easy and visual way to do home accounting or resource planning'''. Adding, removing or dragging child nodes between parents must cause sum to update.

More complex feature - adding multiplication factors to parent nodes.
: '''I vote for this.''' I think such a feature would open Freemind to a new business public: those who must build work resources planning/estimations WBS (Work Breakdown Stucture). Excel could be favourably replaced by mind maps softwares with such capabilities.
: From a more technical point of view, I would add that each node should be associated with an '''aggregation function''' like sum (default), average, geometric average, or even user defined aggregation function. Nodes would gather value of their children and aggregate it to set their own value.--[[User:OliGator|OliGator]] 08:55, 22 Oct 2006 (PDT)

: For now, I didn't used the Time plug-in ; my expects would go in two directions (--[[User:JdX|JdX.fr]] 200706222:
: Go-ing to plan a bussiness, I would like to get some Calculations as said above, that I could get back into a calc-like spreadsheet in another window.
: May I imagine better than a number and an aggregation function, I would enjoy to improve in triplet-properties, not only a number and a function for each node... You may know high potential in A.I. for that representation for many qualities (I began to work on wikini.net on that matter..)

=== Support for Unicode and RTL languages ===

I think that the inclusion of better support for Unicode and RTL languages such as Hebrew and Arabic would allow a larger number of people to use Freemind as their mind-mapping tool of choice.

: What support of unicode are you missing? FreeMind is unicode-enabled. --[[User:Danielpolansky|Danielpolansky]] 11:56, 27 Jul 2005 (PDT)

:: It doesn't work with Vietnamese. Try this: HÃÂ NÃ¡Â»Âi, SÃÂ i GÃÂ²n, ChÃ¡Â»Â£ LÃ¡Â»Ân * a ÃÂ¡ ÃÂ Ã¡ÂºÂ£ ÃÂ£ Ã¡ÂºÂ¡ ... [[User:DeltaVictorLima|DeltaVictorLima]] 11:24, 18 Jun 2007 (PDT)

=== Use UTF-8 in the XML file to store unicode characters ===

: FreeMind 0.8.0's utf-8 support is limited, I think. When open file, FreeMind simply loads the file contents into buffer without valid and proper encoding, if .mm file version matches current freemind version. And all Chinese characters encoding as "''&#x...;''" is meaningless for Chinese. I have a patch for this: [[User:Jiangxin/Better_chinese_characters_support]]. --[[User:Jiangxin|Jiangxin]] 11:53, 6 Apr 2006 (PDT)

:: Indeed, FreeMind does not support UTF-8. Maybe it would be better if it would. That would improve the ease with which the XML files can be read directly in plain text editors. --[[User:Danielpolansky|Danielpolansky]] 10:18, 2 Jun 2006 (PDT)

::: Shouldn't the .mm-file be changed to a real XML file first? It does not have a XML declaration, like <?xml version="1.0" encoding="ISO-8859-1"?>... This gives far better support when opening it in standalone XML editors, and you can also validate your XML. --[[User:pahles|pahles]] 21:16, 3 Jun 2006 (UTC+2)

: Vote for this! It is impossible to compare/merge different mindmaps (also process/edit) with ÃÂ«entities gibberishÃÂ» like ÃÂ«по проекту «SAT»ÃÂ»--[[User:StasFomin|StasFomin]] 19:36, 2 Mar 2009 (UTC)

=== Support general graphs rather than trees ===

Some users want FreeMind to support general graphs rather than only trees. To an extent, their wish is covered by what we call arrow links, and what is called connectors in Microsoft Powerpoint. FreeMind's arrow links are not that powerful as connectors, but that can be improved.

Still, FreeMind is not planned to become a general graph editor, or a concept mapper. Some years ago there was a [http://sourceforge.net/forum/forum.php?thread_id=821693&forum_id=22101 discussion] on that in Open Discussion forum, followed by a concluding [http://sourceforge.net/forum/forum.php?thread_id=957873&forum_id=22101 consideration] by me where the final position on the issue is stated together with an explanation. --[[User:Danielpolansky|Danielpolansky]] 11:56, 27 Jul 2005 (PDT)

===Always On===

I would like to minimize to the system tray(for Windows). Or better yet, let's run FreeMind as a transparent window docked to the desktop. Like my brain, I like to always have FreeMind on in the background. Regardless, thanks!

: You can google for RBTray, which lets you minimise anything to the system tray. -- JettLogic

===Better File Operations, Restore Workspace, New File Extension===

On Mac OS X at least, the file dialog is buggy - it does not show network drives or my iDisk. Also, it would be useful to have FreeMind re-open the last edited file (and restore the workspace as it was when the user last quit). Still, the most annoying thing is the .mm filename extension - that extension is tied to Obj-C code files in Mac OS X, and probably on other platforms as well. Maybe .mind or .mmp? -- RuiCarmo

===File Dialog Improvements===

The file dialogs could use some minor improvements. I would like the dialog boxes for load and save to remember what directory they were in and start from there the next time the dialog is open.

Also, if you try to open a file from the "recent files" list but the file no longer exists, there is no warning from freemind. It would be better to have a "file not found" warning, and better still to remove the bad entry from the list when that happens. --fist_187

It would be better not to "remember what directory they were in", but add possibility to choose "Default directory" in Preferences, which will be opened automatically whenever you save or load something. --Elwin

Yes the file dialogs could use some improvements. It should be possible these days to simply use the native OS'en File Open dialogs. IMHO, either that or a full-featured file dialog that a) provides a few shortcuts to frequently used directories, b) remembers the directory used last time, -or- uses a default directory, and c) allows one to create new directories

=== Crosslinking Nodes ===

The possibility to create cross-references between nodes which are
already part of the mindmap tree would be a great feature. In many
real-life mindmaps items could not be categorized in one and only
one category. The possibility to visualize these dependencies would
be a great advantage over other mindmap solutions. Something like
this is already implemented in Freemind by selecting two nodes
and pressing STRG+L.

For enhancing this feature the following aspects should receive attention:
* the application should visualize cross-references in a eye-friendly way
** nodes with cross-references should be directly identifiable (i.e. by color, shape-type, ...)
** mouse-over effects visualize the dependencies with flashing nodes
** dashed grey lines sound visualize cross-dependencies
* cross-references, especially those which reside not current view-context, should be traceable by a hotkey which toggles b+etween the source and the destination node of a link.
* if a source or destination-node is in hinged position the link should be optionally visualized by propagated a parent nod+e as source or destination-node

Is it possible to add links to specific nodes in other FreeMind map files? Perhaps using Request Parameters in the external hyperlink URL? Identifying the target node while creating the link may be tricky. Here is an idea on how that can be done: <br/>
When creating the link, a dialog window with two textboxes can be used. One textbox would be for the hyperlink URL and the other would be for the target node name. The target node name textbox would have an auto-complete feature (with dropdown) that uses a list of node names that were obtained from the target map file. There could be a button next to the URL textbox that starts the node name retrieval process from the target map file. Before hitting the button the target node name textbox is disabled, and it is enabled after the node names have been read. --[[User:EdB|EdB]] 10:37, 2 Sep 2009 (UTC)

=== Unlimited/Arbitrary Attributes ===

We use a couple of different products (including an internally developed one) to manage requirements. In each case we have the ability to assign arbitrary attributes to requirements at any level in the structure (e.g., Type=Priority Value=High or Type=Source Value=Mike Jones). To support migration between Freemind and these requirements management tools, Freemind should allow X number of attributes per requirement. Though I know this concept would scare the minimalists.
-- unknown

And a custom plugin might read these values, then calculate and display something on the map, e.g. an indicator or an aggregate.
-- [[User:abadger|abadger]] 30 May 2006
(or even just set the colour or insert a tick or cross icon) --[[User:Violetlight|Violetlight]] 15:24, 2 Aug 2006 (PDT)

It would be really nice if as well as text attributes, we could support check or radio buttons (e.g. "done", or "priority H/M/L")<br>
A node action or a function key/pattern (see below) could check the box.
--[[User:Violetlight|Violetlight]] 15:22, 2 Aug 2006 (PDT)

=== Node-specific actions ===

At the moment, there is one "action" on a node (discounting the usual edit/cut/paste etc) - navigate to the target link.
<p/>
I can see a reason to have more than one action on a node, depending on the semantics of the map's content, and specifically the storage backend or plugin. For example, a map that was a live visualisation of the tree structure of a website could have an action to navigate to a page, to check it with a W3C validator, to edit the page, to submit it to a search engine etc etc. These actions would be defined by the plugin supplying the data content, or by other plugins resident - e.g. "schedule this node" for the time scheduling plugin or "bookmark this node's target" for a (possible future) Google Bookmarking plugin.
<br>
I can see two (possibly co-existing) methods of implementing this:
# A context-specific node sub-menu cascading off the right button menu called "Actions->"
# A control-right-button menu just for actions on the node
<br>
I'd welcome feedback on whether this is a nutcase idea. --[[User:Violetlight|Violetlight]] 15:16, 2 Aug 2006 (PDT)

===Images in freemind===

I really like the way freemind can use images as nodes. However, one of the problems with adding a lot of images to a map is that they are all different sizes. So, I wrote this php script:
<?php

$tsize = 100; //thumbnail size

function noresize($name)
{
global $argv;
$fullpath = $argv[1] . "$name";
echo "<node TEXT=\"&lt;html&gt;";
echo "&lt;img src=&quot;$fullpath&quot;/&gt; \"";
echo " FOLDED=\"true\">\n</node>\n";
}

function thumbit($name, $w, $h)
{
global $argv;
$fullpath = $argv[1] . "$name";
echo "<node TEXT=\"&lt;html&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;$fullpath&quot;";
echo " width=&quot;$w&quot; height=&quot;$h&quot;\" FOLDED=\"true\">\n";
echo "<node TEXT=\"&lt;html&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;$fullpath&quot;\"";
echo " FOLDED=\"true\">\n</node>\n";
echo "<node LINK=\"$fullpath\" TEXT=\"$name\">\n</node>\n";
echo "</node>\n";
}

if ($argc < 3)
{
die("usage: " . $argv[0] . " IMAGEPATH IMAGE1 [[IMAGE2] ... ]\n");
}

echo "<map version=\"0.7.1\">\n<node TEXT=\"Ian's image generator\"";
echo " FOLDED=\"true\">\n";

for ($i=2; $i<$argc; $i++)
{
$myimg = $argv[$i];
$props = getimagesize($myimg);
$w = $props[0];
$h = $props[1];

if ($w <= $tsize && $h <= $tsize) //too small
{
noresize($myimg);
}
else if ($w < $h) //resize height to 100, scale width
{
$w = intval(($tsize * $w) / $h);
$h = $tsize;
thumbit($myimg, $w, $h);
}
else //resize width to 100, scale height
{
$h = intval(($tsize * $h) / $w);
$w = $tsize;
thumbit($myimg, $w, $h);
}
}

echo "</node>\n</map>\n";
?>
This is a command line PHP script, so to use it under linux you would type something like:
$ php freemindImgGen.php "file:////path/to/prepend/to/images/" image1.jpg [image2.jpg ... ]
This will output the text for a new mind map (direct it to a file of your choice) with each image thumbnailed in its own node. The images should all be in the same directory (for some reason, relative paths for images don't seem to work). Each thumbnailed image will have 2 child nodes: one node with the full size image and one node with the filename of the image as a freemind link.

Anyway, the reason that I'm posting this here in the request section instead of the user contributions section is that I would like to see this behavior ported into freemind itself. This would be a better behavior for when you drag-and-drop an image file into freemind, as it does just about everything you would want to do with an image in one shot. --fist_187

:[[User:lkcl]] - fist_187: this is a fantastic example of an import/export plugin program that should NOT be added into freemind: it should be possible to RUN this program on-demand from FreeMind from WITHIN freemind as a plugin extension.

--[[User:Pdf|pdf]] 22:11, 30 Aug 2009 (UTC): A thumbnail image function is a great idea! Some images can be huge, and thumbnails would be an excellent option. Photographers could make big use of this, but images in general just make an idea map a richer communication tool. In fact, this capability could re-invent the typical image "gallery" that is often a liner row of images, or an unwieldy table, because images would be represented in a hierarchical context of other references or meaning. Of course, a link to the original file always lets a viewer see an image in its full glory.

However, for the general non-programmer user I would implement the user interface like this:

- When an image is inserted, create a thumbnail as a default (or by prompt) to avoid unpleasant surprises of large images taking over the UI and displacing everything else.

- Add an option to convert an image back to normal, or back to thumbnail.

- In preferences, let the user select "thumbnail" as default, or not, and let the user specify the size (as a maximum dimension of either side of the image). Let the user choose whether a prompt appears, or add a check box to the prompt to not ask again. Another useful preference would be to specify a thumbnail directory (default location inside source image directory)

- As another option (or as a future enhancement) the program would either 1)Create new image files to use as thumbnails, or 2)Generate thumbnails on the fly for display only (or read in thumbnails that may already be appended to some image formats by certain images editors) and maybe cache them. The advantage of reading in on the fly is that the size could also be changed on the fly. The downside is the time required for the program to generate on-the-fly images in large maps.

- Provide a link to the file so the user can open the full size version in its associated application.

- When importing a folder of files provide an option to import any images.

- After a folder is imported, provide an option to add images to existing links.

=== Node Cloning or Mirroring (aka soft links) ===

Requests for enhancements:

* [http://sourceforge.net/tracker/index.php?func=detail&aid=1021772&group_id=7118&atid=357118 1021772 : One Node object at different places]

One feature request that has attracted a lot of attention from users is what they call ''node cloning or mirorring''. This amounts to enabling a node to have more than one fathers. That is, such a node appears visually at more places of a map, still, has only one structure and data. Linking a node graphically to more parts of a map is already possible, but users proposing cloning would like to see more visually integrated approach.

Users get encouraged by the fact that the hierarchical application
[http://leo.sf.net/ LEO] already has such a feature.

This feature has been discussed at forums under threads
[http://sourceforge.net/forum/forum.php?thread_id=1022954&forum_id=22101 Cloning of nodes] and [http://sourceforge.net/forum/forum.php?thread_id=1051440&forum_id=22101 Node cloning/mirroring].

: I would REALLY like it if FreeMind supported 'shortcuts', 'soft/hard links', or 'virtual folders'. You know what I mean? Just some manner of having one node (and its sub-nodes) be able to exist in 2 different places at once. Change one clone, the other is affected, delete one clone, they all go away. (with options to make it a copy instead of a clone, etc...) You'd make my day if you'd add this functionality! --anonymous

: Alright, but "cloning" is not a good term for this as it implies having a physical copy of something. Less misleading could be "linking", "mirroring", "redirecting", "pointing", "referring"... --anonymous

:: You are right; cloning is not a proper term. This is the way our users expressed their wishes. --[[User:Danielpolansky|Danielpolansky]] 09:26, 20 Dec 2004 (PST)

: I agree too - soft links would be a great feature -- Brad Langhorst

: Seconded - the suggestion on sourceforge of using a local link, but with a "ghost" display at the current location (instead of jumping to the destination of the link) sounds like the way to go. The side-effect is that you could have a cycle, whereby you are in node A, with child B being a ghost-link to C, expanding C reveals child D which is a ghost-link back to A. -- JettLogic

=== Mindmap-Wikis ===

Creating a mixture of Freemind and a Wiki would be very interesting. It would be shown on the web, and editable by everybody, like a Wiki, but it would not be text-only but a FreeMind's mind map instead.

That is, provide FreeMind user interface to the underlying wiki technology, handling versioning and other issues. Is there any use of wiki markup in this scenario? (lkcl: yes - see "Notes" section!)

: [[User:lkcl]] - all of these things are possible if you split out a plugin architecture for import / export of data.

Current wiki technology like MediaWiki is already quite attractive in its present state. Either FreeMind interface would be the only one, which would in my view discourage most of the users, or FreeMind interface would be alternative to a web interface, which would require FreeMind to understand wiki markup. This considered, I hold such a project for too expensive compared to the value it brings. Quite another issue is collaborative mind mapping. This issue is similar to wiki, but here the wiki name does not properly apply as neither wiki markup nor wiki's versioning concept applies. --[[User:Danielpolansky|Danielpolansky]] 13:24, 18 Feb 2005 (PST)

Ok, GraphViz is not really mindmapping, but oddmuse-wiki in colaboration with graphviz is really fascinating, take a look (and don't forget to follow the "Edit the text of the Page"-link): http://wiki.doomicile.de/LinuxMuleHistory -- HinnerK

: I don't get your point. What is the relevance to the topic discussed here? --[[User:Danielpolansky|Danielpolansky]] 13:28, 18 Feb 2005 (PST)

:: [[User:lkcl]] he's illustrating that the text you see on that page is actually created by simply putting "digraph { ..... }" into the text, you get a really cool graph. in other words, he's illustrating that it would be easy to replace the FreeMind user interface, written in stupid java, by an oddmuse-wiki using the "digraph ...." concept.

I would suggest starting with a simple [http://www.webdav.org/ save-to-WebDAV] option, and then following it up with a standardized [http://www.xmlrpc.com/ XML-RPC] interface (maybe Atom would be too complex). Having some sort of hooks into node editing operations in the code would be useful, so that people could develop plugins of some sort to perform the actual HTTP transactions live from the applet version -- RuiCarmo

The first thing that came to my mind while opening FreeMind for the very first time was: "Would it be possible to integrate Wiki in FreeMind?". Currently I am working with a project management software (named Trac) which integrates a Wiki Engine. It is a kind of colaborative project management solution, and it has encouraged all the team to document and activelly contribute to each otherÃÂ´s tasks.

Maybe WikiFreeMind :-) could be something similar. I donÃÂ´t think that FreeMind being the only one interface to be an issue, I think it would be great if we could use wiki formatting inside FreeMind nodes. It would be easy (a gross guess) to allow ''Wiki-links'' between nodes, or wiki/web-pages ''outside'' the map.

It would not be too difficult to do a kind of serialization of the map as a Wiki Database, each node being a wiki page, following the extension mechanics proposed by WikiMedia, you could allow wiki tags that would keep track of the properties of the node as a serialized wiki-page. ItÃÂ´s pretty much brainstorming, but I think it would be possible to use FreeMind as a Wiki Navigator, and the Web Browser + Wiki Engine as a Node Editor. --[[User:loudenvier|loudenvier]] 17:15, 05 Apr 2005 (BRA)

Have a look at the [http://wikkawiki.org/HomePage WikkaWiki software]. My zero programming skills don't let me to grasp how it works or what it does. But it seems pretty interesting. It allows to insert FreeMind maps into the wiki. [http://wikkawiki.org/MindMapRecentChanges here's a inline example].
--[[User:Calamar|Calamar]] 04:31, 20 Dec 2005 (PST)

: This portion hasn't been edited in a while. With the flash plugin in architecture in place for .9 beta 9 it shouldn't be too much of a problem to create graphical representations of a wiki to Freemind. The user would have to download the wiki page into the Freemind application and then upload the finished product after editing. It might seem like a long round trip but it would be very useful.

: Furthermore, the Flash application should/could be smart enough to detect a wiki word in the Freemind and auto link it.
--[[User:Ddaniels|Ddaniels]] 05:17, 24 Mar 2007 (PDT)

* There is an development approach for mediawiki and freemind (browser): http://www.wikimindmap.org/ which is available with GNU GPL v3. I managed it to get it run after understanding the config in the getpages.php and the index.php and discommenting something out in getpages.php. But it currently does not show some articles and categories. Perhaps someone is able to bring it to a better version: [[:Image:wwm_zip.mm]]. Just rename file extension to zip. --[[User:Hiverider|Hiverider]] 15:08, 26 Mar 2009 (UTC)

===Applet allowing editing mind maps.===

Requests for enhancements:

* [http://sourceforge.net/tracker/index.php?func=detail&aid=1061195&group_id=7118&atid=357118 1061195 : Editor Mode (MindMap Mode) applet]

It would be fine to edit a map via applet and save it to a webserver directory.

: Indeed it would be fine. This is related to integration of mindmaps in wikis. In particular, [http://wikka.jsnx.com/HomePage WikkaWiki] uses freemind applet to show mindmaps in web pages. Unfortunately, mindmap edition is not possible while it is obviously possible for text. Such a capability would allow mindmap to be editable inside a wiki by wiki users. I also think this is more natural and a lot easier to insert mindmap capabilities inside wiki softwares than implement wiki functionnalities inside freemind. Don't you ? --[[User:OliGator|OliGator]] 09:18, 22 Oct 2006 (PDT)

I wonder why the .mm extension is mandatory on the applet. At this point on the web we use Content-type instead of extensions, isn't it? Why then don't use Content-type OR .mm extension to open a map with the applet?

Will be fantastic if the applet could capture drop events. With this enhancement we could use a custom toolbar to add custom snippets or integrate it with our solutions

Leos: Editing capabilities would be great benefit. I use multiple computers and notebooks at the office and at home, so it is nightmare to synchronize their content. If I could just open the map from browser, modify it and click save, I would be very happy. If there are some Java security restrictions, you can implement it via some servlet, I could deploy into my server.

=== Saving maps using WebDAV ===

Let FreeMind read from and save to [http://www.webdav.org WebDAV] server. Repeatedly requested.

According to the WebDAV website,

: WebDAV stands for "Web-based Distributed Authoring and Versioning". It is a set of extensions to the HTTP protocol which allows users to collaboratively edit and manage files on remote web servers.

What's the holdup on integrating WebDav into Freemind? There's a patch available already [[http://www.ubik-products.com/ludowiki/FreeMind FreeMind WebDAV Enhancement]]. Is there anything wrong with that patch or have people just not gotten around to integrating it? This would also address the need of applets and wiki-like functionality.

Working with WebDAV would make for an outstanding creative toolkit.
There is a keen need for a tool like this in our business (long distances; documents cobbled together from Basecamp and IM logs). One consideration: how would changes be merged? And is there an unobtrusive way to identify authors of specific changes and content?

===Changing attributes by depth level.=== Wouldn't it be good if nodes could have levels (defined as outward from the centre) so that you could change color, font and other node properties by level. For instace, all nodes of level two would have red bubbles.

OR Allow user to define default level attributes to be applied when a branch is made. The most common one being font size and edge width. Undefined attributes like colour should flow down. This is just the desired default at creation time and may be changed. Branches further out than the deepest defined default all inherit from previous branch.

===Integrated Google web search===
How about an accessory software that would input FreeMind's XML and conduct Google and Google News searches on all nodes plus their neighbours? If anything useful is found (and there would be less than x hits), it would *wget* them and add links to the material to the map. Run this as a cronjob and your mind map will always have new ideas when you open FreeMind again.

: Seems like a suggestion for a plugin. For sure it does not belong to the core FreeMind. Such a plugin will call external tools like wget which increases the installation costs. --[[User:Danielpolansky|Danielpolansky]] 09:34, 20 Dec 2004 (PST)

===MIDlet for editing with mobile phones===

MIDlet idea entry front-end is a MUST! I want to be able to do mind mapping with my mobile phone and then upload the changes to the main map on my desktop.

: It is not a ''must''. When enabled with importing various other formats, FreeMind can take data from mobile applications. Also, it is not clear why MIDlet should be the technology of choice, if FreeMind shall run on mobile phones. --[[User:Danielpolansky|Danielpolansky]] 09:33, 20 Dec 2004 (PST)

===Have floating textbox for titles or comments===

Hi I would like to request a feature, namely a title and/or comment at the beginning/end of page to be able to use it in presentations, where I would have my name on top right.
I would suggest that there is no link to other nodes just a kind of text box.
Maybe there are more people thinking about this nice addon?

Request for enhancements:
* [http://sourceforge.net/tracker/index.php?func=detail&aid=1167418&group_id=7118&atid=357118 1167418]: Legends

=== An editable tree view (like the html export) ===

With such view I can imagine freemind to be useable an smaller devices like an ipaq running familiar (or ppc). Can you run freemind on such devices? --Alex

=== A non graphic tree view mode ===
Similar request as Alex.
A '''non-graphic''' linear mode would be usefull ! The graphic mode is the best to organise and visualise the information, but a simple linear tree mode is more comfortable for reading and editing large portion of text. It would also allow to access the same databases on a small screen. Freemind has become one of my most important tools on my Pc and I am dreaming to use it on a symbian phone too. Thank you so much. Franck

Il second that, Inspiration also a midn mapping tool used at school does this, translates the mind map into linear. Being able to see the same information in different ways is what computers are amazing at doing. It would be great to see information from different perspectives, Mind map form, linear (for printing essays/or books), Network diagram, etc.

=== Option not to open last opened file upon start ===

Users request that they should get a user option to tell FreeMind not to open the last opened file upon start. Seems like a sensible request to me. --[[User:Danielpolansky|Danielpolansky]] 10:07, 2 Jun 2006 (PDT)

===ToughGraph like dynamic layout===

Requests for enhancements:

* [http://sourceforge.net/tracker/index.php?func=detail&aid=1052556&group_id=7118&atid=357118 1052556 : TouchGraph style dynamic layout]
* [http://sourceforge.net/tracker/index.php?func=detail&aid=909016&group_id=7118&atid=357118 909016 : TouchGraph display mode]

The [[TouchGraph]] interface has more potential than the existing fixed one. Mind maps are not supposed to necessarily be hierarchical, but organically growing and intertwined a lot. In FreeMind I can add links, but they aren't really good if compared with something universal like TouchGraph (GoogleBrowser, WikiBrowser).

I think FreeMind would become much more powerful (not to mention cool looking) if it had a dynamic mode without a root node. It would be great if arbitrary links (not just parent/child) between any nodes were supported, if text size and colors would dynamically adjust according to the distance, relevance and other factors, and if the layout would be dynamic, with the graph rearranging itself on the fly.

More details at the TouchGraph site ([http://www.touchgraph.com/]), and at this page: [http://www.jspwiki.org/PageInfo.jsp?page=TouchGraphWikiBrowser]).

: I disagree with the views presented here. A good news for you is that if you don't like the way FreeMind presents data, you can choose TouchGraph instead. --[[User:Danielpolansky|Danielpolansky]] 09:32, 20 Dec 2004 (PST)

:* Well, in my opinion the links between nodes certainly offer a starting point for improvements. They are more curved than really necessary. --[[User:TMaschler|TMaschler]] 01:46, 17 Feb 2005 (PST)

:* Further, the idea of formatting nodes in function of their distance from the start node (i.e. by style sheets) would greatly enhance the mind map appearance; although it should be possible to overwrite the node formatting style for each node individually. --[[User:TMaschler|TMaschler]] 01:46, 17 Feb 2005 (PST)

:* What about offering a variety of display modes for the nodes (tree view, the current default view, without hierarchy, ...)?

I agree that alternatives to the hierarchical view are important and the whole advantage of using visual mapping in the first place --[[User:Ryba|Ryba]] 17:16, 27 Oct 2005 (PDT)

===More flexible Resize Options===
What about the following resize possibilities: --[[User:TMaschler|TMaschler]] 01:46, 17 Feb 2005 (PST)
* automatically/ dynamically
* by clicking on magnification glass icons (+ and -)

Resizing should be able to resize a node and the text dynamically wraps and changes the size of the box. The current approach requires hard returns to resize the text boxes.--[[User:Ryba|Ryba]] 17:06, 27 Oct 2005 (PDT)

===More Flexible Window Resize and Reformat Options===
Background: We are using Freemind in an internal Wiki to document all the program file paths. Unfortunately, when opened in a browser window, the .mm file shows a couple of hundred pixels of blank area above and to the left of the map, then fails to allow users to scroll all the way to the right so they can see the information. My apologies if the answer is there, but I have not been able to find any information in the forums or help to either reduce the total window size, or to change the map alignment from CENTER to TOP RIGHT. (Help mentions a user.properties file, not present in 9.0.x).

Requests:
1. Allow users to resize the window to match the map size, and/or
2. Either allow users to set map aligment within the window, or change auto-aligment settings to the most efficient space use (generally top left, but not always, which argues for allowing the user to decide).

Thanks for a great application!!

=== Easier to delete nodes ===

A relatively straightforward enhancement: the Node/Remove Node on the popup menu could be moved to the main popup menu, under 'Insert Child Node'. It would probably be better server by being called 'Delete Child Node'. I think it would also be fantastic if it had a shortcut key - Del probably being the most suitable. I find it a right pain to delete nodes (I notice someone submitted an RFE on sourceforge asking for a delete function, clearly not being aware there already was one - I think this indicates it needs moving!)

''David Perez comment'': An alternative I use is to cut the node in order to delete it.

: Nodes will be easy to delete in the next version. The reason why they are not easy to delete currently is that there's no undo available. In the mean time, pressing Ctrl + X should suffice to delete a node. --[[User:Danielpolansky|Danielpolansky]] 09:28, 20 Dec 2004 (PST)

''Torsten GrÃÂ¤ÃÂler comment'':
: Find the line starting with "#keystroke_remove" in the <user home>/freemind/user.properties file and change it to "keystroke_remove = DELETE". Now you can delete a node with the DEL key. This works on my WinXP Pro, but should work on other platforms, too. -- 04:27, 23 Mar 2004

Most of the times you delete something and sooner or later you find out that you actually need that thing again. Undo is good, but once you have closed FreeMind it's lost forever. Wouldn't it be nice to have a .trash file to accompany every .mm file just to make things easier? --Anonymous.

: This is a known issue by now. Deleting nodes is far too easy in FreeMind 0.8.0, in my view anyway. --[[User:Danielpolansky|Danielpolansky]] 06:51, 13 May 2006 (PDT)

===Statistics===

Requests for features:

* [http://sourceforge.net/tracker/index.php?func=detail&aid=1040097&group_id=7118&atid=357118 1040097 : Total Node Count]

Show the statistics

* number of nodes in a map
* number of leafs (childless nodes)
* number of nodes with children

on the ''node'' level or a ''map'' level (once you can do node level, you also can do map level).

===Thousands of new icons===

Enhancing the number and variety of icons to the sufficient amout would definetely increase versatility of FreeMind. Plenty of small pictures it is a must if you want to organize your knowledge (e.g. notes from collage), so that every 'key info' could be easily remembered. The more icons that help associating the information the better - I would like to see pictures of man, men, woman, women, tree, chair, table and so on - any thing you can imagine, categorized. I know I can use external pictures, but it's really inconvenient if I have to look for each picture on the Internet for a few minutes while creating a new map. Built-in icons would be a great help.

: It is clear that a larger icon library would be helpful. --[[User:Danielpolansky|Danielpolansky]] 13:18, 18 Feb 2005 (PST)

it would be great if i would able to add or delete icons in to the toolbar my self. 22.2.05 by erwin

Not sure if the hyperlink arrows count as icons, but it would be good if they could be colour coded; eg blue arrow for a hyperlink to a local file on the local computer, yellow for a file located on the local network, red arrow for a hyperlink to a html site, Green arrow for a local hyperlink

: I use famfamfam.com's general purpose silk icons set in most of my projects, there are over 1000 icons, each one of them is a little gem. There are distributed under the creative common license, I don't know if they can be included and distributed in a open source project .. probably. Still, the best would be an kind of icon manager to allow us to build our own icons libraries and includes some basics libraries by default.

--[[User:h3|h3]] 11:00, 27 Jul 2006

I suggested in another place to have groups of icons, so that the access of all icons gets simplified, and the change of an icon gets simplified too. Here are some examples of groups/categories:
* To be Completed, important/urgent/both/not important
* partial/ complete
* mecanism (ex: "rouages"), GUI, Database,
* draft/under review/finalized (different evident progressing levels)
* analogy with road signal: "sans issue/cul de sac, speed limit, ..."
* communication mean (phone, e-mail, mail...)
* context (work, home, travel)
* art (music, painting, sculpture)???
* time management (date, time, time duration)
* Satisfaction (smiles)
Thanks :-) --[[User:Patco|Patco]]

===Zooming With Scroll Button===

Being able to pan by holding down the right-hand mouse button and twiddling the scroll wheel is great. What would help navigation a little more would be to zoom in and out by holding down, say, the left-hand mouse button.

===New menu entry ''Save All'' ===

Requests for enhancements:

* [http://sourceforge.net/tracker/index.php?func=detail&aid=932817&group_id=7118&atid=357118 932817 : Easy: "Save all"-menu entry]

* [http://sourceforge.net/tracker/?group_id=7118&atid=357118&func=detail&aid=665584 665584 : Add function "Save all", to menus and toolbar]

=== User defined icons ===

Requests for enhancements

* [http://sourceforge.net/tracker/index.php?func=detail&aid=966193&group_id=7118&atid=357118 966193 : User defined icons (similar 883498) - a quick implementation]

=== Keep custom/unknown XML tags when saving ===

Requests for enhancements:

* [http://sourceforge.net/tracker/index.php?func=detail&aid=943713&group_id=7118&atid=357118 943713 : Keep custom/unknown XML tags when saving]

=== Collaborative editing of mind maps ===

Requests for enhancements:

* [http://sourceforge.net/tracker/?group_id=7118&atid=357118&func=detail&aid=869746 869746 : Multi-user collaboration on one map, using tracking of changes ]
* [http://sourceforge.net/tracker/index.php?func=detail&aid=1058763&group_id=7118&atid=357118 1058763 : conference mode / work together online]

Conference-like editing of a shared map. When one user adds a node, other users get display update, and vice versa. Rather demanding request, but also potentially highly useful.

--[[User:Violetlight|Violetlight]] 09:30, 2 Aug 2006 (PDT): Problems to solve in this area:
* Whether to mesh peer to peer (e.g. Jabber/XMPP) or to use notification via a server
* How to perform locking (and whether to use optimistic locking)
* How to resolve conflicts
* How to bring a new change to a collaborating user's attention without being intrusive (say a "delta icon" in the node or something like that?)

=== Allow for mathematical formulas using LaTeX or MathML ===

Requests for enhancements:

* [http://sourceforge.net/tracker/index.php?func=detail&aid=977500&group_id=7118&atid=357118 977500 : include formulas / latex support]

People want to type in mathematical formulas in text markup and see something good looking when not edited.

=== User attributes or tags of a node ===

Requests for enhancements:
* [http://sourceforge.net/tracker/index.php?func=detail&aid=1122973&group_id=7118&atid=357118 1122973 : Allow nodes to "carry" other attributes]

For user editable using a popping up table. File format example:

<node TEXT="Tagged">
<tag NAME="cost" VALUE="500ÃÂ¬"/>
<tag NAME="todo" VALUE="yes"/>
</node>

=== Rich text formatting of nodes ===

Requests for enhancements:

* [http://sourceforge.net/tracker/index.php?func=detail&aid=909694&group_id=7118&atid=357118 909694 : Different text attributes within text nodes]

Rich text formatting includes boldface, italics, font colors, tables and the like. It is already possible using HTML in nodes. What's missing is the GUI support for editing HTML nodes. Another thing missing is pasting of RTF - Rich Text Format directly into FreeMind.

=== Scalable Vector Graphics (SVG) in nodes ===

Nodes could store and view scalable vector graphics (SVG). Currently, nodes certainly can store SVG, but only its source code is displayed. It should be possible that SVG is displayed like graphics. Editing of SVG can be done using external programs like Inkscape, or using an SVG editing component written in Java.

Viewing of SVG could perhaps be achieved using Apache's Batik framework. How fast, and how much more memory consuming it would be is unclear.

=== Enable spell checking ===

Requests for enhancements:

* [http://sourceforge.net/tracker/index.php?func=detail&aid=1080652&group_id=7118&atid=357118 1080652 : Ability to spell Check Text Fields]

=== Add label to edges ===

Requests for enhancements:

* [http://sourceforge.net/tracker/index.php?func=detail&aid=997862&group_id=7118&atid=357118 997862 : Naming of Edges]

: As I see it, this will make the map difficult to read. I can't imagine how to implement this in a visually acceptable manner. --[[User:Danielpolansky|Danielpolansky]] 14:02, 5 Mar 2005 (PST)

: On the other hand, edge labels make a lot of sense with freely positioned nodes introduced in FreeMind 0.8.0. --[[User:Danielpolansky|Danielpolansky]] 09:29, 26 Oct 2005 (PDT)

=== Add label to arrow link ===

Requests for enhancements:

* [http://sourceforge.net/tracker/index.php?func=detail&aid=1214199&group_id=7118&atid=357118 1214199 : labels on arrows]

Sometimes it could be very useful to label arrow link. It may help to better express and easily understand the exact sense (meaning) of specific arrow link.

=== Filter nodes by their icons ===

Requests for enhancements

* [http://sourceforge.net/tracker/index.php?func=detail&aid=1071438&group_id=7118&atid=357118 1071438 : Filter nodes based on icon]

Set filter on a given node, as a list of icon names. When such a filter is set, only those descendands of the filtered node are shown that satisify the filter. A node satisfies the filter, if one of its icons is in the filter's set of icons, or one of its descendants satisfies the filter.

: Filtering based on icons is not very neat, as it does not decouple the meaning from its presentation. But it may be a good interim solution anyway. --[[User:Danielpolansky|Danielpolansky]] 11:02, 20 Feb 2005 (PST)

* It's done in FreeMind 0.9 --[[User:Terkor|Terkor]] 04:21, 18 Aug 2007 (PDT)

=== Insert Current Date and Hour ===

Feb 25,2005. It would be nice to have a button to insert in a node the current date and/or hour. Thanks!

: Makes sense. Can be found in Window's Notepad under the key F5. --[[User:Danielpolansky|Danielpolansky]] 10:06, 26 Feb 2005 (PST)

It would be great if a time stamp would be created automaticaly wehn creating a new nod.
It should only be displayed when a special "Date-Button" is aktive!

: You guys, would you mind stopping shouting at us with your exclamation marks? In English speaking countries, it is not necessary to add an exclamation mark to every second sentence. --[[User:Danielpolansky|Danielpolansky]] 09:31, 26 Oct 2005 (PDT)

==== Simple Trick for KDE Users ====

2005-09-29-11:16:32-PDT

This will be a really nice feature in general. In the mean time, you can use the following method if you are using KDE. Under KDE, you can insert the current date and time (like the one above) into klipper by binding the following command to a key combination (for example, Ctrl-Alt-C):

dcop klipper klipper setClipboardContents `date +"%Y-%m-%d-%H:%M:%S-%Z"`

After this, Ctrl-Alt-C followed by Ctrl-v should allow you to insert the date, in a format of your choice, into any document (including freemind).

=== Support for callto: protocol ===

As pointed out in a [http://sourceforge.net/forum/forum.php?thread_id=1241290&forum_id=22101 forum posting], support for ''callto:'' protocol would be helpful.

If this was fully integrated, it would allow integrated voice and mind-map collaboration. For example passing "opinion sections" of a draft map between participants with a voiceover prior to including them into a collated and agreed version. Another example might be calling between the participants of a (limited) brainstorm as the brainstorm was first diverged and then converged within the mapping tool. --[[User:Violetlight|Violetlight]] 09:17, 2 Aug 2006 (PDT)

=== Support for use as a dashboard ===
Freemind could be an excellent generic front end as a dashboard for updating information if it supported file polling (refresh) or some other automated update. For example, database loading scripts could write their progress using Freemind's XML format. Any user monitoring processes such as these could see at a glance if a process had failed, add in some context dependent metadata, and could produce a log/report from the XML.

=== Ability for arrows to have text associated, or be full nodes ===

Related To [http://sourceforge.net/tracker/index.php?func=detail&aid=1167198&group_id=7118&atid=357118 1167198 non-tree graph (concept map?)]

I have a need in my current project (uni), to show heirarchies of risks, causes, and parties involved. Associated among these varying levels of heirarchies I have created arrows indicating relationship (affects-this, causes-something-else etc.), the color of the arrows indicating the relationship. It would be helpful to be able to put labels on the arrows. Actually more important than this, arrows should be full nodes, Allowing different objects to be attached as children (including other arrows). Admittedly giving arrows the ability to be full nodes may invite abuse & cause complexity, however informational-relations are themselves complex (solution should be as simple as possible, no simpler). Coding would perhaps be more elegent to allow for more than 1 child node in the code, but have a limit placed by higher-level code? (i.e. no children of children, even though the arrow objects themselves may allow for this)

=== Object Styles ===

It would be nice to have the ability to set styles for an object, and be able to select styles (styles would perhaps be associated per object-type) when creating objects.

Objects include nodes, edges and arrow links.

Using styles, the physical formatting shall no longer be set for a node but rather for a style. An example XML representation may be:

<map>
<style ID="S1" LABEL="Urgent" OBJECTTYPE="node"
COLOR="#404040" BACKGROUNDCOLOR="#FFFFE0"/>
<node TEXT="Root">
<node STYLEID="S1" TEXT="Styled node"/>
</node>
</map>

It is not clear if the user may set the ID himself. Then it perhaps should not be ID but rather NAME. XSLT transforming sheets refer either to ID or to NAME rather than to LABEL of style.

=== Hyperlinks to Programs with Arguments ===

In addition to (followable) hyperlinks to web-pages, to local folders, to executable programs, and to executable files (e.g. "datasheet.xls"), it would also be nice to have hyperlinks to programs with arguments and switches such as: "notepad myfile.bat" or "explorer.exe /n,/e,C:\" --[[User:Lhg|Lhg]] 01:11, 18 Apr 2005 (PDT)

Yes...I am using freemind for System Administration: And it is quite excellent, to have nodes for every computer and user on my system with child
nodes for services, nfsmounts, etc... but i would like very much to be able to link to the other computers with executables like

# ssh mynfsserver.mynetwork emacs /etc/exports
or
# ssh mykrb5server.mynetwork emacs /etc/kdc/kdc.conf

=== Show multiple maps in tabs ===

XEmacs shows multiple documents at tabs at the top. Microsoft Excel shows multiple sheets of a document at tabs at the bottom. Although this is not a standard user interface model, seems quite useful for FreeMind. Various users requested this feature. --[[User:Danielpolansky|Danielpolansky]] 11:38, 30 Apr 2005 (PDT)

Could it be possible to have a "restore all tabs" option, as in Firefox? --[[User:Patco|Patco]]

This would definitely be a useful enhancement. Typical use case: I'm managing several projects, I have one "mindmap" for each project, that would allow me to have all the maps open at the same time and accessible with a single click, selecting the one I need to watch at the moment. I might try to code this myself if I ever find the time for that :-P --[[User:Maathieu|Maathieu]] 12:41, 22 Jul 2009 (UTC)

=== Show multiple pages of the one map in tabs ===

ConceptDraw MindMap has this feature. Right-click on a node, select "send to new page", and the node with its children appears in a separate tab in the same document. This avoids the need to spawn extra files when your map becomes unwieldy and you want to chop off a branch. It is hyperlinked to and from its location on the original page.

Why use this instead of exporting to a new file? Because when the "new" map is conceptually part of the original map from which it was extracted, it is tidier and less error-prone to keep it in the same file. It won't get lost. And with a new page, instead of a new file, the user is saved from having to think of a meaningful file name for the extracted section. Node names do not necessarily make good file names.

=== Allow more maps to be shown side by side ===

In XEmacs, Vim or Microsoft Excel, it is possible to see several documents side by side. It would make sense for FreeMind too. Nevertheless, the added value is questionable. --[[User:Danielpolansky|Danielpolansky]] 11:38, 30 Apr 2005 (PDT)

If a few features are added, seeing two documents side by side would have more meaning. Automatic creation of a cloned node that is the root node of a new document is one. Press Ctrl-Enter (for example) would create a new document. This document would have a root node and filename that is the same name as node from the parent document. A line would connect these two nodes on the screen. Note the line is really two lines that connect at the boundary of each window. This type of line would also show visually the link between any two nodes in any two mm-files. Alternatively you can have the second window show a piece of the same document. This piece would include the node the cursor is on in the left pane and all the child nodes.

Another idea is to show a mind map as a menu. Menus are useful because they require very little additional screen space. Click on anything in the menu and it either shows the rest of the tree from the selected node or it evaluates the node which could mean it opens a new mind map, opens a program or does some other action.
--[[User:Mars729|Mars729]] 17:22, 1 Jun 2008 (EDT)

=== Direct pasting of RTF from clipboard ===

In one of the future versions, direct pasting of HTML into FreeMind will be supported; the code for it already exists and has not been published yet. In addition, direct pasting of [http://www.biblioscape.com/rtf15_spec.htm RTF] as HTML would be helpful. A free algorithm for conversion between RTF and HTML is needed for that.

RTF (rich text format) is used in email messages in Microsoft Outlook, and in hierarchical notebooks [http://www.tranglos.com/free/keynote.html Key Note] and [http://www.tuxcards.de/ TuxCards]. --[[User:Danielpolansky|Danielpolansky]] 03:36, 22 May 2005 (PDT)

=== Lock Contents and Hierarchical Position of a Node ===

It will be really nice to be able to lock the contents of a node so it cannot be edited unless it is explicitly unlocked. Similarly, it might be useful to prevent a node from being moved to another position in the hierarchy of the map.

=== Better Placement of New "Secondary" Nodes Relative to the Root Node ===

When adding nodes to the root node, they appear to be placed Right, Left, Right, Left. If some of these secondary nodes are deleted and another one is added to the root node, the side on which it is added appears to be chosen according to the number of secondary nodes on each side.

This seems fair enough, but if some of the secondary nodes have hundreds of child nodes and others only have a few then you can end up with a map which has far more nodes on the right than the left, but still have new secondary nodes added on the right hand side.

How about using the total number of nodes on each side when working out whether a secondary node should be on the right or left of the root node? Alternatively, allow secondary nodes to be dragged onto the other side of the root node (which doesn't appear to be possible currently).

: CTRL+[LEFT,RIGHT,UP,DOWN] moves the node and its children accordingly (at least in 0.9.0 Beta 8)

Can we have complete manual control of all secondary nodes originating from the root - so that each secondary node has its own unique point of origin on the root node which can be moved independently of all other secondary nodes. At the moment all secondary nodes originate left or right. It would be useful if they could originate like different points of the compass. North, north north west, north west, etc. and even points in between.

=== Using basic vector shapes ===

Using basic shapes like line, rectangle, square, circle etc. would by usefull.

=== Treat a node as HTML using an attribute ===
Instead of the cumbersome "<html>" string required at the beginning of the text. And even worse, having to keep the MaxNodeWidth enforced with something like <body width="600">. Why not take a different approach. One that seems like it would have little impact on the code, though I have not read it as of yet...

If html was treated as an attribute like bold and italic as in html="true", then process the entire node as html same as when the string "<html>" is detected at the beginning of the text. There would be a default <style>body {width:<MaxNodeWidth>}</style> in place, though the actual html in the node could override this just the way normal CSS does.

This has '''MAJOR''' implications for the use of the xml file. Though I have not written any XSLT yet for FreeMind yet, I was appalled at the thought of having to strip out this "<html>" string out of every node that used it. And positively frustrated at the idea of having to test for tags used to control width, i.e. <body width="600">. I really thought this crude and that it would slow the proceesing of files that use what is really a most beautifully clean concept.

However, an html attribute does away with all of this and seems to me to be a much more elegant and cleanly way to deal with html....

BTW, it would be very straight forward to write an XSLT transform to upgrade existing .MM files.

I just had another thought, why not go all the way and give each node a MIME type, limited to "text/plain" (default) and "text/html" for now. This leaves the door open to readily process other mime types through plugins, or whatever. In any case the attribute concept is something worth thinking about. --[[User:Danv|danv]] 10:25, 8 Feb 2006 (PST)

=== Add pictures to notes ===
Add a picture to a note of a node. It would be cool to export a map to HTML (Clickable Map) and have the picture only in the note. Whis would be the logical implementation for e.g. [http://freemind.sourceforge.net/docs/features/0_8_0/Features%200.8.0.html overview of new features in 0.8.0]. It would not be needed to create extra nodes for pictures only.

=== Code environment ===

Possibility to insert source code e.g. html (pre does not work...)

: I don't understand what this request is about. You can insert any source code you want into FreeMind's nodes, just that it cannot start with < html >; HTML code can be inserted by setting space as the first character of a node. --[[User:Danielpolansky|Danielpolansky]] 05:51, 29 Apr 2006 (PDT)
--[[User:Danielpolansky|Danielpolansky]] 05:57, 29 Apr 2006 (PDT)

=== Alphabetize Nodes ===
Automatically rearrange a specified node level in alphabetical order. Today I do this manually in certain circumstances. It can be very time consuming to preform this manually, and hopefully it would not be too time consuming to automate. --[[User:Slashdotted|Slashdotted]] 18:22, 21 Jul 2006 (PDT)

=== Order of Nodes ===
According to Buzan Mindmaps should be read clockwise. What every mindmapping tool misses is the fact that nodes on the left side of the center should be added from bottom to top, with the last entered node on the 11 position.

that was the first thing i noticed about freemind also. i have been making mindmaps by hand for years now and they are always clockwise.
also when exporting eg. to html the nodes should be ordered clockwise. maybe i miss some feature, but when i first exported a mindmap the order was somehow from top to bottom (3 from the right, then 2 from the left, then continue with the right side,...)
the other thing is that nodes are always left or right, and not orderered in a circle.
the only way i can work with freemind is to put all nodes on the right side but the map looks more like a list then

=== Selection and Deselection of Icons ===
It would be great if the icon toolbar on the left would show different styles of an icon (selected / not-selected), so one can easily deselect an icon for a node, rather than go through the contextmenue each time

Besides, it would be great if the context menu could allow remove specific icons, not just the last one.

----

As an addendum to this request, it would be really interesting to define a "combo box" type where (to do/project milestone/other actionable state) lists defined in the tree could be updated by clicking the drop down on the combo box instead of having to delete the icon and re-add another one.

=== Reminder nodes - Alerts and possible Outlook / Lotus Notes / etc integration ===
It would be a great additional feature if it was possible to use FreeMind as a reminder tool too. This idea poped into my mind right now, so it's not pretty much developed yet, but if it was possible to mark a node as a reminder then I would have no need to use Outlook to remind me of things to be done. I was reading something on GTD (Gets Things Done) and it connection with MindMaps and I thought that it would be useful to attach reminders to MindMaps/Nodes. There're a couple of approachs to implement it: The first would be to integrate Freemind with Outlook ot Lotus Notes, and then when you tag a node as a reminder it actually creates a reminder inside Outlook or Notes using the node text and context, so that you get reminded by those applications when the reminder alert occurs. The other option is to write an application that is used to alert user of a node reminder. [[User:Loudenvier|Loudenvier]] 11:08, 11 Aug 2006 (PDT)
It would also be fabulous if one could hyperlink from FreeMind to a Lotus Notes database document. Currently, one gets a "This URL is malformed!" error message. Thanks!

=== Demoting Root ===
Allow insert of sibling of root which auto creates a new root. The old root and the new sibling are both attached to it --[[User:Patheros|Patheros]] 11:45, 10 Apr 2007 (PDT)

=== Open Mindmaps in the same already open Freemind ===
In Windows I open my mindmaps by double-clicking on the *.mm file. It would be nice if double-clicking would not always open a new FreeMind. Instead, I like to view the mindmap in the already existing open Freemind application. [[User:wasserratte|wasserratte]] 10:01, 3 May 2007 (CET)

=== WBS Mode ===
I would like to see a WBS Viewing Mode, where the map would be arranged in a top-down hierarchical display. Something like the Organization Chart from Microsoft Office. That would help using FreeMind as a WBS Chart tool.

I would like to see the ability to port a WBS developed with FreeMind into Microsoft Project similar to the plug in for MindMapper. --[[User:Tuneboy|Tuneboy]] 07:58, 27 Nov 2007 (PST)

=== Improve MacOS Binary Package ===
All files should be contained inside the FreeMind.app package, like most other Mac programs.

== Principles of Unix ==

The principles from Unix are that programs should do one thing, and do it well, and to use well-defined inter-communication between those programs. The current design of FreeMind completely violates those rules - mostly because it is written in Java, but definitely because it is written _exclusively_ in Java. However, do not despair! All Is Not Lost!

By splitting FreeMind along very specific lines, it will very quickly be possible to do things like use a completely different viewing front-end (such as a web interface). It will be possible to satisfy one of the RFEs listed here for 'command line only'. It will be possible to use FreeMind as a powerful semantic analysis engine tool.

And none of that is possible because the current design is entirely in some stupid programming language called "java", which should have been put down for its own good, at birth (thank you Sun Microsystems).

For an example of the kind of architecture that you should follow, take a look at http://gnuenterprise.org/. It should be _trivial_ to add in a "database plugin" into gnuenterprise, and to have a gnuenterprise "reports" form viewing the same data and attributes etc. that a FreeMind user is simultaneously looking at.

And it's _not_ difficult - IF you split along the right lines.

[http://sourceforge.net/tracker/index.php?func=detail&aid=1687293&group_id=7118&atid=357118 RFE 1687293]

== User Interface ==

=== Views ===

==== Hoist/Unhoist ====

It would be awesome if FreeMind could allow the 'hoist' of a non-root node. Clicking on the node and choosing 'hoist' would redraw the map showing that node as root, its descendents around it, and the ancestors, which are now descendants, too, hidden.

Watch an example XSLT script, which hoist the anchor from the root to the node where a graphical link, originating at the root, points at. Input sample FreeMind map:

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<map version="0.9.0_Beta_8">
<node ID="Freemind_Link_1870928497" TEXT="a">
<arrowlink DESTINATION="Freemind_Link_731312914" ENDARROW="Default"
ENDINCLINATION="219;0;" ID="Arrow_ID_1222167311" STARTARROW="None"
STARTINCLINATION="219;0;"/>
<node ID="Freemind_Link_530368245" POSITION="right" TEXT="aa">
<node ID="Freemind_Link_29760795" TEXT="aaa"/>
<node ID="Freemind_Link_731312914" TEXT="aab">
<node ID="ID_1690650363" TEXT="aaba"/>
</node>
</node>
<node ID="Freemind_Link_16275782" POSITION="right" TEXT="bb"/>
</node>
</map>

The Hoist XSLT script moving the root along a graphic link:

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<xsl:stylesheet xmlns:xsl="http://www.w3.org/1999/XSL/Transform" version="1.0">
<xsl:template match="*|@*">
<xsl:copy>
<xsl:copy-of select="@*"/>
<xsl:apply-templates/>
</xsl:copy>
</xsl:template>
<xsl:template match="/map">
<xsl:copy>
<xsl:copy-of select="attribute_registry"/>
<xsl:apply-templates select="//node[@ID=/map/node/arrowlink/@DESTINATION]"/>
</xsl:copy>
</xsl:template>
<xsl:template match="//node[@ID=/map/node/arrowlink/@DESTINATION]">
<xsl:copy>
<xsl:copy-of select="*|@*"/>
<xsl:apply-templates select="." mode="aws"/>
</xsl:copy>
</xsl:template>
<xsl:template match="node" mode="aws">
<xsl:if test="parent::node">
<xsl:element name="node">
<xsl:attribute name="TEXT">
<xsl:value-of select="../@TEXT"/>
</xsl:attribute>
<xsl:apply-templates select="preceding-sibling::node"/>
<xsl:apply-templates select="following-sibling::node"/>
<xsl:apply-templates select="parent::node" mode="aws"/>
<xsl:apply-templates select="../attribute"/>
</xsl:element>
</xsl:if>
</xsl:template>
</xsl:stylesheet>

It would be nice, if this would be a function inside FreeMind e.g. right click on a node and in this context menu chose New Root.
[[User:JR|JR]] 06:34, 16 Apr 2008 (PDT)

==== Folding Animation ====
I believe having a very short animation when folding/unfolding a node would increase readability as it whould make it easier to know where nodes where before and where did they moved to.

==== Left toolbar ====
I think we have too much icons on the left, most of it isn't used. I think it could be halved, and only show the user preferred icons, and the rest of the place could be used to dock other tools. --[[User:Zslevi|Zslevi]] 13:03, 1 Nov 2007 (PDT)

Leos: it would be nice, if I could remove some icon from the toolbar or rearrange order of the icons (like in MS Office).

to allow an easy access to all the icons on the left bar, one may group icons that follow the same metaphor (ex: numbers, home/office, crosslight red/green/orange ....) and access to the icon of interest by clicking on the group icon. This could serve also to simplify the change: suppose you have an ordered list with the icons 1, 2, 3 ... or with icons representing different states "draft", "in review", "published" ... then you could click on the icon on a node, and have a contextual menu with all the other icons of the same group (and delete/delete all). You could much more easily change from "in review" to "publish" state :-) --[[User:Patco|Patco]]

==== Notes ====
I think it's a great thing to have notes for nodes, but I would prefer more options on formatting note text. (What about integrating with Open Office Writer?) At least the font size should be set, because the default size is so small and hard to read. --[[User:Zslevi|Zslevi]] 13:03, 1 Nov 2007 (PDT)

==== Zoom to fit ====
It would be nice if on loading a map, the view executes an automatic zoom-to-fit instead of the default 100%. Also the Fit option should be added to the Zoom drop down menu (as Powerpoint does for example). Also a keyboard accelerator should be added for Zoom to Fit (e.g. Ctrl-Shift-Z, they are near each other). Another small thing: if you have a map larger than taller, the current implementation adjust the scale to fit the map horizontally, but leave the map not centered in the vertical direction. Could this also be fixed?
--[[User:Mvalle|mvalle]] 06:14, 2 Dec 2008

=== Windows ===
It would be especially helpful if we could reorganize the arrangement of freemind's windows. For example, nodes with notes appear at the bottom and can't be moved around. In other heirarchical editors, a tree view could appear at the left and the text (notes) could be moved to the right, where a large screen and indentation could make most of the text readable as compared to the bottom of the screen.

=== Keyboard ===
==== F1 is conventionally help ====
F1 is normally a help key in most apps

* When zooming with the keyboard shortcuts it would be better to have
Alt + Up Arrow to zoom-in and Alt + Down Arrow to zoom-out. This is
a more natural way of thinking about zooming.-ZSDM

==== Show a help bar on the bottom of the screen for F keys ====
Have an optional toolbar that can be shown along bottom of screen with buttons that can be clicked with a mouse and operate as per the function keys and also give a hint as to what key does.
e.g.
[F1 help] [F2 hot][F3 green][F4 ] [F5]
And format the text of the key as per the pattern it applies
==== Enforce Default Per-Line Text Width For Long Nodes ====

At least 70% of the nodes are multi-line nodes, and to make all the long nodes look *uniform*, we need to manually insert line breaks for each long node, this can get pretty tedious, and also it's difficult to get all nodes of uniform width. A much better way is to have the system enforce a configurable "long node width", that adds line breaks when necessary. If no such paramater is set, it can default to the current behavior.

This can happen through a default attribute of the <body>-tag i.e. <body width="200px">.

===== Locking Node Focus =====

Currently the node focus is "set" by moving the mouse. The last node that the mouse flys over is the default focus node, and subsequent operations like "insert an icon" is performed will be performed on that node. It would be really helpful to be able to *manually* lock the focus on a node, this way it's easier to set an icon (all the way to the left side of the screen) to the right node.

==== Toggle for Re-centering the Map upon node selection =====

I love FreeMind and yet I still dream of a more and better version. Under the mouse section, I have suggested a toggle to enable and disable the mouse fly-overs select node mechanism. It would also be nice if there was some means to recenter the map upon node selection to make that section of the map the graphical focus.

==== Re-centering the Map with Hypergraph-like navigation tool =====

The most compelling form of refocusing large mind maps are ThinkMap's Visual Thesaurus, The Brain, The WebBrain. Of course, being a user and not a programmer, I can only imagine how much work that might take. Perhaps, you might find it useful to forge a collaboration with the SourceForge Hypergraph Project and ask them to build an export to Hypergraph module for you. One note of caution: Straightforward implementation of a hypergraphs compress large peripheral nodes into a small and unreadable overlapping space. This defeats the value of the hypergraph navigation. Thinkmap has solved that problem by forcing peripheral nodes to be well-spaced for readability.

=== "physical style" could be customized ===

I love the flexibility FreeMind provided to make my mindmap pretty. For each node, I can choose the font size, format, color...The choices are so many that making the changes with mouse is a little bit slow because the choices are buried in many sub-menus. The physical style provides a short-cut. But the styles are not attractive. Why not provide a tool so that the user can define a node format (including font size, format, color and icon et al) and associate it to F3~F9 and Ctrl +F1~F9. So after I type in the content, by pushing one key, the node can be customized within a second.

* It's done exactly this way in FreeMind 0.9 --[[User:Terkor|Terkor]] 19:39, 18 Jul 2007 (PDT)

=== Mouse ===

==== Scroll wheel zoom Operation ====

a) It would be nice to be able to zoom using just the scroll wheel rather than pressing CTRL at the same time. How about a user preference/option to control this. This is similar to many other Apps e.g. Excel ie wheel = zoom or pan

b) The way the scroll wheel works seems opposite to many other programs which is confusing
ie push wheel forward causes a zoom out whereas other apps zoom in

==== Right mouse popup menu text ====
The words "Node up" and "Node down" could be easier to understand if there was a verb in it
e.g.
Move node up
Move node down

The operation of it is great, but as a novice it is not clear if it does
move up a node - ie where current cursor is moves
or
move the node - ie the node is moved to a different position on the diagram

==== Photoshop/Freehand-like Keyboard/Mouse Document Navigation ====
Coming from the graphics department, it would be really nice to have the standard mouse/keyboard navigation style (which by the way is great way of handling oversized documents and going from overview to detail view with just a few clicks):

a) Space toggles View Panning
b) CTRL-Space toggles zoom in (Click to zoom in, zoom centered to position of mouse cursor)
c) CTRL-ALT-Space toggles zoom out (click to zoom out, zoom centered to position of mouse cursor)
Tried to map CTRL-Space to zoom in, which worked, but not on mouseclick but on keydown. Additional ALT key for zoom out was not accepted at all in settings->keys

==== Toggle for Mouse fly-over ====

Elsewhere in this RFE, others have noted that although the mouse fly-over selection mode is great for rapid navigation, there are times when one changes the selection as the mouse cursor moves up to the toolbar. Why not toggle the mouse fly-over by some method. Perhaps one of the most convenient methods would be a left mouse double click on the node to freeze the selection.

=== TouchPad ===

==== Horizontal scroll ====

Horizontal scrolling does not seem to work.

=== Menu ===
==== Toggle toolbar on/off via View Menu ====
Add ability to toggle display of toolbars via the menu
Suggest put it under View menu

Functionality as per RIGHT mouse key on a blank part of the screen

==== Alter wording of sub menu Mode ====
As a novice found it hard to understand the difference between Map and Browse
would have found it easier if it had said
ALT+1 Edit map
ALT+2 Browse map
ALT+3 File

==== Add a save all map icons ====
If you work with several maps, it is impossible to save all maps in one shot,
except if you close freemind.

=== Toolbars ===

==== Icon toolbar ====

===== Cross and watebasket look like icons rather than buttons =====
To a novice the delete (red cross) and delete all (wastebasket) icons look like icons
ie add a cross to the map rather than perform operations
especially on the popup "select icon" window.

===== Some icons in left toolbar fall off bottom of toolbar =====

===== Clone icon toolbars on both sides =====
I want to have same icon toolbar on both sides - left and right. If I had icon toolbar on both sides, I could choose the shortest way to the icon.

==== Top toolbar ====
===== Order of icons in top toolbar =====
Would be nice if these icons were in a more standard order (as per other apps)
e.g.
New, Open, save, print, cut,copy, paste with next/previous map buttons more to the right

(Icons in V0.08 RC2 look a lot smarter)

===== Font size pulldown is very wide =====
Pulldown to select font size is stretching and becoming very wide, which doesn't look neat.

===== Visual feedback for toolbar buttons =====
Currently (0.8.1) The buttons in the top toolbar do not show any visual feedback when pushed, so you remain with the doubt to have done anything. -- [[User:Mvalle|Mvalle]] 03-dec-08

===== Customizable top toolbar =====
A few functions are often used so it's more efficient to be able to customize the top toolbar to have those buttons, eg. node background color, node font color are both very useful to highlight different nodes for different purpose. Last applied color should be able to use just by clicking the same button. There should be more this kind of depends on individual preference.
-- [[User:dGuru|dGuru]] 08-Dec-2008

==== New toolbar for format operations ====

===== Move font type and size pulldowns to new format toolbar =====
ie group all formatting functions as per Format menu options onto a format toolbar

===== Add ability to select a default format for text =====
e.g. have a split icon
left part looks like a letter "A" in colour text is currently set to
right part of icon looks like a black down arrowhead which if clicked pulls up a colour picker

===== Add ability to select a default format for lines =====
e.g. have a split icon
left part looks like a line in colour text is currently set to
right part of icon looks like a black down arrowhead which if clicked pulls up a colour picker

===== Add ability to select a default format for clouds =====
e.g. have a split icon
left part looks like a coloured outline of a cloud in colour text is currently set to
right part of icon looks like a black down arrowhead which if clicked pulls up a colour picker

===== One-click selection of cloud color =====
It would be nice not to have to go through the context-menu to change the cloud color. This should be as easy as in v0.7 by just clicking in the toolbar.

==== Enlarge and reduce the text size ====
Enlarge and reduce the text size will be very helpful.

=== Map Overview / Navigation Pane ===
..like seen in MindManager: a small detached window that allows quick overview and repositioning of the visualized map section

===Gestures===
How about the ability to use gestures (mouse or pen) to do basic manipulation?
Click and drag right to enter new node.
Click and drag left to enter new sub-node.

Maybe use middle button click for gestures to avoid conflict with current capabilities.

'''Remark:''' This is already possible. Just use the freeware StrokeIt. It very easily adds gestures to any program. --[[User:Terkor|Terkor]] 18:08, 28 May 2007 (PDT)

=== Outline View ===
It would be really nice to have the option of seeing an outline view - which you could also drag and drop with --[[User:Slashdotted|Slashdotted]] 18:26, 21 Jul 2006 (PDT)

Along the lines of using gestures for manipulation and entry I use FreeMind on a tabletpc. I would like to be able to use inking capabilities.

=== Applet ===
Since you can drag for navigation, why not allow the scrollbars to be disabled
in order to increase screen real estate?

=== MacOS Enhancements ===
Some keystrokes should be remapped (by default) to conform with the keystrokes used on Mac's User Interface, like:
* Delete Child: CMD-BACKSPACE, instead of DELETE (Mac laptops doesn't have a DELETE key)
* Zoom Out: ALT-DOWN, instead of ALT-UP
* Zoom In: ALT-UP, instead of ALT-DOWN (consistent with macos Zoom feature)

Some common keyboard shortcuts should also be implemented:
* Minimize the window to the Dock: CMD-M
* Restore window from the Dock: ALT-1

=== Spell Check ===
I'm a dyslectic - at least am used to type many errors. (Almost) All software I use (to type content) have some form of spell checker supported. And because I also use FreeMind for mindmaps in presentations; they need to contain as less as possible number of writing errors. (Please in any supported language) --[[User:Sent|Sent]] 11:41, 8 Mar 2009 (UTC)

== Maps ==

=== Flowchart for Programming Structure ===
[[Image:Freemind flowchart.PNG|Flowchart M

FreeMind 0.9.0: The New Features

2009-07-14T11:33:26Z

MikeS: /* User Feedback */

A great release is to come. We have many exciting new features: WYSIWYG-Editing for nodes and notes, scripting, filter, attributes and many more.

But all these new features still need a lot of testing and documentation. To start this, please have a look at the newest version [http://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=7118&package_id=188772 here] and [http://sourceforge.net/forum/forum.php?thread_id=1592095&forum_id=22101 tell us your opinions].

Use this wiki page for documenting the new features.

But: Don't use this version for productive maps. It is not stable enough!
* Further warning: If you create a map with Attributes, it will open as a "New Map" with no data in version 0.8. Your data is not lost, just not readable by 0.8.
* You can try to convert the 0.9.0 - saved map back to 0.8.0 by following steps

# Make the backup copy of the map
# Open it with the 0.9.0 again
# Select all nodes
# Format-> use plain text
# Save
# Open the mind map file in text editor
# Remove all lines starting with <attribute_registry> and ending with <attribute_registry/>
# Save the file and try to open it in 0.8.0

If it does not help you should use the 0.9.0.

= Attributes =
''FIXME: An introduction should be given here explaining what attributes are and what they are good for. Why should the user learn how to fiddle around with attributes if he does not know what they are?''

Attributes provide different perspectives for ordering/viewing your MindMap. Attributes are tuple name/value pairs that are globally available i.e. can be tagged to any node and assigned specific values. For example, you can create shopping lists, add notional weightings, performance metrics, etc. The real power of attribute comes from writing Groovy scripts that can operate on attribute value or change the behavior of a node. For example, you can summarize the info contained within several nodes for a total cost. Attributes are complemented by Filters.

Real world example: I use Attributes and Filters after taking staff meeting notes. Immediately after a meeting, I assign attributes to nodes as applicable: Attribute 1 is "Name", values are the names of my staff; Attribute 2 is "Priority", values are numbers 1-5. The "Assign Attributes..." dialogue allows me to select all comments from a certain staff member and then assign their name to those nodes at once. If there is an action required, I might assign a priority. Filters allow me to quickly see only nodes from a certain staff member, or specific priority levels, or any combination. --[[User:Dnbarg|Dnbarg]] 20:21, 22 Oct 2007 (PDT)

== Quick Attribute creation ==
* Select node.
* Edit Attribute: Alt-F9 or, Rt-click>Edit attributes.
* Type in an Attribute name.
* Then add a value if desired.
* Edit with the Attribute Manager later if necessary.
== Using Attribute Manager ==
* Open the attribute manager with attribute icon on toolbar or, Tools>Attribute Manager.
----

=== Working with Attributes ===
* Click the "Edit" button in the "All Attributes" row
* Select attribute names from existing names to Rename/Delete in popup dialog
* Enter new attribute name to Add in popup dialog
* Press "Close" to close the dialog after all changes are done

==== Create Attribute ====
* Type in your Attribute name, then press add
* Repeat to add multiple attributes
==== Create Attribute values====
* type the value, then press "Add"
* It's a good idea to add a blank value to the list. It helps when assigning attributes later
Every Attribute can have multiple values
* eg. I use an Attribute called "Staff" and the values are the staff person's name
* eg. I use an Attribute called "Priority" and the values are #'s 1 to 5

==== Delete Attribute ====
* Select the menu option Tools/Attribute Manager, to open the panel Attribute Manager.
* In the line "All Attributes" of this panel, click on the icon in the last column (Edit). This opens a new panel "All Attributes".
* In this panel, select the attribute name, then press "Delete".

==== Delete Attribute values ====
* Select the value, then press "Delete"
* All attributes with the deleted value are removed from the whole map

All attributes with the deleted name and/or value are removed from the whole map

==== Rename Attribute ====
* Select the attribute name to be renamed, type the new name, then press "Rename"
* All attributes with the renamed value are adjusted

==== Rename Attribute values ====
* Select the value to be renamed, type the new value, then press "Rename"
* All attributes with the renamed value are adjusted

=== Working with Attribute values (in Attribute Mgr) ===
* After adding Attributes, you should see them listed under the "Attributes" column heading
* Click on the "Edit" button in the row of your new Attribute and add the values
* Edit attribute values in popup dialog
* Press "Close" to close the dialog after all changes are done

== Assign Attributes to nodes ==
assigning only a few nodes
* Choose the node, press Alt-F9 or, Rt-Click the node and choose "Edit Attributes"
* To add more attribute per node, use TAB key (if View>Attributes>Show all attributes is selected), or use the following.
* got to: Tools>"Assign attributes..."
* choose "Selected Nodes" or "Visible Nodes"
* from the drop down list, choose the Attribute you want to assign. (Here it helps when there's a blank value. You can assign an Attribute to all nodes needing it, and then set the value later, on a node by node basis)
* press the "Add" button to assign the Attribute to the node/s
* add more than one attribute to a node if necessary
* delete attributes from multiple nodes with this dialog

== Viewing/Hiding Attributes ==
to see an icon on nodes with attributes
* Tools>Preferences>Appearance>Show icon for attributes
show all attributes
* Alt-s or, View>Attributes>Show all attributes
show no attributes
* Alt-h or, View>Attributes>Show no attributes
show selected attributes
* in the Attribute Manager, select desired Attributes in the "Selected Visible" column
* then, View>Attributes>Show selected Attributes
optimize the width of the Attribute/value table
* Rt-click on the Attribute and choose optimal width

== User feedback ==
=== Bugs concerning attributes ===
* Better sorting of the options: Add Attribute > Delete this Attribute > Delete all Attributes. Numerous times I accidentally clicked on the middle button which is now (beta20) "Alle Werte löschen" when I intended to only "Diesen Wert löschen", because it is on the same line where I specify the criteria, which attribute value pair I try to delete [[User:JR|JR]] 13:16, 8 Oct 2008 (UTC)
* The key bindings alt-s and alt-h do not work as expected for showing or hiding attributes.--[[User:Yubrshen|yushen]] 02:23, 25 Nov 2006 (PST)
* When Attributes are visible, scrolling with mouse wheel stops when cursor is over the attribute of a node. --[[User:Terkor|Terkor]] 20:11, 27 Aug 2007 (PDT)
* If I set attributes, I can't export the map in PDF. It's ok in flash, png, xhtml, jpeg. Beta 17 on Ubuntu 8.04 - Sun Java -- freemind@smci.ch 2008-05-23
* If I add a blank character such as space after an attribute name, it is not considered as the same attribute (no trim) --[[User:Patco|Patco]] 19:27, 19 Jun 2008 (PDT)
* If you create attributes for the first time, but not assign them to a node, they won't be saved in your document --[[User:kvantomme|kvantomme]] 17:15, 3 Dec 2008 (GMT+1)
* Selecting an attribute with the arrow keys (from the dropdown) and then pressing tab makes the attributes box disappear.--[[User:Kartunes|kar]] 18:19, 12 Mar 2009 (UTC)

=== Bugs or features? (questions about attributes to the developers) ===

* The context menu key on the keyboard doesn't open the context-menu. --[[User:Jan|Jan]] 01:07, 4 Jul 2008 (PDT)

* When changing the font-size of a node by keyboard-shortcut (ctrl+"+" / crtl+"-") the fontsize-combobox of the toolbar isn't refreshing. --[[User:Jan|Jan]] 01:00, 4 Jul 2008 (PDT)

* When adding an attribute to a node which already has the attribute, the attribute will be shown as many times as added. However, when deleting the attribute from node, all instances of the attribute would be deleted.--[[User:Yubrshen|yushen]] 02:23, 25 Nov 2006 (PST)
:* In version 0.9.0b13, the bug is corrected (i.e. deleting one attribute does not delete all other attributes with the same name). So, the possibility to have several attributes with the same name but different values ought probably to be considered as a feature, not a bug ? For example the attribute "child" could have the values "Peter" and "Mary" attached to a given node "Paul and Jane" to include in the map the information that Paul and Jane have at least 2 children named Peter and Mary (if I understood correctly the notion and usefulness of attributes)? --[[User:Miclav|Miclav]] 01:56, 9 Sep 2007 (PDT)

* It is not possible to delete an attribute from the List of attributes. If one is created, it lives forever .... It seems that using tool/assign attribute by selecting the attribute in question, and select delete all values, it's possible to remove an attribute of a node. --[[User:Yubrshen|yushen]] 21:19, 15 Jan 2007 (PST)

:* You can remove or even rename some attributes and attribute values from the map using the attribute manager. Use Tools->Attribute Manager->All Attributes->[edit]->[click on attribute]->[Delete] --[[User:DimitriPolivaev|DimitriPolivaev]] 05:12, 9 Sep 2007 (PDT)

* It is not intuitive to go to Tools->Assign Attributes to set attributes on several nodes. I expected to be able to select several nodes (or all) and use Edit->Attributes. It didn't occur to me to look on the Tools menu for Editing. -- [[User:JimK|JimK]]
* The workflow in the Assign Attributes dialog is backwards: actions should be from left to right, top to bottom. I suggest moving the buttons to the right side. It's also strange why Add & Delete have one section and Replace has another. From user viewpoint they're all the same. Just need one name/value input box? -- [[User:JimK|JimK]]
* The title of the Assign Attributes dialog box has an extra character in "Assign" that should be removed. -- [[User:JimK|JimK]]
* Attributes are a great idea, but the whole dialog thing is very slow to work with. And it sucks to have a dialog over your workspace. I suggest making attributes work pretty much like a dynamic list of icons in terms of user interface:
** Make a toolbar dedicated to adding attribute values to nodes. Put the toolbar on the right side of the screen, make a button for every value, so that it can be assigned with one click.
*** This is so that, rather than choosing "apply to selected" or "apply to visible", you can use the standard built in selecting mechanisms, and apply attributes the same way that you apply icons.
**** You also have the added bonus of standardizing the interface somewhat.
** Put a selector box, or in the case of a low number of attribute value pairs, section them off, so you never need more than one or two clicks to assign an attribute.
** Have an empty box in the toolbar for new attribute or value definitions.
** Remove the attribute assignment dialog.
** Here's a visual sample. I found it was easier just to illustrate it: [[Media:FreeMindAttributeToolbar.png]] --[[User:RazielJaTier|RazielJaTier]] 22:50, 20 May 2008 (PDT)
* There is a bug in the browser applet of 0.9.0-Beta19 related to notes attached on nodes: if you switch between nodes the text of the note in the bottom window don't get updated, unless you select a node without a note and go back to one with a note. I guess the method onSelectHook(NodeView pNode) in NodeNoteViewer.java isn't called when switch between nodes with notes. --[[User:Jens|Jens]] 14:20, 11 Aug 2008 (PDT)

=== Wishes concerning attributes ===
* I love the attribute & filter feature & see great potential ahead. Being able to name & save searches would also be extremely useful.--[[User:Felipe|Felipe]] 07:34, 26 Apr 2007 (PDT)
* Really wish for a feature to only selectively show the attribute of the node in focus. The current options of "show all attributes", "show the selected attributes" all apply to all the nodes visible. With all nodes showing attributes, it occupy too much space. I wish that it only shows all the attributes for the current node being selected, i.e. in focus. This would be often enough for normal use.--[[User:Yubrshen|yushen]] 20:36, 1 Dec 2006 (PST)
* Default attributes of new node: I need to add some attributes to all new nodes. Therefore, I wish that there is mechanism to automatically stuff some default attributes to all the new nodes created after the functionality is enabled. This function may be configured to enable/disable. --[[User:Yubrshen|yushen]] 21:19, 15 Jan 2007 (PST)
* Or there is functionality to add a group of selected attributes to a group of selected nodes through one operation. --[[User:Yubrshen|yushen]] 21:19, 15 Jan 2007 (PST)

*You explained how to create attribute etc... but after spending "only" 30 minutes on it, what is the real interest in practice of such feature ? What is the use of attributes ? not clear what it can be used for ....--[[User:Djerr|Djerr]] 17:49, 20 Jan 2007

*Roll-up: It'd be really nice (and quite natural) to be able to roll-up (summarize or otherwise) the values of certain attributes (eg. money, time, resource requirements, etc) from children to parent nodes. --[[User:azimmer|azimmer]] 16:58, 14 Feb 2007

* See also the [[Talk:FreeMind_0.9.0:_The_New_Features|discussion page]]

* Adding "Attribute" is a great idea (for me ;-) !). There's a long time that I'm thinking of using freemind in an Artificial Intelligence way. Using Attribute, simultaneously with groovy, may help me for creating rules. Thanks ! --[[User:PLANTING|PLANTING]] 12 Aug 2007
* A way to copy and paste all the attributes assigned to a node or one of these attributes would be nice. Perhaps a "Copy Attribute" and "Copy All Attributes" in popup menu when you right-click on the attributes of a node. --[[User:Terkor|Terkor]] 10:06, 30 Aug 2007 (PDT)

* A way to assign different types of data to attributes: AKA Boolean, Integer, Date, Text, etc.
*Refactor/sort nodes by attribute: Dunno if anybody knows the dashboard plugin for mindmanager, but this idea is similar (except better cause it uses custom attributes). basically, any given attribute/group of attributes would be a parent node. And the values of the attribute would be the children. The nodes with those values would branch off from that. Would allow for awesome fluid mindmaps that could show all sorts of relationships between nodes without ruining the linear structure of the map, allowing for scheduling, budgeting, etc. I'm creating some example mindmaps which show how this feature would be incredibly usefull for something like scheduling.
* Sorting function would be great, but I propose it on the node (alphabetical). Having it on the attribute means for me having to update individually each node's attribute, which would take more time than sorting them by hand. I imagine a function sorting alphabetically all subnodes 1st level of the selected node. Franck --[[User:Fb5|Fb5]] 03:55, 6 Dec 2007 (PST)
** I'd agree with 'sort nodes by attribute' above. I'm a mindmanager user and being able to easily and interactively prioritise tasks on a node is very useful. In mm I just use the pre-defined priority icons, and sort accordingly. This is useful, but freemind with multi-attributes could offer more powerful sorts.

* A way to add new attributes using just the keyboard. I use keyboard shortcuts quite often with FreeMind and not having the ability to quickly add/change/delete attributes with the keyboard makes them much less useful. --[[User:Verifex|Verifex]] 15:57, 8 Dec 2007 (PST)
** What about Alt+F9 for selecting the attribute table and F2 for editing, TAB for adding? [[User:DimitriPolivaev|DimitriPolivaev]]
* Some attributes should be single-valued. Right now they all seem to be multi-valued. For example, I want only want attribute named Priority per node. -- [[User:JimK|JimK]]
* Hopefully you're going to add Help to dialog boxes? When I'm in Attribute Manager I don't understand all the choices. I should be able to view help about them from within the app rather than going to a Website/wiki. -- [[User:JimK|JimK]]
* Clicking on the "Icon for Attributes" could show/hide the attributes.
* Ability to have "Optimal Width" applied on all nodes by default.
** Seconded. A preference for the default width would help as well. --[[User:Icekiss|Icekiss]] 08:08, 19 Apr 2008 (PDT)
* It would be great to have the possibillity to group attributes and give these groups names. These names may be treated as node types. One may assign a node type to a node meaning the node gets automatically all the attributes of this type. With this it would be possible to define for instance a node type like ''activity'' with attribute like ''who'', ''start date'', ''percent complete'' and so on. An easy way to assign node types to nodes, for instance something like ''default type for new nodes depending on parent node'' would be the cherry on top.
* I've been using beta 15 seriously for a project. Filtering is wonderful, and what I really need is sub-node sorting by attribute and/or icon priority. (Please!) - johnn

* Don't know if it should be here or not. But actually, it would be nice if we could apply the same kind of filter to the icons:
** it would be faster
** it would be simpler, as some kind of default attribute+values
** it allows also multiple values (i can have multiple icons for one same branch)
* This would probably require to expand the list of icons to have more of the different types of notions that can be represented in a tool as FreeMind:
** relative to decision making: delay (e.g. hourglass), optionality, assumption/hypothesis, problem/inconsistency (e.g. lighting), advantage ("thumb up", "+/-"), inconvenient ("thumb down","+/-"),cause, consequence, risk,
** relative to life in general: user (people), group, time (clock), time interval, machine, etc.--[[User:Patco|Patco]] 19:48, 19 Jun 2008 (PDT)
* Keyboard assigning of attributes is a bit clumsy. Ideally, instead of using the arrow keys to select, the appropriate attribute would be suggested just by typing its first few letters. Then tab could be pressed to select and go to the next attribute.--[[User:Kartunes|kar]] 17:45, 12 Mar 2009 (UTC)
* the attribute icon has not the same meaning than the others. For example, with an ordered list (with icons "1", "2", "3" ...), having a node with attributes will disorganize the position of the icons! -- [[User:Patco|Patco]]

= Filter =
== Create filters to view and print the data more effectively ==
Clicking on the little funnel to the left of the zoom size toggles on and off the Filter Toolbar.
By default (i.e. in absence of any personal filter defined, see below) the values that can be selected in the List box of the Filter Toolbar are:
* No Filtering
* Currently Selected Nodes
To create a filter for one Attribute:
* to the right of the filter status, click "Edit"
* in the drop down menu at the top left, select your attribute
* the expression drop changes to "Exists"
* press "Add", then "OK" at the bottom
* all nodes with the selected Attribute will be shown, and the branches that don't contain these nodes will be hidden.
* To display, on the contrary, all branches that do not contain nodes with the given attribute, click on Edit, then, in panel Filter Composer, click on buttons "Not" then "Apply". This adds, in the List box of the Filter Toolbar, the two additional filters "attribute_XXX Exists" and "Not attribute_XXX Exists" (where attribute_XXX stands for the current attribute).

To create a filter for an Attribute and one of its values:
* after step two above select the second drop down where "exists" is showing
* choose "Is equal to". Your values should now be available in the third drop down
* press "Add", then OK

== use multiple filters at once ==
create two filter sets by the method above
select the filter sets you want
* Shift-click for multiple, continuous sets
* Ctrl-click for non-contiguous selection
press the "and" button on the right => a new set is created which combines your selected sets

'''User feedback'''

Another feature which can be useful: name for the filter. If you combine simple filters, it can be difficult to read what is it doing:
For example:
(Responsable is equal to Erwan and Type is equal to "draw") can be renamed as "Erwan Drawing", and could be more simple to manage.

Another thing: It could be useful to see/mask attributes when clicking on the attribute icon.

== filter on an icon ==
* add an icon to a node by highlighting the node, click on the icon on the left or Rt-click>Icons
* in the filtering "edit" dialog, choose "Icon" in the drop-down list at the top left, the second drop-down grays out, and the third contains the list of currently used icons
* click "Add"

'''User Feedback'''

* '''This is a great feature!''' Honestly, I think in a lot of ways, filtering by icons is a lot more intuitive than filtering by attributes. While the attributes give you a great deal of flexibility, they muck up the display at bit, and they're a lot more keystrokes to add. I really can't think of any examples of an attribute that I wouldn't rather just create an icon for. The icon is a much more succinct way of displaying an attribute about a node and it can be done inline.
** Having said that, I would like to see a little more love put into icons. I already customized my icon library (Thank you!), but it becomes unwieldy when there are more than a small handful of additional items. You can't replace the original icons either.
* I think it would be a good idea to filter icon clock and only those icons with active warning time scheduler

== Persistent Map Filters ==
In Beta 13 persistent filters are added.
And filters can now be saved. --[[User:Terkor|Terkor]] 18:02, 2 Sep 2007 (PDT)

== user feedback ==

* Would like to add some plain and simple text to graphical links. It could be inserted into the middle of the arrow or with an option to move it along the line. Thanks!

* For using semantic strings in addition to numeric and logical ones it would be useful a) to have filters for "contains" (for substrings of text) as in normal content – like "contain" finds attributes with the values "container", "contains", "containment", etc. b) be able to search a string-value across different attributes

* Filtering is great to compact maps for printing, but no usable PDF was created from a filtered map (beta 17) --[[User:JR|JR]] 04:48, 23 May 2008 (PDT)

* When I use filter extensively with very large map of thousands of nodes, I realize that the layout of the filtered map need some improvement. The resulted map's layout should be much compacted for the filtered nodes to be closer to the root node in order to be visible in the freemind window. For such large map, the reason to do filer is to focus so that I can see them easier. Without the improvement, it seems that the layout still follow that without the filter. The map becomes a tree with sparse nodes but stretched apart. It defeats the purpose of the filter somehow. If you need, I can provide a screen capture to show what I meant. Please tell me how. --[[User:Yubrshen|yushen]] 16:16, 5 Apr 2008 (PDT)

* I find that it freezes up a lot when using folding and unfolding while applying filters. It is, however, a really powerful feature. To complete its power would it be possible to have a way to copy only selected or filtered nodes? Sometimes you want to select these nodes and put them in another application, but when I filter, select all and then copy-paste, I get lots of other nodes included.

* Worked well for me. Especially like the filter on icon - no muss, no fuss.

* Great feature. Filtering on an icon: For example if you have "OK" icons on some nodes and want to see all other nodes (= not OK) use filter "contains icon OK" and define filter "Not contains icon OK" using button "Not"

* This great new feature has a little BUG. Situation: I have two maps opened and use the filter "Currently Selected Nodes" on one of them and switch between the maps. When I switch back to the filtered map I don't get the view that I had before I switched away. Instead I get the node filtered that was selected when I switched. (Terkor)

* Filtering and Reminders are a very nice combination. Filtering on icons allows to distinguish between nodes that have a Reminder "whose time has not jet come" and nodes that have a Reminder "whose time has come". But: in the filter composer these two different states are represented with the same icon (a clock). You always have to guess which icon represents which Reminder state. --[[User:Terkor|Terkor]] 19:40, 30 Jul 2007 (PDT)

* It would be helpful to be able to give the composed filters names. --[[User:Terkor|Terkor]] 19:45, 30 Jul 2007 (PDT)

* When filtering is activated there is a drop-down menu left to the "Edit" button. There you can find all the filters that were used that FreeMind session. It would be very effective if I could not only chose one of those filters but chose more than one. And then being able to chose in what order they are applied (for example by moving the filters up and down). Of course I can also get the desired filtering by using the Filter Composer. But with the described option I would be more flexible in quickly combining the filters. And being able to apply some "simple" filters in an order would make things more clear in some situations. --[[User:Terkor|Terkor]] 06:50, 31 Jul 2007 (PDT)

* A refresh view button would be nice. Or even better: auto refresh (maybe as an option) when a node is changed. Explanation: When I mark a node (representing a task) as done and I use a filter that shows me all the undone tasks and hides the done tasks, the node is not filtered as long as I switch filter off and on again. Could be more handy. --[[User:Terkor|Terkor]] 06:09, 3 Dec 2007 (PST)
** I second this notion. Nodes that meet the filter conditions after the filter is set don't get filtered out. So for instance, I want to create a filter to show not checked off items. Once I check them I want them to disappear automagically. --[[User:RazielJaTier|RazielJaTier]] 16:26, 20 May 2008 (PDT)

* If I filter "Currently Selected Nodes", in all the now empty space of the map there appear the ovals of the hidden nodes that allow to move them around, when you move your mouse to that places where they are when filter is not applied. --[[User:Terkor|Terkor]] 06:42, 15 Dec 2007 (PST)

* If "Selection Bubble" is "on" and a filter is applied, also hidden nodes can be "selected" when you for example move the focus using the arrow-keys. --[[User:Terkor|Terkor]] 06:42, 15 Dec 2007 (PST)

* Is there a way to assign attributes when you assign an icon to a node? For example I have lists of phone calls / emails that I have to send. I usually assign a phone or envelope icon to that node. I would like to assign an attribute or ActionType so that I can sort by them later (i.e. see a list of phone calls or emails that I have to make).

* It would be very helpful to have an option to filter out entries without children. This would be very valuable e.g. in situations where in a big map, several nodes have a "Tasks" subnode, and one wants to look at all tasks currently pending.

* Would it be possible to be able to add free text to the map to allow for titles and possibly a Key?

* Filter toolbar should be a standard toolbar. Should be able to show/hide filter toolbar from the View menu. (I am not displaying the main toolbar, but may need the Filter toolbar from time to time)

* Attributes have great potential. However I find editing a bit inconvenient. Would it be possible to add a small handle to existing attribute table (say immediately left of the cells, similar to the handles that are already on top of the table), so that a single attribute could be selected to be copied, cut, or even dragged and dropped to copy/move it to other nodes? Keyboard modifier keys (shift or ctrl) could be used to specify moving/copying in a drag and drop operation. arg0.

* Am loving the attributes. Using beta 20. Am doing a massive project on the muscular system. muscles directly effect eachother. For each muscle there is are muscles directly affecting it, muscles that it directly affects it, and muscles with a mutual two way relation. Each muscle also has a common problem associated with it. Each muscle group is an attribute and each muscle is a value. Filters will be used for self diagnosis, and finding the appropriate stretches. For example hands and shoulders due to using the computer a lot.
**Would be great if graphical links can be attributed, so that they can be filtered. + have the option of making them visible or not.
**Better sorting of attributes would be good. Like an attribute mind map, for sorting and the depth of the filter that is undertaken.
** To have Attributes and Filters integrated on the mind map. Anyone know how to write scripts to run a filter function.
** To filter core structure of mind maps: this would be good for summarising the link to other mind maps.
Thanks for your time. alf
* to encourage the use of attributes and filtering, it would be good to have the search/filter box always visible by default (I have a large screen, and the font/font size take all the extra space on the right, that could be used by this search/filter box (also, there should be a specific menu "search" or "filter" --[[User:Patco|Patco]]

= WYSIWYG-Editing for nodes and notes =

Yet to be documented

I like the WYSIWYG and how it's available when needed. On piece I find lacking is the ability to easily add link <a href=.... and the ability to click on it to pull it up. That feature would be very useful -- [[User:Matthias|Matthias]] 21:57, 18 Feb 2009 (UTC)

== HTML paste tip ==

Paste of HTML content creates one node. Use Edit -> Split to split it in many nodes.

Tools->Split Node is more efficent. --[[User:Phil31753|Phil31753]] 10:06, 9 Apr 2009 (UTC)

==== User Feedback ====
Version beta 0.9.16
I personally hate the WYSIWYG mode but I understand that others might find this feature helpful.
My problem is that I copy and paste very often into and out of mindmaps. Due to the WYSIWYG mode I can not pasten normally into thunderbird. Copying into mindmaps is terrible.
Suggestion: having the possibility to select between plain text modus or html modus or mixed modus. Helpful would be also a shortcut to "paste as plain text and split" and copy as plain text.
--[[User:bebach|bebach]] 2008-04-05

Love this feature, especially the way that the notes export to javascript enabled html. Couple of observations.

* The popup notes in the Javascript export don't seem to work in IE (care factor 0?).

* It would be good to be able to view the note in the main mindmap window, maybe as a popup.

* It would also be helpful if there was some sort of visual indicator of the existence of a popup note in the exported html - at present the note just magically appears as a rollover.

* Don't know if it is due to this feature, but "edit long node" now introduced an extra line feed if the enter key is used (confirm on enter turned off).

--[[User:RichardForster|RichardForster]] 18:04, 19 Sep 2006 (PDT)

I'd like to have the option to collapse the WYSIWYG editing area to free up more screen real-estate.

--[[User:Marko|Marko]] 21:45, 23 Sep 2006 (PDT)

* The WYSIWYG screen estate seems a good place to do all 'richer' content editing: e.g. if freemind would let me edit the multiline text nodes there, and, manage the attributes, i'd find that very usefull.

--[[User:Neanderlander|Neanderlander]] 22:01, 24 Sep 2006 (PDT)

* Some way to change the width of nodes would be great, so free form text can be flowed into thinner columns. Also a way to insert <br> easily without resorting to the html view.

--[[User:pedron|pedron]] 1:02pm, 10 October 2006 (EST)
* In version 0.8 the note attached to a node was very discrete in the sense that it would only show when the mouse is on that node. This new version has many editing features but it's "in your face" (so to speak) until you physically minimize it. I wish there was a way to configure it so that it would act like the previous version while keeping it's editing extras. Or at least have the option of toggling editing toolbar...

--[[User:Cichutki75|Cichutki75]] 8:09pm, 19 October 2006 (GMT)
* In version 0.9 max node width function does not work properly. At least not all nodes for the map created in version 0.8 keep the set width. I did not discover the rule. Some keep some don't.

--[[User:CautiousChaos|CautiousChaos]] 02:22, 12 Nov 2006 (EST)
* The editing panel is intrusive when it is not needed. A hotkey to open/close it would be helpful. Clicking on the note icon resulting in the panel appearing could also be very helpful.
* It seems that word-wrapping does not work in plain-text mode for nodes, making the node to be of single line extending far too long. I had to change the mode of each node to make it word-wrapping. Only using rich-text mode, the wrapping would work. I wish that word-wrapping would still work as in 0.80. --[[User:Yubrshen|yushen]] 15:03, 5 Dec 2006 (PST)
* It seems that in editing long node, the splitting function would only work with word on different line, while in 0.80, the function works even for words on the same line. --[[User:Yubrshen|yushen]] 15:03, 5 Dec 2006 (PST)

--[[User:Djerr|Djerr]] 17:42, 20 Jan 2007

* Using a 0.8 map with notes in 0.9 beta version show all notes as pop up but they can not be modified with the format tool or even edited in the layout page. I have to delete the note and create a new one under the 0.9 version.

I usually write short nodes but very long notes in order to have a "clear" map. 2 special comments on notes :
* For long notes, the time the pop up is shown is too short. Would it be possible to define a time on how long you want this pop up to be shown ? Or even better: to show them as long as the cursor is pointing on the node (or perhaps the note icon).
* I could find very useful (especially for my long notes) to be able in the format menu to change not only italic or bold or font size etc.. but also COLORS, to be able to see very fast the most important points

---
* I don't understand the purpose of freemind's notes feature. It seems to be an incomplete feature. On the one hand, it could be used as popup notes for a node on the freemind map. On the other hand, it could be used to provide the details for a topic expressed by the node. I think both should be possibilities, but currently only the first really seems possible.
* I want to use freemind to develop an outline into a full-blown paper. To do that, I would start using freemind to create an outline of the paper. Each node in the mindmap would be an entry in the outline with the node level equating to the outline level. Then, when I start fleshing out the paper, I would use the notes feature to fill-in paragraphs of information for each node. The problem is that there is no good way of outputting the paper -- the notes become popups rather than entries in the paper.
* Is there a way to export a mindmap from freemind in such a way that it could later be imported?

--[[User:DavidMasterson|DavidMasterson]] 22:00, 23 May 2007

* I don't like this feature in the current implementation. This is because i use this tool to connect IDEAS and usually i use formatting things only in the end. A paragraph, a sentence, a list, a word list this are things that i want to have in a hierarchical structure, not as a rich text. In 0.8.0 the copy/paste feature converted a paragraph/list to an hierarchical tree of nodes. That was a better aproach then to get a simple html node. The split feature doesn't replace this functionality better. I hope and trust that you will find a way to add rich text nodes without so much interference with the old style of working. Maybe a paste option with paste as nodes, paste as html will resolve this issue?

--[[User:Terkor|Terkor]] 16:25, 21 June 2007
* Great Feature, but it could be more handy if the (by far) most often used formating-features like Bold and Italic could be used without opening the editor. Just mark the words or characters you want bold (or italic), click the Bold (or Italic) icon (or use Ctrl-B /Ctrl-I) - and that's it.
* It is not "logical" that you open the editor with "Alt-Enter" and close it with "Ctrl-Enter". It should both be the same.
* "Split" should have a shortcut. Suggestion: Alt-Enter or Ctrl-Enter. (See previous paragraph.)
* When I open the editor whilst I am editing a node, the editor should know the actual position of the cursor and if some text is already marked.
* Double clicking the note icon should open / close the note editor. (Generally icons should be more clickable like the link icon. (Double) clicking on the clock icon of notes with a Reminder should open the calendar. And right-clicking an icon should open the "Select Icon" box.)
* The popups displaying the note content don't match size if a note is very short. Does not look nice. (The same for popups that show the "Created", "Modified", and "Reminder" times - too wide.
* Choosing colors should definitely have an icon in the tool bar of the editors. So it takes six (!) clicks to change the color of a word. (Opening the editor not counted.)
* The editor for notes and the one for nodes behave differently, when it comes to use the Enter-key. The node-editor just enters a new line (as one would expect) when I press Enter. The note editor enters a new line and a blank line. Here I have to use Shift-Enter to get just a new line. Why the difference?
* The note editor by default adds a blank line before the text and after text. I see no reason for that. (The node editor does not do that either.) Just takes away precious space.
* In order to save space, please place the toolbar of the note editor next to the menu of the editor. As it is now, there is much unused space. The editor should look more slim.
* Like the note-editor of FreeMind 0.8, the note-editor of version 0.9 should automatically close when not needed. (Or at least there should be an option to pick this behavior.)
* The little arrows on the splitting line that allow to hide/show the note editor should be wider (not higher), they are very hard to click quickly. Perhaps put each of them in a clickable wider boxlike area.
* "Note" in the menu "Insert" is gone. Should be there, that's where people look for it, and it seams a logical place for it (also for a "Remove Note"-function). And "Add Note" / "Remove Note" should be in the context-menu, when I right-click a node.
* How about a function that turns a node into a note and vice versa?
* The popups of long notes should be scrollable.

--[[User:Pascal|Pascal]] 11:33, 20 Nov 2007
* It would be great to have spell checking in notes editor
* In version 0.9.0 beta 14, bold, italic and underline buttons have no icons (if you click where they should be, it does the job, but you don't see the buttons).

--[[User:puckja|puckja]] 13:51, 3 Jan. 2008
* Great feature! Now I can add formated text/graphics in the note panel (SimpleHTML). Cut & Paste from webpage and even MS Word 2003 with figures and math equations works great.
* More user friendly functions such as FONT property in toolbar or shortcut, HIGHLIGHTING capability, insert HYBERLINK (it can be added with direct HTML coding), configurable property for the inserted graphic(size/alignment, etc.) would be great. (It is already very good! Thanks!)

--[[User:puckja|puckja]] 16:09, 3 Jan. 2008
* It seems that all the figures inserted in the note are not "locally saved." It may a a '''SERIOUS BUG!''' If the figures are cut & paste from Internet, then they will not be available if machine is offline. If the figures are C & P from local file (such as MS Word), then the source files are still at your personal Win TEMP directory, which means that they will be deleted some time in the future while you think it is saved. Other software such as PersonalBrain will save the file and change the HTML src location after you saved the "brain", but Freemind seems to leave it unattended. :(

* HTML Editor won't let you put a table in a node. Well, that's not quite true. The "table" item n the menu bar has all its items disabled, but you can edit the HTML to make the node have a table. Why is the menu bar operation turned of for nodes?
--[[User:Anton|Anton]] 18:16, 20 Jul 2008 (PDT)
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* The HTML Editor seems to have a 'template' which is the same for all nodes. It would be nice to have
## User-definable style sheet, that could set font, size, colour, box width ...
## ... for each level
--[[User:Anton|Anton]] 18:25, 22 Jul 2008 (PDT)

Filter macros on the mind map itself would be good. They could be adjustable. And/or/not etc, could be done by clicking the different parts of the map corresponding to the attributes/icons under question. This would be nice because it would be more natural to drill down the search in this way. Filter by cliking on a node, filter again on what is left within that filter etc.

*The WYSIWYG is a big + for my workflow. However, I often use this program w/ widescreen setups and it would be a great if I could reposition the WYSIWYG window to the left, right of the Map window.
*It would be v.nice if the editor could interpret latex formating for math/equations.
--[[User:Lessfield|Lessfield]] 18:01, 19 Feb 2009 (UTC)

I agree with Lessfield - I want to create extensive notes, instructions etc. and I'd like to be able to move the note editing pane to the right side. To go with this, I'd like to be able to control the node layout so it's a tree expanding from top to bottom or left to right (like Visual Mind's Standard, left-to_right and right-to-left views).

Possible bug:- frequently when I'm typing in the notes pane, the insertion cursor zips back to the beginning of the line and text insertion continues there. I don't think I'm accidentally hitting any hot keys ;-)
--[[User:MikeS|MikeS]] 12:09, 19 Jun 2009 (UTC)

Update 14 July 2009:- the cursor problem coincides with an autosave. If you're editing a note and an autosave occurs, the cursor returns to the head of the note, even though you're still typing!
--[[User:MikeS|MikeS]] 11:33, 14 Jul 2009 (UTC)

= Scripting via Groovy =
[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Groovy_programming_language Groovy] scripts may be attached to individual nodes in the map. When "evaluate" is selected via the menu or keypress (Alt-F8), all nodes in the map are searched (depth-first) for one or more attributes named "script". If such an attribute is found, the value of the attached attribute is passed to the Groovy engine to execute.

Only nodes are evaluated, which attribute keys start with "script". However, there is nothing preventing a script on one node from acting on other nodes via normal operations (e.g. node.getChildren or similar) as far as I can tell from the code.

=== Assignment vs. Operation ===

If the value of the script attribute starts with the equals sign ("="), then the node text will be replaced by the RESULT of the script evaluation. Be careful not to overwrite your nodes! See the example for using the "node.getText()" in an assignment script.

If the value of the script attribute does not begin with the equals sign, then the script will run and may affect the map, but the expression result is not assigned to the node text.

=== Available Operations ===

When the Groovy binding is created, two variables are set:

* "c" is set to the MindMapController
* "node" is set to the MindMapNode being evaluated

You will have to examine the FreeMind source code for operations on the interfaces. See the examples for a few operations such as setting the node text, node color and background color.

=== Examples ===
I have only played with the engine for five minutes, and spent about the same amount of time on the Groovy home page. The following examples work for me:

'''Prepend the node text with an integer representing the node depth.''' Note that the script starts with '=' so the result is assigned back to the node text.
<groovy>=node.getNodeLevel() + " " + node.getText()</groovy>

'''Set the text color of a node:'''
<groovy>node.setColor(java.awt.Color.RED)</groovy>

'''Set the background color of a node:'''
<groovy>node.setBackgroundColor(java.awt.Color.BLUE)</groovy>

'''Project Manager: Don't do this; use methods of the controller c instead.''' If you manipulate the node model directly, you'll miss the undo and flow control capabilities of FreeMind. Please, consult methods from the interface MindMapActions only.

=== Advanced Examples===

All advanced examples have been moved to the [[Example scripts]]

== About Groovy ==
For people unfamiliar with Groovy scripting, it's [http://groovy.codehaus.org home page], an [http://www.onjava.com/pub/a/onjava/2004/09/29/groovy.html introduction], a review on [http://ask.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=06/04/18/2223237 slashdot].

== How to get started ==

# Create an attribute for a node. The attribute must be named "script"
# Create the Groovy script and set as the value of the attribute
# Press Alt-F8 or select "Evaluate" from the Tools menu.

== Wish for Groovy script editing ==
* Need good editor for writing such script for the attribute. The current attribute manager is not suitable to write long script. --[[User:Yubrshen|yushen]] 15:41, 15 Jan 2007 (PST)
* I know I could dig through the source code and figure it out, but even a rudimentary object reference would be great. --[[User:RazielJaTier|RazielJaTier]] 15:01, 21 May 2008 (PDT)
** Created a page called [[FreeMindGroovyObjects|FreeMind / Groovy Object Reference]] to start compiling known information into a reference page. If you're familiar with any of the objects and navigation, lets start documenting it here.
* Debug Console while you're running scripts from the map. If you have a typo, the script simply does nothing. It would be nice to get an error or some sort of feedback. --[[User:RazielJaTier|RazielJaTier]] 15:01, 21 May 2008 (PDT)

== Scripting the application, not the documents ==

When I first read about Groovy in Freemind, I was irritated by the fact that the Groovy scripts are part of the Map (as script attribute) and not the application.

To my opinion it would make more sense to allow Groovy scripts to be plugged into the application and work on either Map.

An example of how this could work can be found here: [http://groovy.codehaus.org/Integrating+Groovy+in+an+application+-+a+success+story]

In a similar way each script could be bound to a menu item in a user menu or a button, and be provided with the current 'context', maybe containing a model of an open Map when activated.
This way it would be possible to create complete maps on-the-fly without having to create the Map and the root node with a script attribute first(!).

This is from user's point of view more like scripted plug-ins and filters in Gimp or Steinberg-like music software, and not so much like the VBA thing stored inside office documents.

--[[User:Det|Det]] 07:28, 16 Mar 2007 (PDT)

== Tips of editing script ==
# Before there is good editor for script, I use a template node to define long script then use copy and paste to duplicate the script.

--[[User:Yubrshen|yushen]] 15:41, 15 Jan 2007 (PST)

= TaskJuggler Integration =

[http://taskjuggler.org/ TaskJuggler] is a opensource project management tool for linux. It covers the complete spectrum of project management tasks from the first idea to the completion of the project. It assists you during project scoping, resource assignment, cost and revenue planing, risk and communication management.

=== Idea ===
The idea is to have special task, resource, and account nodes on the mindmap.

====Usage summary====
- Tasks are defined as subnodes of TASKS node.
- Resources are defined as subnodes of RESOURCES node.
- Accounts as subnodes of ACCOUNTS node. (not yet implemented in 0.9.0 beta 18)
- Taskjuggler task/resource/account info contained as node attributes. <br> You can find more info about these attribs in [http://taskjuggler.org/manual-2.3.0/c1376.html TaskJuggler documentation]
- After entering all task/resource/account info in freemind, use File-->Export to <br> export the task/resource/account info that is currently VISIBLE <br> (your freemind filters can be used to limit the info being exported to TaskJuggler).

[[Image:Taskjuggler_example.png]]

=== Project file (TJP) ===
We generate only includes with FreeMind, so we must write simple TaskJuggler main project file:

<pre>project simple "Simple Project" "1.0" 2005-06-06 - 2005-06-26

include "example.accounts.tji"
include "example.resources.tji"
include "example.tasks.tji"

taskreport "Gantt Chart" {
headline "Project Gantt Chart"
columns hierarchindex, name, start, end, effort, duration, cost, revenue, chart
timeformat "%a %Y-%m-%d"
loadunit days
hideresource 1
}

htmlaccountreport "accountsreport.html"{
timeformat "%d-%M-%y"
accumulate
columns index, name, weekly
}</pre>

=== Include Files (TJI) ===
Mindmap with defined TASKS, RESOURCES and ACCOUNTS nodes can look like this:
{| cellpadding="20" cellspacing="0" border="0"
|[http://pliki.rodos.com.pl/freemind/tji_example/example_freemind2.png http://pliki.rodos.com.pl/freemind/tji_example/example_freemind2_maly.png]
|}

We can export include files which we have defined in our project file directly from FreeMind mindmap:<br>
- example.resources.tji - from RESOURCES node (File->Export->Resources from RESOURCES node to TJI file..)<br>
- example.tasks.tji - from TASKS node (File->Export->Task from TASKS node to TJI file..)<br>
- example.accounts.tji - from ACCOUNTS node (File->Export->Accounts from ACCOUNTS node to TJI file..)<br>

In TaskJuggler our project will look like this:
{| cellpadding="20" cellspacing="0" border="0"
|[http://pliki.rodos.com.pl/freemind/tji_example/example_taskjuggler.png http://pliki.rodos.com.pl/freemind/tji_example/example_taskjuggler_maly.png]
|}

=== Download ===
[http://pliki.rodos.com.pl/freemind/tji_example/example.zip Here] you can download full example without accounts feature and [http://pliki.rodos.com.pl/freemind/account/accountexample.zip here] with accounts.

=== Account support ===
Becouse accounts functionality isn't in CVS yet. You need use [http://pliki.rodos.com.pl/freemind/account/Freemind_0_9_0_beta15_koprin_b2.zip this] binary or
get Freemind from CVS (CVS tag: fm_060405_integration) and aply [http://pliki.rodos.com.pl/freemind/account/diff.zip this] patch.

= The rest of the new features =

==Icons==
=== User icons ===

User icons can be added. PNG files of the icons have to be added to the folder '''<user_home>'''/.freemind/icons. All *.png files in '''<user_home>'''/.freemind/icons are handled as user icons. Size is ''not'' limited to 16 px x 16 px.

'''User feedback:'''
* FreeMind adds "icon_" to the user-given name of a user icon. The name should just be the user given name - without ".png" of course.
* When adding user icons, they appear in a random order within the side bar and mixed with the Freemind built-in icons. Is there a way to control this order ?
* My new icons appeared at the end of the standard ones and appeared to be in alphabetical order by filename. GREAT feature. I was able to take screen captures of the icons for Access objects and some of the Office program icons and use them in a mind map documenting a project my computer literacy students do at the end of the semester. This is far superior to having to use a limited set of standard icons which aren't particularly meaningful.
* Q: what is the procedure for adding user icons in Mac OS? Which is the correct destination folder?

* User icons are not included in exported mindmaps (flash at least).
* Including icons does not appear to work (WinXP - Freemind 0.9.0 Beta 19). Have assumed that placing .png files in C:\Program Files\Freemind\Icons should ensure that they are included but have nt been able to get this feature to work. Is this the correct placement for the icons folder in Windows?
::You put the icons in the wrong folder. Look again above. --[[User:Terkor|Terkor]] 03:23, 21 Oct 2008 (UTC)
* I think I put the files in the correct place. I put them here: c:/Documents%20and%20Settings/fklein23/.freemind/icons/*.png
and they did NOT appear in the icons menu nor on the left hand border -- User:fklein23
* I also note that the menu runs down past the bottom of the screen and though my mouse cursor is actually selecting hidden icons, I can't see them until I click the right mouse button, at which time the "mystery icon" appears! -- User:fklein23

===Selecting, Substituting and Deleting Icons===
* Using Shift+Click on icon bar substitutes the current icons by the new one.
* Icon bar Icon Selection Dialog: click on icon with control key hold: removes the first matching icon, with alt key removes the last one. Icon Selection Dialog: Shift+Enter or Alt+Enter can be used as well.
* Icon hot keys available in Select Icon Dialog. They can be set in Preferences > Keystrokes. --[[User:Terkor|Terkor]] 13:26, 3 Sep 2007 (PDT)

'''User feedback:'''
* Substituting icons with Shift+Enter in the Icon Selection Dialog (as announced in the changes for Beta 9) does not work. Just inserts the selected icon.
* Can I suggest you add a couple of icons as standard namely '$' and '$$' too? Thanks.

==Latex Plugin==
With the new Latex Plugin (Insert > Latex) you can now add mathematical formulas to your nodes.
Select a node and chose Insert > Latex. Under the node a default text in a box is added. When you click on that box a simple editor opens to enter the Latex code. Close the editor and your formula is displayed underneath the node.

Erase the formula by clicking Latex again when the node is selected. --[[User:Terkor|Terkor]] 06:31, 3 Sep 2007 (PDT)

'''User feedback:'''
* I like this one, but there may be an easier way for access of this functionality (a shortcut or s.th.).
* Great, adds a whole new field of use to FreeMind!
* Tip: Can also be used to just add a text to node instead of a mathematical formula. If you just add text without any commands, you get italic text in the box. Everything put between \mbox{ and } appears as normal text. (The code is contained in the default formula that is added every time you add a new Latex box to a node.)
* Exporting the formulas does not work for at least for some filters (Flash at least).
* LaTeX formulas do not scale with the rest of the map but have always the same size. Please make them scalable if possible.--[[User:Christofb|Christofb]] 12:19, 30 Oct 2007 (PDT)

* Nice feature. It would be nice if the graphical representation of the formula could appear with the higher quality associated with LaTeX. Is it possible to improve via anti aliasing or exporting/printing via postscript?

==Linking to nodes in another mm-file==

You may create a link to a node in another map by appending #node_name to the map path

'''User feedback:'''
*Bug?: This feature does not seem to work for file urls ex: file:\\dfs\folder\file.mm##Freemind_Link_335867258. It also does not seem to work through the website applet.
** The URL is wrong. Must be file:///dfs\folder\file.mm##Freemind_Link_335867258

* Bug: This very useful feature seems to work for the current instance of the target map only. Once the target map is closed and reopened the link points to the root node in the target map, even though the link text is still correct. Closing the source map and reopening it works fine. - Tested based on FM 0.8.0 maps with the Windows version of FM.--[[User:Uli|Uli]] 02:51, 13 Feb 2007 (PST)

(•) Solution:

• create a (temporary) local link to the intended target node from any other node within the target MindMap (MM) (ALT+L)
=> i.e. the target-node must be the 'referred' node in this case meaning that it must be the second of the two nodes composing said (temporary) local link.
-> Digression: A local link is created by first left clicking on the source node and, while holding down the CTRL-button, then
left clicking on the target node, then press Alt-L. The link is created in the source node (a green arrow appears).
• Now highlight the 'referring'/source node, i.e. the other of the two nodes in this (temporary) local link (the one with the green arrow) and press CTRL+k (edit link)
=> the freemind node name of the 'referred' node (i.e. our desired target node) appears (eg. #Freemind_Link_676133257)
• Copy (or better still, cut) this node name [ctrl+c/ctrl+x].

• In the Source MM create an external link to the target MM (eg. c:\mindmaps\TASKS.mm),
=> Digression: An external link is created thus: CTRL+k (manually enter path) or SHIFT+CTRL+k (choose path). A red arrow appears.
• highlight the node with the newly created external link and append the copied/cut freemind node name to it using CTRL+k (edit link).
=> The result could look like this: c:\mindmaps\TASKS#Freemind_Link_676133257

• Finally, delete the local link if you may so wish (this step is only relevant, if you'd only copied and not cut the node name above).

• Being able to link to a specific link should not only possible within freemind but also from other tools. This could be established via adding a command line parameter giving the node ID to select right after startup.

== Edit Styles, Patterns, Automatic Layout Patterns ==

=== Change Format Dialog ===

New "Change Format" dialog box that lets you edit node and edge attributes at once. (Format > Change format...)

'''User feedback:'''
* The very powerful and useful dialog box needs a shortcut, and an entry in the context menu when you right-click on a node.
* A preview-area would be helpful.

=== Manage Patterns ===

There is now a manager for the physical styles. (Format > Physical Styles > Manage Patterns..)

==== User feedback: ====

* It is so helpfull!!!!!
* Would it be possible to also show (and even change) the shortcuts of the patterns in the pattern manager?
* Styles should be renamed Format Macro. They are a great feature.
* Feature Request
** A real Style formating feature with style_registry, where the formating is defined, would be great.
* Bugs
** Style names are not proper UTF-8 encoded e.g. ü in become FC in patterns.xml and not ü
** beta 18 couldn't generate new Style from current node. Pressing Save&Exit didn't save and a Notice pop up without any message.
* All version including RC1 - F11 window does not allow to choose a font size which is not in the list (11 for example) this is not consistent with the tool bar of the main window. I'm using style with 11 pt font size !
* Im experimenting with TONY BUZAN's mind mapping and memroy techniques. Eventaully i wnat to make a mind map of his book's and share, however copywright questions arise?? anyone know about it. Regardless of this question it brings to my attention the powers of formatting and memory enhancement.
**Is there a way of patterning the width/thikness of the links?
**Would be great to have a plugin that does a network analysis of the mind map and formatts acordingly. Hubs/number of links to a node = format value. Format value's to stimmulate as many sensory modalites as possible (NLP/ memory techniqes)
***These formats can then have an icon/ memory hook to filter by.

=== Edit Automatic Layout Patterns ===
It is now possible to edit Automatic Layout Patterns. (Tools > Preferences ... > Automatic layout pat...) Click there on a pattern and the new "Change Format" box appears (here called "Change Pattern").

'''User feedback:'''

* I also really like this feature, BUT I also would badly need to automaticaly layout for more then 4 levels (even if I could not change it by myself)! This is one of the most important things missing yet in this great application. Thanks anyway!

* Great! Could you please make the area "Automatic Layout Styles" a bit wider. There is no reason to keep it so tiny.

* I find the automatic layout a bit limited; after four levels, the layout remains the same, but I oftentimes use five, six or seven levels. Only feature I'd like to see added to the program is to set an auto format for a larger (custom-defined?) amount of levels.

* I love automatic layout, I use it pretty much exclusively. The only thing that sucks is that it completely disables the ability to apply localized formats to nodes with it enabled. Can you put in some sort of cascading functionality. The default would be automatic, but you could override the formats at any time. Also put something like the "reset position" like "remove custom formatting". --[[User:RazielJaTier|RazielJaTier]] 15:27, 20 May 2008 (PDT)

* I second Raziel's motion. I'd love to be able to store code snippets in a map, but automatic layout disrupts my custom formatting. --[[User:Neontapir|Neontapir]] 09:47, 23 Jun 2008 (PDT)

* Wonderfull. Would it be possible choose (at least) color to be applied per branch instead of per level. This is more in tune with Dr. Buzan's suggestions.

== Find And Replace ==
FreeMind has now a Find & Replace dialog. It combines the old "Show Map History..." (which is not there any more) with a classical Find & Replace dialog.

Found nodes can be sorted by Date, Text, Icons, Created, Modified, and Notes.

You can choose: Export Selected Nodes, Replace All, Replace Selected, Goto, and Select.

When no search text is entered all nodes of the map are shown in a sorted list.

'''User Feedback'''

* Characters like äöü" are not displayed correctly (the HTML-versions are displayed).
* Could it be possible to hide columns that I don't need to see?
* Thank You for the "replace" addition. How difficult would it be to have a "find" on all opened maps ?
* Is it possible to extend the "find" in all opened maps ? When searching for a text pattern, it will save to open individually each maps and execute a find. --[[User:Fb5|Fb5]] 02:16, 15 Nov 2007 (PST)
** I second this - extremely needed (at least for me :) ) to be able to search across several maps!! --[[User:Spacevulture|Spacevulture]] 11:59, 21 Jun 2008 (PDT)
* Would very helpful if nodes themselves could not only be sorted alphabetically, but also by Icons. And maybe by Date, Created, Modified, and Notes.
* A drop-down menu with recent search/replace terms would be helpful, to avoid retyping when repeating searches. --[[User:Arg0|arg0]] 08:38, 25 Feb 2009 (UTC)

== Display Selection as Bubble==
In the menu View there is now the option to display the selected nodes inside a bubble: "Display Selection as Rectangle on/off". You can also pick this new option in Preferences > Defaults, where you can also choose the color of the bubble. "Display Selection as Rectangle on/off" is now (Beta 13) by default "on". --[[User:DimitriPolivaev|DimitriPolivaev]] 14:50, 9 Sep 2007 (PDT) --[[User:Terkor|Terkor]] 16:57, 9 Sep 2007 (PDT)

'''User Feedback'''
* Like it very much.

==Tabs==
There are now Tabs (like in Firefox) representing the opened maps. Properties > Appearance > Look And Feel > Use Tabs lets you choose if you want to use tabs. --[[User:Terkor|Terkor]] 10:36, 26 Aug 2007 (PDT)

'''User Feedback'''
* Could it be possible that the tabs only appear (option) when more than one map is opened?
** I'd like this too. Screen space can be important. --[[User:Kenrob|Kenrob]] 04:14, 5 Oct 2007 (PDT)
* Could it be possible to show and hide tabs ''in View''?
* Could it be possible to rearrange the order of the tabs (by dragging and dropping them)?
** drag&drop, automatic hide when only one, close one/all via context menu etc. would be very usefull (i.e. like it is possible in firefox) --[[User:flusi100|flusi100]] 08:00, 24 Feb 2008
* Would be nice to close the maps by using their tabs (context menu with "Close" when right-clicking on tab, or middle-click on tab).
** Agreed - this would be useful. --[[User:Kenrob|Kenrob]] 04:14, 5 Oct 2007 (PDT)
** ++ to that. Seemed unnatural not to have a context menu on the tabs.--[[User:Doubi|Doubi]] 23:08, 18 Apr 2009 (UTC)
* Now with tabs and Save All it would just be the next logical step that (as an option) all the tabs would open when FreeMind starts, that were open when FreeMind was closed.
*Switching tabs takes 15-20 seconds. Especially slow after FreeMind has been minimized and computer has been suspended/hibernated. Version 0.9.0 Beta 18. --[[User:Emkeyen|Emkeyen]]

==Move Back and Move Forward==
There are now Move Back and Move Forward buttons in the Toolbar (also available in the Navigate menu and by using Alt-Left and Alt-Right). FreeMind stores a chronology of the selected nodes. Using Back and Forward you can navigate back and forth to those nodes - even if they are in an other opened map. --[[User:Terkor|Terkor]] 19:31, 26 Aug 2007 (PDT)

'''User Feedback'''
* Very Helpful!
* Could there be a way to get back to the latest selection by one click.
* How about a popup list of the previous and next selected nodes (like in IE or FF)?
* Useful when navigating in large maps--[[User:Fb5|Fb5]] 02:13, 15 Nov 2007 (PST)

==Export Filters==
Open Office Export now for the ODT format.

Besides the two export filters for TaskJuggler there are three new filters for exporting:

* As Java Appelt
* As Flash
* As TWiki --[[User:Terkor|Terkor]] 19:06, 27 Aug 2007 (PDT)

=== User feedback ===
* Embedded links on images and then exported to flash do not work.
** [http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-781058038619276488&q=freemind+dennis Video of Bug]
* HTML links and then exported to flash do not work either. Please see:
** http://www.efectokiwano.net/mm/
--[[User:VincentD|VincentD]] 02:30, 9 Nov 2006 (PST)
* Export to Flash does not support Rich Formatted nodes.
* When a map that contains a hyperlink is exported to HTML there is obviously an error in that exported hyperlink. --[[User:Terkor|Terkor]] 20:34, 2 Sep 2007 (PDT)
* In exporting to Flash, I have to enter URLs as <nowiki>http:www.yahoo.com</nowiki>, instead of <nowiki>http://www.yahoo.com</nowiki>, for the link to work.
* I'm using 0.9.0 beta 19, when exporting to flash, http links fail. I've watched the video and visited efectokiwano, still not working. Does the exported html require a special server build to serve the content?

--[[User:Berti|Berti]] 12:04, 13 Feb 2008 (PST)
* I tried an export to txt tab separated this worked in 0.8 fine if I rename the .mm to xml and try to view it I get an error it seems the html tags are going to break it. I also tested the xsl form this side Tabulator separated text ? FreeMind
http://freemind.sourceforge.net/wiki/index.php/Import_and_export_to_other_applications

=== Wishes concerning Export Filters ===
--[[User:AlexandreDC|AlexandreDC]] 08:47, 13 Mar 2008 (CET)
* It would be useful to indicate some XSLT templates to produce HTML exports: we could thus choose whether and how to display attributes for example.

--[[User:DRBusch]]
* To me, the most useful application of freemind is organizing complex documents (e.g. a thesis or book). To this end, I've modified the [http://sites.google.com/site/freemind2beamer/ freemind2beamer] script into [http://student.physics.upenn.edu/~drbusch/mm2thesis.xsl mm2thesis]. Unfortunately, I can't seem to figure out how to parse in the xsl document such that I can (for example) put a hard line break into the text of a node and use the second line as a label. For example, node=abcd\\labelabcd would be translated into \section{abcd}\label{sec:labelabcd}. Any thoughts? I haven't dug into the java mm to beamer conversion yet.

=General Bugs=
* Generating Output for a printer is almost impossible. On Ubuntu 7.10 printing does not work (nothing happens), PDF export does not work (Error popup with no content), SVG export does not work (Error popup with no content), PNG export does not work (nothing happens), JPG export does not work (nothing happens), (Jave and Flash export thus is working, but it's not printable in a browser). So I am limited to screenshots which are unreadable in larger mind maps. Preview is ok, by the way, but I would need a feature to resize the whole map to paper size.
* If I close the calendar not with "cancel" but by just closing the calendar window, I can't reopen the calendar. I have to restart FM to be able to open the Time Management dialog again. --[[User:Terkor|Terkor]] 06:27, 15 Dec 2007 (PST)
* I updated to java runtime enviroment 1.6 and was not able to save any mindmap any longer. Message was "Map ist write protected" --[[User:bebach|bebach]] 13 Nov 2007
* Sometimes I use freemind just as a simple extended clipbord. In openoffce 2.0 writer I get the message, the clipbord format does not exist. In thunderbird I always have to paste without format to see anything. It is painful. It seems to me that I was not able to switch freemind to the plain text option. I am looking again the documentation. --[[User:bebach|bebach]] 8 Nov 2007
* Using the PDF export feature results in an error message "null compatible with Global antialiasing enable key". That was no problem in Version 0.8
* I can't save a new mind map under MS Vista. Modify and save of an existing mind map works.
* After pasting a node at a new position, keystrokes get stuck. The moviment is possible only changing the focus with mouse. After changing the focus, keystrokes (up,down,left,right) works normally.--[[User:Leslie|Leslie]] 05:16, 17 Apr 2007 (PDT)
* Ok, the new version is very nice... but there is still the Problem with printing. Sometimes the print is to small or to great or a part is cut off. Its difficult to configure the printer for good mindmap printings--[[User:Bkmzde|Bkmzde]] 00:31, 16 Feb 2007 (PST)
* Bug ? : MindManager Import doesn't include "Html Notes" hooked to the nodes. In 0.8, the note is "translate" in a text note.
* The context-menu that appears when you right-click while editing a node does not work. (It only contains "Copy" - which does not work.) Perhaps adding "Cut", "Paste", "Split" (at cursor-position), "Edit Long Node..." (with the editor remembering the cursor position and if some text is already marked). And perhaps some formating: "Bold", "Italic", "Font...", "Paragraph..."
* Display error: Zoom is now (Beta 14) working perfectly, as far as I can see. Good work! --[[User:Terkor|Terkor]] 14:41, 21 Oct 2007 (PDT)
** OK, there is a little bug: use Format > Bubble. You will see that on most zoom levels text in the bubble is not centered correctly. On both sides of the map text is placed too much on the left side. --[[User:Terkor|Terkor]] 11:33, 22 Nov 2007 (PST)
* Display error: Edges don't connect properly to the root. With widths 4 or 8 the effect is very obvious, and if "Bezier" is chosen). --[[User:Terkor|Terkor]] 07:51, 11 May 2008 (PDT)
[[Image:Root.jpg]]
* File Locking appears buggy: When you open a file with File Locking enabled in Preferences, the first open generates the error that 'file locking' failed. Subsequently, all attempts to open a file result in 'File is already being edited by (Username). Opening as Read-Only.' FreeMind does not appear to be willing to release this lock, except by turning off Experimental File Locking and turning it back on, so the entire feature appears to be broken. Specs: Windows XP SP2 machine, .mm file is on local drive which is also shared.--[[User:Perholm|Perholm]] 22:43, 13 Sep 2007 (PDT)
* Auto-Save Confirmed Buggy: '''I WOULD SUGGEST THAT THIS BUG IS AN EMERGENCY, AS DATA-LOSS CAN/WILL HAPPEN IF THE FEATURE IS RELIED UPON'''. Auto-Save at present does not work properly and should not be relied upon. Bug analysis: It appears that the timer used to control auto-save is only activated once at program launch, and when the auto-save interval has passed the timer does not reset for another auto-save interval, but instead NEVER generates an event again. Test: Set auto-save to 20000 milliseconds. Open an existing MindMap, and make a change within 20 seconds. If you check the .freemind directory, a single auto-save will be generated after 20 seconds, and no further auto-saves will EVER happen. If you again open a MindMap, and DO NOT make a change within 20 seconds, no auto-save will ever happen of any changes including the initial change. I would therefore conclude that the timer used for the auto-save interval is being programmed incorrectly, and does not launch another auto-save interval.--[[User:Perholm|Perholm]] 22:56, 13 Sep 2007 (PDT)
* The JRE 1.6 update 2 bug from javaw.exe on using the function of Open/Save File, it will waitting more than 30 sec per times, The JRE 1.5 update 11 will be better. --[[User:Josepchangtw|Josepchangtw]] 16:55, 15 Nov 2007 (PDT)
* Certain actions, foremost among them the ''paste'' action, cause FreeMind (or perhaps just the editing area) to lose focus somehow, so that no further keyboard input has any effect, until you click in the editing area to restore the focus. This severely detracts from the keyboard-only usability of FreeMind.
** Please describe how to reproduce and see this behavior [[User:DimitriPolivaev|DimitriPolivaev]] 14:40, 18 Oct 2007 (PDT)
** After pasting ''a node'' that has been copied from Freemind, the keyboard has absolutely no effect (really! I even tried mashing it randomly) until you click the mouse in the window, or switch to another window and then back, or do something else that focuses the Freemind window. Pasting text or anything else works just fine; only pasting a copied node (or nodes) causes the problem -- to put it as clearly as possible, the problem only occurs when pasting ''from Freemind to Freemind itself''. Also, I should mention that this is not a problem in 0.8, only in 0.9.
** I have a very similar problem, under Ubuntu 7.10. It happens that: 1. whenever I paste something, I lose the ability to use the keyboard (all shortcuts), editing, entering text. 2. I can get keyboard back by switching to another window or virtual desktop, but after I repeat this (paste something) the third time, I lose keyboard for good until I close and re-open Freemind; 3. mouse works and I can save my map. Please note that for me it happens both with 0.8 and 0.9 branches, when running 0.9.x both with jre 5 and 6. [[User:Zecg|Zecg]]
** Same here on openSuSE 10.3, x86_64. It's hard to reproduce when it happens but I also suddenly use the ability to use keyboard. I've found no way to get keyboard back except closing and re-opening Freemind. Mouse input still works. Appears to be introduced in the 0.9.x branch regardless whether I use jre 5 or 6. It's a show stopper. Is there a way to record all keyboard/mouse input to help to track this down ? --[[User:Steve|Steve]]
** The March 3 build seems to have fixed this bug. If others can confirm this, you can probably delete this thread.
** Not confirmed. The problem is still in Beta 16, just re-tested. A few times it happened after pressing INS, type in something, CR, CR, type in something, CR and cut the nodes again with CTRL-X, CTRL-X or a similar sequence. --[[User:Steve|Steve]]
* Node dragging problem: <br> When dragging the small circle in front of a node and moving the node vertically to raise the distance to the upper or lower node, this behavior in FreeMind seems to have changed. <br>In previous versions, the node could only be dragged to the right, up or down, but not more to the left towards the parent node. There was kind of an invisible vertical border. You could not drag the node beyond this border towards the parent node. This border was excellent to keep all child nodes aligned while changing the nodes' distance. <br>Now this doesn't work any more. In the current version, this border seems to be gone unfortunately. When I change the vertical distance of one node to another node, I cannot keep the moved node in it's horizontal position any more. <br> (By the way, pressing <CTRL>-left-mouse-button on a node's drag-handle also changes the distance between nodes, but this functionality is not compareable, because it changes the distance of <u>all</u> child nodes in this column, not only of the selected one.)
** Solution could be double-click on the small circle: it appears to work very well.--[[User:Luciodp|Luciodp]] 05:32, 7 May 2008 (PDT)
* Node dragging problem 2: <br> FM 0.9 B15. I created a map with FM 0.8, then switched to 0.9. If I copy the contents of a MSWord table into a node, MM gets it formatted with HTML and displays the table perfectly. The problem arises when I move the node to another branch of the tree. The html content gets converted to ascii (e.g. <html> becomes &lt;html&gt;) and thus all the formatting is lost. --[[User:ScavType|ScavType]] 14:09, 04 Jan 2008 (PDT)
* Print Preview shows wrong view after selecting Fit to one page. Steps: create map that's more than one page wide with default page setup options. Edit page options to fit to one page. Choose Print Preview. Expect it to show one page. Instead, it showed the first page of two pages as if ignoring the "fit to one page" option. After clicking next page button, print preview then realized it should zoom to fit to one page. --[[User:JimK|JimK]]
* Hover text for Print icon on toolbar says "Print..." implying that a dialog box will open but instead it just starts a print job. Text should say "Print" or it should open dialog box. --[[User:JimK|JimK]]
* Opened a mind map created in 0.8.7. Looks good except that beta 17 put a cloud around the entire map---i.e., main node---that I can't remove, and all the child nodes on the right of the main node have been moved down far enough to be offscreen when view is centered on the main node. (One branch on the left side is fully expanded to four levels, so maybe that had something to do with it, but folding it back up makes no difference.) Tried to toggle off the cloud using the Insert main menu, the Insert shortcut menu, and with shift+ctl+b combo... no luck. This is my first try with 0.9 b17; and already I can't use it for existing maps. --[[User:foxcole|foxcole]] 13 May 2008 UPDATE: Ah... in beta 17 I can't add a cloud to the main node either, so that seems to be a property that's not natively available at the main level. I've no idea what's putting it there in the first place but now understand why I can't remove it.
* Open a mind map that saved on a network share with windows version of freemind, doesn't work. I got the following failure: An error occoured on opening the file: MindMap:\\mondsee\homes\ko\Eigene Dateien\Brainstorming\FTM\WLT-Event.mm. It's only while opening a file on a network-share - at my local desktop it works! --[[User:Osthoffinnovations|Osthoffinnovations]] 09:12, 30 May 2008 (PDT)
** The space in the path name "..\Eigene Dateien\.." plus double back slash "\\" causes this bug.
As a quick fix add to FreeMind.java on line 517 (after “// bug fix by Dan:”)
if (System.getProperty("os.name").startsWith("Windows XP") && url.toString().startsWith("file:////"))
command = "rundll32 shell32.dll,ShellExec_RunDLL \"" + url.toString().replaceAll("%20"," ").replaceAll("%25","%")+"\"";
* If I put a graphics in a node and use the HTML editor to try to scale it down .... "size=50%" or "width=120px" ... that has no effect. [[User:Anton|Anton]]
* Freemind uses .mm as its file extension, but on Ubuntu (and probably other Linux distributions), this is the same as "Troff MM input document," so the file manager misidentifies all Freemind maps as Troff documents. Perhaps use .mim (MInd Map) or .fmm (FreeMindMap) or something else as the extension?
* On 0.9.0 beta 20: If you select "save" for an unsaved document, but you cancel the action, a message box appears saying "Saving Failed", but it's just a cancel. [[User:snookiex|snookiex]] 11:35, 27 Oct 2008 (GMT-5)
* 0.9.0 beta 20: Create child node using keyboard shortcut (eg. Insert) then press same kb shortcut (or if you have a second keystroke generated thru keystroke bounce) the second child-child node is created as closed node, ie not ready for keystroke entry. Basically pressing the "create child node" should not create a new node if the same keystroke is seen before the node has been "closed". (0.9.0 beta 15 did not display this behaviour - not tested intermediate versions yet)
* 0.9.0 beta 20: Note icon sometimes disappears and hint fails to display. Moving node causes note icon to display and hint to become active again.

=General Comments=
* Feature disable request: Would be great to disable scroll with touch pad as on my MacBook Pro if I accidentally touch the touch pad it starts scrolling very slowely and freezes all functions until it has stopped.
* Feature request: Would be nice to have a Latex export for the mindmap. This especially helps structuring a bigger report without having to type everything in latex again. Nice would be if you could say till which level you want to have headlines (after that just enumerations / lists).
* Feature request: I'm thinking to add a "Rotate" node function. When a node is selected followed by a "Rotate" feature, the selected node and its child nodes will be rotated by 90 degree. This will form a flow chart. Thus, we can used FreeMind to build flow chart easily using its friendly interface.
* Feature request: Add a number "0" icon. The addition of numbers "8" and "9" in .9.0 Beta 18 are great, but "0" is all that's left to complete the set. This will allow users to use these icons in many ways other than just setting priority. For example, when using Freemind to take notes, if you have more than 9 items which would benefit from a graphical numerical identification, double (or more) digits could be used with great benefit. I may even suggest that a black icon with white text be used—black being a conceptually appropriate color for the number "0".
* Feature request: Add the possibility to add a description to a graphical link, or even attributes (would be perfect). I use Freemind to create Moore and Mealy state machines in XML. So adding a text or attributes to a graphical link would be a milestone to reduce the complexity of the drawings.
* Feature request: When you move mouse over a node text is displayed in popup cloud, but it dissapears after few seconds. I would like for it to stay. Also, It would be great to be able to focus that popup and edit (ok that's a hard one, but at least copy) the contest there right away. --[[User:Kova|Kova]] 06:49, 19 Jan 2008 (PST)
* Feature request: I would like an option for text view (bottom) and tree view (top) to show (expand) when you move mouse over them. Right now I have tree view maximized when I'm editing the tree, but when I want to write something in the nodes or have a look what is written I have to go down, resize the text view, write text / view the text and resize again. It would be great if it resizes to half for example if I just move my mouse down to bottom where text area is. In short, I need quickly switch between node edit (text) and tree edit (graphics). --[[User:Kova|Kova]] 06:49, 19 Jan 2008 (PST)
* How about a forum for this stuff? Wiki is great for a single document, but not for discussion or suggestions like this. --[[User:Kova|Kova]] 06:49, 19 Jan 2008 (PST)
* In the German translation the use of capitals is just a mess. (Sorry!) For example "Speichern Unter..." Why a capital "U"? --[[User:Terkor|Terkor]] 06:58, 15 Dec 2007 (PST)
* Since some changes in the properties of FM need a restart of the program in order to be seen, there should be a restart option after you changed settings or in the file-menu. --[[User:Terkor|Terkor]] 02:18, 19 Nov 2007 (PST)
* any idea how I can print or give out a mindmap WITH the notes I made to the nodes? I think I tried all export possibilities but could not find a way. --[[User:bebach|bebach]] 17 Nov 2007
* Since I communicate with others using html exports or java/ flash exports, I uploaded to the web, it would be wounderful to have an internal ftp client in freemind and have an export option "upload by FTP". --[[User:bebach|bebach]] 8 Nov 2007
* Missing Export feature: I love the XHTML-Export with includes Image of the mindmap. For many reasons it would be much more comfortable to have just the images with an imagemap, for example a link collection. It will save user one very painful klick an the looking for the right section in the html export. HTML-Export as an image map would be much better for some users since the are not used to the also very nice flash or java web exports. They are very good for experienced users. --[[User:bebach|bebach]] 8 Nov 2007
* Moving a branch from one side of the root to the other - the text and child branches should "flip" to enable this
** Um, they do! Drag the node onto the root node and drop when you can see the gradient appear - then you'll mirror the structure. Otherwise you're just repositioning the node. --[[User:Kenrob|Kenrob]] 04:34, 5 Oct 2007 (PDT)
* I believe the Calendar / Scheduler feature can offer great benefits if improved. I suggest a pop up will should come up when the reminder time arrives. Similar to MS Outlook, you should have options of delaying the reminder or canceling it. --[[User:Felipe|Felipe]] 13:33, 1 May 2007 (PDT)
* I love freemind and work with it a lot some hours a day! I am looking forward to the new version and I start testing from v0.9 beta 12 --[[User:bebach|bebach]] 24 Aug 2007
* Feature Request: Database views are a powerful feature. I wish something like this for freemind. The idea is to store all the data in some ordinary mindmaps whithout redundancy, and on the other side work on them with the help of several '''virtual mindmaps''', like views in database systems. The intention is to benefit from all the advantages of database views in freemind with a similar feature. To build the freemind views could xquery be used.--[[User:maxreeb|maxreeb]] 6 Sep 2007
* Feature Request: Lose Nodes. While FreeMind works great for information that is already relatively structured in your mind, it is VERY difficult to use when your information is very disorganised, like any kind of stream-of-consciousness type note-taking. In that scenario, the fact that FreeMind forces you with an iron hand to structure information before you're allowed to move on to the next idea, forces you to completely stop the creative process maybe 10 times a minute, which is why I tend to AVOID FreeMind and favor even just WordPad any time I'm creative, because FreeMind works against me by forcing me to be so structure right off the bat that it grinds the creative process to a halt. I truly feel that you need the ability to have what I would term 'Lose Nodes', which is notes that are simply floating on the page and detached from the tree. Of course the goal is to get them attached to the tree in an orderly fashion, but for the sake of picking your own brain, you actually need the ability to simply drop them on the page, and then drag-drop organize them later by binding them together into a tree. You would do the exact same on a physical desktop -- you would cut out little pieces of paper, which would initially just be floating around on the table, until they slowly become organized into a tree. The fact that people have done this for hundreds years, I think proves that this is a natural and intuitive workflow, one that FreeMind easily both could and should support. By the same token, if you realize that a tree is poorly structured, you would want to take it apart and re-assemble it in a new way. As part of that process, maybe 20 or 40 nodes would be temporarily lose, and a 'Lose Nodes' feature would allow you to simply drag the nodes lose from the tree, drop them in the white space, and then later attach them somewhere else. I think this would be extremely intuitive. And very lastly, in this mindset of being able to do in FreeMind what you are thinking, I think you need to support more than one root. Although the GOAL is of course a neatly structured tree with a single root, you again don't necessarily arrive there through clean path -- no, the path is messy and disorganized, and then order forms slowly. I feel I would be able to structure large and experimental concepts much more easily if you supported Lose Nodes and multiple roots. With multiple roots, you would be able to detach section of the tree into a new tree, work on them concurrently, until you realize that they're part of the same concept, and glue the trees back together. These two features together are what is preventing me from being truly productive with FreeMind from a discovery perspective. I have no doubt that FreeMind works like a charm for information that is already relatively organized, but for discovering new and original concepts, FreeMind forces a structure on the information that is not mature for. Rather, FreeMind helps your produce a graph of the end result, but doesn't fully help you get there. --[[User:Perholm|Perholm]] 16:23, 12 Sep 2007 (PDT)
** "Lose Nodes" or "Unattached Nodes" or "Additional Roots" are available in [http://www.mindjet.com/ MindJet's] Mindmap. They are a class of "floating" objects that include labels and graphics. I recall the implementation of this came in on of the service packs for X5. [http://www.mindjet.com/resources/tutorials/mindmanagerx5/default.aspx X5] also added things like callouts, markers, map parts, and storing the map as XML. Once again I would recommend looking at Mindjet's MindMap and if you are a Windows users trying the 30-day evaluation to get a feel for what is possible in both capabilities and interface. --[[User:Anton|Anton]] 18:05, 20 Jul 2008 (PDT)

** Understood the issue. What I do is setting "disable key type" off, and "key type adds new" on. So each time I am hitting "return" key and starting to type again, it is a new node automatically created. In fact it works then like "wordPad", a node being equivalent to a line. To keep my map "clean" all those new nodes are created under a node "to be cleaned" or even a new map. Then I do the assembling by moving nodes with the mouse, and this is all the power of freemind. Faster to reorganise information than any other tool I have ever tried. I like your expression "kind of stream-of-consciousness type note-taking". This is exactly my use (several hours/day for years) of Freemind which is my main/only data entry software, and it is the best tool I know for this. --[[User:Fb5|Fb5]] 03:57, 23 Oct 2007 (PDT)
** About the multi root discussion. The same result could be attained easily now with the tabbed windows. For large maps already difficult to see, multiroots would make them really messy. An improvement for your concern could be to have an option to view tabbed windows "side by side" ("arrange all" in Word from Windows).--[[User:Fb5|Fb5]] 04:15, 23 Oct 2007 (PDT)
* Feature Request: Rearranging Nodes. I'm wondering why, when you're rearranging the order of nodes on the same hierarchical level, why you're only allowed to move a node *before* another node by dropping things in the top half of the destination node. All the time, I need to move a node so it comes *after* another node, but you can't simply drop the node in the bottom half of the destination node to move it to come *after*. And by the same token, there's NO way to move a node to be the last one without dropping it in the right-side of the *parent* node. This is frustrating, really frustrating, and there's no real logic to it... who made the decision that you can only move nodes *before* other nodes, but not *after*? Why did you decide to make it like this and not the other way around. And why is the only way you can get a node to the bottom of a list, to drag and drop onto the right side of the *parent* node. I run into this probably 20 or 30 times an hour, and the current design seems arbitrarily selected. You should be able to move nodes both *before* and *after* each other by dragging and dropping them into the top or bottom half of the destination node. I feel that nothing else is consistent and makes sense. Sorry for my rant, I just feel that there are some things that don't follow GUI 101. --[[User:Perholm|Perholm]] 14:00, 13 Sep 2007 (PDT)
** A simple workaround is to drag to the ''second-last'' position, i.e. the top ½ of the lowest node. When you have everything else repositioned, drag the lowest node to it rightful place. --[[User:Kenrob|Kenrob]] 04:25, 5 Oct 2007 (PDT)
*** I think this is unacceptable as a solution. Workaround, yes. Solution, no. --[[User:Perholm|Perholm]] 14:12, 10 Oct 2007 (PDT)
* Feature Request: Copy/Paste Paragraphs. I'm an author trying to use FreeMind to structure a large literary project, and it would be incredibly helpful if FreeMind had the following functionality: If you grab some text from Word (which might consist of for example 10 paragraphs), it would be incredibly helpful to get each of these paragraphs as individual child-nodes. The reason is that we're using FreeMind to organize a book-type project, of which some has already been written, and we need to get each paragraph of a chapter into a separate child-node in FreeMind so we can rearrange the blocks the FreeMind way, which by the way works fantastically. But at the moment, we can't find any other way than to copy/paste each single (friggin) paragraph individually. And the same goes for when you're trying to get something back into Word; it would be great to be able to simply select a branch, and get it copy/pasted into word as a simple top-to-bottom text copy where each child-node is an individual paragraph. That way you can use FreeMind to organize a literary project, knowing that the project ultimately has to end up in Word, but FreeMind is far superior for organizing and structuring the information. Perhaps consider a 'Paste Menu' like Word has, which asks you how exactly you want to paste, i.e. 'Keep Formatting' or 'Text Only' -- a similar menu in FreeMind could ask if you want to turn individual paragraphs into nodes, or if you want to paste the whole text as a single node. This would be REALLY helpful to organize literary projects. This would also allow you to much more easily use FreeMind to edit something that is initially written as stream-of-consciousness, i.e. any brainstorm. Such a brainstorm would likely simply consist of lines upon lines (or paragraphs upon paragraphs) of disorganized ideas written into Word or a text-editor. When you bring this into FreeMind, you ought to be able to turn each 'idea' (i.e. Paragraph) into a separate node. Right now, I can find no other way than to copy/paste each line individually, which is enormously labor-intensive. UPDATE: OK, FreeMind already has this feature, but it doesn't always work, because if you're pasting from Word, the text coming in is interpreted as Rich Text, and put into a single child node. If you want the behavior I describe, you have to first copy the text in Word, paste the text into Notepad (not Wordpad), copy it from Notepad, and paste it into FreeMind. I think there should be the ability to interpret text coming from Word as 'text-only' and not automatically bring in the formatting. In the case of a literary project, the formatting is only interesting in Word... in FreeMind you only want to edit the text, the formatting is irrelevant in a FreeMind context.--[[User:Perholm|Perholm]] 23:11, 13 Sep 2007 (PDT)
** '''You can use Edit->Split Node after inserting a formatted paragraph into the node. It splits the node in single paragraphs.''' [[User:DimitriPolivaev|DimitriPolivaev]] 14:19, 17 Sep 2007 (PDT)
** Using the Edit->Split Node is very time consuming for a large number of branches. <s>Why can't we retain the behaviour of Freemind 0.8.0? It seems that a tool to organise thoughts should work at the lowest level of granularity not create huge "blobs" of text. When I reorganise my ideas by pasting paragraphs from a document in 0.8.0, each paragraph in the document beocomes a separate branch. I can then drag and drop branches to reorganise my ideas. This issue is so important to me that it will be a show-stopper for 0.9.0 as far as I am concerned!</s> --[[User:Phil31753|Phil31753]] 07:35, 9 Apr 2009 (UTC) Tool->Split Node achieves what I (and others in this section) require.--[[User:Phil31753|Phil31753]] 10:05, 9 Apr 2009 (UTC)
** That's interesting discussion. When I copy from word to freemind, each paragraph is copied as an individual node and that is what I expect and what You would like. Maybe your freemind settings are different than mine ?--[[User:Fb5|Fb5]] 04:05, 23 Oct 2007 (PDT)
** It is now I met the issue You described Perholm. This is when copying form WEB BROWSER to FREEMIND. The copy keeps the html formating and keeps it in one node. This is a real annoyance for me too and that would stop me to move from 0.8 Version. Is it possible to have a "Paste Special" or '''"Paste as text"''' menu which also split paragraph as nodes, please Dimitri ? One advantage of the html copy would be for tables, which doesn't work in 0.8. Thank You. Franck --[[User:Fb5|Fb5]] 03:46, 6 Dec 2007 (PST)
* SIMPLICITY , SPEED and RELIABILITY : Those must be the main strengths of Freemind. I am using Freemind as my main computer interface for data entry for three years, ending with large maps (several 10s of thousands nodes). I have tried many other softwares and my conclusion, there is simply no equivalence on the market. It would be a shame to slow the program or the user-interface because adding new features. So, my expectation is to have user-options for enabling or not those features (attributes and Wysiwig). Thank You so much for the great work. Franck --[[User:Fb5|Fb5]] 20:03, 2 Oct 2007 (PDT)
** I want to second that: my maps are not nearly as big as Franck's but for me simplicity and reliability (as already provided by 0.8.0) are most important, too. Please try to keep focus on the simple things instead of adding too many features.--[[User:Christofb|Christofb]] 12:27, 30 Oct 2007 (PDT)
** Absolutely right. It is wonderful that new features are being added, but it is ESSENTIAL that Freemind is able to run QUICKLY on any computer, or it won't be useful. --[[User:Loydog|Loydog]] 2:44, 8 Nov 2007 (PDT)
** I absolutely agree to that. I'm a freemind user for years now and though I'm looking forward to see new features in freemind I always loved the fast and easy way to create maps on every occasion. So maybe if there are resource consuming new features they could be inserted as plugins or sth. like that so users are able to decide wether they will activate a feature or not--lpdubel 02:06, 14 Nov 2007 (PST)
* Attachments (Multiple): It is necessary to be able to add multiple attachments to a single node. For example, one node may have an attached pdf doc, word doc, excel sheet, and other mindmap. [[User:kberardinelli|kberardinelli]] 09:17, 26 Oct 2007 (EDT)
** What I do is to create subnodes (even without any text) and assign an attachement to each of them. --[[User:Fb5|Fb5]] 02:26, 15 Nov 2007 (PST)
* Attachments (Deletion): Currently, there seems to be no way to delete an attachment. This needs to be very easy to do (perhaps by right-clicking and selecting 'Delete Attachment'. [[User:kberardinelli|kberardinelli]] 09:17, 26 Oct 2007 (EDT)
* Feature Request: Especially when using freemind on a beamer I would like to have a fullscreen mode ie without window decorations etc. Just the canvas, even without menu bar or status bar. -- [[User:barney|barney]] 13:52, 29 Oct 2007 (MEZ)
** I would love to see that too. Think about using it in a classroom for a brainstorming on the beamer. --[[User:Christofb|Christofb]] 12:27, 30 Oct 2007 (PDT)
** Agree, for uncluttering and focusing on one task. -- [[User:Vibrog|Vibrog]] 10:43, 17 Nov 2008 (UTC)
** Agree with you at all! I would like to use freemind for presentation on technical presentation. --[[User:Dinny|dinny]]
* Feedback: In Beta 13 (the one before 14), I could remove the note area from the view and use ctrl-< to activate the note area, make it visible again, and type ahead. This still works in Beta 14. When done, I could use ctrl-< again to focus the mind map node again and the note area vanishes again. In Beta 14 the note area stays visible and I need to ctrl-<, ctrl-> to move out and hide the area. The behaviour in Beta 13 was much easier to work with. -- [[User:barney|barney]] 13:52, 29 Oct 2007 (MEZ)
* Feature request: IMO it would be very useful to be able to add some metadata to a freemind map as a whole like titel, description, author, keywords --lpdubel 02:06, 14 Nov 2007 (PST)

* Feature request: I would like very much to have a better method for transclusion. Compendium allows reuse of nodes across multiple views (whether maps or lists) and automatically handles updates from any instance to all appearances across a range of maps. Compendium even places a subscript counting the number of transclusions for a node! Can one hack this up through per node addressing in FreeMind? Would that handle automatic updates? I suspect a database back-end for nodes makes more sense. I want to construct constructing Maps through addition across a collection of nodes (again, like Compendium) instead of filtering maps by subtraction across a single map's nodes. As a first approximation to this, I'd like to save Filters independently of maps. --[[User:Jay Dugger|Jay_Dugger]], 2217 Sunday, 2 December 2007

*Feature request: Ship it! (sorry, but it would be nice to have a released version that works with the lattest java version), and well, it's been 2 and a half years... [[User:Tomh|Tomh]] 05:09, 10 Jan 2008 (PST)

*Feature request: I really miss a strike-through along bold and italic, with a keyboard shortcut. Cheers.

* Feature request: Nothing big, I just wanted to ask weather its possible to bind the structure to too points again (left right) from the rootnode like it was it 0.8 and that change this when you want. Because its much esear to start a structured mindmap using only the keys... Also I liked to have two sides to divide the thoughts when speaking about pro and contra. It Would be Great if it was possible to ad this as an Option to the root-point. (Inculding the move navigation with strg that could move one node all around the root) Thank you! --[[User:X-Site|X-Site]] 16:29, 9 Mar 2008 (PDT)

* Feature lost? In 8.0 version when you copy nodes and paste in MSWord you immediately create a "structure", that is a hyerarchic level: very useful if you want to adjust titles or paragraphs in preliminary notes, or import them in Power Point slides etc. I'm a teacher and use Freemind with students for brainstorming, organize ideas and create texts or presentations from preliminary notes. Now in 9.0 version this feature seems to be lost. Why? Do tou know any solution? Many thanks for your work.--[[User:Luciodp|Luciodp]] 05:24, 7 May 2008 (PDT)

* Try Tools->Split Node --[[User:Phil31753|Phil31753]] 10:05, 9 Apr 2009 (UTC)

*Feature request: I would like to be able to apply a cloud to a parent node but not necessarily its children; or maybe to only some selected children... similar to how a network or gateway is depicted in a flowchart. [[User:foxcole|foxcole]] 13 May 2008 UPDATE: Perhaps a more accurate request is to be able to choose from a limited set basic shapes to apply to a node or set of siblings but not children.

* When I export my map to a text based format (i. e. HTML), FM starts with the right side and then continues the left side. For me it is not intuitive I start my maps on the left side - as I would read a newspaper or magazine. I guess it is not difficult to allow the user to choose if FM should start with the left or the right side. --[[User:Terkor|Terkor]] 16:28, 13 May 2008 (PDT)

* Feedback: Thanks for all your hard work, absolutely amazing product. --[[User:RazielJaTier|RazielJaTier]] 15:23, 20 May 2008 (PDT)

* Changed Functionality: In 0.8 I could hover over a node to select it, hold down ctrl, which would effectively prevent other nodes from being selected. Then move my mouse all the way across the map (again without worry about another node being selected), then click on an icon *with the ctrl key held down*. The icon would be assigned. In 0.9 you have to release ctrl before you click the icon, otherwise it will simply ignore it. This is a simple little detail, and I'm sure I'll get used to it, but if it's not difficult, and you don't have other plans for ctrl clicking icons, I'd love the 0.8 behavior back. --[[User:RazielJaTier|RazielJaTier]] 15:23, 20 May 2008 (PDT)

* Suggestion: Create localized version of linked data. When you use alt+L to create a link to another part of the map, it would be nice if you had an option to actually create "ghost" versions of that data instead of having to click in the link. If you edited the ghost version, or the original, they would stay in sync. --[[User:RazielJaTier|RazielJaTier]] 15:23, 20 May 2008 (PDT)

* Suggestion: It would be neat to be able to with single click generate the framework of a thinking tool. When I say thinking tool I am thinking mostly of the thinking tools created by Edward de Bono such as his Six Hats, CoRT and many others. See http://www.edwdebono.com/ and http://www.edwarddebono.com/ for more info. An example would be right clinking on "Six Hats" and from your current node it would create six child nodes: White Hat, Red Hat, Yellow Hat, Black Hat, Green Hat and Blue Hat. For each of these child nodes an empty blank node would be created as well. Lastly your cursor would move to the blank node under White Hat and then you can start typing. Such functionality might be created with Groovy script but most would not want the difficulty of programming Groovy script. It is also possible to cut and paste a section of a mind map but that is more cumbersome than a single click. --[[User:Mars729|Mars729]] 17:59, 31 May 2008 (EDT)
** A library of templates would be a great contribution. --[[User:Anton|Anton]] 17:52, 20 Jul 2008 (PDT)

* Suggestion: When working with images it would be nice to be able to paste or drop an image to a node. --[[User:trinxie|trinxie]]

* Suggestion: When adding an image link, if it is a file, should it be possible to store the relative path? Would be great if the whole model is distributed to someone else. Maybe this possibility already exists. --[[User:trinxie|trinxie]]

* If I install Freemind using aptitude in Ubuntu 8.10, I have the /usr/share/pixmaps/FreeMindWindowIcon.xpm to use in my panel, but as the available version in Ubuntu is 0.7.1 and I have some MMs created with later versions, I decided to try the 0.9 RC1, and downloaded it (freemind-bin-max-0.9.0_RC_1.zip). For my surprise, there is no icon to use in this zip. Please include one, or maybe more than one (see http://www.menyhart.net/blog/software/freemind-icon/). --[[User:Itamar|Itamar]] 12:33, 9 Feb 2009 (UTC)

* '''''Observation:''''' Many of these suggestions and feature requests are or are similar to ones that exist in [http://www.mindjet.com/ Mindjet's] MindMap. It used to be that this leader had a great advantage in that it supported scripts. Now that FreeMind has Groovy it is catching up. All we need is the library of neat applications that use the scripting language''!'' I was a keen user of MM2002 and looked forward to MM-X5 and its shift to XML, but the real shift was for the benefit of people ho were programmers, not the baseline users. Unless you were a EmbeddedVisualBasic programmer the change was a setback. The library of HTML export templates was lost - Mindjet's response was "its all XML so you can write your own XSLT. Well some of us can't or don't have the time. The other killer for me was that Mindjet tied in too closely with Microsoft Office. It couldn't export to anything else. So in reality one had to spend hundred of dollars more for each upgrade of MindMap since it always needed the latest version of Office. ''However'' I would recommend looking at Mindjet's MindMap and if you are a Windows users trying the 30-day evaluation to get a feel for what is possible in both capabilities and interface. --[[User:Anton|Anton]] 17:52, 20 Jul 2008 (PDT)

* When you enter note-data for quite a number of nodes the map is so full with the note-icon. I would appreciate an option in the preferences as for the attribute icon, that disables showing an icon. (Tools>Preferences>Appearance>Show icon for attributes) --[[User:Kai|Kai]] 21:59, 20 Mar 2009 (CET)

* Feature request: automatically calculating the print zoom factor according to a user-defined number of mosaiced printed pages. E.g., user should be able to specify he wants the map printed on N x M pages (M pages across and N pages high) and the print zoom factor should be calculated automatically. That would reduce the need to compute the best print zoom factor by trial-and-error. --[[User:Arg0|arg0]] 09:29, 24 Apr 2009 (UTC)

* Feature request: settings for customising arrow links (e.g., ability to specify that links start from the root part of a node rather than from the leaf part). Moreover, it can be really tricky to rearrange the shape of an arrow link, especially short ones, since all parameters (starting point, tangency) are changed simultaneously when dragging a link point. Fine editing should be implemented. --[[User:Arg0|arg0]] 09:29, 24 Apr 2009 (UTC)

* GENERAL OPEN SOURCE FEEDBACK LOOPS WITH FREEMIND, would it not be helpful if feedback loops were integrated into the beta versions, so that one can write requests for enhancements as one is using Freemind or other open source proejcts. For example, for each function there could be a questionnaire and comment box next to it. This info could then be uploaded to a wiki. It may help organize the locations of info and spur more user involvement in the feedback process. Could it also be possible that the uses of the porgramme are logged and statistically analyzed by the developers?

FreeMind 0.9.0: The New Features

2009-06-19T12:10:53Z

MikeS: /* User Feedback */

A great release is to come. We have many exciting new features: WYSIWYG-Editing for nodes and notes, scripting, filter, attributes and many more.

But all these new features still need a lot of testing and documentation. To start this, please have a look at the newest version [http://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=7118&package_id=188772 here] and [http://sourceforge.net/forum/forum.php?thread_id=1592095&forum_id=22101 tell us your opinions].

Use this wiki page for documenting the new features.

But: Don't use this version for productive maps. It is not stable enough!
* Further warning: If you create a map with Attributes, it will open as a "New Map" with no data in version 0.8. Your data is not lost, just not readable by 0.8.
* You can try to convert the 0.9.0 - saved map back to 0.8.0 by following steps

# Make the backup copy of the map
# Open it with the 0.9.0 again
# Select all nodes
# Format-> use plain text
# Save
# Open the mind map file in text editor
# Remove all lines starting with <attribute_registry> and ending with <attribute_registry/>
# Save the file and try to open it in 0.8.0

If it does not help you should use the 0.9.0.

= Attributes =
''FIXME: An introduction should be given here explaining what attributes are and what they are good for. Why should the user learn how to fiddle around with attributes if he does not know what they are?''

Attributes provide different perspectives for ordering/viewing your MindMap. Attributes are tuple name/value pairs that are globally available i.e. can be tagged to any node and assigned specific values. For example, you can create shopping lists, add notional weightings, performance metrics, etc. The real power of attribute comes from writing Groovy scripts that can operate on attribute value or change the behavior of a node. For example, you can summarize the info contained within several nodes for a total cost. Attributes are complemented by Filters.

Real world example: I use Attributes and Filters after taking staff meeting notes. Immediately after a meeting, I assign attributes to nodes as applicable: Attribute 1 is "Name", values are the names of my staff; Attribute 2 is "Priority", values are numbers 1-5. The "Assign Attributes..." dialogue allows me to select all comments from a certain staff member and then assign their name to those nodes at once. If there is an action required, I might assign a priority. Filters allow me to quickly see only nodes from a certain staff member, or specific priority levels, or any combination. --[[User:Dnbarg|Dnbarg]] 20:21, 22 Oct 2007 (PDT)

== Quick Attribute creation ==
* Select node.
* Edit Attribute: Alt-F9 or, Rt-click>Edit attributes.
* Type in an Attribute name.
* Then add a value if desired.
* Edit with the Attribute Manager later if necessary.
== Using Attribute Manager ==
* Open the attribute manager with attribute icon on toolbar or, Tools>Attribute Manager.
----

=== Working with Attributes ===
* Click the "Edit" button in the "All Attributes" row
* Select attribute names from existing names to Rename/Delete in popup dialog
* Enter new attribute name to Add in popup dialog
* Press "Close" to close the dialog after all changes are done

==== Create Attribute ====
* Type in your Attribute name, then press add
* Repeat to add multiple attributes
==== Create Attribute values====
* type the value, then press "Add"
* It's a good idea to add a blank value to the list. It helps when assigning attributes later
Every Attribute can have multiple values
* eg. I use an Attribute called "Staff" and the values are the staff person's name
* eg. I use an Attribute called "Priority" and the values are #'s 1 to 5

==== Delete Attribute ====
* Select the menu option Tools/Attribute Manager, to open the panel Attribute Manager.
* In the line "All Attributes" of this panel, click on the icon in the last column (Edit). This opens a new panel "All Attributes".
* In this panel, select the attribute name, then press "Delete".

==== Delete Attribute values ====
* Select the value, then press "Delete"
* All attributes with the deleted value are removed from the whole map

All attributes with the deleted name and/or value are removed from the whole map

==== Rename Attribute ====
* Select the attribute name to be renamed, type the new name, then press "Rename"
* All attributes with the renamed value are adjusted

==== Rename Attribute values ====
* Select the value to be renamed, type the new value, then press "Rename"
* All attributes with the renamed value are adjusted

=== Working with Attribute values (in Attribute Mgr) ===
* After adding Attributes, you should see them listed under the "Attributes" column heading
* Click on the "Edit" button in the row of your new Attribute and add the values
* Edit attribute values in popup dialog
* Press "Close" to close the dialog after all changes are done

== Assign Attributes to nodes ==
assigning only a few nodes
* Choose the node, press Alt-F9 or, Rt-Click the node and choose "Edit Attributes"
* To add more attribute per node, use TAB key (if View>Attributes>Show all attributes is selected), or use the following.
* got to: Tools>"Assign attributes..."
* choose "Selected Nodes" or "Visible Nodes"
* from the drop down list, choose the Attribute you want to assign. (Here it helps when there's a blank value. You can assign an Attribute to all nodes needing it, and then set the value later, on a node by node basis)
* press the "Add" button to assign the Attribute to the node/s
* add more than one attribute to a node if necessary
* delete attributes from multiple nodes with this dialog

== Viewing/Hiding Attributes ==
to see an icon on nodes with attributes
* Tools>Preferences>Appearance>Show icon for attributes
show all attributes
* Alt-s or, View>Attributes>Show all attributes
show no attributes
* Alt-h or, View>Attributes>Show no attributes
show selected attributes
* in the Attribute Manager, select desired Attributes in the "Selected Visible" column
* then, View>Attributes>Show selected Attributes
optimize the width of the Attribute/value table
* Rt-click on the Attribute and choose optimal width

== User feedback ==
=== Bugs concerning attributes ===
* Better sorting of the options: Add Attribute > Delete this Attribute > Delete all Attributes. Numerous times I accidentally clicked on the middle button which is now (beta20) "Alle Werte löschen" when I intended to only "Diesen Wert löschen", because it is on the same line where I specify the criteria, which attribute value pair I try to delete [[User:JR|JR]] 13:16, 8 Oct 2008 (UTC)
* The key bindings alt-s and alt-h do not work as expected for showing or hiding attributes.--[[User:Yubrshen|yushen]] 02:23, 25 Nov 2006 (PST)
* When Attributes are visible, scrolling with mouse wheel stops when cursor is over the attribute of a node. --[[User:Terkor|Terkor]] 20:11, 27 Aug 2007 (PDT)
* If I set attributes, I can't export the map in PDF. It's ok in flash, png, xhtml, jpeg. Beta 17 on Ubuntu 8.04 - Sun Java -- freemind@smci.ch 2008-05-23
* If I add a blank character such as space after an attribute name, it is not considered as the same attribute (no trim) --[[User:Patco|Patco]] 19:27, 19 Jun 2008 (PDT)
* If you create attributes for the first time, but not assign them to a node, they won't be saved in your document --[[User:kvantomme|kvantomme]] 17:15, 3 Dec 2008 (GMT+1)
* Selecting an attribute with the arrow keys (from the dropdown) and then pressing tab makes the attributes box disappear.--[[User:Kartunes|kar]] 18:19, 12 Mar 2009 (UTC)

=== Bugs or features? (questions about attributes to the developers) ===

* The context menu key on the keyboard doesn't open the context-menu. --[[User:Jan|Jan]] 01:07, 4 Jul 2008 (PDT)

* When changing the font-size of a node by keyboard-shortcut (ctrl+"+" / crtl+"-") the fontsize-combobox of the toolbar isn't refreshing. --[[User:Jan|Jan]] 01:00, 4 Jul 2008 (PDT)

* When adding an attribute to a node which already has the attribute, the attribute will be shown as many times as added. However, when deleting the attribute from node, all instances of the attribute would be deleted.--[[User:Yubrshen|yushen]] 02:23, 25 Nov 2006 (PST)
:* In version 0.9.0b13, the bug is corrected (i.e. deleting one attribute does not delete all other attributes with the same name). So, the possibility to have several attributes with the same name but different values ought probably to be considered as a feature, not a bug ? For example the attribute "child" could have the values "Peter" and "Mary" attached to a given node "Paul and Jane" to include in the map the information that Paul and Jane have at least 2 children named Peter and Mary (if I understood correctly the notion and usefulness of attributes)? --[[User:Miclav|Miclav]] 01:56, 9 Sep 2007 (PDT)

* It is not possible to delete an attribute from the List of attributes. If one is created, it lives forever .... It seems that using tool/assign attribute by selecting the attribute in question, and select delete all values, it's possible to remove an attribute of a node. --[[User:Yubrshen|yushen]] 21:19, 15 Jan 2007 (PST)

:* You can remove or even rename some attributes and attribute values from the map using the attribute manager. Use Tools->Attribute Manager->All Attributes->[edit]->[click on attribute]->[Delete] --[[User:DimitriPolivaev|DimitriPolivaev]] 05:12, 9 Sep 2007 (PDT)

* It is not intuitive to go to Tools->Assign Attributes to set attributes on several nodes. I expected to be able to select several nodes (or all) and use Edit->Attributes. It didn't occur to me to look on the Tools menu for Editing. -- [[User:JimK|JimK]]
* The workflow in the Assign Attributes dialog is backwards: actions should be from left to right, top to bottom. I suggest moving the buttons to the right side. It's also strange why Add & Delete have one section and Replace has another. From user viewpoint they're all the same. Just need one name/value input box? -- [[User:JimK|JimK]]
* The title of the Assign Attributes dialog box has an extra character in "Assign" that should be removed. -- [[User:JimK|JimK]]
* Attributes are a great idea, but the whole dialog thing is very slow to work with. And it sucks to have a dialog over your workspace. I suggest making attributes work pretty much like a dynamic list of icons in terms of user interface:
** Make a toolbar dedicated to adding attribute values to nodes. Put the toolbar on the right side of the screen, make a button for every value, so that it can be assigned with one click.
*** This is so that, rather than choosing "apply to selected" or "apply to visible", you can use the standard built in selecting mechanisms, and apply attributes the same way that you apply icons.
**** You also have the added bonus of standardizing the interface somewhat.
** Put a selector box, or in the case of a low number of attribute value pairs, section them off, so you never need more than one or two clicks to assign an attribute.
** Have an empty box in the toolbar for new attribute or value definitions.
** Remove the attribute assignment dialog.
** Here's a visual sample. I found it was easier just to illustrate it: [[Media:FreeMindAttributeToolbar.png]] --[[User:RazielJaTier|RazielJaTier]] 22:50, 20 May 2008 (PDT)
* There is a bug in the browser applet of 0.9.0-Beta19 related to notes attached on nodes: if you switch between nodes the text of the note in the bottom window don't get updated, unless you select a node without a note and go back to one with a note. I guess the method onSelectHook(NodeView pNode) in NodeNoteViewer.java isn't called when switch between nodes with notes. --[[User:Jens|Jens]] 14:20, 11 Aug 2008 (PDT)

=== Wishes concerning attributes ===
* I love the attribute & filter feature & see great potential ahead. Being able to name & save searches would also be extremely useful.--[[User:Felipe|Felipe]] 07:34, 26 Apr 2007 (PDT)
* Really wish for a feature to only selectively show the attribute of the node in focus. The current options of "show all attributes", "show the selected attributes" all apply to all the nodes visible. With all nodes showing attributes, it occupy too much space. I wish that it only shows all the attributes for the current node being selected, i.e. in focus. This would be often enough for normal use.--[[User:Yubrshen|yushen]] 20:36, 1 Dec 2006 (PST)
* Default attributes of new node: I need to add some attributes to all new nodes. Therefore, I wish that there is mechanism to automatically stuff some default attributes to all the new nodes created after the functionality is enabled. This function may be configured to enable/disable. --[[User:Yubrshen|yushen]] 21:19, 15 Jan 2007 (PST)
* Or there is functionality to add a group of selected attributes to a group of selected nodes through one operation. --[[User:Yubrshen|yushen]] 21:19, 15 Jan 2007 (PST)

*You explained how to create attribute etc... but after spending "only" 30 minutes on it, what is the real interest in practice of such feature ? What is the use of attributes ? not clear what it can be used for ....--[[User:Djerr|Djerr]] 17:49, 20 Jan 2007

*Roll-up: It'd be really nice (and quite natural) to be able to roll-up (summarize or otherwise) the values of certain attributes (eg. money, time, resource requirements, etc) from children to parent nodes. --[[User:azimmer|azimmer]] 16:58, 14 Feb 2007

* See also the [[Talk:FreeMind_0.9.0:_The_New_Features|discussion page]]

* Adding "Attribute" is a great idea (for me ;-) !). There's a long time that I'm thinking of using freemind in an Artificial Intelligence way. Using Attribute, simultaneously with groovy, may help me for creating rules. Thanks ! --[[User:PLANTING|PLANTING]] 12 Aug 2007
* A way to copy and paste all the attributes assigned to a node or one of these attributes would be nice. Perhaps a "Copy Attribute" and "Copy All Attributes" in popup menu when you right-click on the attributes of a node. --[[User:Terkor|Terkor]] 10:06, 30 Aug 2007 (PDT)

* A way to assign different types of data to attributes: AKA Boolean, Integer, Date, Text, etc.
*Refactor/sort nodes by attribute: Dunno if anybody knows the dashboard plugin for mindmanager, but this idea is similar (except better cause it uses custom attributes). basically, any given attribute/group of attributes would be a parent node. And the values of the attribute would be the children. The nodes with those values would branch off from that. Would allow for awesome fluid mindmaps that could show all sorts of relationships between nodes without ruining the linear structure of the map, allowing for scheduling, budgeting, etc. I'm creating some example mindmaps which show how this feature would be incredibly usefull for something like scheduling.
* Sorting function would be great, but I propose it on the node (alphabetical). Having it on the attribute means for me having to update individually each node's attribute, which would take more time than sorting them by hand. I imagine a function sorting alphabetically all subnodes 1st level of the selected node. Franck --[[User:Fb5|Fb5]] 03:55, 6 Dec 2007 (PST)
** I'd agree with 'sort nodes by attribute' above. I'm a mindmanager user and being able to easily and interactively prioritise tasks on a node is very useful. In mm I just use the pre-defined priority icons, and sort accordingly. This is useful, but freemind with multi-attributes could offer more powerful sorts.

* A way to add new attributes using just the keyboard. I use keyboard shortcuts quite often with FreeMind and not having the ability to quickly add/change/delete attributes with the keyboard makes them much less useful. --[[User:Verifex|Verifex]] 15:57, 8 Dec 2007 (PST)
** What about Alt+F9 for selecting the attribute table and F2 for editing, TAB for adding? [[User:DimitriPolivaev|DimitriPolivaev]]
* Some attributes should be single-valued. Right now they all seem to be multi-valued. For example, I want only want attribute named Priority per node. -- [[User:JimK|JimK]]
* Hopefully you're going to add Help to dialog boxes? When I'm in Attribute Manager I don't understand all the choices. I should be able to view help about them from within the app rather than going to a Website/wiki. -- [[User:JimK|JimK]]
* Clicking on the "Icon for Attributes" could show/hide the attributes.
* Ability to have "Optimal Width" applied on all nodes by default.
** Seconded. A preference for the default width would help as well. --[[User:Icekiss|Icekiss]] 08:08, 19 Apr 2008 (PDT)
* It would be great to have the possibillity to group attributes and give these groups names. These names may be treated as node types. One may assign a node type to a node meaning the node gets automatically all the attributes of this type. With this it would be possible to define for instance a node type like ''activity'' with attribute like ''who'', ''start date'', ''percent complete'' and so on. An easy way to assign node types to nodes, for instance something like ''default type for new nodes depending on parent node'' would be the cherry on top.
* I've been using beta 15 seriously for a project. Filtering is wonderful, and what I really need is sub-node sorting by attribute and/or icon priority. (Please!) - johnn

* Don't know if it should be here or not. But actually, it would be nice if we could apply the same kind of filter to the icons:
** it would be faster
** it would be simpler, as some kind of default attribute+values
** it allows also multiple values (i can have multiple icons for one same branch)
* This would probably require to expand the list of icons to have more of the different types of notions that can be represented in a tool as FreeMind:
** relative to decision making: delay (e.g. hourglass), optionality, assumption/hypothesis, problem/inconsistency (e.g. lighting), advantage ("thumb up", "+/-"), inconvenient ("thumb down","+/-"),cause, consequence, risk,
** relative to life in general: user (people), group, time (clock), time interval, machine, etc.--[[User:Patco|Patco]] 19:48, 19 Jun 2008 (PDT)
* Keyboard assigning of attributes is a bit clumsy. Ideally, instead of using the arrow keys to select, the appropriate attribute would be suggested just by typing its first few letters. Then tab could be pressed to select and go to the next attribute.--[[User:Kartunes|kar]] 17:45, 12 Mar 2009 (UTC)
* the attribute icon has not the same meaning than the others. For example, with an ordered list (with icons "1", "2", "3" ...), having a node with attributes will disorganize the position of the icons! -- [[User:Patco|Patco]]

= Filter =
== Create filters to view and print the data more effectively ==
Clicking on the little funnel to the left of the zoom size toggles on and off the Filter Toolbar.
By default (i.e. in absence of any personal filter defined, see below) the values that can be selected in the List box of the Filter Toolbar are:
* No Filtering
* Currently Selected Nodes
To create a filter for one Attribute:
* to the right of the filter status, click "Edit"
* in the drop down menu at the top left, select your attribute
* the expression drop changes to "Exists"
* press "Add", then "OK" at the bottom
* all nodes with the selected Attribute will be shown, and the branches that don't contain these nodes will be hidden.
* To display, on the contrary, all branches that do not contain nodes with the given attribute, click on Edit, then, in panel Filter Composer, click on buttons "Not" then "Apply". This adds, in the List box of the Filter Toolbar, the two additional filters "attribute_XXX Exists" and "Not attribute_XXX Exists" (where attribute_XXX stands for the current attribute).

To create a filter for an Attribute and one of its values:
* after step two above select the second drop down where "exists" is showing
* choose "Is equal to". Your values should now be available in the third drop down
* press "Add", then OK

== use multiple filters at once ==
create two filter sets by the method above
select the filter sets you want
* Shift-click for multiple, continuous sets
* Ctrl-click for non-contiguous selection
press the "and" button on the right => a new set is created which combines your selected sets

'''User feedback'''

Another feature which can be useful: name for the filter. If you combine simple filters, it can be difficult to read what is it doing:
For example:
(Responsable is equal to Erwan and Type is equal to "draw") can be renamed as "Erwan Drawing", and could be more simple to manage.

Another thing: It could be useful to see/mask attributes when clicking on the attribute icon.

== filter on an icon ==
* add an icon to a node by highlighting the node, click on the icon on the left or Rt-click>Icons
* in the filtering "edit" dialog, choose "Icon" in the drop-down list at the top left, the second drop-down grays out, and the third contains the list of currently used icons
* click "Add"

'''User Feedback'''

* '''This is a great feature!''' Honestly, I think in a lot of ways, filtering by icons is a lot more intuitive than filtering by attributes. While the attributes give you a great deal of flexibility, they muck up the display at bit, and they're a lot more keystrokes to add. I really can't think of any examples of an attribute that I wouldn't rather just create an icon for. The icon is a much more succinct way of displaying an attribute about a node and it can be done inline.
** Having said that, I would like to see a little more love put into icons. I already customized my icon library (Thank you!), but it becomes unwieldy when there are more than a small handful of additional items. You can't replace the original icons either.
* I think it would be a good idea to filter icon clock and only those icons with active warning time scheduler

== Persistent Map Filters ==
In Beta 13 persistent filters are added.
And filters can now be saved. --[[User:Terkor|Terkor]] 18:02, 2 Sep 2007 (PDT)

== user feedback ==

* For using semantic strings in addition to numeric and logical ones it would be useful a) to have filters for "contains" (for substrings of text) as in normal content – like "contain" finds attributes with the values "container", "contains", "containment", etc. b) be able to search a string-value across different attributes

* Filtering is great to compact maps for printing, but no usable PDF was created from a filtered map (beta 17) --[[User:JR|JR]] 04:48, 23 May 2008 (PDT)

* When I use filter extensively with very large map of thousands of nodes, I realize that the layout of the filtered map need some improvement. The resulted map's layout should be much compacted for the filtered nodes to be closer to the root node in order to be visible in the freemind window. For such large map, the reason to do filer is to focus so that I can see them easier. Without the improvement, it seems that the layout still follow that without the filter. The map becomes a tree with sparse nodes but stretched apart. It defeats the purpose of the filter somehow. If you need, I can provide a screen capture to show what I meant. Please tell me how. --[[User:Yubrshen|yushen]] 16:16, 5 Apr 2008 (PDT)

* I find that it freezes up a lot when using folding and unfolding while applying filters. It is, however, a really powerful feature. To complete its power would it be possible to have a way to copy only selected or filtered nodes? Sometimes you want to select these nodes and put them in another application, but when I filter, select all and then copy-paste, I get lots of other nodes included.

* Worked well for me. Especially like the filter on icon - no muss, no fuss.

* Great feature. Filtering on an icon: For example if you have "OK" icons on some nodes and want to see all other nodes (= not OK) use filter "contains icon OK" and define filter "Not contains icon OK" using button "Not"

* This great new feature has a little BUG. Situation: I have two maps opened and use the filter "Currently Selected Nodes" on one of them and switch between the maps. When I switch back to the filtered map I don't get the view that I had before I switched away. Instead I get the node filtered that was selected when I switched. (Terkor)

* Filtering and Reminders are a very nice combination. Filtering on icons allows to distinguish between nodes that have a Reminder "whose time has not jet come" and nodes that have a Reminder "whose time has come". But: in the filter composer these two different states are represented with the same icon (a clock). You always have to guess which icon represents which Reminder state. --[[User:Terkor|Terkor]] 19:40, 30 Jul 2007 (PDT)

* It would be helpful to be able to give the composed filters names. --[[User:Terkor|Terkor]] 19:45, 30 Jul 2007 (PDT)

* When filtering is activated there is a drop-down menu left to the "Edit" button. There you can find all the filters that were used that FreeMind session. It would be very effective if I could not only chose one of those filters but chose more than one. And then being able to chose in what order they are applied (for example by moving the filters up and down). Of course I can also get the desired filtering by using the Filter Composer. But with the described option I would be more flexible in quickly combining the filters. And being able to apply some "simple" filters in an order would make things more clear in some situations. --[[User:Terkor|Terkor]] 06:50, 31 Jul 2007 (PDT)

* A refresh view button would be nice. Or even better: auto refresh (maybe as an option) when a node is changed. Explanation: When I mark a node (representing a task) as done and I use a filter that shows me all the undone tasks and hides the done tasks, the node is not filtered as long as I switch filter off and on again. Could be more handy. --[[User:Terkor|Terkor]] 06:09, 3 Dec 2007 (PST)
** I second this notion. Nodes that meet the filter conditions after the filter is set don't get filtered out. So for instance, I want to create a filter to show not checked off items. Once I check them I want them to disappear automagically. --[[User:RazielJaTier|RazielJaTier]] 16:26, 20 May 2008 (PDT)

* If I filter "Currently Selected Nodes", in all the now empty space of the map there appear the ovals of the hidden nodes that allow to move them around, when you move your mouse to that places where they are when filter is not applied. --[[User:Terkor|Terkor]] 06:42, 15 Dec 2007 (PST)

* If "Selection Bubble" is "on" and a filter is applied, also hidden nodes can be "selected" when you for example move the focus using the arrow-keys. --[[User:Terkor|Terkor]] 06:42, 15 Dec 2007 (PST)

* Is there a way to assign attributes when you assign an icon to a node? For example I have lists of phone calls / emails that I have to send. I usually assign a phone or envelope icon to that node. I would like to assign an attribute or ActionType so that I can sort by them later (i.e. see a list of phone calls or emails that I have to make).

* It would be very helpful to have an option to filter out entries without children. This would be very valuable e.g. in situations where in a big map, several nodes have a "Tasks" subnode, and one wants to look at all tasks currently pending.

* Would it be possible to be able to add free text to the map to allow for titles and possibly a Key?

* Filter toolbar should be a standard toolbar. Should be able to show/hide filter toolbar from the View menu. (I am not displaying the main toolbar, but may need the Filter toolbar from time to time)

* Attributes have great potential. However I find editing a bit inconvenient. Would it be possible to add a small handle to existing attribute table (say immediately left of the cells, similar to the handles that are already on top of the table), so that a single attribute could be selected to be copied, cut, or even dragged and dropped to copy/move it to other nodes? Keyboard modifier keys (shift or ctrl) could be used to specify moving/copying in a drag and drop operation. arg0.

* Am loving the attributes. Using beta 20. Am doing a massive project on the muscular system. muscles directly effect eachother. For each muscle there is are muscles directly affecting it, muscles that it directly affects it, and muscles with a mutual two way relation. Each muscle also has a common problem associated with it. Each muscle group is an attribute and each muscle is a value. Filters will be used for self diagnosis, and finding the appropriate stretches. For example hands and shoulders due to using the computer a lot.
**Would be great if graphical links can be attributed, so that they can be filtered. + have the option of making them visible or not.
**Better sorting of attributes would be good. Like an attribute mind map, for sorting and the depth of the filter that is undertaken.
** To have Attributes and Filters integrated on the mind map. Anyone know how to write scripts to run a filter function.
** To filter core structure of mind maps: this would be good for summarising the link to other mind maps.
Thanks for your time. alf
* to encourage the use of attributes and filtering, it would be good to have the search/filter box always visible by default (I have a large screen, and the font/font size take all the extra space on the right, that could be used by this search/filter box (also, there should be a specific menu "search" or "filter" --[[User:Patco|Patco]]

= WYSIWYG-Editing for nodes and notes =

Yet to be documented

I like the WYSIWYG and how it's available when needed. On piece I find lacking is the ability to easily add link <a href=.... and the ability to click on it to pull it up. That feature would be very useful -- [[User:Matthias|Matthias]] 21:57, 18 Feb 2009 (UTC)

== HTML paste tip ==

Paste of HTML content creates one node. Use Edit -> Split to split it in many nodes.

Tools->Split Node is more efficent. --[[User:Phil31753|Phil31753]] 10:06, 9 Apr 2009 (UTC)

==== User Feedback ====
Version beta 0.9.16
I personally hate the WYSIWYG mode but I understand that others might find this feature helpful.
My problem is that I copy and paste very often into and out of mindmaps. Due to the WYSIWYG mode I can not pasten normally into thunderbird. Copying into mindmaps is terrible.
Suggestion: having the possibility to select between plain text modus or html modus or mixed modus. Helpful would be also a shortcut to "paste as plain text and split" and copy as plain text.
--[[User:bebach|bebach]] 2008-04-05

Love this feature, especially the way that the notes export to javascript enabled html. Couple of observations.

* The popup notes in the Javascript export don't seem to work in IE (care factor 0?).

* It would be good to be able to view the note in the main mindmap window, maybe as a popup.

* It would also be helpful if there was some sort of visual indicator of the existence of a popup note in the exported html - at present the note just magically appears as a rollover.

* Don't know if it is due to this feature, but "edit long node" now introduced an extra line feed if the enter key is used (confirm on enter turned off).

--[[User:RichardForster|RichardForster]] 18:04, 19 Sep 2006 (PDT)

I'd like to have the option to collapse the WYSIWYG editing area to free up more screen real-estate.

--[[User:Marko|Marko]] 21:45, 23 Sep 2006 (PDT)

* The WYSIWYG screen estate seems a good place to do all 'richer' content editing: e.g. if freemind would let me edit the multiline text nodes there, and, manage the attributes, i'd find that very usefull.

--[[User:Neanderlander|Neanderlander]] 22:01, 24 Sep 2006 (PDT)

* Some way to change the width of nodes would be great, so free form text can be flowed into thinner columns. Also a way to insert <br> easily without resorting to the html view.

--[[User:pedron|pedron]] 1:02pm, 10 October 2006 (EST)
* In version 0.8 the note attached to a node was very discrete in the sense that it would only show when the mouse is on that node. This new version has many editing features but it's "in your face" (so to speak) until you physically minimize it. I wish there was a way to configure it so that it would act like the previous version while keeping it's editing extras. Or at least have the option of toggling editing toolbar...

--[[User:Cichutki75|Cichutki75]] 8:09pm, 19 October 2006 (GMT)
* In version 0.9 max node width function does not work properly. At least not all nodes for the map created in version 0.8 keep the set width. I did not discover the rule. Some keep some don't.

--[[User:CautiousChaos|CautiousChaos]] 02:22, 12 Nov 2006 (EST)
* The editing panel is intrusive when it is not needed. A hotkey to open/close it would be helpful. Clicking on the note icon resulting in the panel appearing could also be very helpful.
* It seems that word-wrapping does not work in plain-text mode for nodes, making the node to be of single line extending far too long. I had to change the mode of each node to make it word-wrapping. Only using rich-text mode, the wrapping would work. I wish that word-wrapping would still work as in 0.80. --[[User:Yubrshen|yushen]] 15:03, 5 Dec 2006 (PST)
* It seems that in editing long node, the splitting function would only work with word on different line, while in 0.80, the function works even for words on the same line. --[[User:Yubrshen|yushen]] 15:03, 5 Dec 2006 (PST)

--[[User:Djerr|Djerr]] 17:42, 20 Jan 2007

* Using a 0.8 map with notes in 0.9 beta version show all notes as pop up but they can not be modified with the format tool or even edited in the layout page. I have to delete the note and create a new one under the 0.9 version.

I usually write short nodes but very long notes in order to have a "clear" map. 2 special comments on notes :
* For long notes, the time the pop up is shown is too short. Would it be possible to define a time on how long you want this pop up to be shown ? Or even better: to show them as long as the cursor is pointing on the node (or perhaps the note icon).
* I could find very useful (especially for my long notes) to be able in the format menu to change not only italic or bold or font size etc.. but also COLORS, to be able to see very fast the most important points

---
* I don't understand the purpose of freemind's notes feature. It seems to be an incomplete feature. On the one hand, it could be used as popup notes for a node on the freemind map. On the other hand, it could be used to provide the details for a topic expressed by the node. I think both should be possibilities, but currently only the first really seems possible.
* I want to use freemind to develop an outline into a full-blown paper. To do that, I would start using freemind to create an outline of the paper. Each node in the mindmap would be an entry in the outline with the node level equating to the outline level. Then, when I start fleshing out the paper, I would use the notes feature to fill-in paragraphs of information for each node. The problem is that there is no good way of outputting the paper -- the notes become popups rather than entries in the paper.
* Is there a way to export a mindmap from freemind in such a way that it could later be imported?

--[[User:DavidMasterson|DavidMasterson]] 22:00, 23 May 2007

* I don't like this feature in the current implementation. This is because i use this tool to connect IDEAS and usually i use formatting things only in the end. A paragraph, a sentence, a list, a word list this are things that i want to have in a hierarchical structure, not as a rich text. In 0.8.0 the copy/paste feature converted a paragraph/list to an hierarchical tree of nodes. That was a better aproach then to get a simple html node. The split feature doesn't replace this functionality better. I hope and trust that you will find a way to add rich text nodes without so much interference with the old style of working. Maybe a paste option with paste as nodes, paste as html will resolve this issue?

--[[User:Terkor|Terkor]] 16:25, 21 June 2007
* Great Feature, but it could be more handy if the (by far) most often used formating-features like Bold and Italic could be used without opening the editor. Just mark the words or characters you want bold (or italic), click the Bold (or Italic) icon (or use Ctrl-B /Ctrl-I) - and that's it.
* It is not "logical" that you open the editor with "Alt-Enter" and close it with "Ctrl-Enter". It should both be the same.
* "Split" should have a shortcut. Suggestion: Alt-Enter or Ctrl-Enter. (See previous paragraph.)
* When I open the editor whilst I am editing a node, the editor should know the actual position of the cursor and if some text is already marked.
* Double clicking the note icon should open / close the note editor. (Generally icons should be more clickable like the link icon. (Double) clicking on the clock icon of notes with a Reminder should open the calendar. And right-clicking an icon should open the "Select Icon" box.)
* The popups displaying the note content don't match size if a note is very short. Does not look nice. (The same for popups that show the "Created", "Modified", and "Reminder" times - too wide.
* Choosing colors should definitely have an icon in the tool bar of the editors. So it takes six (!) clicks to change the color of a word. (Opening the editor not counted.)
* The editor for notes and the one for nodes behave differently, when it comes to use the Enter-key. The node-editor just enters a new line (as one would expect) when I press Enter. The note editor enters a new line and a blank line. Here I have to use Shift-Enter to get just a new line. Why the difference?
* The note editor by default adds a blank line before the text and after text. I see no reason for that. (The node editor does not do that either.) Just takes away precious space.
* In order to save space, please place the toolbar of the note editor next to the menu of the editor. As it is now, there is much unused space. The editor should look more slim.
* Like the note-editor of FreeMind 0.8, the note-editor of version 0.9 should automatically close when not needed. (Or at least there should be an option to pick this behavior.)
* The little arrows on the splitting line that allow to hide/show the note editor should be wider (not higher), they are very hard to click quickly. Perhaps put each of them in a clickable wider boxlike area.
* "Note" in the menu "Insert" is gone. Should be there, that's where people look for it, and it seams a logical place for it (also for a "Remove Note"-function). And "Add Note" / "Remove Note" should be in the context-menu, when I right-click a node.
* How about a function that turns a node into a note and vice versa?
* The popups of long notes should be scrollable.

--[[User:Pascal|Pascal]] 11:33, 20 Nov 2007
* It would be great to have spell checking in notes editor
* In version 0.9.0 beta 14, bold, italic and underline buttons have no icons (if you click where they should be, it does the job, but you don't see the buttons).

--[[User:puckja|puckja]] 13:51, 3 Jan. 2008
* Great feature! Now I can add formated text/graphics in the note panel (SimpleHTML). Cut & Paste from webpage and even MS Word 2003 with figures and math equations works great.
* More user friendly functions such as FONT property in toolbar or shortcut, HIGHLIGHTING capability, insert HYBERLINK (it can be added with direct HTML coding), configurable property for the inserted graphic(size/alignment, etc.) would be great. (It is already very good! Thanks!)

--[[User:puckja|puckja]] 16:09, 3 Jan. 2008
* It seems that all the figures inserted in the note are not "locally saved." It may a a '''SERIOUS BUG!''' If the figures are cut & paste from Internet, then they will not be available if machine is offline. If the figures are C & P from local file (such as MS Word), then the source files are still at your personal Win TEMP directory, which means that they will be deleted some time in the future while you think it is saved. Other software such as PersonalBrain will save the file and change the HTML src location after you saved the "brain", but Freemind seems to leave it unattended. :(

* HTML Editor won't let you put a table in a node. Well, that's not quite true. The "table" item n the menu bar has all its items disabled, but you can edit the HTML to make the node have a table. Why is the menu bar operation turned of for nodes?
--[[User:Anton|Anton]] 18:16, 20 Jul 2008 (PDT)
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* The HTML Editor seems to have a 'template' which is the same for all nodes. It would be nice to have
## User-definable style sheet, that could set font, size, colour, box width ...
## ... for each level
--[[User:Anton|Anton]] 18:25, 22 Jul 2008 (PDT)

Filter macros on the mind map itself would be good. They could be adjustable. And/or/not etc, could be done by clicking the different parts of the map corresponding to the attributes/icons under question. This would be nice because it would be more natural to drill down the search in this way. Filter by cliking on a node, filter again on what is left within that filter etc.

*The WYSIWYG is a big + for my workflow. However, I often use this program w/ widescreen setups and it would be a great if I could reposition the WYSIWYG window to the left, right of the Map window.
*It would be v.nice if the editor could interpret latex formating for math/equations.
--[[User:Lessfield|Lessfield]] 18:01, 19 Feb 2009 (UTC)

I agree with Lessfield - I want to create extensive notes, instructions etc. and I'd like to be able to move the note editing pane to the right side. To go with this, I'd like to be able to control the node layout so it's a tree expanding from top to bottom or left to right (like Visual Mind's Standard, left-to_right and right-to-left views).

Possible bug:- frequently when I'm typing in the notes pane, the insertion cursor zips back to the beginning of the line and text insertion continues there. I don't think I'm accidentally hitting any hot keys ;-)
--[[User:MikeS|MikeS]] 12:09, 19 Jun 2009 (UTC)

= Scripting via Groovy =
[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Groovy_programming_language Groovy] scripts may be attached to individual nodes in the map. When "evaluate" is selected via the menu or keypress (Alt-F8), all nodes in the map are searched (depth-first) for one or more attributes named "script". If such an attribute is found, the value of the attached attribute is passed to the Groovy engine to execute.

Only nodes are evaluated, which attribute keys start with "script". However, there is nothing preventing a script on one node from acting on other nodes via normal operations (e.g. node.getChildren or similar) as far as I can tell from the code.

=== Assignment vs. Operation ===

If the value of the script attribute starts with the equals sign ("="), then the node text will be replaced by the RESULT of the script evaluation. Be careful not to overwrite your nodes! See the example for using the "node.getText()" in an assignment script.

If the value of the script attribute does not begin with the equals sign, then the script will run and may affect the map, but the expression result is not assigned to the node text.

=== Available Operations ===

When the Groovy binding is created, two variables are set:

* "c" is set to the MindMapController
* "node" is set to the MindMapNode being evaluated

You will have to examine the FreeMind source code for operations on the interfaces. See the examples for a few operations such as setting the node text, node color and background color.

=== Examples ===
I have only played with the engine for five minutes, and spent about the same amount of time on the Groovy home page. The following examples work for me:

'''Prepend the node text with an integer representing the node depth.''' Note that the script starts with '=' so the result is assigned back to the node text.
<groovy>=node.getNodeLevel() + " " + node.getText()</groovy>

'''Set the text color of a node:'''
<groovy>node.setColor(java.awt.Color.RED)</groovy>

'''Set the background color of a node:'''
<groovy>node.setBackgroundColor(java.awt.Color.BLUE)</groovy>

'''Project Manager: Don't do this; use methods of the controller c instead.''' If you manipulate the node model directly, you'll miss the undo and flow control capabilities of FreeMind. Please, consult methods from the interface MindMapActions only.

=== Advanced Examples===

All advanced examples have been moved to the [[Example scripts]]

== About Groovy ==
For people unfamiliar with Groovy scripting, it's [http://groovy.codehaus.org home page], an [http://www.onjava.com/pub/a/onjava/2004/09/29/groovy.html introduction], a review on [http://ask.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=06/04/18/2223237 slashdot].

== How to get started ==

# Create an attribute for a node. The attribute must be named "script"
# Create the Groovy script and set as the value of the attribute
# Press Alt-F8 or select "Evaluate" from the Tools menu.

== Wish for Groovy script editing ==
* Need good editor for writing such script for the attribute. The current attribute manager is not suitable to write long script. --[[User:Yubrshen|yushen]] 15:41, 15 Jan 2007 (PST)
* I know I could dig through the source code and figure it out, but even a rudimentary object reference would be great. --[[User:RazielJaTier|RazielJaTier]] 15:01, 21 May 2008 (PDT)
** Created a page called [[FreeMindGroovyObjects|FreeMind / Groovy Object Reference]] to start compiling known information into a reference page. If you're familiar with any of the objects and navigation, lets start documenting it here.
* Debug Console while you're running scripts from the map. If you have a typo, the script simply does nothing. It would be nice to get an error or some sort of feedback. --[[User:RazielJaTier|RazielJaTier]] 15:01, 21 May 2008 (PDT)

== Scripting the application, not the documents ==

When I first read about Groovy in Freemind, I was irritated by the fact that the Groovy scripts are part of the Map (as script attribute) and not the application.

To my opinion it would make more sense to allow Groovy scripts to be plugged into the application and work on either Map.

An example of how this could work can be found here: [http://groovy.codehaus.org/Integrating+Groovy+in+an+application+-+a+success+story]

In a similar way each script could be bound to a menu item in a user menu or a button, and be provided with the current 'context', maybe containing a model of an open Map when activated.
This way it would be possible to create complete maps on-the-fly without having to create the Map and the root node with a script attribute first(!).

This is from user's point of view more like scripted plug-ins and filters in Gimp or Steinberg-like music software, and not so much like the VBA thing stored inside office documents.

--[[User:Det|Det]] 07:28, 16 Mar 2007 (PDT)

== Tips of editing script ==
# Before there is good editor for script, I use a template node to define long script then use copy and paste to duplicate the script.

--[[User:Yubrshen|yushen]] 15:41, 15 Jan 2007 (PST)

= TaskJuggler Integration =

[http://taskjuggler.org/ TaskJuggler] is a opensource project management tool for linux. It covers the complete spectrum of project management tasks from the first idea to the completion of the project. It assists you during project scoping, resource assignment, cost and revenue planing, risk and communication management.

=== Idea ===
The idea is to have special task, resource, and account nodes on the mindmap.

====Usage summary====
- Tasks are defined as subnodes of TASKS node.
- Resources are defined as subnodes of RESOURCES node.
- Accounts as subnodes of ACCOUNTS node. (not yet implemented in 0.9.0 beta 18)
- Taskjuggler task/resource/account info contained as node attributes. <br> You can find more info about these attribs in [http://taskjuggler.org/manual-2.3.0/c1376.html TaskJuggler documentation]
- After entering all task/resource/account info in freemind, use File-->Export to <br> export the task/resource/account info that is currently VISIBLE <br> (your freemind filters can be used to limit the info being exported to TaskJuggler).

[[Image:Taskjuggler_example.png]]

=== Project file (TJP) ===
We generate only includes with FreeMind, so we must write simple TaskJuggler main project file:

<pre>project simple "Simple Project" "1.0" 2005-06-06 - 2005-06-26

include "example.accounts.tji"
include "example.resources.tji"
include "example.tasks.tji"

taskreport "Gantt Chart" {
headline "Project Gantt Chart"
columns hierarchindex, name, start, end, effort, duration, cost, revenue, chart
timeformat "%a %Y-%m-%d"
loadunit days
hideresource 1
}

htmlaccountreport "accountsreport.html"{
timeformat "%d-%M-%y"
accumulate
columns index, name, weekly
}</pre>

=== Include Files (TJI) ===
Mindmap with defined TASKS, RESOURCES and ACCOUNTS nodes can look like this:
{| cellpadding="20" cellspacing="0" border="0"
|[http://pliki.rodos.com.pl/freemind/tji_example/example_freemind2.png http://pliki.rodos.com.pl/freemind/tji_example/example_freemind2_maly.png]
|}

We can export include files which we have defined in our project file directly from FreeMind mindmap:<br>
- example.resources.tji - from RESOURCES node (File->Export->Resources from RESOURCES node to TJI file..)<br>
- example.tasks.tji - from TASKS node (File->Export->Task from TASKS node to TJI file..)<br>
- example.accounts.tji - from ACCOUNTS node (File->Export->Accounts from ACCOUNTS node to TJI file..)<br>

In TaskJuggler our project will look like this:
{| cellpadding="20" cellspacing="0" border="0"
|[http://pliki.rodos.com.pl/freemind/tji_example/example_taskjuggler.png http://pliki.rodos.com.pl/freemind/tji_example/example_taskjuggler_maly.png]
|}

=== Download ===
[http://pliki.rodos.com.pl/freemind/tji_example/example.zip Here] you can download full example without accounts feature and [http://pliki.rodos.com.pl/freemind/account/accountexample.zip here] with accounts.

=== Account support ===
Becouse accounts functionality isn't in CVS yet. You need use [http://pliki.rodos.com.pl/freemind/account/Freemind_0_9_0_beta15_koprin_b2.zip this] binary or
get Freemind from CVS (CVS tag: fm_060405_integration) and aply [http://pliki.rodos.com.pl/freemind/account/diff.zip this] patch.

= The rest of the new features =

==Icons==
=== User icons ===

User icons can be added. PNG files of the icons have to be added to the folder '''<user_home>'''/.freemind/icons. All *.png files in '''<user_home>'''/.freemind/icons are handled as user icons. Size is ''not'' limited to 16 px x 16 px.

'''User feedback:'''
* FreeMind adds "icon_" to the user-given name of a user icon. The name should just be the user given name - without ".png" of course.
* When adding user icons, they appear in a random order within the side bar and mixed with the Freemind built-in icons. Is there a way to control this order ?
* My new icons appeared at the end of the standard ones and appeared to be in alphabetical order by filename. GREAT feature. I was able to take screen captures of the icons for Access objects and some of the Office program icons and use them in a mind map documenting a project my computer literacy students do at the end of the semester. This is far superior to having to use a limited set of standard icons which aren't particularly meaningful.
* Q: what is the procedure for adding user icons in Mac OS? Which is the correct destination folder?

* User icons are not included in exported mindmaps (flash at least).
* Including icons does not appear to work (WinXP - Freemind 0.9.0 Beta 19). Have assumed that placing .png files in C:\Program Files\Freemind\Icons should ensure that they are included but have nt been able to get this feature to work. Is this the correct placement for the icons folder in Windows?
::You put the icons in the wrong folder. Look again above. --[[User:Terkor|Terkor]] 03:23, 21 Oct 2008 (UTC)

===Selecting, Substituting and Deleting Icons===
* Using Shift+Click on icon bar substitutes the current icons by the new one.
* Icon bar Icon Selection Dialog: click on icon with control key hold: removes the first matching icon, with alt key removes the last one. Icon Selection Dialog: Shift+Enter or Alt+Enter can be used as well.
* Icon hot keys available in Select Icon Dialog. They can be set in Preferences > Keystrokes. --[[User:Terkor|Terkor]] 13:26, 3 Sep 2007 (PDT)

'''User feedback:'''
* Substituting icons with Shift+Enter in the Icon Selection Dialog (as announced in the changes for Beta 9) does not work. Just inserts the selected icon.
* Can I suggest you add a couple of icons as standard namely '$' and '$$' too? Thanks.

==Latex Plugin==
With the new Latex Plugin (Insert > Latex) you can now add mathematical formulas to your nodes.
Select a node and chose Insert > Latex. Under the node a default text in a box is added. When you click on that box a simple editor opens to enter the Latex code. Close the editor and your formula is displayed underneath the node.

Erase the formula by clicking Latex again when the node is selected. --[[User:Terkor|Terkor]] 06:31, 3 Sep 2007 (PDT)

'''User feedback:'''
* I like this one, but there may be an easier way for access of this functionality (a shortcut or s.th.).
* Great, adds a whole new field of use to FreeMind!
* Tip: Can also be used to just add a text to node instead of a mathematical formula. If you just add text without any commands, you get italic text in the box. Everything put between \mbox{ and } appears as normal text. (The code is contained in the default formula that is added every time you add a new Latex box to a node.)
* Exporting the formulas does not work for at least for some filters (Flash at least).
* LaTeX formulas do not scale with the rest of the map but have always the same size. Please make them scalable if possible.--[[User:Christofb|Christofb]] 12:19, 30 Oct 2007 (PDT)

* Nice feature. It would be nice if the graphical representation of the formula could appear with the higher quality associated with LaTeX. Is it possible to improve via anti aliasing or exporting/printing via postscript?

==Linking to nodes in another mm-file==

You may create a link to a node in another map by appending #node_name to the map path

'''User feedback:'''
*Bug?: This feature does not seem to work for file urls ex: file:\\dfs\folder\file.mm##Freemind_Link_335867258. It also does not seem to work through the website applet.
** The URL is wrong. Must be file:///dfs\folder\file.mm##Freemind_Link_335867258

* Bug: This very useful feature seems to work for the current instance of the target map only. Once the target map is closed and reopened the link points to the root node in the target map, even though the link text is still correct. Closing the source map and reopening it works fine. - Tested based on FM 0.8.0 maps with the Windows version of FM.--[[User:Uli|Uli]] 02:51, 13 Feb 2007 (PST)

(•) Solution:

• create a (temporary) local link to the intended target node from any other node within the target MindMap (MM) (ALT+L)
=> i.e. the target-node must be the 'referred' node in this case meaning that it must be the second of the two nodes composing said (temporary) local link.
-> Digression: A local link is created by first left clicking on the source node and, while holding down the CTRL-button, then
left clicking on the target node, then press Alt-L. The link is created in the source node (a green arrow appears).
• Now highlight the 'referring'/source node, i.e. the other of the two nodes in this (temporary) local link (the one with the green arrow) and press CTRL+k (edit link)
=> the freemind node name of the 'referred' node (i.e. our desired target node) appears (eg. #Freemind_Link_676133257)
• Copy (or better still, cut) this node name [ctrl+c/ctrl+x].

• In the Source MM create an external link to the target MM (eg. c:\mindmaps\TASKS.mm),
=> Digression: An external link is created thus: CTRL+k (manually enter path) or SHIFT+CTRL+k (choose path). A red arrow appears.
• highlight the node with the newly created external link and append the copied/cut freemind node name to it using CTRL+k (edit link).
=> The result could look like this: c:\mindmaps\TASKS#Freemind_Link_676133257

• Finally, delete the local link if you may so wish (this step is only relevant, if you'd only copied and not cut the node name above).

• Being able to link to a specific link should not only possible within freemind but also from other tools. This could be established via adding a command line parameter giving the node ID to select right after startup.

== Edit Styles, Patterns, Automatic Layout Patterns ==

=== Change Format Dialog ===

New "Change Format" dialog box that lets you edit node and edge attributes at once. (Format > Change format...)

'''User feedback:'''
* The very powerful and useful dialog box needs a shortcut, and an entry in the context menu when you right-click on a node.
* A preview-area would be helpful.

=== Manage Patterns ===

There is now a manager for the physical styles. (Format > Physical Styles > Manage Patterns..)

==== User feedback: ====

* It is so helpfull!!!!!
* Would it be possible to also show (and even change) the shortcuts of the patterns in the pattern manager?
* Styles should be renamed Format Macro. They are a great feature.
* Feature Request
** A real Style formating feature with style_registry, where the formating is defined, would be great.
* Bugs
** Style names are not proper UTF-8 encoded e.g. ü in become FC in patterns.xml and not ü
** beta 18 couldn't generate new Style from current node. Pressing Save&Exit didn't save and a Notice pop up without any message.
* All version including RC1 - F11 window does not allow to choose a font size which is not in the list (11 for example) this is not consistent with the tool bar of the main window. I'm using style with 11 pt font size !
* Im experimenting with TONY BUZAN's mind mapping and memroy techniques. Eventaully i wnat to make a mind map of his book's and share, however copywright questions arise?? anyone know about it. Regardless of this question it brings to my attention the powers of formatting and memory enhancement.
**Is there a way of patterning the width/thikness of the links?
**Would be great to have a plugin that does a network analysis of the mind map and formatts acordingly. Hubs/number of links to a node = format value. Format value's to stimmulate as many sensory modalites as possible (NLP/ memory techniqes)
***These formats can then have an icon/ memory hook to filter by.

=== Edit Automatic Layout Patterns ===
It is now possible to edit Automatic Layout Patterns. (Tools > Preferences ... > Automatic layout pat...) Click there on a pattern and the new "Change Format" box appears (here called "Change Pattern").

'''User feedback:'''

* I also really like this feature, BUT I also would badly need to automaticaly layout for more then 4 levels (even if I could not change it by myself)! This is one of the most important things missing yet in this great application. Thanks anyway!

* Great! Could you please make the area "Automatic Layout Styles" a bit wider. There is no reason to keep it so tiny.

* I find the automatic layout a bit limited; after four levels, the layout remains the same, but I oftentimes use five, six or seven levels. Only feature I'd like to see added to the program is to set an auto format for a larger (custom-defined?) amount of levels.

* I love automatic layout, I use it pretty much exclusively. The only thing that sucks is that it completely disables the ability to apply localized formats to nodes with it enabled. Can you put in some sort of cascading functionality. The default would be automatic, but you could override the formats at any time. Also put something like the "reset position" like "remove custom formatting". --[[User:RazielJaTier|RazielJaTier]] 15:27, 20 May 2008 (PDT)

* I second Raziel's motion. I'd love to be able to store code snippets in a map, but automatic layout disrupts my custom formatting. --[[User:Neontapir|Neontapir]] 09:47, 23 Jun 2008 (PDT)

* Wonderfull. Would it be possible choose (at least) color to be applied per branch instead of per level. This is more in tune with Dr. Buzan's suggestions.

== Find And Replace ==
FreeMind has now a Find & Replace dialog. It combines the old "Show Map History..." (which is not there any more) with a classical Find & Replace dialog.

Found nodes can be sorted by Date, Text, Icons, Created, Modified, and Notes.

You can choose: Export Selected Nodes, Replace All, Replace Selected, Goto, and Select.

When no search text is entered all nodes of the map are shown in a sorted list.

'''User Feedback'''

* Characters like äöü" are not displayed correctly (the HTML-versions are displayed).
* Could it be possible to hide columns that I don't need to see?
* Thank You for the "replace" addition. How difficult would it be to have a "find" on all opened maps ?
* Is it possible to extend the "find" in all opened maps ? When searching for a text pattern, it will save to open individually each maps and execute a find. --[[User:Fb5|Fb5]] 02:16, 15 Nov 2007 (PST)
** I second this - extremely needed (at least for me :) ) to be able to search across several maps!! --[[User:Spacevulture|Spacevulture]] 11:59, 21 Jun 2008 (PDT)
* Would very helpful if nodes themselves could not only be sorted alphabetically, but also by Icons. And maybe by Date, Created, Modified, and Notes.
* A drop-down menu with recent search/replace terms would be helpful, to avoid retyping when repeating searches. --[[User:Arg0|arg0]] 08:38, 25 Feb 2009 (UTC)

== Display Selection as Bubble==
In the menu View there is now the option to display the selected nodes inside a bubble: "Display Selection as Rectangle on/off". You can also pick this new option in Preferences > Defaults, where you can also choose the color of the bubble. "Display Selection as Rectangle on/off" is now (Beta 13) by default "on". --[[User:DimitriPolivaev|DimitriPolivaev]] 14:50, 9 Sep 2007 (PDT) --[[User:Terkor|Terkor]] 16:57, 9 Sep 2007 (PDT)

'''User Feedback'''
* Like it very much.

==Tabs==
There are now Tabs (like in Firefox) representing the opened maps. Properties > Appearance > Look And Feel > Use Tabs lets you choose if you want to use tabs. --[[User:Terkor|Terkor]] 10:36, 26 Aug 2007 (PDT)

'''User Feedback'''
* Could it be possible that the tabs only appear (option) when more than one map is opened?
** I'd like this too. Screen space can be important. --[[User:Kenrob|Kenrob]] 04:14, 5 Oct 2007 (PDT)
* Could it be possible to show and hide tabs ''in View''?
* Could it be possible to rearrange the order of the tabs (by dragging and dropping them)?
** drag&drop, automatic hide when only one, close one/all via context menu etc. would be very usefull (i.e. like it is possible in firefox) --[[User:flusi100|flusi100]] 08:00, 24 Feb 2008
* Would be nice to close the maps by using their tabs (context menu with "Close" when right-clicking on tab, or middle-click on tab).
** Agreed - this would be useful. --[[User:Kenrob|Kenrob]] 04:14, 5 Oct 2007 (PDT)
** ++ to that. Seemed unnatural not to have a context menu on the tabs.--[[User:Doubi|Doubi]] 23:08, 18 Apr 2009 (UTC)
* Now with tabs and Save All it would just be the next logical step that (as an option) all the tabs would open when FreeMind starts, that were open when FreeMind was closed.
*Switching tabs takes 15-20 seconds. Especially slow after FreeMind has been minimized and computer has been suspended/hibernated. Version 0.9.0 Beta 18. --[[User:Emkeyen|Emkeyen]]

==Move Back and Move Forward==
There are now Move Back and Move Forward buttons in the Toolbar (also available in the Navigate menu and by using Alt-Left and Alt-Right). FreeMind stores a chronology of the selected nodes. Using Back and Forward you can navigate back and forth to those nodes - even if they are in an other opened map. --[[User:Terkor|Terkor]] 19:31, 26 Aug 2007 (PDT)

'''User Feedback'''
* Very Helpful!
* Could there be a way to get back to the latest selection by one click.
* How about a popup list of the previous and next selected nodes (like in IE or FF)?
* Useful when navigating in large maps--[[User:Fb5|Fb5]] 02:13, 15 Nov 2007 (PST)

==Export Filters==
Open Office Export now for the ODT format.

Besides the two export filters for TaskJuggler there are three new filters for exporting:

* As Java Appelt
* As Flash
* As TWiki --[[User:Terkor|Terkor]] 19:06, 27 Aug 2007 (PDT)

=== User feedback ===
* Embedded links on images and then exported to flash do not work.
** [http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-781058038619276488&q=freemind+dennis Video of Bug]
* HTML links and then exported to flash do not work either. Please see:
** http://www.efectokiwano.net/mm/
--[[User:VincentD|VincentD]] 02:30, 9 Nov 2006 (PST)
* Export to Flash does not support Rich Formatted nodes.
* When a map that contains a hyperlink is exported to HTML there is obviously an error in that exported hyperlink. --[[User:Terkor|Terkor]] 20:34, 2 Sep 2007 (PDT)
* In exporting to Flash, I have to enter URLs as <nowiki>http:www.yahoo.com</nowiki>, instead of <nowiki>http://www.yahoo.com</nowiki>, for the link to work.
* I'm using 0.9.0 beta 19, when exporting to flash, http links fail. I've watched the video and visited efectokiwano, still not working. Does the exported html require a special server build to serve the content?

--[[User:Berti|Berti]] 12:04, 13 Feb 2008 (PST)
* I tried an export to txt tab separated this worked in 0.8 fine if I rename the .mm to xml and try to view it I get an error it seems the html tags are going to break it. I also tested the xsl form this side Tabulator separated text ? FreeMind
http://freemind.sourceforge.net/wiki/index.php/Import_and_export_to_other_applications

=== Wishes concerning Export Filters ===
--[[User:AlexandreDC|AlexandreDC]] 08:47, 13 Mar 2008 (CET)
* It would be useful to indicate some XSLT templates to produce HTML exports: we could thus choose whether and how to display attributes for example.

--[[User:DRBusch]]
* To me, the most useful application of freemind is organizing complex documents (e.g. a thesis or book). To this end, I've modified the [http://sites.google.com/site/freemind2beamer/ freemind2beamer] script into [http://student.physics.upenn.edu/~drbusch/mm2thesis.xsl mm2thesis]. Unfortunately, I can't seem to figure out how to parse in the xsl document such that I can (for example) put a hard line break into the text of a node and use the second line as a label. For example, node=abcd\\labelabcd would be translated into \section{abcd}\label{sec:labelabcd}. Any thoughts? I haven't dug into the java mm to beamer conversion yet.

=General Bugs=
* Generating Output for a printer is almost impossible. On Ubuntu 7.10 printing does not work (nothing happens), PDF export does not work (Error popup with no content), SVG export does not work (Error popup with no content), PNG export does not work (nothing happens), JPG export does not work (nothing happens), (Jave and Flash export thus is working, but it's not printable in a browser). So I am limited to screenshots which are unreadable in larger mind maps. Preview is ok, by the way, but I would need a feature to resize the whole map to paper size.
* If I close the calendar not with "cancel" but by just closing the calendar window, I can't reopen the calendar. I have to restart FM to be able to open the Time Management dialog again. --[[User:Terkor|Terkor]] 06:27, 15 Dec 2007 (PST)
* I updated to java runtime enviroment 1.6 and was not able to save any mindmap any longer. Message was "Map ist write protected" --[[User:bebach|bebach]] 13 Nov 2007
* Sometimes I use freemind just as a simple extended clipbord. In openoffce 2.0 writer I get the message, the clipbord format does not exist. In thunderbird I always have to paste without format to see anything. It is painful. It seems to me that I was not able to switch freemind to the plain text option. I am looking again the documentation. --[[User:bebach|bebach]] 8 Nov 2007
* Using the PDF export feature results in an error message "null compatible with Global antialiasing enable key". That was no problem in Version 0.8
* I can't save a new mind map under MS Vista. Modify and save of an existing mind map works.
* After pasting a node at a new position, keystrokes get stuck. The moviment is possible only changing the focus with mouse. After changing the focus, keystrokes (up,down,left,right) works normally.--[[User:Leslie|Leslie]] 05:16, 17 Apr 2007 (PDT)
* Ok, the new version is very nice... but there is still the Problem with printing. Sometimes the print is to small or to great or a part is cut off. Its difficult to configure the printer for good mindmap printings--[[User:Bkmzde|Bkmzde]] 00:31, 16 Feb 2007 (PST)
* Bug ? : MindManager Import doesn't include "Html Notes" hooked to the nodes. In 0.8, the note is "translate" in a text note.
* The context-menu that appears when you right-click while editing a node does not work. (It only contains "Copy" - which does not work.) Perhaps adding "Cut", "Paste", "Split" (at cursor-position), "Edit Long Node..." (with the editor remembering the cursor position and if some text is already marked). And perhaps some formating: "Bold", "Italic", "Font...", "Paragraph..."
* Display error: Zoom is now (Beta 14) working perfectly, as far as I can see. Good work! --[[User:Terkor|Terkor]] 14:41, 21 Oct 2007 (PDT)
** OK, there is a little bug: use Format > Bubble. You will see that on most zoom levels text in the bubble is not centered correctly. On both sides of the map text is placed too much on the left side. --[[User:Terkor|Terkor]] 11:33, 22 Nov 2007 (PST)
* Display error: Edges don't connect properly to the root. With widths 4 or 8 the effect is very obvious, and if "Bezier" is chosen). --[[User:Terkor|Terkor]] 07:51, 11 May 2008 (PDT)
[[Image:Root.jpg]]
* File Locking appears buggy: When you open a file with File Locking enabled in Preferences, the first open generates the error that 'file locking' failed. Subsequently, all attempts to open a file result in 'File is already being edited by (Username). Opening as Read-Only.' FreeMind does not appear to be willing to release this lock, except by turning off Experimental File Locking and turning it back on, so the entire feature appears to be broken. Specs: Windows XP SP2 machine, .mm file is on local drive which is also shared.--[[User:Perholm|Perholm]] 22:43, 13 Sep 2007 (PDT)
* Auto-Save Confirmed Buggy: '''I WOULD SUGGEST THAT THIS BUG IS AN EMERGENCY, AS DATA-LOSS CAN/WILL HAPPEN IF THE FEATURE IS RELIED UPON'''. Auto-Save at present does not work properly and should not be relied upon. Bug analysis: It appears that the timer used to control auto-save is only activated once at program launch, and when the auto-save interval has passed the timer does not reset for another auto-save interval, but instead NEVER generates an event again. Test: Set auto-save to 20000 milliseconds. Open an existing MindMap, and make a change within 20 seconds. If you check the .freemind directory, a single auto-save will be generated after 20 seconds, and no further auto-saves will EVER happen. If you again open a MindMap, and DO NOT make a change within 20 seconds, no auto-save will ever happen of any changes including the initial change. I would therefore conclude that the timer used for the auto-save interval is being programmed incorrectly, and does not launch another auto-save interval.--[[User:Perholm|Perholm]] 22:56, 13 Sep 2007 (PDT)
* The JRE 1.6 update 2 bug from javaw.exe on using the function of Open/Save File, it will waitting more than 30 sec per times, The JRE 1.5 update 11 will be better. --[[User:Josepchangtw|Josepchangtw]] 16:55, 15 Nov 2007 (PDT)
* Certain actions, foremost among them the ''paste'' action, cause FreeMind (or perhaps just the editing area) to lose focus somehow, so that no further keyboard input has any effect, until you click in the editing area to restore the focus. This severely detracts from the keyboard-only usability of FreeMind.
** Please describe how to reproduce and see this behavior [[User:DimitriPolivaev|DimitriPolivaev]] 14:40, 18 Oct 2007 (PDT)
** After pasting ''a node'' that has been copied from Freemind, the keyboard has absolutely no effect (really! I even tried mashing it randomly) until you click the mouse in the window, or switch to another window and then back, or do something else that focuses the Freemind window. Pasting text or anything else works just fine; only pasting a copied node (or nodes) causes the problem -- to put it as clearly as possible, the problem only occurs when pasting ''from Freemind to Freemind itself''. Also, I should mention that this is not a problem in 0.8, only in 0.9.
** I have a very similar problem, under Ubuntu 7.10. It happens that: 1. whenever I paste something, I lose the ability to use the keyboard (all shortcuts), editing, entering text. 2. I can get keyboard back by switching to another window or virtual desktop, but after I repeat this (paste something) the third time, I lose keyboard for good until I close and re-open Freemind; 3. mouse works and I can save my map. Please note that for me it happens both with 0.8 and 0.9 branches, when running 0.9.x both with jre 5 and 6. [[User:Zecg|Zecg]]
** Same here on openSuSE 10.3, x86_64. It's hard to reproduce when it happens but I also suddenly use the ability to use keyboard. I've found no way to get keyboard back except closing and re-opening Freemind. Mouse input still works. Appears to be introduced in the 0.9.x branch regardless whether I use jre 5 or 6. It's a show stopper. Is there a way to record all keyboard/mouse input to help to track this down ? --[[User:Steve|Steve]]
** The March 3 build seems to have fixed this bug. If others can confirm this, you can probably delete this thread.
** Not confirmed. The problem is still in Beta 16, just re-tested. A few times it happened after pressing INS, type in something, CR, CR, type in something, CR and cut the nodes again with CTRL-X, CTRL-X or a similar sequence. --[[User:Steve|Steve]]
* Node dragging problem: <br> When dragging the small circle in front of a node and moving the node vertically to raise the distance to the upper or lower node, this behavior in FreeMind seems to have changed. <br>In previous versions, the node could only be dragged to the right, up or down, but not more to the left towards the parent node. There was kind of an invisible vertical border. You could not drag the node beyond this border towards the parent node. This border was excellent to keep all child nodes aligned while changing the nodes' distance. <br>Now this doesn't work any more. In the current version, this border seems to be gone unfortunately. When I change the vertical distance of one node to another node, I cannot keep the moved node in it's horizontal position any more. <br> (By the way, pressing <CTRL>-left-mouse-button on a node's drag-handle also changes the distance between nodes, but this functionality is not compareable, because it changes the distance of <u>all</u> child nodes in this column, not only of the selected one.)
** Solution could be double-click on the small circle: it appears to work very well.--[[User:Luciodp|Luciodp]] 05:32, 7 May 2008 (PDT)
* Node dragging problem 2: <br> FM 0.9 B15. I created a map with FM 0.8, then switched to 0.9. If I copy the contents of a MSWord table into a node, MM gets it formatted with HTML and displays the table perfectly. The problem arises when I move the node to another branch of the tree. The html content gets converted to ascii (e.g. <html> becomes &lt;html&gt;) and thus all the formatting is lost. --[[User:ScavType|ScavType]] 14:09, 04 Jan 2008 (PDT)
* Print Preview shows wrong view after selecting Fit to one page. Steps: create map that's more than one page wide with default page setup options. Edit page options to fit to one page. Choose Print Preview. Expect it to show one page. Instead, it showed the first page of two pages as if ignoring the "fit to one page" option. After clicking next page button, print preview then realized it should zoom to fit to one page. --[[User:JimK|JimK]]
* Hover text for Print icon on toolbar says "Print..." implying that a dialog box will open but instead it just starts a print job. Text should say "Print" or it should open dialog box. --[[User:JimK|JimK]]
* Opened a mind map created in 0.8.7. Looks good except that beta 17 put a cloud around the entire map---i.e., main node---that I can't remove, and all the child nodes on the right of the main node have been moved down far enough to be offscreen when view is centered on the main node. (One branch on the left side is fully expanded to four levels, so maybe that had something to do with it, but folding it back up makes no difference.) Tried to toggle off the cloud using the Insert main menu, the Insert shortcut menu, and with shift+ctl+b combo... no luck. This is my first try with 0.9 b17; and already I can't use it for existing maps. --[[User:foxcole|foxcole]] 13 May 2008 UPDATE: Ah... in beta 17 I can't add a cloud to the main node either, so that seems to be a property that's not natively available at the main level. I've no idea what's putting it there in the first place but now understand why I can't remove it.
* Open a mind map that saved on a network share with windows version of freemind, doesn't work. I got the following failure: An error occoured on opening the file: MindMap:\\mondsee\homes\ko\Eigene Dateien\Brainstorming\FTM\WLT-Event.mm. It's only while opening a file on a network-share - at my local desktop it works! --[[User:Osthoffinnovations|Osthoffinnovations]] 09:12, 30 May 2008 (PDT)
** The space in the path name "..\Eigene Dateien\.." plus double back slash "\\" causes this bug.
As a quick fix add to FreeMind.java on line 517 (after “// bug fix by Dan:”)
if (System.getProperty("os.name").startsWith("Windows XP") && url.toString().startsWith("file:////"))
command = "rundll32 shell32.dll,ShellExec_RunDLL \"" + url.toString().replaceAll("%20"," ").replaceAll("%25","%")+"\"";
* If I put a graphics in a node and use the HTML editor to try to scale it down .... "size=50%" or "width=120px" ... that has no effect. [[User:Anton|Anton]]
* Freemind uses .mm as its file extension, but on Ubuntu (and probably other Linux distributions), this is the same as "Troff MM input document," so the file manager misidentifies all Freemind maps as Troff documents. Perhaps use .mim (MInd Map) or .fmm (FreeMindMap) or something else as the extension?
* On 0.9.0 beta 20: If you select "save" for an unsaved document, but you cancel the action, a message box appears saying "Saving Failed", but it's just a cancel. [[User:snookiex|snookiex]] 11:35, 27 Oct 2008 (GMT-5)
* 0.9.0 beta 20: Create child node using keyboard shortcut (eg. Insert) then press same kb shortcut (or if you have a second keystroke generated thru keystroke bounce) the second child-child node is created as closed node, ie not ready for keystroke entry. Basically pressing the "create child node" should not create a new node if the same keystroke is seen before the node has been "closed". (0.9.0 beta 15 did not display this behaviour - not tested intermediate versions yet)
* 0.9.0 beta 20: Note icon sometimes disappears and hint fails to display. Moving node causes note icon to display and hint to become active again.

=General Comments=
* Feature disable request: Would be great to disable scroll with touch pad as on my MacBook Pro if I accidentally touch the touch pad it starts scrolling very slowely and freezes all functions until it has stopped.
* Feature request: Would be nice to have a Latex export for the mindmap. This especially helps structuring a bigger report without having to type everything in latex again. Nice would be if you could say till which level you want to have headlines (after that just enumerations / lists).
* Feature request: I'm thinking to add a "Rotate" node function. When a node is selected followed by a "Rotate" feature, the selected node and its child nodes will be rotated by 90 degree. This will form a flow chart. Thus, we can used FreeMind to build flow chart easily using its friendly interface.
* Feature request: Add a number "0" icon. The addition of numbers "8" and "9" in .9.0 Beta 18 are great, but "0" is all that's left to complete the set. This will allow users to use these icons in many ways other than just setting priority. For example, when using Freemind to take notes, if you have more than 9 items which would benefit from a graphical numerical identification, double (or more) digits could be used with great benefit. I may even suggest that a black icon with white text be used—black being a conceptually appropriate color for the number "0".
* Feature request: Add the possibility to add a description to a graphical link, or even attributes (would be perfect). I use Freemind to create Moore and Mealy state machines in XML. So adding a text or attributes to a graphical link would be a milestone to reduce the complexity of the drawings.
* Feature request: When you move mouse over a node text is displayed in popup cloud, but it dissapears after few seconds. I would like for it to stay. Also, It would be great to be able to focus that popup and edit (ok that's a hard one, but at least copy) the contest there right away. --[[User:Kova|Kova]] 06:49, 19 Jan 2008 (PST)
* Feature request: I would like an option for text view (bottom) and tree view (top) to show (expand) when you move mouse over them. Right now I have tree view maximized when I'm editing the tree, but when I want to write something in the nodes or have a look what is written I have to go down, resize the text view, write text / view the text and resize again. It would be great if it resizes to half for example if I just move my mouse down to bottom where text area is. In short, I need quickly switch between node edit (text) and tree edit (graphics). --[[User:Kova|Kova]] 06:49, 19 Jan 2008 (PST)
* How about a forum for this stuff? Wiki is great for a single document, but not for discussion or suggestions like this. --[[User:Kova|Kova]] 06:49, 19 Jan 2008 (PST)
* In the German translation the use of capitals is just a mess. (Sorry!) For example "Speichern Unter..." Why a capital "U"? --[[User:Terkor|Terkor]] 06:58, 15 Dec 2007 (PST)
* Since some changes in the properties of FM need a restart of the program in order to be seen, there should be a restart option after you changed settings or in the file-menu. --[[User:Terkor|Terkor]] 02:18, 19 Nov 2007 (PST)
* any idea how I can print or give out a mindmap WITH the notes I made to the nodes? I think I tried all export possibilities but could not find a way. --[[User:bebach|bebach]] 17 Nov 2007
* Since I communicate with others using html exports or java/ flash exports, I uploaded to the web, it would be wounderful to have an internal ftp client in freemind and have an export option "upload by FTP". --[[User:bebach|bebach]] 8 Nov 2007
* Missing Export feature: I love the XHTML-Export with includes Image of the mindmap. For many reasons it would be much more comfortable to have just the images with an imagemap, for example a link collection. It will save user one very painful klick an the looking for the right section in the html export. HTML-Export as an image map would be much better for some users since the are not used to the also very nice flash or java web exports. They are very good for experienced users. --[[User:bebach|bebach]] 8 Nov 2007
* Moving a branch from one side of the root to the other - the text and child branches should "flip" to enable this
** Um, they do! Drag the node onto the root node and drop when you can see the gradient appear - then you'll mirror the structure. Otherwise you're just repositioning the node. --[[User:Kenrob|Kenrob]] 04:34, 5 Oct 2007 (PDT)
* I believe the Calendar / Scheduler feature can offer great benefits if improved. I suggest a pop up will should come up when the reminder time arrives. Similar to MS Outlook, you should have options of delaying the reminder or canceling it. --[[User:Felipe|Felipe]] 13:33, 1 May 2007 (PDT)
* I love freemind and work with it a lot some hours a day! I am looking forward to the new version and I start testing from v0.9 beta 12 --[[User:bebach|bebach]] 24 Aug 2007
* Feature Request: Database views are a powerful feature. I wish something like this for freemind. The idea is to store all the data in some ordinary mindmaps whithout redundancy, and on the other side work on them with the help of several '''virtual mindmaps''', like views in database systems. The intention is to benefit from all the advantages of database views in freemind with a similar feature. To build the freemind views could xquery be used.--[[User:maxreeb|maxreeb]] 6 Sep 2007
* Feature Request: Lose Nodes. While FreeMind works great for information that is already relatively structured in your mind, it is VERY difficult to use when your information is very disorganised, like any kind of stream-of-consciousness type note-taking. In that scenario, the fact that FreeMind forces you with an iron hand to structure information before you're allowed to move on to the next idea, forces you to completely stop the creative process maybe 10 times a minute, which is why I tend to AVOID FreeMind and favor even just WordPad any time I'm creative, because FreeMind works against me by forcing me to be so structure right off the bat that it grinds the creative process to a halt. I truly feel that you need the ability to have what I would term 'Lose Nodes', which is notes that are simply floating on the page and detached from the tree. Of course the goal is to get them attached to the tree in an orderly fashion, but for the sake of picking your own brain, you actually need the ability to simply drop them on the page, and then drag-drop organize them later by binding them together into a tree. You would do the exact same on a physical desktop -- you would cut out little pieces of paper, which would initially just be floating around on the table, until they slowly become organized into a tree. The fact that people have done this for hundreds years, I think proves that this is a natural and intuitive workflow, one that FreeMind easily both could and should support. By the same token, if you realize that a tree is poorly structured, you would want to take it apart and re-assemble it in a new way. As part of that process, maybe 20 or 40 nodes would be temporarily lose, and a 'Lose Nodes' feature would allow you to simply drag the nodes lose from the tree, drop them in the white space, and then later attach them somewhere else. I think this would be extremely intuitive. And very lastly, in this mindset of being able to do in FreeMind what you are thinking, I think you need to support more than one root. Although the GOAL is of course a neatly structured tree with a single root, you again don't necessarily arrive there through clean path -- no, the path is messy and disorganized, and then order forms slowly. I feel I would be able to structure large and experimental concepts much more easily if you supported Lose Nodes and multiple roots. With multiple roots, you would be able to detach section of the tree into a new tree, work on them concurrently, until you realize that they're part of the same concept, and glue the trees back together. These two features together are what is preventing me from being truly productive with FreeMind from a discovery perspective. I have no doubt that FreeMind works like a charm for information that is already relatively organized, but for discovering new and original concepts, FreeMind forces a structure on the information that is not mature for. Rather, FreeMind helps your produce a graph of the end result, but doesn't fully help you get there. --[[User:Perholm|Perholm]] 16:23, 12 Sep 2007 (PDT)
** "Lose Nodes" or "Unattached Nodes" or "Additional Roots" are available in [http://www.mindjet.com/ MindJet's] Mindmap. They are a class of "floating" objects that include labels and graphics. I recall the implementation of this came in on of the service packs for X5. [http://www.mindjet.com/resources/tutorials/mindmanagerx5/default.aspx X5] also added things like callouts, markers, map parts, and storing the map as XML. Once again I would recommend looking at Mindjet's MindMap and if you are a Windows users trying the 30-day evaluation to get a feel for what is possible in both capabilities and interface. --[[User:Anton|Anton]] 18:05, 20 Jul 2008 (PDT)

** Understood the issue. What I do is setting "disable key type" off, and "key type adds new" on. So each time I am hitting "return" key and starting to type again, it is a new node automatically created. In fact it works then like "wordPad", a node being equivalent to a line. To keep my map "clean" all those new nodes are created under a node "to be cleaned" or even a new map. Then I do the assembling by moving nodes with the mouse, and this is all the power of freemind. Faster to reorganise information than any other tool I have ever tried. I like your expression "kind of stream-of-consciousness type note-taking". This is exactly my use (several hours/day for years) of Freemind which is my main/only data entry software, and it is the best tool I know for this. --[[User:Fb5|Fb5]] 03:57, 23 Oct 2007 (PDT)
** About the multi root discussion. The same result could be attained easily now with the tabbed windows. For large maps already difficult to see, multiroots would make them really messy. An improvement for your concern could be to have an option to view tabbed windows "side by side" ("arrange all" in Word from Windows).--[[User:Fb5|Fb5]] 04:15, 23 Oct 2007 (PDT)
* Feature Request: Rearranging Nodes. I'm wondering why, when you're rearranging the order of nodes on the same hierarchical level, why you're only allowed to move a node *before* another node by dropping things in the top half of the destination node. All the time, I need to move a node so it comes *after* another node, but you can't simply drop the node in the bottom half of the destination node to move it to come *after*. And by the same token, there's NO way to move a node to be the last one without dropping it in the right-side of the *parent* node. This is frustrating, really frustrating, and there's no real logic to it... who made the decision that you can only move nodes *before* other nodes, but not *after*? Why did you decide to make it like this and not the other way around. And why is the only way you can get a node to the bottom of a list, to drag and drop onto the right side of the *parent* node. I run into this probably 20 or 30 times an hour, and the current design seems arbitrarily selected. You should be able to move nodes both *before* and *after* each other by dragging and dropping them into the top or bottom half of the destination node. I feel that nothing else is consistent and makes sense. Sorry for my rant, I just feel that there are some things that don't follow GUI 101. --[[User:Perholm|Perholm]] 14:00, 13 Sep 2007 (PDT)
** A simple workaround is to drag to the ''second-last'' position, i.e. the top ½ of the lowest node. When you have everything else repositioned, drag the lowest node to it rightful place. --[[User:Kenrob|Kenrob]] 04:25, 5 Oct 2007 (PDT)
*** I think this is unacceptable as a solution. Workaround, yes. Solution, no. --[[User:Perholm|Perholm]] 14:12, 10 Oct 2007 (PDT)
* Feature Request: Copy/Paste Paragraphs. I'm an author trying to use FreeMind to structure a large literary project, and it would be incredibly helpful if FreeMind had the following functionality: If you grab some text from Word (which might consist of for example 10 paragraphs), it would be incredibly helpful to get each of these paragraphs as individual child-nodes. The reason is that we're using FreeMind to organize a book-type project, of which some has already been written, and we need to get each paragraph of a chapter into a separate child-node in FreeMind so we can rearrange the blocks the FreeMind way, which by the way works fantastically. But at the moment, we can't find any other way than to copy/paste each single (friggin) paragraph individually. And the same goes for when you're trying to get something back into Word; it would be great to be able to simply select a branch, and get it copy/pasted into word as a simple top-to-bottom text copy where each child-node is an individual paragraph. That way you can use FreeMind to organize a literary project, knowing that the project ultimately has to end up in Word, but FreeMind is far superior for organizing and structuring the information. Perhaps consider a 'Paste Menu' like Word has, which asks you how exactly you want to paste, i.e. 'Keep Formatting' or 'Text Only' -- a similar menu in FreeMind could ask if you want to turn individual paragraphs into nodes, or if you want to paste the whole text as a single node. This would be REALLY helpful to organize literary projects. This would also allow you to much more easily use FreeMind to edit something that is initially written as stream-of-consciousness, i.e. any brainstorm. Such a brainstorm would likely simply consist of lines upon lines (or paragraphs upon paragraphs) of disorganized ideas written into Word or a text-editor. When you bring this into FreeMind, you ought to be able to turn each 'idea' (i.e. Paragraph) into a separate node. Right now, I can find no other way than to copy/paste each line individually, which is enormously labor-intensive. UPDATE: OK, FreeMind already has this feature, but it doesn't always work, because if you're pasting from Word, the text coming in is interpreted as Rich Text, and put into a single child node. If you want the behavior I describe, you have to first copy the text in Word, paste the text into Notepad (not Wordpad), copy it from Notepad, and paste it into FreeMind. I think there should be the ability to interpret text coming from Word as 'text-only' and not automatically bring in the formatting. In the case of a literary project, the formatting is only interesting in Word... in FreeMind you only want to edit the text, the formatting is irrelevant in a FreeMind context.--[[User:Perholm|Perholm]] 23:11, 13 Sep 2007 (PDT)
** '''You can use Edit->Split Node after inserting a formatted paragraph into the node. It splits the node in single paragraphs.''' [[User:DimitriPolivaev|DimitriPolivaev]] 14:19, 17 Sep 2007 (PDT)
** Using the Edit->Split Node is very time consuming for a large number of branches. <s>Why can't we retain the behaviour of Freemind 0.8.0? It seems that a tool to organise thoughts should work at the lowest level of granularity not create huge "blobs" of text. When I reorganise my ideas by pasting paragraphs from a document in 0.8.0, each paragraph in the document beocomes a separate branch. I can then drag and drop branches to reorganise my ideas. This issue is so important to me that it will be a show-stopper for 0.9.0 as far as I am concerned!</s> --[[User:Phil31753|Phil31753]] 07:35, 9 Apr 2009 (UTC) Tool->Split Node achieves what I (and others in this section) require.--[[User:Phil31753|Phil31753]] 10:05, 9 Apr 2009 (UTC)
** That's interesting discussion. When I copy from word to freemind, each paragraph is copied as an individual node and that is what I expect and what You would like. Maybe your freemind settings are different than mine ?--[[User:Fb5|Fb5]] 04:05, 23 Oct 2007 (PDT)
** It is now I met the issue You described Perholm. This is when copying form WEB BROWSER to FREEMIND. The copy keeps the html formating and keeps it in one node. This is a real annoyance for me too and that would stop me to move from 0.8 Version. Is it possible to have a "Paste Special" or '''"Paste as text"''' menu which also split paragraph as nodes, please Dimitri ? One advantage of the html copy would be for tables, which doesn't work in 0.8. Thank You. Franck --[[User:Fb5|Fb5]] 03:46, 6 Dec 2007 (PST)
* SIMPLICITY , SPEED and RELIABILITY : Those must be the main strengths of Freemind. I am using Freemind as my main computer interface for data entry for three years, ending with large maps (several 10s of thousands nodes). I have tried many other softwares and my conclusion, there is simply no equivalence on the market. It would be a shame to slow the program or the user-interface because adding new features. So, my expectation is to have user-options for enabling or not those features (attributes and Wysiwig). Thank You so much for the great work. Franck --[[User:Fb5|Fb5]] 20:03, 2 Oct 2007 (PDT)
** I want to second that: my maps are not nearly as big as Franck's but for me simplicity and reliability (as already provided by 0.8.0) are most important, too. Please try to keep focus on the simple things instead of adding too many features.--[[User:Christofb|Christofb]] 12:27, 30 Oct 2007 (PDT)
** Absolutely right. It is wonderful that new features are being added, but it is ESSENTIAL that Freemind is able to run QUICKLY on any computer, or it won't be useful. --[[User:Loydog|Loydog]] 2:44, 8 Nov 2007 (PDT)
** I absolutely agree to that. I'm a freemind user for years now and though I'm looking forward to see new features in freemind I always loved the fast and easy way to create maps on every occasion. So maybe if there are resource consuming new features they could be inserted as plugins or sth. like that so users are able to decide wether they will activate a feature or not--lpdubel 02:06, 14 Nov 2007 (PST)
* Attachments (Multiple): It is necessary to be able to add multiple attachments to a single node. For example, one node may have an attached pdf doc, word doc, excel sheet, and other mindmap. [[User:kberardinelli|kberardinelli]] 09:17, 26 Oct 2007 (EDT)
** What I do is to create subnodes (even without any text) and assign an attachement to each of them. --[[User:Fb5|Fb5]] 02:26, 15 Nov 2007 (PST)
* Attachments (Deletion): Currently, there seems to be no way to delete an attachment. This needs to be very easy to do (perhaps by right-clicking and selecting 'Delete Attachment'. [[User:kberardinelli|kberardinelli]] 09:17, 26 Oct 2007 (EDT)
* Feature Request: Especially when using freemind on a beamer I would like to have a fullscreen mode ie without window decorations etc. Just the canvas, even without menu bar or status bar. -- [[User:barney|barney]] 13:52, 29 Oct 2007 (MEZ)
** I would love to see that too. Think about using it in a classroom for a brainstorming on the beamer. --[[User:Christofb|Christofb]] 12:27, 30 Oct 2007 (PDT)
** Agree, for uncluttering and focusing on one task. -- [[User:Vibrog|Vibrog]] 10:43, 17 Nov 2008 (UTC)
** Agree with you at all! I would like to use freemind for presentation on technical presentation. --[[User:Dinny|dinny]]
* Feedback: In Beta 13 (the one before 14), I could remove the note area from the view and use ctrl-< to activate the note area, make it visible again, and type ahead. This still works in Beta 14. When done, I could use ctrl-< again to focus the mind map node again and the note area vanishes again. In Beta 14 the note area stays visible and I need to ctrl-<, ctrl-> to move out and hide the area. The behaviour in Beta 13 was much easier to work with. -- [[User:barney|barney]] 13:52, 29 Oct 2007 (MEZ)
* Feature request: IMO it would be very useful to be able to add some metadata to a freemind map as a whole like titel, description, author, keywords --lpdubel 02:06, 14 Nov 2007 (PST)

* Feature request: I would like very much to have a better method for transclusion. Compendium allows reuse of nodes across multiple views (whether maps or lists) and automatically handles updates from any instance to all appearances across a range of maps. Compendium even places a subscript counting the number of transclusions for a node! Can one hack this up through per node addressing in FreeMind? Would that handle automatic updates? I suspect a database back-end for nodes makes more sense. I want to construct constructing Maps through addition across a collection of nodes (again, like Compendium) instead of filtering maps by subtraction across a single map's nodes. As a first approximation to this, I'd like to save Filters independently of maps. --[[User:Jay Dugger|Jay_Dugger]], 2217 Sunday, 2 December 2007

*Feature request: Ship it! (sorry, but it would be nice to have a released version that works with the lattest java version), and well, it's been 2 and a half years... [[User:Tomh|Tomh]] 05:09, 10 Jan 2008 (PST)

*Feature request: I really miss a strike-through along bold and italic, with a keyboard shortcut. Cheers.

* Feature request: Nothing big, I just wanted to ask weather its possible to bind the structure to too points again (left right) from the rootnode like it was it 0.8 and that change this when you want. Because its much esear to start a structured mindmap using only the keys... Also I liked to have two sides to divide the thoughts when speaking about pro and contra. It Would be Great if it was possible to ad this as an Option to the root-point. (Inculding the move navigation with strg that could move one node all around the root) Thank you! --[[User:X-Site|X-Site]] 16:29, 9 Mar 2008 (PDT)

* Feature lost? In 8.0 version when you copy nodes and paste in MSWord you immediately create a "structure", that is a hyerarchic level: very useful if you want to adjust titles or paragraphs in preliminary notes, or import them in Power Point slides etc. I'm a teacher and use Freemind with students for brainstorming, organize ideas and create texts or presentations from preliminary notes. Now in 9.0 version this feature seems to be lost. Why? Do tou know any solution? Many thanks for your work.--[[User:Luciodp|Luciodp]] 05:24, 7 May 2008 (PDT)

* Try Tools->Split Node --[[User:Phil31753|Phil31753]] 10:05, 9 Apr 2009 (UTC)

*Feature request: I would like to be able to apply a cloud to a parent node but not necessarily its children; or maybe to only some selected children... similar to how a network or gateway is depicted in a flowchart. [[User:foxcole|foxcole]] 13 May 2008 UPDATE: Perhaps a more accurate request is to be able to choose from a limited set basic shapes to apply to a node or set of siblings but not children.

* When I export my map to a text based format (i. e. HTML), FM starts with the right side and then continues the left side. For me it is not intuitive I start my maps on the left side - as I would read a newspaper or magazine. I guess it is not difficult to allow the user to choose if FM should start with the left or the right side. --[[User:Terkor|Terkor]] 16:28, 13 May 2008 (PDT)

* Feedback: Thanks for all your hard work, absolutely amazing product. --[[User:RazielJaTier|RazielJaTier]] 15:23, 20 May 2008 (PDT)

* Changed Functionality: In 0.8 I could hover over a node to select it, hold down ctrl, which would effectively prevent other nodes from being selected. Then move my mouse all the way across the map (again without worry about another node being selected), then click on an icon *with the ctrl key held down*. The icon would be assigned. In 0.9 you have to release ctrl before you click the icon, otherwise it will simply ignore it. This is a simple little detail, and I'm sure I'll get used to it, but if it's not difficult, and you don't have other plans for ctrl clicking icons, I'd love the 0.8 behavior back. --[[User:RazielJaTier|RazielJaTier]] 15:23, 20 May 2008 (PDT)

* Suggestion: Create localized version of linked data. When you use alt+L to create a link to another part of the map, it would be nice if you had an option to actually create "ghost" versions of that data instead of having to click in the link. If you edited the ghost version, or the original, they would stay in sync. --[[User:RazielJaTier|RazielJaTier]] 15:23, 20 May 2008 (PDT)

* Suggestion: It would be neat to be able to with single click generate the framework of a thinking tool. When I say thinking tool I am thinking mostly of the thinking tools created by Edward de Bono such as his Six Hats, CoRT and many others. See http://www.edwdebono.com/ and http://www.edwarddebono.com/ for more info. An example would be right clinking on "Six Hats" and from your current node it would create six child nodes: White Hat, Red Hat, Yellow Hat, Black Hat, Green Hat and Blue Hat. For each of these child nodes an empty blank node would be created as well. Lastly your cursor would move to the blank node under White Hat and then you can start typing. Such functionality might be created with Groovy script but most would not want the difficulty of programming Groovy script. It is also possible to cut and paste a section of a mind map but that is more cumbersome than a single click. --[[User:Mars729|Mars729]] 17:59, 31 May 2008 (EDT)
** A library of templates would be a great contribution. --[[User:Anton|Anton]] 17:52, 20 Jul 2008 (PDT)

* Suggestion: When working with images it would be nice to be able to paste or drop an image to a node. --[[User:trinxie|trinxie]]

* Suggestion: When adding an image link, if it is a file, should it be possible to store the relative path? Would be great if the whole model is distributed to someone else. Maybe this possibility already exists. --[[User:trinxie|trinxie]]

* If I install Freemind using aptitude in Ubuntu 8.10, I have the /usr/share/pixmaps/FreeMindWindowIcon.xpm to use in my panel, but as the available version in Ubuntu is 0.7.1 and I have some MMs created with later versions, I decided to try the 0.9 RC1, and downloaded it (freemind-bin-max-0.9.0_RC_1.zip). For my surprise, there is no icon to use in this zip. Please include one, or maybe more than one (see http://www.menyhart.net/blog/software/freemind-icon/). --[[User:Itamar|Itamar]] 12:33, 9 Feb 2009 (UTC)

* '''''Observation:''''' Many of these suggestions and feature requests are or are similar to ones that exist in [http://www.mindjet.com/ Mindjet's] MindMap. It used to be that this leader had a great advantage in that it supported scripts. Now that FreeMind has Groovy it is catching up. All we need is the library of neat applications that use the scripting language''!'' I was a keen user of MM2002 and looked forward to MM-X5 and its shift to XML, but the real shift was for the benefit of people ho were programmers, not the baseline users. Unless you were a EmbeddedVisualBasic programmer the change was a setback. The library of HTML export templates was lost - Mindjet's response was "its all XML so you can write your own XSLT. Well some of us can't or don't have the time. The other killer for me was that Mindjet tied in too closely with Microsoft Office. It couldn't export to anything else. So in reality one had to spend hundred of dollars more for each upgrade of MindMap since it always needed the latest version of Office. ''However'' I would recommend looking at Mindjet's MindMap and if you are a Windows users trying the 30-day evaluation to get a feel for what is possible in both capabilities and interface. --[[User:Anton|Anton]] 17:52, 20 Jul 2008 (PDT)

* When you enter note-data for quite a number of nodes the map is so full with the note-icon. I would appreciate an option in the preferences as for the attribute icon, that disables showing an icon. (Tools>Preferences>Appearance>Show icon for attributes) --[[User:Kai|Kai]] 21:59, 20 Mar 2009 (CET)

* Feature request: automatically calculating the print zoom factor according to a user-defined number of mosaiced printed pages. E.g., user should be able to specify he wants the map printed on N x M pages (M pages across and N pages high) and the print zoom factor should be calculated automatically. That would reduce the need to compute the best print zoom factor by trial-and-error. --[[User:Arg0|arg0]] 09:29, 24 Apr 2009 (UTC)

* Feature request: settings for customising arrow links (e.g., ability to specify that links start from the root part of a node rather than from the leaf part). Moreover, it can be really tricky to rearrange the shape of an arrow link, especially short ones, since all parameters (starting point, tangency) are changed simultaneously when dragging a link point. Fine editing should be implemented. --[[User:Arg0|arg0]] 09:29, 24 Apr 2009 (UTC)

* GENERAL OPEN SOURCE FEEDBACK LOOPS WITH FREEMIND, would it not be helpful if feedback loops were integrated into the beta versions, so that one can write requests for enhancements as one is using Freemind or other open source proejcts. For example, for each function there could be a questionnaire and comment box next to it. This info could then be uploaded to a wiki. It may help organize the locations of info and spur more user involvement in the feedback process. Could it also be possible that the uses of the porgramme are logged and statistically analyzed by the developers?

FreeMind 0.9.0: The New Features

2009-06-19T12:09:57Z

MikeS: /* User Feedback */

A great release is to come. We have many exciting new features: WYSIWYG-Editing for nodes and notes, scripting, filter, attributes and many more.

But all these new features still need a lot of testing and documentation. To start this, please have a look at the newest version [http://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=7118&package_id=188772 here] and [http://sourceforge.net/forum/forum.php?thread_id=1592095&forum_id=22101 tell us your opinions].

Use this wiki page for documenting the new features.

But: Don't use this version for productive maps. It is not stable enough!
* Further warning: If you create a map with Attributes, it will open as a "New Map" with no data in version 0.8. Your data is not lost, just not readable by 0.8.
* You can try to convert the 0.9.0 - saved map back to 0.8.0 by following steps

# Make the backup copy of the map
# Open it with the 0.9.0 again
# Select all nodes
# Format-> use plain text
# Save
# Open the mind map file in text editor
# Remove all lines starting with <attribute_registry> and ending with <attribute_registry/>
# Save the file and try to open it in 0.8.0

If it does not help you should use the 0.9.0.

= Attributes =
''FIXME: An introduction should be given here explaining what attributes are and what they are good for. Why should the user learn how to fiddle around with attributes if he does not know what they are?''

Attributes provide different perspectives for ordering/viewing your MindMap. Attributes are tuple name/value pairs that are globally available i.e. can be tagged to any node and assigned specific values. For example, you can create shopping lists, add notional weightings, performance metrics, etc. The real power of attribute comes from writing Groovy scripts that can operate on attribute value or change the behavior of a node. For example, you can summarize the info contained within several nodes for a total cost. Attributes are complemented by Filters.

Real world example: I use Attributes and Filters after taking staff meeting notes. Immediately after a meeting, I assign attributes to nodes as applicable: Attribute 1 is "Name", values are the names of my staff; Attribute 2 is "Priority", values are numbers 1-5. The "Assign Attributes..." dialogue allows me to select all comments from a certain staff member and then assign their name to those nodes at once. If there is an action required, I might assign a priority. Filters allow me to quickly see only nodes from a certain staff member, or specific priority levels, or any combination. --[[User:Dnbarg|Dnbarg]] 20:21, 22 Oct 2007 (PDT)

== Quick Attribute creation ==
* Select node.
* Edit Attribute: Alt-F9 or, Rt-click>Edit attributes.
* Type in an Attribute name.
* Then add a value if desired.
* Edit with the Attribute Manager later if necessary.
== Using Attribute Manager ==
* Open the attribute manager with attribute icon on toolbar or, Tools>Attribute Manager.
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=== Working with Attributes ===
* Click the "Edit" button in the "All Attributes" row
* Select attribute names from existing names to Rename/Delete in popup dialog
* Enter new attribute name to Add in popup dialog
* Press "Close" to close the dialog after all changes are done

==== Create Attribute ====
* Type in your Attribute name, then press add
* Repeat to add multiple attributes
==== Create Attribute values====
* type the value, then press "Add"
* It's a good idea to add a blank value to the list. It helps when assigning attributes later
Every Attribute can have multiple values
* eg. I use an Attribute called "Staff" and the values are the staff person's name
* eg. I use an Attribute called "Priority" and the values are #'s 1 to 5

==== Delete Attribute ====
* Select the menu option Tools/Attribute Manager, to open the panel Attribute Manager.
* In the line "All Attributes" of this panel, click on the icon in the last column (Edit). This opens a new panel "All Attributes".
* In this panel, select the attribute name, then press "Delete".

==== Delete Attribute values ====
* Select the value, then press "Delete"
* All attributes with the deleted value are removed from the whole map

All attributes with the deleted name and/or value are removed from the whole map

==== Rename Attribute ====
* Select the attribute name to be renamed, type the new name, then press "Rename"
* All attributes with the renamed value are adjusted

==== Rename Attribute values ====
* Select the value to be renamed, type the new value, then press "Rename"
* All attributes with the renamed value are adjusted

=== Working with Attribute values (in Attribute Mgr) ===
* After adding Attributes, you should see them listed under the "Attributes" column heading
* Click on the "Edit" button in the row of your new Attribute and add the values
* Edit attribute values in popup dialog
* Press "Close" to close the dialog after all changes are done

== Assign Attributes to nodes ==
assigning only a few nodes
* Choose the node, press Alt-F9 or, Rt-Click the node and choose "Edit Attributes"
* To add more attribute per node, use TAB key (if View>Attributes>Show all attributes is selected), or use the following.
* got to: Tools>"Assign attributes..."
* choose "Selected Nodes" or "Visible Nodes"
* from the drop down list, choose the Attribute you want to assign. (Here it helps when there's a blank value. You can assign an Attribute to all nodes needing it, and then set the value later, on a node by node basis)
* press the "Add" button to assign the Attribute to the node/s
* add more than one attribute to a node if necessary
* delete attributes from multiple nodes with this dialog

== Viewing/Hiding Attributes ==
to see an icon on nodes with attributes
* Tools>Preferences>Appearance>Show icon for attributes
show all attributes
* Alt-s or, View>Attributes>Show all attributes
show no attributes
* Alt-h or, View>Attributes>Show no attributes
show selected attributes
* in the Attribute Manager, select desired Attributes in the "Selected Visible" column
* then, View>Attributes>Show selected Attributes
optimize the width of the Attribute/value table
* Rt-click on the Attribute and choose optimal width

== User feedback ==
=== Bugs concerning attributes ===
* Better sorting of the options: Add Attribute > Delete this Attribute > Delete all Attributes. Numerous times I accidentally clicked on the middle button which is now (beta20) "Alle Werte löschen" when I intended to only "Diesen Wert löschen", because it is on the same line where I specify the criteria, which attribute value pair I try to delete [[User:JR|JR]] 13:16, 8 Oct 2008 (UTC)
* The key bindings alt-s and alt-h do not work as expected for showing or hiding attributes.--[[User:Yubrshen|yushen]] 02:23, 25 Nov 2006 (PST)
* When Attributes are visible, scrolling with mouse wheel stops when cursor is over the attribute of a node. --[[User:Terkor|Terkor]] 20:11, 27 Aug 2007 (PDT)
* If I set attributes, I can't export the map in PDF. It's ok in flash, png, xhtml, jpeg. Beta 17 on Ubuntu 8.04 - Sun Java -- freemind@smci.ch 2008-05-23
* If I add a blank character such as space after an attribute name, it is not considered as the same attribute (no trim) --[[User:Patco|Patco]] 19:27, 19 Jun 2008 (PDT)
* If you create attributes for the first time, but not assign them to a node, they won't be saved in your document --[[User:kvantomme|kvantomme]] 17:15, 3 Dec 2008 (GMT+1)
* Selecting an attribute with the arrow keys (from the dropdown) and then pressing tab makes the attributes box disappear.--[[User:Kartunes|kar]] 18:19, 12 Mar 2009 (UTC)

=== Bugs or features? (questions about attributes to the developers) ===

* The context menu key on the keyboard doesn't open the context-menu. --[[User:Jan|Jan]] 01:07, 4 Jul 2008 (PDT)

* When changing the font-size of a node by keyboard-shortcut (ctrl+"+" / crtl+"-") the fontsize-combobox of the toolbar isn't refreshing. --[[User:Jan|Jan]] 01:00, 4 Jul 2008 (PDT)

* When adding an attribute to a node which already has the attribute, the attribute will be shown as many times as added. However, when deleting the attribute from node, all instances of the attribute would be deleted.--[[User:Yubrshen|yushen]] 02:23, 25 Nov 2006 (PST)
:* In version 0.9.0b13, the bug is corrected (i.e. deleting one attribute does not delete all other attributes with the same name). So, the possibility to have several attributes with the same name but different values ought probably to be considered as a feature, not a bug ? For example the attribute "child" could have the values "Peter" and "Mary" attached to a given node "Paul and Jane" to include in the map the information that Paul and Jane have at least 2 children named Peter and Mary (if I understood correctly the notion and usefulness of attributes)? --[[User:Miclav|Miclav]] 01:56, 9 Sep 2007 (PDT)

* It is not possible to delete an attribute from the List of attributes. If one is created, it lives forever .... It seems that using tool/assign attribute by selecting the attribute in question, and select delete all values, it's possible to remove an attribute of a node. --[[User:Yubrshen|yushen]] 21:19, 15 Jan 2007 (PST)

:* You can remove or even rename some attributes and attribute values from the map using the attribute manager. Use Tools->Attribute Manager->All Attributes->[edit]->[click on attribute]->[Delete] --[[User:DimitriPolivaev|DimitriPolivaev]] 05:12, 9 Sep 2007 (PDT)

* It is not intuitive to go to Tools->Assign Attributes to set attributes on several nodes. I expected to be able to select several nodes (or all) and use Edit->Attributes. It didn't occur to me to look on the Tools menu for Editing. -- [[User:JimK|JimK]]
* The workflow in the Assign Attributes dialog is backwards: actions should be from left to right, top to bottom. I suggest moving the buttons to the right side. It's also strange why Add & Delete have one section and Replace has another. From user viewpoint they're all the same. Just need one name/value input box? -- [[User:JimK|JimK]]
* The title of the Assign Attributes dialog box has an extra character in "Assign" that should be removed. -- [[User:JimK|JimK]]
* Attributes are a great idea, but the whole dialog thing is very slow to work with. And it sucks to have a dialog over your workspace. I suggest making attributes work pretty much like a dynamic list of icons in terms of user interface:
** Make a toolbar dedicated to adding attribute values to nodes. Put the toolbar on the right side of the screen, make a button for every value, so that it can be assigned with one click.
*** This is so that, rather than choosing "apply to selected" or "apply to visible", you can use the standard built in selecting mechanisms, and apply attributes the same way that you apply icons.
**** You also have the added bonus of standardizing the interface somewhat.
** Put a selector box, or in the case of a low number of attribute value pairs, section them off, so you never need more than one or two clicks to assign an attribute.
** Have an empty box in the toolbar for new attribute or value definitions.
** Remove the attribute assignment dialog.
** Here's a visual sample. I found it was easier just to illustrate it: [[Media:FreeMindAttributeToolbar.png]] --[[User:RazielJaTier|RazielJaTier]] 22:50, 20 May 2008 (PDT)
* There is a bug in the browser applet of 0.9.0-Beta19 related to notes attached on nodes: if you switch between nodes the text of the note in the bottom window don't get updated, unless you select a node without a note and go back to one with a note. I guess the method onSelectHook(NodeView pNode) in NodeNoteViewer.java isn't called when switch between nodes with notes. --[[User:Jens|Jens]] 14:20, 11 Aug 2008 (PDT)

=== Wishes concerning attributes ===
* I love the attribute & filter feature & see great potential ahead. Being able to name & save searches would also be extremely useful.--[[User:Felipe|Felipe]] 07:34, 26 Apr 2007 (PDT)
* Really wish for a feature to only selectively show the attribute of the node in focus. The current options of "show all attributes", "show the selected attributes" all apply to all the nodes visible. With all nodes showing attributes, it occupy too much space. I wish that it only shows all the attributes for the current node being selected, i.e. in focus. This would be often enough for normal use.--[[User:Yubrshen|yushen]] 20:36, 1 Dec 2006 (PST)
* Default attributes of new node: I need to add some attributes to all new nodes. Therefore, I wish that there is mechanism to automatically stuff some default attributes to all the new nodes created after the functionality is enabled. This function may be configured to enable/disable. --[[User:Yubrshen|yushen]] 21:19, 15 Jan 2007 (PST)
* Or there is functionality to add a group of selected attributes to a group of selected nodes through one operation. --[[User:Yubrshen|yushen]] 21:19, 15 Jan 2007 (PST)

*You explained how to create attribute etc... but after spending "only" 30 minutes on it, what is the real interest in practice of such feature ? What is the use of attributes ? not clear what it can be used for ....--[[User:Djerr|Djerr]] 17:49, 20 Jan 2007

*Roll-up: It'd be really nice (and quite natural) to be able to roll-up (summarize or otherwise) the values of certain attributes (eg. money, time, resource requirements, etc) from children to parent nodes. --[[User:azimmer|azimmer]] 16:58, 14 Feb 2007

* See also the [[Talk:FreeMind_0.9.0:_The_New_Features|discussion page]]

* Adding "Attribute" is a great idea (for me ;-) !). There's a long time that I'm thinking of using freemind in an Artificial Intelligence way. Using Attribute, simultaneously with groovy, may help me for creating rules. Thanks ! --[[User:PLANTING|PLANTING]] 12 Aug 2007
* A way to copy and paste all the attributes assigned to a node or one of these attributes would be nice. Perhaps a "Copy Attribute" and "Copy All Attributes" in popup menu when you right-click on the attributes of a node. --[[User:Terkor|Terkor]] 10:06, 30 Aug 2007 (PDT)

* A way to assign different types of data to attributes: AKA Boolean, Integer, Date, Text, etc.
*Refactor/sort nodes by attribute: Dunno if anybody knows the dashboard plugin for mindmanager, but this idea is similar (except better cause it uses custom attributes). basically, any given attribute/group of attributes would be a parent node. And the values of the attribute would be the children. The nodes with those values would branch off from that. Would allow for awesome fluid mindmaps that could show all sorts of relationships between nodes without ruining the linear structure of the map, allowing for scheduling, budgeting, etc. I'm creating some example mindmaps which show how this feature would be incredibly usefull for something like scheduling.
* Sorting function would be great, but I propose it on the node (alphabetical). Having it on the attribute means for me having to update individually each node's attribute, which would take more time than sorting them by hand. I imagine a function sorting alphabetically all subnodes 1st level of the selected node. Franck --[[User:Fb5|Fb5]] 03:55, 6 Dec 2007 (PST)
** I'd agree with 'sort nodes by attribute' above. I'm a mindmanager user and being able to easily and interactively prioritise tasks on a node is very useful. In mm I just use the pre-defined priority icons, and sort accordingly. This is useful, but freemind with multi-attributes could offer more powerful sorts.

* A way to add new attributes using just the keyboard. I use keyboard shortcuts quite often with FreeMind and not having the ability to quickly add/change/delete attributes with the keyboard makes them much less useful. --[[User:Verifex|Verifex]] 15:57, 8 Dec 2007 (PST)
** What about Alt+F9 for selecting the attribute table and F2 for editing, TAB for adding? [[User:DimitriPolivaev|DimitriPolivaev]]
* Some attributes should be single-valued. Right now they all seem to be multi-valued. For example, I want only want attribute named Priority per node. -- [[User:JimK|JimK]]
* Hopefully you're going to add Help to dialog boxes? When I'm in Attribute Manager I don't understand all the choices. I should be able to view help about them from within the app rather than going to a Website/wiki. -- [[User:JimK|JimK]]
* Clicking on the "Icon for Attributes" could show/hide the attributes.
* Ability to have "Optimal Width" applied on all nodes by default.
** Seconded. A preference for the default width would help as well. --[[User:Icekiss|Icekiss]] 08:08, 19 Apr 2008 (PDT)
* It would be great to have the possibillity to group attributes and give these groups names. These names may be treated as node types. One may assign a node type to a node meaning the node gets automatically all the attributes of this type. With this it would be possible to define for instance a node type like ''activity'' with attribute like ''who'', ''start date'', ''percent complete'' and so on. An easy way to assign node types to nodes, for instance something like ''default type for new nodes depending on parent node'' would be the cherry on top.
* I've been using beta 15 seriously for a project. Filtering is wonderful, and what I really need is sub-node sorting by attribute and/or icon priority. (Please!) - johnn

* Don't know if it should be here or not. But actually, it would be nice if we could apply the same kind of filter to the icons:
** it would be faster
** it would be simpler, as some kind of default attribute+values
** it allows also multiple values (i can have multiple icons for one same branch)
* This would probably require to expand the list of icons to have more of the different types of notions that can be represented in a tool as FreeMind:
** relative to decision making: delay (e.g. hourglass), optionality, assumption/hypothesis, problem/inconsistency (e.g. lighting), advantage ("thumb up", "+/-"), inconvenient ("thumb down","+/-"),cause, consequence, risk,
** relative to life in general: user (people), group, time (clock), time interval, machine, etc.--[[User:Patco|Patco]] 19:48, 19 Jun 2008 (PDT)
* Keyboard assigning of attributes is a bit clumsy. Ideally, instead of using the arrow keys to select, the appropriate attribute would be suggested just by typing its first few letters. Then tab could be pressed to select and go to the next attribute.--[[User:Kartunes|kar]] 17:45, 12 Mar 2009 (UTC)
* the attribute icon has not the same meaning than the others. For example, with an ordered list (with icons "1", "2", "3" ...), having a node with attributes will disorganize the position of the icons! -- [[User:Patco|Patco]]

= Filter =
== Create filters to view and print the data more effectively ==
Clicking on the little funnel to the left of the zoom size toggles on and off the Filter Toolbar.
By default (i.e. in absence of any personal filter defined, see below) the values that can be selected in the List box of the Filter Toolbar are:
* No Filtering
* Currently Selected Nodes
To create a filter for one Attribute:
* to the right of the filter status, click "Edit"
* in the drop down menu at the top left, select your attribute
* the expression drop changes to "Exists"
* press "Add", then "OK" at the bottom
* all nodes with the selected Attribute will be shown, and the branches that don't contain these nodes will be hidden.
* To display, on the contrary, all branches that do not contain nodes with the given attribute, click on Edit, then, in panel Filter Composer, click on buttons "Not" then "Apply". This adds, in the List box of the Filter Toolbar, the two additional filters "attribute_XXX Exists" and "Not attribute_XXX Exists" (where attribute_XXX stands for the current attribute).

To create a filter for an Attribute and one of its values:
* after step two above select the second drop down where "exists" is showing
* choose "Is equal to". Your values should now be available in the third drop down
* press "Add", then OK

== use multiple filters at once ==
create two filter sets by the method above
select the filter sets you want
* Shift-click for multiple, continuous sets
* Ctrl-click for non-contiguous selection
press the "and" button on the right => a new set is created which combines your selected sets

'''User feedback'''

Another feature which can be useful: name for the filter. If you combine simple filters, it can be difficult to read what is it doing:
For example:
(Responsable is equal to Erwan and Type is equal to "draw") can be renamed as "Erwan Drawing", and could be more simple to manage.

Another thing: It could be useful to see/mask attributes when clicking on the attribute icon.

== filter on an icon ==
* add an icon to a node by highlighting the node, click on the icon on the left or Rt-click>Icons
* in the filtering "edit" dialog, choose "Icon" in the drop-down list at the top left, the second drop-down grays out, and the third contains the list of currently used icons
* click "Add"

'''User Feedback'''

* '''This is a great feature!''' Honestly, I think in a lot of ways, filtering by icons is a lot more intuitive than filtering by attributes. While the attributes give you a great deal of flexibility, they muck up the display at bit, and they're a lot more keystrokes to add. I really can't think of any examples of an attribute that I wouldn't rather just create an icon for. The icon is a much more succinct way of displaying an attribute about a node and it can be done inline.
** Having said that, I would like to see a little more love put into icons. I already customized my icon library (Thank you!), but it becomes unwieldy when there are more than a small handful of additional items. You can't replace the original icons either.
* I think it would be a good idea to filter icon clock and only those icons with active warning time scheduler

== Persistent Map Filters ==
In Beta 13 persistent filters are added.
And filters can now be saved. --[[User:Terkor|Terkor]] 18:02, 2 Sep 2007 (PDT)

== user feedback ==

* For using semantic strings in addition to numeric and logical ones it would be useful a) to have filters for "contains" (for substrings of text) as in normal content – like "contain" finds attributes with the values "container", "contains", "containment", etc. b) be able to search a string-value across different attributes

* Filtering is great to compact maps for printing, but no usable PDF was created from a filtered map (beta 17) --[[User:JR|JR]] 04:48, 23 May 2008 (PDT)

* When I use filter extensively with very large map of thousands of nodes, I realize that the layout of the filtered map need some improvement. The resulted map's layout should be much compacted for the filtered nodes to be closer to the root node in order to be visible in the freemind window. For such large map, the reason to do filer is to focus so that I can see them easier. Without the improvement, it seems that the layout still follow that without the filter. The map becomes a tree with sparse nodes but stretched apart. It defeats the purpose of the filter somehow. If you need, I can provide a screen capture to show what I meant. Please tell me how. --[[User:Yubrshen|yushen]] 16:16, 5 Apr 2008 (PDT)

* I find that it freezes up a lot when using folding and unfolding while applying filters. It is, however, a really powerful feature. To complete its power would it be possible to have a way to copy only selected or filtered nodes? Sometimes you want to select these nodes and put them in another application, but when I filter, select all and then copy-paste, I get lots of other nodes included.

* Worked well for me. Especially like the filter on icon - no muss, no fuss.

* Great feature. Filtering on an icon: For example if you have "OK" icons on some nodes and want to see all other nodes (= not OK) use filter "contains icon OK" and define filter "Not contains icon OK" using button "Not"

* This great new feature has a little BUG. Situation: I have two maps opened and use the filter "Currently Selected Nodes" on one of them and switch between the maps. When I switch back to the filtered map I don't get the view that I had before I switched away. Instead I get the node filtered that was selected when I switched. (Terkor)

* Filtering and Reminders are a very nice combination. Filtering on icons allows to distinguish between nodes that have a Reminder "whose time has not jet come" and nodes that have a Reminder "whose time has come". But: in the filter composer these two different states are represented with the same icon (a clock). You always have to guess which icon represents which Reminder state. --[[User:Terkor|Terkor]] 19:40, 30 Jul 2007 (PDT)

* It would be helpful to be able to give the composed filters names. --[[User:Terkor|Terkor]] 19:45, 30 Jul 2007 (PDT)

* When filtering is activated there is a drop-down menu left to the "Edit" button. There you can find all the filters that were used that FreeMind session. It would be very effective if I could not only chose one of those filters but chose more than one. And then being able to chose in what order they are applied (for example by moving the filters up and down). Of course I can also get the desired filtering by using the Filter Composer. But with the described option I would be more flexible in quickly combining the filters. And being able to apply some "simple" filters in an order would make things more clear in some situations. --[[User:Terkor|Terkor]] 06:50, 31 Jul 2007 (PDT)

* A refresh view button would be nice. Or even better: auto refresh (maybe as an option) when a node is changed. Explanation: When I mark a node (representing a task) as done and I use a filter that shows me all the undone tasks and hides the done tasks, the node is not filtered as long as I switch filter off and on again. Could be more handy. --[[User:Terkor|Terkor]] 06:09, 3 Dec 2007 (PST)
** I second this notion. Nodes that meet the filter conditions after the filter is set don't get filtered out. So for instance, I want to create a filter to show not checked off items. Once I check them I want them to disappear automagically. --[[User:RazielJaTier|RazielJaTier]] 16:26, 20 May 2008 (PDT)

* If I filter "Currently Selected Nodes", in all the now empty space of the map there appear the ovals of the hidden nodes that allow to move them around, when you move your mouse to that places where they are when filter is not applied. --[[User:Terkor|Terkor]] 06:42, 15 Dec 2007 (PST)

* If "Selection Bubble" is "on" and a filter is applied, also hidden nodes can be "selected" when you for example move the focus using the arrow-keys. --[[User:Terkor|Terkor]] 06:42, 15 Dec 2007 (PST)

* Is there a way to assign attributes when you assign an icon to a node? For example I have lists of phone calls / emails that I have to send. I usually assign a phone or envelope icon to that node. I would like to assign an attribute or ActionType so that I can sort by them later (i.e. see a list of phone calls or emails that I have to make).

* It would be very helpful to have an option to filter out entries without children. This would be very valuable e.g. in situations where in a big map, several nodes have a "Tasks" subnode, and one wants to look at all tasks currently pending.

* Would it be possible to be able to add free text to the map to allow for titles and possibly a Key?

* Filter toolbar should be a standard toolbar. Should be able to show/hide filter toolbar from the View menu. (I am not displaying the main toolbar, but may need the Filter toolbar from time to time)

* Attributes have great potential. However I find editing a bit inconvenient. Would it be possible to add a small handle to existing attribute table (say immediately left of the cells, similar to the handles that are already on top of the table), so that a single attribute could be selected to be copied, cut, or even dragged and dropped to copy/move it to other nodes? Keyboard modifier keys (shift or ctrl) could be used to specify moving/copying in a drag and drop operation. arg0.

* Am loving the attributes. Using beta 20. Am doing a massive project on the muscular system. muscles directly effect eachother. For each muscle there is are muscles directly affecting it, muscles that it directly affects it, and muscles with a mutual two way relation. Each muscle also has a common problem associated with it. Each muscle group is an attribute and each muscle is a value. Filters will be used for self diagnosis, and finding the appropriate stretches. For example hands and shoulders due to using the computer a lot.
**Would be great if graphical links can be attributed, so that they can be filtered. + have the option of making them visible or not.
**Better sorting of attributes would be good. Like an attribute mind map, for sorting and the depth of the filter that is undertaken.
** To have Attributes and Filters integrated on the mind map. Anyone know how to write scripts to run a filter function.
** To filter core structure of mind maps: this would be good for summarising the link to other mind maps.
Thanks for your time. alf
* to encourage the use of attributes and filtering, it would be good to have the search/filter box always visible by default (I have a large screen, and the font/font size take all the extra space on the right, that could be used by this search/filter box (also, there should be a specific menu "search" or "filter" --[[User:Patco|Patco]]

= WYSIWYG-Editing for nodes and notes =

Yet to be documented

I like the WYSIWYG and how it's available when needed. On piece I find lacking is the ability to easily add link <a href=.... and the ability to click on it to pull it up. That feature would be very useful -- [[User:Matthias|Matthias]] 21:57, 18 Feb 2009 (UTC)

== HTML paste tip ==

Paste of HTML content creates one node. Use Edit -> Split to split it in many nodes.

Tools->Split Node is more efficent. --[[User:Phil31753|Phil31753]] 10:06, 9 Apr 2009 (UTC)

==== User Feedback ====
Version beta 0.9.16
I personally hate the WYSIWYG mode but I understand that others might find this feature helpful.
My problem is that I copy and paste very often into and out of mindmaps. Due to the WYSIWYG mode I can not pasten normally into thunderbird. Copying into mindmaps is terrible.
Suggestion: having the possibility to select between plain text modus or html modus or mixed modus. Helpful would be also a shortcut to "paste as plain text and split" and copy as plain text.
--[[User:bebach|bebach]] 2008-04-05

Love this feature, especially the way that the notes export to javascript enabled html. Couple of observations.

* The popup notes in the Javascript export don't seem to work in IE (care factor 0?).

* It would be good to be able to view the note in the main mindmap window, maybe as a popup.

* It would also be helpful if there was some sort of visual indicator of the existence of a popup note in the exported html - at present the note just magically appears as a rollover.

* Don't know if it is due to this feature, but "edit long node" now introduced an extra line feed if the enter key is used (confirm on enter turned off).

--[[User:RichardForster|RichardForster]] 18:04, 19 Sep 2006 (PDT)

I'd like to have the option to collapse the WYSIWYG editing area to free up more screen real-estate.

--[[User:Marko|Marko]] 21:45, 23 Sep 2006 (PDT)

* The WYSIWYG screen estate seems a good place to do all 'richer' content editing: e.g. if freemind would let me edit the multiline text nodes there, and, manage the attributes, i'd find that very usefull.

--[[User:Neanderlander|Neanderlander]] 22:01, 24 Sep 2006 (PDT)

* Some way to change the width of nodes would be great, so free form text can be flowed into thinner columns. Also a way to insert <br> easily without resorting to the html view.

--[[User:pedron|pedron]] 1:02pm, 10 October 2006 (EST)
* In version 0.8 the note attached to a node was very discrete in the sense that it would only show when the mouse is on that node. This new version has many editing features but it's "in your face" (so to speak) until you physically minimize it. I wish there was a way to configure it so that it would act like the previous version while keeping it's editing extras. Or at least have the option of toggling editing toolbar...

--[[User:Cichutki75|Cichutki75]] 8:09pm, 19 October 2006 (GMT)
* In version 0.9 max node width function does not work properly. At least not all nodes for the map created in version 0.8 keep the set width. I did not discover the rule. Some keep some don't.

--[[User:CautiousChaos|CautiousChaos]] 02:22, 12 Nov 2006 (EST)
* The editing panel is intrusive when it is not needed. A hotkey to open/close it would be helpful. Clicking on the note icon resulting in the panel appearing could also be very helpful.
* It seems that word-wrapping does not work in plain-text mode for nodes, making the node to be of single line extending far too long. I had to change the mode of each node to make it word-wrapping. Only using rich-text mode, the wrapping would work. I wish that word-wrapping would still work as in 0.80. --[[User:Yubrshen|yushen]] 15:03, 5 Dec 2006 (PST)
* It seems that in editing long node, the splitting function would only work with word on different line, while in 0.80, the function works even for words on the same line. --[[User:Yubrshen|yushen]] 15:03, 5 Dec 2006 (PST)

--[[User:Djerr|Djerr]] 17:42, 20 Jan 2007

* Using a 0.8 map with notes in 0.9 beta version show all notes as pop up but they can not be modified with the format tool or even edited in the layout page. I have to delete the note and create a new one under the 0.9 version.

I usually write short nodes but very long notes in order to have a "clear" map. 2 special comments on notes :
* For long notes, the time the pop up is shown is too short. Would it be possible to define a time on how long you want this pop up to be shown ? Or even better: to show them as long as the cursor is pointing on the node (or perhaps the note icon).
* I could find very useful (especially for my long notes) to be able in the format menu to change not only italic or bold or font size etc.. but also COLORS, to be able to see very fast the most important points

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* I don't understand the purpose of freemind's notes feature. It seems to be an incomplete feature. On the one hand, it could be used as popup notes for a node on the freemind map. On the other hand, it could be used to provide the details for a topic expressed by the node. I think both should be possibilities, but currently only the first really seems possible.
* I want to use freemind to develop an outline into a full-blown paper. To do that, I would start using freemind to create an outline of the paper. Each node in the mindmap would be an entry in the outline with the node level equating to the outline level. Then, when I start fleshing out the paper, I would use the notes feature to fill-in paragraphs of information for each node. The problem is that there is no good way of outputting the paper -- the notes become popups rather than entries in the paper.
* Is there a way to export a mindmap from freemind in such a way that it could later be imported?

--[[User:DavidMasterson|DavidMasterson]] 22:00, 23 May 2007

* I don't like this feature in the current implementation. This is because i use this tool to connect IDEAS and usually i use formatting things only in the end. A paragraph, a sentence, a list, a word list this are things that i want to have in a hierarchical structure, not as a rich text. In 0.8.0 the copy/paste feature converted a paragraph/list to an hierarchical tree of nodes. That was a better aproach then to get a simple html node. The split feature doesn't replace this functionality better. I hope and trust that you will find a way to add rich text nodes without so much interference with the old style of working. Maybe a paste option with paste as nodes, paste as html will resolve this issue?

--[[User:Terkor|Terkor]] 16:25, 21 June 2007
* Great Feature, but it could be more handy if the (by far) most often used formating-features like Bold and Italic could be used without opening the editor. Just mark the words or characters you want bold (or italic), click the Bold (or Italic) icon (or use Ctrl-B /Ctrl-I) - and that's it.
* It is not "logical" that you open the editor with "Alt-Enter" and close it with "Ctrl-Enter". It should both be the same.
* "Split" should have a shortcut. Suggestion: Alt-Enter or Ctrl-Enter. (See previous paragraph.)
* When I open the editor whilst I am editing a node, the editor should know the actual position of the cursor and if some text is already marked.
* Double clicking the note icon should open / close the note editor. (Generally icons should be more clickable like the link icon. (Double) clicking on the clock icon of notes with a Reminder should open the calendar. And right-clicking an icon should open the "Select Icon" box.)
* The popups displaying the note content don't match size if a note is very short. Does not look nice. (The same for popups that show the "Created", "Modified", and "Reminder" times - too wide.
* Choosing colors should definitely have an icon in the tool bar of the editors. So it takes six (!) clicks to change the color of a word. (Opening the editor not counted.)
* The editor for notes and the one for nodes behave differently, when it comes to use the Enter-key. The node-editor just enters a new line (as one would expect) when I press Enter. The note editor enters a new line and a blank line. Here I have to use Shift-Enter to get just a new line. Why the difference?
* The note editor by default adds a blank line before the text and after text. I see no reason for that. (The node editor does not do that either.) Just takes away precious space.
* In order to save space, please place the toolbar of the note editor next to the menu of the editor. As it is now, there is much unused space. The editor should look more slim.
* Like the note-editor of FreeMind 0.8, the note-editor of version 0.9 should automatically close when not needed. (Or at least there should be an option to pick this behavior.)
* The little arrows on the splitting line that allow to hide/show the note editor should be wider (not higher), they are very hard to click quickly. Perhaps put each of them in a clickable wider boxlike area.
* "Note" in the menu "Insert" is gone. Should be there, that's where people look for it, and it seams a logical place for it (also for a "Remove Note"-function). And "Add Note" / "Remove Note" should be in the context-menu, when I right-click a node.
* How about a function that turns a node into a note and vice versa?
* The popups of long notes should be scrollable.

--[[User:Pascal|Pascal]] 11:33, 20 Nov 2007
* It would be great to have spell checking in notes editor
* In version 0.9.0 beta 14, bold, italic and underline buttons have no icons (if you click where they should be, it does the job, but you don't see the buttons).

--[[User:puckja|puckja]] 13:51, 3 Jan. 2008
* Great feature! Now I can add formated text/graphics in the note panel (SimpleHTML). Cut & Paste from webpage and even MS Word 2003 with figures and math equations works great.
* More user friendly functions such as FONT property in toolbar or shortcut, HIGHLIGHTING capability, insert HYBERLINK (it can be added with direct HTML coding), configurable property for the inserted graphic(size/alignment, etc.) would be great. (It is already very good! Thanks!)

--[[User:puckja|puckja]] 16:09, 3 Jan. 2008
* It seems that all the figures inserted in the note are not "locally saved." It may a a '''SERIOUS BUG!''' If the figures are cut & paste from Internet, then they will not be available if machine is offline. If the figures are C & P from local file (such as MS Word), then the source files are still at your personal Win TEMP directory, which means that they will be deleted some time in the future while you think it is saved. Other software such as PersonalBrain will save the file and change the HTML src location after you saved the "brain", but Freemind seems to leave it unattended. :(

* HTML Editor won't let you put a table in a node. Well, that's not quite true. The "table" item n the menu bar has all its items disabled, but you can edit the HTML to make the node have a table. Why is the menu bar operation turned of for nodes?
--[[User:Anton|Anton]] 18:16, 20 Jul 2008 (PDT)
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* The HTML Editor seems to have a 'template' which is the same for all nodes. It would be nice to have
## User-definable style sheet, that could set font, size, colour, box width ...
## ... for each level
--[[User:Anton|Anton]] 18:25, 22 Jul 2008 (PDT)

Filter macros on the mind map itself would be good. They could be adjustable. And/or/not etc, could be done by clicking the different parts of the map corresponding to the attributes/icons under question. This would be nice because it would be more natural to drill down the search in this way. Filter by cliking on a node, filter again on what is left within that filter etc.

*The WYSIWYG is a big + for my workflow. However, I often use this program w/ widescreen setups and it would be a great if I could reposition the WYSIWYG window to the left, right of the Map window.
*It would be v.nice if the editor could interpret latex formating for math/equations.
--[[User:Lessfield|Lessfield]] 18:01, 19 Feb 2009 (UTC)

I agree with Lessfield - I want to create extensive notes, instructions etc. and I'd like to be able to move the note editing pane to the right side. To go with this, I'd like to be able to control the node layout so it's a tree expanding from top to bottom or left to right (like Visual Mind's Standard, left-to_right and right-to-left views).

Possible bug:- frequently when I'm typing in the notes pane, the insertion cursor zips back to the beginning of the line and text insertion continues there. I don't think I'm accidentally hitting any hot keys ;-)
[[User:MikeS|MikeS]] 12:09, 19 Jun 2009 (UTC)

= Scripting via Groovy =
[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Groovy_programming_language Groovy] scripts may be attached to individual nodes in the map. When "evaluate" is selected via the menu or keypress (Alt-F8), all nodes in the map are searched (depth-first) for one or more attributes named "script". If such an attribute is found, the value of the attached attribute is passed to the Groovy engine to execute.

Only nodes are evaluated, which attribute keys start with "script". However, there is nothing preventing a script on one node from acting on other nodes via normal operations (e.g. node.getChildren or similar) as far as I can tell from the code.

=== Assignment vs. Operation ===

If the value of the script attribute starts with the equals sign ("="), then the node text will be replaced by the RESULT of the script evaluation. Be careful not to overwrite your nodes! See the example for using the "node.getText()" in an assignment script.

If the value of the script attribute does not begin with the equals sign, then the script will run and may affect the map, but the expression result is not assigned to the node text.

=== Available Operations ===

When the Groovy binding is created, two variables are set:

* "c" is set to the MindMapController
* "node" is set to the MindMapNode being evaluated

You will have to examine the FreeMind source code for operations on the interfaces. See the examples for a few operations such as setting the node text, node color and background color.

=== Examples ===
I have only played with the engine for five minutes, and spent about the same amount of time on the Groovy home page. The following examples work for me:

'''Prepend the node text with an integer representing the node depth.''' Note that the script starts with '=' so the result is assigned back to the node text.
<groovy>=node.getNodeLevel() + " " + node.getText()</groovy>

'''Set the text color of a node:'''
<groovy>node.setColor(java.awt.Color.RED)</groovy>

'''Set the background color of a node:'''
<groovy>node.setBackgroundColor(java.awt.Color.BLUE)</groovy>

'''Project Manager: Don't do this; use methods of the controller c instead.''' If you manipulate the node model directly, you'll miss the undo and flow control capabilities of FreeMind. Please, consult methods from the interface MindMapActions only.

=== Advanced Examples===

All advanced examples have been moved to the [[Example scripts]]

== About Groovy ==
For people unfamiliar with Groovy scripting, it's [http://groovy.codehaus.org home page], an [http://www.onjava.com/pub/a/onjava/2004/09/29/groovy.html introduction], a review on [http://ask.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=06/04/18/2223237 slashdot].

== How to get started ==

# Create an attribute for a node. The attribute must be named "script"
# Create the Groovy script and set as the value of the attribute
# Press Alt-F8 or select "Evaluate" from the Tools menu.

== Wish for Groovy script editing ==
* Need good editor for writing such script for the attribute. The current attribute manager is not suitable to write long script. --[[User:Yubrshen|yushen]] 15:41, 15 Jan 2007 (PST)
* I know I could dig through the source code and figure it out, but even a rudimentary object reference would be great. --[[User:RazielJaTier|RazielJaTier]] 15:01, 21 May 2008 (PDT)
** Created a page called [[FreeMindGroovyObjects|FreeMind / Groovy Object Reference]] to start compiling known information into a reference page. If you're familiar with any of the objects and navigation, lets start documenting it here.
* Debug Console while you're running scripts from the map. If you have a typo, the script simply does nothing. It would be nice to get an error or some sort of feedback. --[[User:RazielJaTier|RazielJaTier]] 15:01, 21 May 2008 (PDT)

== Scripting the application, not the documents ==

When I first read about Groovy in Freemind, I was irritated by the fact that the Groovy scripts are part of the Map (as script attribute) and not the application.

To my opinion it would make more sense to allow Groovy scripts to be plugged into the application and work on either Map.

An example of how this could work can be found here: [http://groovy.codehaus.org/Integrating+Groovy+in+an+application+-+a+success+story]

In a similar way each script could be bound to a menu item in a user menu or a button, and be provided with the current 'context', maybe containing a model of an open Map when activated.
This way it would be possible to create complete maps on-the-fly without having to create the Map and the root node with a script attribute first(!).

This is from user's point of view more like scripted plug-ins and filters in Gimp or Steinberg-like music software, and not so much like the VBA thing stored inside office documents.

--[[User:Det|Det]] 07:28, 16 Mar 2007 (PDT)

== Tips of editing script ==
# Before there is good editor for script, I use a template node to define long script then use copy and paste to duplicate the script.

--[[User:Yubrshen|yushen]] 15:41, 15 Jan 2007 (PST)

= TaskJuggler Integration =

[http://taskjuggler.org/ TaskJuggler] is a opensource project management tool for linux. It covers the complete spectrum of project management tasks from the first idea to the completion of the project. It assists you during project scoping, resource assignment, cost and revenue planing, risk and communication management.

=== Idea ===
The idea is to have special task, resource, and account nodes on the mindmap.

====Usage summary====
- Tasks are defined as subnodes of TASKS node.
- Resources are defined as subnodes of RESOURCES node.
- Accounts as subnodes of ACCOUNTS node. (not yet implemented in 0.9.0 beta 18)
- Taskjuggler task/resource/account info contained as node attributes. <br> You can find more info about these attribs in [http://taskjuggler.org/manual-2.3.0/c1376.html TaskJuggler documentation]
- After entering all task/resource/account info in freemind, use File-->Export to <br> export the task/resource/account info that is currently VISIBLE <br> (your freemind filters can be used to limit the info being exported to TaskJuggler).

[[Image:Taskjuggler_example.png]]

=== Project file (TJP) ===
We generate only includes with FreeMind, so we must write simple TaskJuggler main project file:

<pre>project simple "Simple Project" "1.0" 2005-06-06 - 2005-06-26

include "example.accounts.tji"
include "example.resources.tji"
include "example.tasks.tji"

taskreport "Gantt Chart" {
headline "Project Gantt Chart"
columns hierarchindex, name, start, end, effort, duration, cost, revenue, chart
timeformat "%a %Y-%m-%d"
loadunit days
hideresource 1
}

htmlaccountreport "accountsreport.html"{
timeformat "%d-%M-%y"
accumulate
columns index, name, weekly
}</pre>

=== Include Files (TJI) ===
Mindmap with defined TASKS, RESOURCES and ACCOUNTS nodes can look like this:
{| cellpadding="20" cellspacing="0" border="0"
|[http://pliki.rodos.com.pl/freemind/tji_example/example_freemind2.png http://pliki.rodos.com.pl/freemind/tji_example/example_freemind2_maly.png]
|}

We can export include files which we have defined in our project file directly from FreeMind mindmap:<br>
- example.resources.tji - from RESOURCES node (File->Export->Resources from RESOURCES node to TJI file..)<br>
- example.tasks.tji - from TASKS node (File->Export->Task from TASKS node to TJI file..)<br>
- example.accounts.tji - from ACCOUNTS node (File->Export->Accounts from ACCOUNTS node to TJI file..)<br>

In TaskJuggler our project will look like this:
{| cellpadding="20" cellspacing="0" border="0"
|[http://pliki.rodos.com.pl/freemind/tji_example/example_taskjuggler.png http://pliki.rodos.com.pl/freemind/tji_example/example_taskjuggler_maly.png]
|}

=== Download ===
[http://pliki.rodos.com.pl/freemind/tji_example/example.zip Here] you can download full example without accounts feature and [http://pliki.rodos.com.pl/freemind/account/accountexample.zip here] with accounts.

=== Account support ===
Becouse accounts functionality isn't in CVS yet. You need use [http://pliki.rodos.com.pl/freemind/account/Freemind_0_9_0_beta15_koprin_b2.zip this] binary or
get Freemind from CVS (CVS tag: fm_060405_integration) and aply [http://pliki.rodos.com.pl/freemind/account/diff.zip this] patch.

= The rest of the new features =

==Icons==
=== User icons ===

User icons can be added. PNG files of the icons have to be added to the folder '''<user_home>'''/.freemind/icons. All *.png files in '''<user_home>'''/.freemind/icons are handled as user icons. Size is ''not'' limited to 16 px x 16 px.

'''User feedback:'''
* FreeMind adds "icon_" to the user-given name of a user icon. The name should just be the user given name - without ".png" of course.
* When adding user icons, they appear in a random order within the side bar and mixed with the Freemind built-in icons. Is there a way to control this order ?
* My new icons appeared at the end of the standard ones and appeared to be in alphabetical order by filename. GREAT feature. I was able to take screen captures of the icons for Access objects and some of the Office program icons and use them in a mind map documenting a project my computer literacy students do at the end of the semester. This is far superior to having to use a limited set of standard icons which aren't particularly meaningful.
* Q: what is the procedure for adding user icons in Mac OS? Which is the correct destination folder?

* User icons are not included in exported mindmaps (flash at least).
* Including icons does not appear to work (WinXP - Freemind 0.9.0 Beta 19). Have assumed that placing .png files in C:\Program Files\Freemind\Icons should ensure that they are included but have nt been able to get this feature to work. Is this the correct placement for the icons folder in Windows?
::You put the icons in the wrong folder. Look again above. --[[User:Terkor|Terkor]] 03:23, 21 Oct 2008 (UTC)

===Selecting, Substituting and Deleting Icons===
* Using Shift+Click on icon bar substitutes the current icons by the new one.
* Icon bar Icon Selection Dialog: click on icon with control key hold: removes the first matching icon, with alt key removes the last one. Icon Selection Dialog: Shift+Enter or Alt+Enter can be used as well.
* Icon hot keys available in Select Icon Dialog. They can be set in Preferences > Keystrokes. --[[User:Terkor|Terkor]] 13:26, 3 Sep 2007 (PDT)

'''User feedback:'''
* Substituting icons with Shift+Enter in the Icon Selection Dialog (as announced in the changes for Beta 9) does not work. Just inserts the selected icon.
* Can I suggest you add a couple of icons as standard namely '$' and '$$' too? Thanks.

==Latex Plugin==
With the new Latex Plugin (Insert > Latex) you can now add mathematical formulas to your nodes.
Select a node and chose Insert > Latex. Under the node a default text in a box is added. When you click on that box a simple editor opens to enter the Latex code. Close the editor and your formula is displayed underneath the node.

Erase the formula by clicking Latex again when the node is selected. --[[User:Terkor|Terkor]] 06:31, 3 Sep 2007 (PDT)

'''User feedback:'''
* I like this one, but there may be an easier way for access of this functionality (a shortcut or s.th.).
* Great, adds a whole new field of use to FreeMind!
* Tip: Can also be used to just add a text to node instead of a mathematical formula. If you just add text without any commands, you get italic text in the box. Everything put between \mbox{ and } appears as normal text. (The code is contained in the default formula that is added every time you add a new Latex box to a node.)
* Exporting the formulas does not work for at least for some filters (Flash at least).
* LaTeX formulas do not scale with the rest of the map but have always the same size. Please make them scalable if possible.--[[User:Christofb|Christofb]] 12:19, 30 Oct 2007 (PDT)

* Nice feature. It would be nice if the graphical representation of the formula could appear with the higher quality associated with LaTeX. Is it possible to improve via anti aliasing or exporting/printing via postscript?

==Linking to nodes in another mm-file==

You may create a link to a node in another map by appending #node_name to the map path

'''User feedback:'''
*Bug?: This feature does not seem to work for file urls ex: file:\\dfs\folder\file.mm##Freemind_Link_335867258. It also does not seem to work through the website applet.
** The URL is wrong. Must be file:///dfs\folder\file.mm##Freemind_Link_335867258

* Bug: This very useful feature seems to work for the current instance of the target map only. Once the target map is closed and reopened the link points to the root node in the target map, even though the link text is still correct. Closing the source map and reopening it works fine. - Tested based on FM 0.8.0 maps with the Windows version of FM.--[[User:Uli|Uli]] 02:51, 13 Feb 2007 (PST)

(•) Solution:

• create a (temporary) local link to the intended target node from any other node within the target MindMap (MM) (ALT+L)
=> i.e. the target-node must be the 'referred' node in this case meaning that it must be the second of the two nodes composing said (temporary) local link.
-> Digression: A local link is created by first left clicking on the source node and, while holding down the CTRL-button, then
left clicking on the target node, then press Alt-L. The link is created in the source node (a green arrow appears).
• Now highlight the 'referring'/source node, i.e. the other of the two nodes in this (temporary) local link (the one with the green arrow) and press CTRL+k (edit link)
=> the freemind node name of the 'referred' node (i.e. our desired target node) appears (eg. #Freemind_Link_676133257)
• Copy (or better still, cut) this node name [ctrl+c/ctrl+x].

• In the Source MM create an external link to the target MM (eg. c:\mindmaps\TASKS.mm),
=> Digression: An external link is created thus: CTRL+k (manually enter path) or SHIFT+CTRL+k (choose path). A red arrow appears.
• highlight the node with the newly created external link and append the copied/cut freemind node name to it using CTRL+k (edit link).
=> The result could look like this: c:\mindmaps\TASKS#Freemind_Link_676133257

• Finally, delete the local link if you may so wish (this step is only relevant, if you'd only copied and not cut the node name above).

• Being able to link to a specific link should not only possible within freemind but also from other tools. This could be established via adding a command line parameter giving the node ID to select right after startup.

== Edit Styles, Patterns, Automatic Layout Patterns ==

=== Change Format Dialog ===

New "Change Format" dialog box that lets you edit node and edge attributes at once. (Format > Change format...)

'''User feedback:'''
* The very powerful and useful dialog box needs a shortcut, and an entry in the context menu when you right-click on a node.
* A preview-area would be helpful.

=== Manage Patterns ===

There is now a manager for the physical styles. (Format > Physical Styles > Manage Patterns..)

==== User feedback: ====

* It is so helpfull!!!!!
* Would it be possible to also show (and even change) the shortcuts of the patterns in the pattern manager?
* Styles should be renamed Format Macro. They are a great feature.
* Feature Request
** A real Style formating feature with style_registry, where the formating is defined, would be great.
* Bugs
** Style names are not proper UTF-8 encoded e.g. ü in become FC in patterns.xml and not ü
** beta 18 couldn't generate new Style from current node. Pressing Save&Exit didn't save and a Notice pop up without any message.
* All version including RC1 - F11 window does not allow to choose a font size which is not in the list (11 for example) this is not consistent with the tool bar of the main window. I'm using style with 11 pt font size !
* Im experimenting with TONY BUZAN's mind mapping and memroy techniques. Eventaully i wnat to make a mind map of his book's and share, however copywright questions arise?? anyone know about it. Regardless of this question it brings to my attention the powers of formatting and memory enhancement.
**Is there a way of patterning the width/thikness of the links?
**Would be great to have a plugin that does a network analysis of the mind map and formatts acordingly. Hubs/number of links to a node = format value. Format value's to stimmulate as many sensory modalites as possible (NLP/ memory techniqes)
***These formats can then have an icon/ memory hook to filter by.

=== Edit Automatic Layout Patterns ===
It is now possible to edit Automatic Layout Patterns. (Tools > Preferences ... > Automatic layout pat...) Click there on a pattern and the new "Change Format" box appears (here called "Change Pattern").

'''User feedback:'''

* I also really like this feature, BUT I also would badly need to automaticaly layout for more then 4 levels (even if I could not change it by myself)! This is one of the most important things missing yet in this great application. Thanks anyway!

* Great! Could you please make the area "Automatic Layout Styles" a bit wider. There is no reason to keep it so tiny.

* I find the automatic layout a bit limited; after four levels, the layout remains the same, but I oftentimes use five, six or seven levels. Only feature I'd like to see added to the program is to set an auto format for a larger (custom-defined?) amount of levels.

* I love automatic layout, I use it pretty much exclusively. The only thing that sucks is that it completely disables the ability to apply localized formats to nodes with it enabled. Can you put in some sort of cascading functionality. The default would be automatic, but you could override the formats at any time. Also put something like the "reset position" like "remove custom formatting". --[[User:RazielJaTier|RazielJaTier]] 15:27, 20 May 2008 (PDT)

* I second Raziel's motion. I'd love to be able to store code snippets in a map, but automatic layout disrupts my custom formatting. --[[User:Neontapir|Neontapir]] 09:47, 23 Jun 2008 (PDT)

* Wonderfull. Would it be possible choose (at least) color to be applied per branch instead of per level. This is more in tune with Dr. Buzan's suggestions.

== Find And Replace ==
FreeMind has now a Find & Replace dialog. It combines the old "Show Map History..." (which is not there any more) with a classical Find & Replace dialog.

Found nodes can be sorted by Date, Text, Icons, Created, Modified, and Notes.

You can choose: Export Selected Nodes, Replace All, Replace Selected, Goto, and Select.

When no search text is entered all nodes of the map are shown in a sorted list.

'''User Feedback'''

* Characters like äöü" are not displayed correctly (the HTML-versions are displayed).
* Could it be possible to hide columns that I don't need to see?
* Thank You for the "replace" addition. How difficult would it be to have a "find" on all opened maps ?
* Is it possible to extend the "find" in all opened maps ? When searching for a text pattern, it will save to open individually each maps and execute a find. --[[User:Fb5|Fb5]] 02:16, 15 Nov 2007 (PST)
** I second this - extremely needed (at least for me :) ) to be able to search across several maps!! --[[User:Spacevulture|Spacevulture]] 11:59, 21 Jun 2008 (PDT)
* Would very helpful if nodes themselves could not only be sorted alphabetically, but also by Icons. And maybe by Date, Created, Modified, and Notes.
* A drop-down menu with recent search/replace terms would be helpful, to avoid retyping when repeating searches. --[[User:Arg0|arg0]] 08:38, 25 Feb 2009 (UTC)

== Display Selection as Bubble==
In the menu View there is now the option to display the selected nodes inside a bubble: "Display Selection as Rectangle on/off". You can also pick this new option in Preferences > Defaults, where you can also choose the color of the bubble. "Display Selection as Rectangle on/off" is now (Beta 13) by default "on". --[[User:DimitriPolivaev|DimitriPolivaev]] 14:50, 9 Sep 2007 (PDT) --[[User:Terkor|Terkor]] 16:57, 9 Sep 2007 (PDT)

'''User Feedback'''
* Like it very much.

==Tabs==
There are now Tabs (like in Firefox) representing the opened maps. Properties > Appearance > Look And Feel > Use Tabs lets you choose if you want to use tabs. --[[User:Terkor|Terkor]] 10:36, 26 Aug 2007 (PDT)

'''User Feedback'''
* Could it be possible that the tabs only appear (option) when more than one map is opened?
** I'd like this too. Screen space can be important. --[[User:Kenrob|Kenrob]] 04:14, 5 Oct 2007 (PDT)
* Could it be possible to show and hide tabs ''in View''?
* Could it be possible to rearrange the order of the tabs (by dragging and dropping them)?
** drag&drop, automatic hide when only one, close one/all via context menu etc. would be very usefull (i.e. like it is possible in firefox) --[[User:flusi100|flusi100]] 08:00, 24 Feb 2008
* Would be nice to close the maps by using their tabs (context menu with "Close" when right-clicking on tab, or middle-click on tab).
** Agreed - this would be useful. --[[User:Kenrob|Kenrob]] 04:14, 5 Oct 2007 (PDT)
** ++ to that. Seemed unnatural not to have a context menu on the tabs.--[[User:Doubi|Doubi]] 23:08, 18 Apr 2009 (UTC)
* Now with tabs and Save All it would just be the next logical step that (as an option) all the tabs would open when FreeMind starts, that were open when FreeMind was closed.
*Switching tabs takes 15-20 seconds. Especially slow after FreeMind has been minimized and computer has been suspended/hibernated. Version 0.9.0 Beta 18. --[[User:Emkeyen|Emkeyen]]

==Move Back and Move Forward==
There are now Move Back and Move Forward buttons in the Toolbar (also available in the Navigate menu and by using Alt-Left and Alt-Right). FreeMind stores a chronology of the selected nodes. Using Back and Forward you can navigate back and forth to those nodes - even if they are in an other opened map. --[[User:Terkor|Terkor]] 19:31, 26 Aug 2007 (PDT)

'''User Feedback'''
* Very Helpful!
* Could there be a way to get back to the latest selection by one click.
* How about a popup list of the previous and next selected nodes (like in IE or FF)?
* Useful when navigating in large maps--[[User:Fb5|Fb5]] 02:13, 15 Nov 2007 (PST)

==Export Filters==
Open Office Export now for the ODT format.

Besides the two export filters for TaskJuggler there are three new filters for exporting:

* As Java Appelt
* As Flash
* As TWiki --[[User:Terkor|Terkor]] 19:06, 27 Aug 2007 (PDT)

=== User feedback ===
* Embedded links on images and then exported to flash do not work.
** [http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-781058038619276488&q=freemind+dennis Video of Bug]
* HTML links and then exported to flash do not work either. Please see:
** http://www.efectokiwano.net/mm/
--[[User:VincentD|VincentD]] 02:30, 9 Nov 2006 (PST)
* Export to Flash does not support Rich Formatted nodes.
* When a map that contains a hyperlink is exported to HTML there is obviously an error in that exported hyperlink. --[[User:Terkor|Terkor]] 20:34, 2 Sep 2007 (PDT)
* In exporting to Flash, I have to enter URLs as <nowiki>http:www.yahoo.com</nowiki>, instead of <nowiki>http://www.yahoo.com</nowiki>, for the link to work.
* I'm using 0.9.0 beta 19, when exporting to flash, http links fail. I've watched the video and visited efectokiwano, still not working. Does the exported html require a special server build to serve the content?

--[[User:Berti|Berti]] 12:04, 13 Feb 2008 (PST)
* I tried an export to txt tab separated this worked in 0.8 fine if I rename the .mm to xml and try to view it I get an error it seems the html tags are going to break it. I also tested the xsl form this side Tabulator separated text ? FreeMind
http://freemind.sourceforge.net/wiki/index.php/Import_and_export_to_other_applications

=== Wishes concerning Export Filters ===
--[[User:AlexandreDC|AlexandreDC]] 08:47, 13 Mar 2008 (CET)
* It would be useful to indicate some XSLT templates to produce HTML exports: we could thus choose whether and how to display attributes for example.

--[[User:DRBusch]]
* To me, the most useful application of freemind is organizing complex documents (e.g. a thesis or book). To this end, I've modified the [http://sites.google.com/site/freemind2beamer/ freemind2beamer] script into [http://student.physics.upenn.edu/~drbusch/mm2thesis.xsl mm2thesis]. Unfortunately, I can't seem to figure out how to parse in the xsl document such that I can (for example) put a hard line break into the text of a node and use the second line as a label. For example, node=abcd\\labelabcd would be translated into \section{abcd}\label{sec:labelabcd}. Any thoughts? I haven't dug into the java mm to beamer conversion yet.

=General Bugs=
* Generating Output for a printer is almost impossible. On Ubuntu 7.10 printing does not work (nothing happens), PDF export does not work (Error popup with no content), SVG export does not work (Error popup with no content), PNG export does not work (nothing happens), JPG export does not work (nothing happens), (Jave and Flash export thus is working, but it's not printable in a browser). So I am limited to screenshots which are unreadable in larger mind maps. Preview is ok, by the way, but I would need a feature to resize the whole map to paper size.
* If I close the calendar not with "cancel" but by just closing the calendar window, I can't reopen the calendar. I have to restart FM to be able to open the Time Management dialog again. --[[User:Terkor|Terkor]] 06:27, 15 Dec 2007 (PST)
* I updated to java runtime enviroment 1.6 and was not able to save any mindmap any longer. Message was "Map ist write protected" --[[User:bebach|bebach]] 13 Nov 2007
* Sometimes I use freemind just as a simple extended clipbord. In openoffce 2.0 writer I get the message, the clipbord format does not exist. In thunderbird I always have to paste without format to see anything. It is painful. It seems to me that I was not able to switch freemind to the plain text option. I am looking again the documentation. --[[User:bebach|bebach]] 8 Nov 2007
* Using the PDF export feature results in an error message "null compatible with Global antialiasing enable key". That was no problem in Version 0.8
* I can't save a new mind map under MS Vista. Modify and save of an existing mind map works.
* After pasting a node at a new position, keystrokes get stuck. The moviment is possible only changing the focus with mouse. After changing the focus, keystrokes (up,down,left,right) works normally.--[[User:Leslie|Leslie]] 05:16, 17 Apr 2007 (PDT)
* Ok, the new version is very nice... but there is still the Problem with printing. Sometimes the print is to small or to great or a part is cut off. Its difficult to configure the printer for good mindmap printings--[[User:Bkmzde|Bkmzde]] 00:31, 16 Feb 2007 (PST)
* Bug ? : MindManager Import doesn't include "Html Notes" hooked to the nodes. In 0.8, the note is "translate" in a text note.
* The context-menu that appears when you right-click while editing a node does not work. (It only contains "Copy" - which does not work.) Perhaps adding "Cut", "Paste", "Split" (at cursor-position), "Edit Long Node..." (with the editor remembering the cursor position and if some text is already marked). And perhaps some formating: "Bold", "Italic", "Font...", "Paragraph..."
* Display error: Zoom is now (Beta 14) working perfectly, as far as I can see. Good work! --[[User:Terkor|Terkor]] 14:41, 21 Oct 2007 (PDT)
** OK, there is a little bug: use Format > Bubble. You will see that on most zoom levels text in the bubble is not centered correctly. On both sides of the map text is placed too much on the left side. --[[User:Terkor|Terkor]] 11:33, 22 Nov 2007 (PST)
* Display error: Edges don't connect properly to the root. With widths 4 or 8 the effect is very obvious, and if "Bezier" is chosen). --[[User:Terkor|Terkor]] 07:51, 11 May 2008 (PDT)
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* File Locking appears buggy: When you open a file with File Locking enabled in Preferences, the first open generates the error that 'file locking' failed. Subsequently, all attempts to open a file result in 'File is already being edited by (Username). Opening as Read-Only.' FreeMind does not appear to be willing to release this lock, except by turning off Experimental File Locking and turning it back on, so the entire feature appears to be broken. Specs: Windows XP SP2 machine, .mm file is on local drive which is also shared.--[[User:Perholm|Perholm]] 22:43, 13 Sep 2007 (PDT)
* Auto-Save Confirmed Buggy: '''I WOULD SUGGEST THAT THIS BUG IS AN EMERGENCY, AS DATA-LOSS CAN/WILL HAPPEN IF THE FEATURE IS RELIED UPON'''. Auto-Save at present does not work properly and should not be relied upon. Bug analysis: It appears that the timer used to control auto-save is only activated once at program launch, and when the auto-save interval has passed the timer does not reset for another auto-save interval, but instead NEVER generates an event again. Test: Set auto-save to 20000 milliseconds. Open an existing MindMap, and make a change within 20 seconds. If you check the .freemind directory, a single auto-save will be generated after 20 seconds, and no further auto-saves will EVER happen. If you again open a MindMap, and DO NOT make a change within 20 seconds, no auto-save will ever happen of any changes including the initial change. I would therefore conclude that the timer used for the auto-save interval is being programmed incorrectly, and does not launch another auto-save interval.--[[User:Perholm|Perholm]] 22:56, 13 Sep 2007 (PDT)
* The JRE 1.6 update 2 bug from javaw.exe on using the function of Open/Save File, it will waitting more than 30 sec per times, The JRE 1.5 update 11 will be better. --[[User:Josepchangtw|Josepchangtw]] 16:55, 15 Nov 2007 (PDT)
* Certain actions, foremost among them the ''paste'' action, cause FreeMind (or perhaps just the editing area) to lose focus somehow, so that no further keyboard input has any effect, until you click in the editing area to restore the focus. This severely detracts from the keyboard-only usability of FreeMind.
** Please describe how to reproduce and see this behavior [[User:DimitriPolivaev|DimitriPolivaev]] 14:40, 18 Oct 2007 (PDT)
** After pasting ''a node'' that has been copied from Freemind, the keyboard has absolutely no effect (really! I even tried mashing it randomly) until you click the mouse in the window, or switch to another window and then back, or do something else that focuses the Freemind window. Pasting text or anything else works just fine; only pasting a copied node (or nodes) causes the problem -- to put it as clearly as possible, the problem only occurs when pasting ''from Freemind to Freemind itself''. Also, I should mention that this is not a problem in 0.8, only in 0.9.
** I have a very similar problem, under Ubuntu 7.10. It happens that: 1. whenever I paste something, I lose the ability to use the keyboard (all shortcuts), editing, entering text. 2. I can get keyboard back by switching to another window or virtual desktop, but after I repeat this (paste something) the third time, I lose keyboard for good until I close and re-open Freemind; 3. mouse works and I can save my map. Please note that for me it happens both with 0.8 and 0.9 branches, when running 0.9.x both with jre 5 and 6. [[User:Zecg|Zecg]]
** Same here on openSuSE 10.3, x86_64. It's hard to reproduce when it happens but I also suddenly use the ability to use keyboard. I've found no way to get keyboard back except closing and re-opening Freemind. Mouse input still works. Appears to be introduced in the 0.9.x branch regardless whether I use jre 5 or 6. It's a show stopper. Is there a way to record all keyboard/mouse input to help to track this down ? --[[User:Steve|Steve]]
** The March 3 build seems to have fixed this bug. If others can confirm this, you can probably delete this thread.
** Not confirmed. The problem is still in Beta 16, just re-tested. A few times it happened after pressing INS, type in something, CR, CR, type in something, CR and cut the nodes again with CTRL-X, CTRL-X or a similar sequence. --[[User:Steve|Steve]]
* Node dragging problem: <br> When dragging the small circle in front of a node and moving the node vertically to raise the distance to the upper or lower node, this behavior in FreeMind seems to have changed. <br>In previous versions, the node could only be dragged to the right, up or down, but not more to the left towards the parent node. There was kind of an invisible vertical border. You could not drag the node beyond this border towards the parent node. This border was excellent to keep all child nodes aligned while changing the nodes' distance. <br>Now this doesn't work any more. In the current version, this border seems to be gone unfortunately. When I change the vertical distance of one node to another node, I cannot keep the moved node in it's horizontal position any more. <br> (By the way, pressing <CTRL>-left-mouse-button on a node's drag-handle also changes the distance between nodes, but this functionality is not compareable, because it changes the distance of <u>all</u> child nodes in this column, not only of the selected one.)
** Solution could be double-click on the small circle: it appears to work very well.--[[User:Luciodp|Luciodp]] 05:32, 7 May 2008 (PDT)
* Node dragging problem 2: <br> FM 0.9 B15. I created a map with FM 0.8, then switched to 0.9. If I copy the contents of a MSWord table into a node, MM gets it formatted with HTML and displays the table perfectly. The problem arises when I move the node to another branch of the tree. The html content gets converted to ascii (e.g. <html> becomes &lt;html&gt;) and thus all the formatting is lost. --[[User:ScavType|ScavType]] 14:09, 04 Jan 2008 (PDT)
* Print Preview shows wrong view after selecting Fit to one page. Steps: create map that's more than one page wide with default page setup options. Edit page options to fit to one page. Choose Print Preview. Expect it to show one page. Instead, it showed the first page of two pages as if ignoring the "fit to one page" option. After clicking next page button, print preview then realized it should zoom to fit to one page. --[[User:JimK|JimK]]
* Hover text for Print icon on toolbar says "Print..." implying that a dialog box will open but instead it just starts a print job. Text should say "Print" or it should open dialog box. --[[User:JimK|JimK]]
* Opened a mind map created in 0.8.7. Looks good except that beta 17 put a cloud around the entire map---i.e., main node---that I can't remove, and all the child nodes on the right of the main node have been moved down far enough to be offscreen when view is centered on the main node. (One branch on the left side is fully expanded to four levels, so maybe that had something to do with it, but folding it back up makes no difference.) Tried to toggle off the cloud using the Insert main menu, the Insert shortcut menu, and with shift+ctl+b combo... no luck. This is my first try with 0.9 b17; and already I can't use it for existing maps. --[[User:foxcole|foxcole]] 13 May 2008 UPDATE: Ah... in beta 17 I can't add a cloud to the main node either, so that seems to be a property that's not natively available at the main level. I've no idea what's putting it there in the first place but now understand why I can't remove it.
* Open a mind map that saved on a network share with windows version of freemind, doesn't work. I got the following failure: An error occoured on opening the file: MindMap:\\mondsee\homes\ko\Eigene Dateien\Brainstorming\FTM\WLT-Event.mm. It's only while opening a file on a network-share - at my local desktop it works! --[[User:Osthoffinnovations|Osthoffinnovations]] 09:12, 30 May 2008 (PDT)
** The space in the path name "..\Eigene Dateien\.." plus double back slash "\\" causes this bug.
As a quick fix add to FreeMind.java on line 517 (after “// bug fix by Dan:”)
if (System.getProperty("os.name").startsWith("Windows XP") && url.toString().startsWith("file:////"))
command = "rundll32 shell32.dll,ShellExec_RunDLL \"" + url.toString().replaceAll("%20"," ").replaceAll("%25","%")+"\"";
* If I put a graphics in a node and use the HTML editor to try to scale it down .... "size=50%" or "width=120px" ... that has no effect. [[User:Anton|Anton]]
* Freemind uses .mm as its file extension, but on Ubuntu (and probably other Linux distributions), this is the same as "Troff MM input document," so the file manager misidentifies all Freemind maps as Troff documents. Perhaps use .mim (MInd Map) or .fmm (FreeMindMap) or something else as the extension?
* On 0.9.0 beta 20: If you select "save" for an unsaved document, but you cancel the action, a message box appears saying "Saving Failed", but it's just a cancel. [[User:snookiex|snookiex]] 11:35, 27 Oct 2008 (GMT-5)
* 0.9.0 beta 20: Create child node using keyboard shortcut (eg. Insert) then press same kb shortcut (or if you have a second keystroke generated thru keystroke bounce) the second child-child node is created as closed node, ie not ready for keystroke entry. Basically pressing the "create child node" should not create a new node if the same keystroke is seen before the node has been "closed". (0.9.0 beta 15 did not display this behaviour - not tested intermediate versions yet)
* 0.9.0 beta 20: Note icon sometimes disappears and hint fails to display. Moving node causes note icon to display and hint to become active again.

=General Comments=
* Feature disable request: Would be great to disable scroll with touch pad as on my MacBook Pro if I accidentally touch the touch pad it starts scrolling very slowely and freezes all functions until it has stopped.
* Feature request: Would be nice to have a Latex export for the mindmap. This especially helps structuring a bigger report without having to type everything in latex again. Nice would be if you could say till which level you want to have headlines (after that just enumerations / lists).
* Feature request: I'm thinking to add a "Rotate" node function. When a node is selected followed by a "Rotate" feature, the selected node and its child nodes will be rotated by 90 degree. This will form a flow chart. Thus, we can used FreeMind to build flow chart easily using its friendly interface.
* Feature request: Add a number "0" icon. The addition of numbers "8" and "9" in .9.0 Beta 18 are great, but "0" is all that's left to complete the set. This will allow users to use these icons in many ways other than just setting priority. For example, when using Freemind to take notes, if you have more than 9 items which would benefit from a graphical numerical identification, double (or more) digits could be used with great benefit. I may even suggest that a black icon with white text be used—black being a conceptually appropriate color for the number "0".
* Feature request: Add the possibility to add a description to a graphical link, or even attributes (would be perfect). I use Freemind to create Moore and Mealy state machines in XML. So adding a text or attributes to a graphical link would be a milestone to reduce the complexity of the drawings.
* Feature request: When you move mouse over a node text is displayed in popup cloud, but it dissapears after few seconds. I would like for it to stay. Also, It would be great to be able to focus that popup and edit (ok that's a hard one, but at least copy) the contest there right away. --[[User:Kova|Kova]] 06:49, 19 Jan 2008 (PST)
* Feature request: I would like an option for text view (bottom) and tree view (top) to show (expand) when you move mouse over them. Right now I have tree view maximized when I'm editing the tree, but when I want to write something in the nodes or have a look what is written I have to go down, resize the text view, write text / view the text and resize again. It would be great if it resizes to half for example if I just move my mouse down to bottom where text area is. In short, I need quickly switch between node edit (text) and tree edit (graphics). --[[User:Kova|Kova]] 06:49, 19 Jan 2008 (PST)
* How about a forum for this stuff? Wiki is great for a single document, but not for discussion or suggestions like this. --[[User:Kova|Kova]] 06:49, 19 Jan 2008 (PST)
* In the German translation the use of capitals is just a mess. (Sorry!) For example "Speichern Unter..." Why a capital "U"? --[[User:Terkor|Terkor]] 06:58, 15 Dec 2007 (PST)
* Since some changes in the properties of FM need a restart of the program in order to be seen, there should be a restart option after you changed settings or in the file-menu. --[[User:Terkor|Terkor]] 02:18, 19 Nov 2007 (PST)
* any idea how I can print or give out a mindmap WITH the notes I made to the nodes? I think I tried all export possibilities but could not find a way. --[[User:bebach|bebach]] 17 Nov 2007
* Since I communicate with others using html exports or java/ flash exports, I uploaded to the web, it would be wounderful to have an internal ftp client in freemind and have an export option "upload by FTP". --[[User:bebach|bebach]] 8 Nov 2007
* Missing Export feature: I love the XHTML-Export with includes Image of the mindmap. For many reasons it would be much more comfortable to have just the images with an imagemap, for example a link collection. It will save user one very painful klick an the looking for the right section in the html export. HTML-Export as an image map would be much better for some users since the are not used to the also very nice flash or java web exports. They are very good for experienced users. --[[User:bebach|bebach]] 8 Nov 2007
* Moving a branch from one side of the root to the other - the text and child branches should "flip" to enable this
** Um, they do! Drag the node onto the root node and drop when you can see the gradient appear - then you'll mirror the structure. Otherwise you're just repositioning the node. --[[User:Kenrob|Kenrob]] 04:34, 5 Oct 2007 (PDT)
* I believe the Calendar / Scheduler feature can offer great benefits if improved. I suggest a pop up will should come up when the reminder time arrives. Similar to MS Outlook, you should have options of delaying the reminder or canceling it. --[[User:Felipe|Felipe]] 13:33, 1 May 2007 (PDT)
* I love freemind and work with it a lot some hours a day! I am looking forward to the new version and I start testing from v0.9 beta 12 --[[User:bebach|bebach]] 24 Aug 2007
* Feature Request: Database views are a powerful feature. I wish something like this for freemind. The idea is to store all the data in some ordinary mindmaps whithout redundancy, and on the other side work on them with the help of several '''virtual mindmaps''', like views in database systems. The intention is to benefit from all the advantages of database views in freemind with a similar feature. To build the freemind views could xquery be used.--[[User:maxreeb|maxreeb]] 6 Sep 2007
* Feature Request: Lose Nodes. While FreeMind works great for information that is already relatively structured in your mind, it is VERY difficult to use when your information is very disorganised, like any kind of stream-of-consciousness type note-taking. In that scenario, the fact that FreeMind forces you with an iron hand to structure information before you're allowed to move on to the next idea, forces you to completely stop the creative process maybe 10 times a minute, which is why I tend to AVOID FreeMind and favor even just WordPad any time I'm creative, because FreeMind works against me by forcing me to be so structure right off the bat that it grinds the creative process to a halt. I truly feel that you need the ability to have what I would term 'Lose Nodes', which is notes that are simply floating on the page and detached from the tree. Of course the goal is to get them attached to the tree in an orderly fashion, but for the sake of picking your own brain, you actually need the ability to simply drop them on the page, and then drag-drop organize them later by binding them together into a tree. You would do the exact same on a physical desktop -- you would cut out little pieces of paper, which would initially just be floating around on the table, until they slowly become organized into a tree. The fact that people have done this for hundreds years, I think proves that this is a natural and intuitive workflow, one that FreeMind easily both could and should support. By the same token, if you realize that a tree is poorly structured, you would want to take it apart and re-assemble it in a new way. As part of that process, maybe 20 or 40 nodes would be temporarily lose, and a 'Lose Nodes' feature would allow you to simply drag the nodes lose from the tree, drop them in the white space, and then later attach them somewhere else. I think this would be extremely intuitive. And very lastly, in this mindset of being able to do in FreeMind what you are thinking, I think you need to support more than one root. Although the GOAL is of course a neatly structured tree with a single root, you again don't necessarily arrive there through clean path -- no, the path is messy and disorganized, and then order forms slowly. I feel I would be able to structure large and experimental concepts much more easily if you supported Lose Nodes and multiple roots. With multiple roots, you would be able to detach section of the tree into a new tree, work on them concurrently, until you realize that they're part of the same concept, and glue the trees back together. These two features together are what is preventing me from being truly productive with FreeMind from a discovery perspective. I have no doubt that FreeMind works like a charm for information that is already relatively organized, but for discovering new and original concepts, FreeMind forces a structure on the information that is not mature for. Rather, FreeMind helps your produce a graph of the end result, but doesn't fully help you get there. --[[User:Perholm|Perholm]] 16:23, 12 Sep 2007 (PDT)
** "Lose Nodes" or "Unattached Nodes" or "Additional Roots" are available in [http://www.mindjet.com/ MindJet's] Mindmap. They are a class of "floating" objects that include labels and graphics. I recall the implementation of this came in on of the service packs for X5. [http://www.mindjet.com/resources/tutorials/mindmanagerx5/default.aspx X5] also added things like callouts, markers, map parts, and storing the map as XML. Once again I would recommend looking at Mindjet's MindMap and if you are a Windows users trying the 30-day evaluation to get a feel for what is possible in both capabilities and interface. --[[User:Anton|Anton]] 18:05, 20 Jul 2008 (PDT)

** Understood the issue. What I do is setting "disable key type" off, and "key type adds new" on. So each time I am hitting "return" key and starting to type again, it is a new node automatically created. In fact it works then like "wordPad", a node being equivalent to a line. To keep my map "clean" all those new nodes are created under a node "to be cleaned" or even a new map. Then I do the assembling by moving nodes with the mouse, and this is all the power of freemind. Faster to reorganise information than any other tool I have ever tried. I like your expression "kind of stream-of-consciousness type note-taking". This is exactly my use (several hours/day for years) of Freemind which is my main/only data entry software, and it is the best tool I know for this. --[[User:Fb5|Fb5]] 03:57, 23 Oct 2007 (PDT)
** About the multi root discussion. The same result could be attained easily now with the tabbed windows. For large maps already difficult to see, multiroots would make them really messy. An improvement for your concern could be to have an option to view tabbed windows "side by side" ("arrange all" in Word from Windows).--[[User:Fb5|Fb5]] 04:15, 23 Oct 2007 (PDT)
* Feature Request: Rearranging Nodes. I'm wondering why, when you're rearranging the order of nodes on the same hierarchical level, why you're only allowed to move a node *before* another node by dropping things in the top half of the destination node. All the time, I need to move a node so it comes *after* another node, but you can't simply drop the node in the bottom half of the destination node to move it to come *after*. And by the same token, there's NO way to move a node to be the last one without dropping it in the right-side of the *parent* node. This is frustrating, really frustrating, and there's no real logic to it... who made the decision that you can only move nodes *before* other nodes, but not *after*? Why did you decide to make it like this and not the other way around. And why is the only way you can get a node to the bottom of a list, to drag and drop onto the right side of the *parent* node. I run into this probably 20 or 30 times an hour, and the current design seems arbitrarily selected. You should be able to move nodes both *before* and *after* each other by dragging and dropping them into the top or bottom half of the destination node. I feel that nothing else is consistent and makes sense. Sorry for my rant, I just feel that there are some things that don't follow GUI 101. --[[User:Perholm|Perholm]] 14:00, 13 Sep 2007 (PDT)
** A simple workaround is to drag to the ''second-last'' position, i.e. the top ½ of the lowest node. When you have everything else repositioned, drag the lowest node to it rightful place. --[[User:Kenrob|Kenrob]] 04:25, 5 Oct 2007 (PDT)
*** I think this is unacceptable as a solution. Workaround, yes. Solution, no. --[[User:Perholm|Perholm]] 14:12, 10 Oct 2007 (PDT)
* Feature Request: Copy/Paste Paragraphs. I'm an author trying to use FreeMind to structure a large literary project, and it would be incredibly helpful if FreeMind had the following functionality: If you grab some text from Word (which might consist of for example 10 paragraphs), it would be incredibly helpful to get each of these paragraphs as individual child-nodes. The reason is that we're using FreeMind to organize a book-type project, of which some has already been written, and we need to get each paragraph of a chapter into a separate child-node in FreeMind so we can rearrange the blocks the FreeMind way, which by the way works fantastically. But at the moment, we can't find any other way than to copy/paste each single (friggin) paragraph individually. And the same goes for when you're trying to get something back into Word; it would be great to be able to simply select a branch, and get it copy/pasted into word as a simple top-to-bottom text copy where each child-node is an individual paragraph. That way you can use FreeMind to organize a literary project, knowing that the project ultimately has to end up in Word, but FreeMind is far superior for organizing and structuring the information. Perhaps consider a 'Paste Menu' like Word has, which asks you how exactly you want to paste, i.e. 'Keep Formatting' or 'Text Only' -- a similar menu in FreeMind could ask if you want to turn individual paragraphs into nodes, or if you want to paste the whole text as a single node. This would be REALLY helpful to organize literary projects. This would also allow you to much more easily use FreeMind to edit something that is initially written as stream-of-consciousness, i.e. any brainstorm. Such a brainstorm would likely simply consist of lines upon lines (or paragraphs upon paragraphs) of disorganized ideas written into Word or a text-editor. When you bring this into FreeMind, you ought to be able to turn each 'idea' (i.e. Paragraph) into a separate node. Right now, I can find no other way than to copy/paste each line individually, which is enormously labor-intensive. UPDATE: OK, FreeMind already has this feature, but it doesn't always work, because if you're pasting from Word, the text coming in is interpreted as Rich Text, and put into a single child node. If you want the behavior I describe, you have to first copy the text in Word, paste the text into Notepad (not Wordpad), copy it from Notepad, and paste it into FreeMind. I think there should be the ability to interpret text coming from Word as 'text-only' and not automatically bring in the formatting. In the case of a literary project, the formatting is only interesting in Word... in FreeMind you only want to edit the text, the formatting is irrelevant in a FreeMind context.--[[User:Perholm|Perholm]] 23:11, 13 Sep 2007 (PDT)
** '''You can use Edit->Split Node after inserting a formatted paragraph into the node. It splits the node in single paragraphs.''' [[User:DimitriPolivaev|DimitriPolivaev]] 14:19, 17 Sep 2007 (PDT)
** Using the Edit->Split Node is very time consuming for a large number of branches. <s>Why can't we retain the behaviour of Freemind 0.8.0? It seems that a tool to organise thoughts should work at the lowest level of granularity not create huge "blobs" of text. When I reorganise my ideas by pasting paragraphs from a document in 0.8.0, each paragraph in the document beocomes a separate branch. I can then drag and drop branches to reorganise my ideas. This issue is so important to me that it will be a show-stopper for 0.9.0 as far as I am concerned!</s> --[[User:Phil31753|Phil31753]] 07:35, 9 Apr 2009 (UTC) Tool->Split Node achieves what I (and others in this section) require.--[[User:Phil31753|Phil31753]] 10:05, 9 Apr 2009 (UTC)
** That's interesting discussion. When I copy from word to freemind, each paragraph is copied as an individual node and that is what I expect and what You would like. Maybe your freemind settings are different than mine ?--[[User:Fb5|Fb5]] 04:05, 23 Oct 2007 (PDT)
** It is now I met the issue You described Perholm. This is when copying form WEB BROWSER to FREEMIND. The copy keeps the html formating and keeps it in one node. This is a real annoyance for me too and that would stop me to move from 0.8 Version. Is it possible to have a "Paste Special" or '''"Paste as text"''' menu which also split paragraph as nodes, please Dimitri ? One advantage of the html copy would be for tables, which doesn't work in 0.8. Thank You. Franck --[[User:Fb5|Fb5]] 03:46, 6 Dec 2007 (PST)
* SIMPLICITY , SPEED and RELIABILITY : Those must be the main strengths of Freemind. I am using Freemind as my main computer interface for data entry for three years, ending with large maps (several 10s of thousands nodes). I have tried many other softwares and my conclusion, there is simply no equivalence on the market. It would be a shame to slow the program or the user-interface because adding new features. So, my expectation is to have user-options for enabling or not those features (attributes and Wysiwig). Thank You so much for the great work. Franck --[[User:Fb5|Fb5]] 20:03, 2 Oct 2007 (PDT)
** I want to second that: my maps are not nearly as big as Franck's but for me simplicity and reliability (as already provided by 0.8.0) are most important, too. Please try to keep focus on the simple things instead of adding too many features.--[[User:Christofb|Christofb]] 12:27, 30 Oct 2007 (PDT)
** Absolutely right. It is wonderful that new features are being added, but it is ESSENTIAL that Freemind is able to run QUICKLY on any computer, or it won't be useful. --[[User:Loydog|Loydog]] 2:44, 8 Nov 2007 (PDT)
** I absolutely agree to that. I'm a freemind user for years now and though I'm looking forward to see new features in freemind I always loved the fast and easy way to create maps on every occasion. So maybe if there are resource consuming new features they could be inserted as plugins or sth. like that so users are able to decide wether they will activate a feature or not--lpdubel 02:06, 14 Nov 2007 (PST)
* Attachments (Multiple): It is necessary to be able to add multiple attachments to a single node. For example, one node may have an attached pdf doc, word doc, excel sheet, and other mindmap. [[User:kberardinelli|kberardinelli]] 09:17, 26 Oct 2007 (EDT)
** What I do is to create subnodes (even without any text) and assign an attachement to each of them. --[[User:Fb5|Fb5]] 02:26, 15 Nov 2007 (PST)
* Attachments (Deletion): Currently, there seems to be no way to delete an attachment. This needs to be very easy to do (perhaps by right-clicking and selecting 'Delete Attachment'. [[User:kberardinelli|kberardinelli]] 09:17, 26 Oct 2007 (EDT)
* Feature Request: Especially when using freemind on a beamer I would like to have a fullscreen mode ie without window decorations etc. Just the canvas, even without menu bar or status bar. -- [[User:barney|barney]] 13:52, 29 Oct 2007 (MEZ)
** I would love to see that too. Think about using it in a classroom for a brainstorming on the beamer. --[[User:Christofb|Christofb]] 12:27, 30 Oct 2007 (PDT)
** Agree, for uncluttering and focusing on one task. -- [[User:Vibrog|Vibrog]] 10:43, 17 Nov 2008 (UTC)
** Agree with you at all! I would like to use freemind for presentation on technical presentation. --[[User:Dinny|dinny]]
* Feedback: In Beta 13 (the one before 14), I could remove the note area from the view and use ctrl-< to activate the note area, make it visible again, and type ahead. This still works in Beta 14. When done, I could use ctrl-< again to focus the mind map node again and the note area vanishes again. In Beta 14 the note area stays visible and I need to ctrl-<, ctrl-> to move out and hide the area. The behaviour in Beta 13 was much easier to work with. -- [[User:barney|barney]] 13:52, 29 Oct 2007 (MEZ)
* Feature request: IMO it would be very useful to be able to add some metadata to a freemind map as a whole like titel, description, author, keywords --lpdubel 02:06, 14 Nov 2007 (PST)

* Feature request: I would like very much to have a better method for transclusion. Compendium allows reuse of nodes across multiple views (whether maps or lists) and automatically handles updates from any instance to all appearances across a range of maps. Compendium even places a subscript counting the number of transclusions for a node! Can one hack this up through per node addressing in FreeMind? Would that handle automatic updates? I suspect a database back-end for nodes makes more sense. I want to construct constructing Maps through addition across a collection of nodes (again, like Compendium) instead of filtering maps by subtraction across a single map's nodes. As a first approximation to this, I'd like to save Filters independently of maps. --[[User:Jay Dugger|Jay_Dugger]], 2217 Sunday, 2 December 2007

*Feature request: Ship it! (sorry, but it would be nice to have a released version that works with the lattest java version), and well, it's been 2 and a half years... [[User:Tomh|Tomh]] 05:09, 10 Jan 2008 (PST)

*Feature request: I really miss a strike-through along bold and italic, with a keyboard shortcut. Cheers.

* Feature request: Nothing big, I just wanted to ask weather its possible to bind the structure to too points again (left right) from the rootnode like it was it 0.8 and that change this when you want. Because its much esear to start a structured mindmap using only the keys... Also I liked to have two sides to divide the thoughts when speaking about pro and contra. It Would be Great if it was possible to ad this as an Option to the root-point. (Inculding the move navigation with strg that could move one node all around the root) Thank you! --[[User:X-Site|X-Site]] 16:29, 9 Mar 2008 (PDT)

* Feature lost? In 8.0 version when you copy nodes and paste in MSWord you immediately create a "structure", that is a hyerarchic level: very useful if you want to adjust titles or paragraphs in preliminary notes, or import them in Power Point slides etc. I'm a teacher and use Freemind with students for brainstorming, organize ideas and create texts or presentations from preliminary notes. Now in 9.0 version this feature seems to be lost. Why? Do tou know any solution? Many thanks for your work.--[[User:Luciodp|Luciodp]] 05:24, 7 May 2008 (PDT)

* Try Tools->Split Node --[[User:Phil31753|Phil31753]] 10:05, 9 Apr 2009 (UTC)

*Feature request: I would like to be able to apply a cloud to a parent node but not necessarily its children; or maybe to only some selected children... similar to how a network or gateway is depicted in a flowchart. [[User:foxcole|foxcole]] 13 May 2008 UPDATE: Perhaps a more accurate request is to be able to choose from a limited set basic shapes to apply to a node or set of siblings but not children.

* When I export my map to a text based format (i. e. HTML), FM starts with the right side and then continues the left side. For me it is not intuitive I start my maps on the left side - as I would read a newspaper or magazine. I guess it is not difficult to allow the user to choose if FM should start with the left or the right side. --[[User:Terkor|Terkor]] 16:28, 13 May 2008 (PDT)

* Feedback: Thanks for all your hard work, absolutely amazing product. --[[User:RazielJaTier|RazielJaTier]] 15:23, 20 May 2008 (PDT)

* Changed Functionality: In 0.8 I could hover over a node to select it, hold down ctrl, which would effectively prevent other nodes from being selected. Then move my mouse all the way across the map (again without worry about another node being selected), then click on an icon *with the ctrl key held down*. The icon would be assigned. In 0.9 you have to release ctrl before you click the icon, otherwise it will simply ignore it. This is a simple little detail, and I'm sure I'll get used to it, but if it's not difficult, and you don't have other plans for ctrl clicking icons, I'd love the 0.8 behavior back. --[[User:RazielJaTier|RazielJaTier]] 15:23, 20 May 2008 (PDT)

* Suggestion: Create localized version of linked data. When you use alt+L to create a link to another part of the map, it would be nice if you had an option to actually create "ghost" versions of that data instead of having to click in the link. If you edited the ghost version, or the original, they would stay in sync. --[[User:RazielJaTier|RazielJaTier]] 15:23, 20 May 2008 (PDT)

* Suggestion: It would be neat to be able to with single click generate the framework of a thinking tool. When I say thinking tool I am thinking mostly of the thinking tools created by Edward de Bono such as his Six Hats, CoRT and many others. See http://www.edwdebono.com/ and http://www.edwarddebono.com/ for more info. An example would be right clinking on "Six Hats" and from your current node it would create six child nodes: White Hat, Red Hat, Yellow Hat, Black Hat, Green Hat and Blue Hat. For each of these child nodes an empty blank node would be created as well. Lastly your cursor would move to the blank node under White Hat and then you can start typing. Such functionality might be created with Groovy script but most would not want the difficulty of programming Groovy script. It is also possible to cut and paste a section of a mind map but that is more cumbersome than a single click. --[[User:Mars729|Mars729]] 17:59, 31 May 2008 (EDT)
** A library of templates would be a great contribution. --[[User:Anton|Anton]] 17:52, 20 Jul 2008 (PDT)

* Suggestion: When working with images it would be nice to be able to paste or drop an image to a node. --[[User:trinxie|trinxie]]

* Suggestion: When adding an image link, if it is a file, should it be possible to store the relative path? Would be great if the whole model is distributed to someone else. Maybe this possibility already exists. --[[User:trinxie|trinxie]]

* If I install Freemind using aptitude in Ubuntu 8.10, I have the /usr/share/pixmaps/FreeMindWindowIcon.xpm to use in my panel, but as the available version in Ubuntu is 0.7.1 and I have some MMs created with later versions, I decided to try the 0.9 RC1, and downloaded it (freemind-bin-max-0.9.0_RC_1.zip). For my surprise, there is no icon to use in this zip. Please include one, or maybe more than one (see http://www.menyhart.net/blog/software/freemind-icon/). --[[User:Itamar|Itamar]] 12:33, 9 Feb 2009 (UTC)

* '''''Observation:''''' Many of these suggestions and feature requests are or are similar to ones that exist in [http://www.mindjet.com/ Mindjet's] MindMap. It used to be that this leader had a great advantage in that it supported scripts. Now that FreeMind has Groovy it is catching up. All we need is the library of neat applications that use the scripting language''!'' I was a keen user of MM2002 and looked forward to MM-X5 and its shift to XML, but the real shift was for the benefit of people ho were programmers, not the baseline users. Unless you were a EmbeddedVisualBasic programmer the change was a setback. The library of HTML export templates was lost - Mindjet's response was "its all XML so you can write your own XSLT. Well some of us can't or don't have the time. The other killer for me was that Mindjet tied in too closely with Microsoft Office. It couldn't export to anything else. So in reality one had to spend hundred of dollars more for each upgrade of MindMap since it always needed the latest version of Office. ''However'' I would recommend looking at Mindjet's MindMap and if you are a Windows users trying the 30-day evaluation to get a feel for what is possible in both capabilities and interface. --[[User:Anton|Anton]] 17:52, 20 Jul 2008 (PDT)

* When you enter note-data for quite a number of nodes the map is so full with the note-icon. I would appreciate an option in the preferences as for the attribute icon, that disables showing an icon. (Tools>Preferences>Appearance>Show icon for attributes) --[[User:Kai|Kai]] 21:59, 20 Mar 2009 (CET)

* Feature request: automatically calculating the print zoom factor according to a user-defined number of mosaiced printed pages. E.g., user should be able to specify he wants the map printed on N x M pages (M pages across and N pages high) and the print zoom factor should be calculated automatically. That would reduce the need to compute the best print zoom factor by trial-and-error. --[[User:Arg0|arg0]] 09:29, 24 Apr 2009 (UTC)

* Feature request: settings for customising arrow links (e.g., ability to specify that links start from the root part of a node rather than from the leaf part). Moreover, it can be really tricky to rearrange the shape of an arrow link, especially short ones, since all parameters (starting point, tangency) are changed simultaneously when dragging a link point. Fine editing should be implemented. --[[User:Arg0|arg0]] 09:29, 24 Apr 2009 (UTC)

* GENERAL OPEN SOURCE FEEDBACK LOOPS WITH FREEMIND, would it not be helpful if feedback loops were integrated into the beta versions, so that one can write requests for enhancements as one is using Freemind or other open source proejcts. For example, for each function there could be a questionnaire and comment box next to it. This info could then be uploaded to a wiki. It may help organize the locations of info and spur more user involvement in the feedback process. Could it also be possible that the uses of the porgramme are logged and statistically analyzed by the developers?

FreeMind 0.9.0: The New Features

2009-06-19T12:08:21Z

MikeS: /* User Feedback */

A great release is to come. We have many exciting new features: WYSIWYG-Editing for nodes and notes, scripting, filter, attributes and many more.

But all these new features still need a lot of testing and documentation. To start this, please have a look at the newest version [http://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=7118&package_id=188772 here] and [http://sourceforge.net/forum/forum.php?thread_id=1592095&forum_id=22101 tell us your opinions].

Use this wiki page for documenting the new features.

But: Don't use this version for productive maps. It is not stable enough!
* Further warning: If you create a map with Attributes, it will open as a "New Map" with no data in version 0.8. Your data is not lost, just not readable by 0.8.
* You can try to convert the 0.9.0 - saved map back to 0.8.0 by following steps

# Make the backup copy of the map
# Open it with the 0.9.0 again
# Select all nodes
# Format-> use plain text
# Save
# Open the mind map file in text editor
# Remove all lines starting with <attribute_registry> and ending with <attribute_registry/>
# Save the file and try to open it in 0.8.0

If it does not help you should use the 0.9.0.

= Attributes =
''FIXME: An introduction should be given here explaining what attributes are and what they are good for. Why should the user learn how to fiddle around with attributes if he does not know what they are?''

Attributes provide different perspectives for ordering/viewing your MindMap. Attributes are tuple name/value pairs that are globally available i.e. can be tagged to any node and assigned specific values. For example, you can create shopping lists, add notional weightings, performance metrics, etc. The real power of attribute comes from writing Groovy scripts that can operate on attribute value or change the behavior of a node. For example, you can summarize the info contained within several nodes for a total cost. Attributes are complemented by Filters.

Real world example: I use Attributes and Filters after taking staff meeting notes. Immediately after a meeting, I assign attributes to nodes as applicable: Attribute 1 is "Name", values are the names of my staff; Attribute 2 is "Priority", values are numbers 1-5. The "Assign Attributes..." dialogue allows me to select all comments from a certain staff member and then assign their name to those nodes at once. If there is an action required, I might assign a priority. Filters allow me to quickly see only nodes from a certain staff member, or specific priority levels, or any combination. --[[User:Dnbarg|Dnbarg]] 20:21, 22 Oct 2007 (PDT)

== Quick Attribute creation ==
* Select node.
* Edit Attribute: Alt-F9 or, Rt-click>Edit attributes.
* Type in an Attribute name.
* Then add a value if desired.
* Edit with the Attribute Manager later if necessary.
== Using Attribute Manager ==
* Open the attribute manager with attribute icon on toolbar or, Tools>Attribute Manager.
----

=== Working with Attributes ===
* Click the "Edit" button in the "All Attributes" row
* Select attribute names from existing names to Rename/Delete in popup dialog
* Enter new attribute name to Add in popup dialog
* Press "Close" to close the dialog after all changes are done

==== Create Attribute ====
* Type in your Attribute name, then press add
* Repeat to add multiple attributes
==== Create Attribute values====
* type the value, then press "Add"
* It's a good idea to add a blank value to the list. It helps when assigning attributes later
Every Attribute can have multiple values
* eg. I use an Attribute called "Staff" and the values are the staff person's name
* eg. I use an Attribute called "Priority" and the values are #'s 1 to 5

==== Delete Attribute ====
* Select the menu option Tools/Attribute Manager, to open the panel Attribute Manager.
* In the line "All Attributes" of this panel, click on the icon in the last column (Edit). This opens a new panel "All Attributes".
* In this panel, select the attribute name, then press "Delete".

==== Delete Attribute values ====
* Select the value, then press "Delete"
* All attributes with the deleted value are removed from the whole map

All attributes with the deleted name and/or value are removed from the whole map

==== Rename Attribute ====
* Select the attribute name to be renamed, type the new name, then press "Rename"
* All attributes with the renamed value are adjusted

==== Rename Attribute values ====
* Select the value to be renamed, type the new value, then press "Rename"
* All attributes with the renamed value are adjusted

=== Working with Attribute values (in Attribute Mgr) ===
* After adding Attributes, you should see them listed under the "Attributes" column heading
* Click on the "Edit" button in the row of your new Attribute and add the values
* Edit attribute values in popup dialog
* Press "Close" to close the dialog after all changes are done

== Assign Attributes to nodes ==
assigning only a few nodes
* Choose the node, press Alt-F9 or, Rt-Click the node and choose "Edit Attributes"
* To add more attribute per node, use TAB key (if View>Attributes>Show all attributes is selected), or use the following.
* got to: Tools>"Assign attributes..."
* choose "Selected Nodes" or "Visible Nodes"
* from the drop down list, choose the Attribute you want to assign. (Here it helps when there's a blank value. You can assign an Attribute to all nodes needing it, and then set the value later, on a node by node basis)
* press the "Add" button to assign the Attribute to the node/s
* add more than one attribute to a node if necessary
* delete attributes from multiple nodes with this dialog

== Viewing/Hiding Attributes ==
to see an icon on nodes with attributes
* Tools>Preferences>Appearance>Show icon for attributes
show all attributes
* Alt-s or, View>Attributes>Show all attributes
show no attributes
* Alt-h or, View>Attributes>Show no attributes
show selected attributes
* in the Attribute Manager, select desired Attributes in the "Selected Visible" column
* then, View>Attributes>Show selected Attributes
optimize the width of the Attribute/value table
* Rt-click on the Attribute and choose optimal width

== User feedback ==
=== Bugs concerning attributes ===
* Better sorting of the options: Add Attribute > Delete this Attribute > Delete all Attributes. Numerous times I accidentally clicked on the middle button which is now (beta20) "Alle Werte löschen" when I intended to only "Diesen Wert löschen", because it is on the same line where I specify the criteria, which attribute value pair I try to delete [[User:JR|JR]] 13:16, 8 Oct 2008 (UTC)
* The key bindings alt-s and alt-h do not work as expected for showing or hiding attributes.--[[User:Yubrshen|yushen]] 02:23, 25 Nov 2006 (PST)
* When Attributes are visible, scrolling with mouse wheel stops when cursor is over the attribute of a node. --[[User:Terkor|Terkor]] 20:11, 27 Aug 2007 (PDT)
* If I set attributes, I can't export the map in PDF. It's ok in flash, png, xhtml, jpeg. Beta 17 on Ubuntu 8.04 - Sun Java -- freemind@smci.ch 2008-05-23
* If I add a blank character such as space after an attribute name, it is not considered as the same attribute (no trim) --[[User:Patco|Patco]] 19:27, 19 Jun 2008 (PDT)
* If you create attributes for the first time, but not assign them to a node, they won't be saved in your document --[[User:kvantomme|kvantomme]] 17:15, 3 Dec 2008 (GMT+1)
* Selecting an attribute with the arrow keys (from the dropdown) and then pressing tab makes the attributes box disappear.--[[User:Kartunes|kar]] 18:19, 12 Mar 2009 (UTC)

=== Bugs or features? (questions about attributes to the developers) ===

* The context menu key on the keyboard doesn't open the context-menu. --[[User:Jan|Jan]] 01:07, 4 Jul 2008 (PDT)

* When changing the font-size of a node by keyboard-shortcut (ctrl+"+" / crtl+"-") the fontsize-combobox of the toolbar isn't refreshing. --[[User:Jan|Jan]] 01:00, 4 Jul 2008 (PDT)

* When adding an attribute to a node which already has the attribute, the attribute will be shown as many times as added. However, when deleting the attribute from node, all instances of the attribute would be deleted.--[[User:Yubrshen|yushen]] 02:23, 25 Nov 2006 (PST)
:* In version 0.9.0b13, the bug is corrected (i.e. deleting one attribute does not delete all other attributes with the same name). So, the possibility to have several attributes with the same name but different values ought probably to be considered as a feature, not a bug ? For example the attribute "child" could have the values "Peter" and "Mary" attached to a given node "Paul and Jane" to include in the map the information that Paul and Jane have at least 2 children named Peter and Mary (if I understood correctly the notion and usefulness of attributes)? --[[User:Miclav|Miclav]] 01:56, 9 Sep 2007 (PDT)

* It is not possible to delete an attribute from the List of attributes. If one is created, it lives forever .... It seems that using tool/assign attribute by selecting the attribute in question, and select delete all values, it's possible to remove an attribute of a node. --[[User:Yubrshen|yushen]] 21:19, 15 Jan 2007 (PST)

:* You can remove or even rename some attributes and attribute values from the map using the attribute manager. Use Tools->Attribute Manager->All Attributes->[edit]->[click on attribute]->[Delete] --[[User:DimitriPolivaev|DimitriPolivaev]] 05:12, 9 Sep 2007 (PDT)

* It is not intuitive to go to Tools->Assign Attributes to set attributes on several nodes. I expected to be able to select several nodes (or all) and use Edit->Attributes. It didn't occur to me to look on the Tools menu for Editing. -- [[User:JimK|JimK]]
* The workflow in the Assign Attributes dialog is backwards: actions should be from left to right, top to bottom. I suggest moving the buttons to the right side. It's also strange why Add & Delete have one section and Replace has another. From user viewpoint they're all the same. Just need one name/value input box? -- [[User:JimK|JimK]]
* The title of the Assign Attributes dialog box has an extra character in "Assign" that should be removed. -- [[User:JimK|JimK]]
* Attributes are a great idea, but the whole dialog thing is very slow to work with. And it sucks to have a dialog over your workspace. I suggest making attributes work pretty much like a dynamic list of icons in terms of user interface:
** Make a toolbar dedicated to adding attribute values to nodes. Put the toolbar on the right side of the screen, make a button for every value, so that it can be assigned with one click.
*** This is so that, rather than choosing "apply to selected" or "apply to visible", you can use the standard built in selecting mechanisms, and apply attributes the same way that you apply icons.
**** You also have the added bonus of standardizing the interface somewhat.
** Put a selector box, or in the case of a low number of attribute value pairs, section them off, so you never need more than one or two clicks to assign an attribute.
** Have an empty box in the toolbar for new attribute or value definitions.
** Remove the attribute assignment dialog.
** Here's a visual sample. I found it was easier just to illustrate it: [[Media:FreeMindAttributeToolbar.png]] --[[User:RazielJaTier|RazielJaTier]] 22:50, 20 May 2008 (PDT)
* There is a bug in the browser applet of 0.9.0-Beta19 related to notes attached on nodes: if you switch between nodes the text of the note in the bottom window don't get updated, unless you select a node without a note and go back to one with a note. I guess the method onSelectHook(NodeView pNode) in NodeNoteViewer.java isn't called when switch between nodes with notes. --[[User:Jens|Jens]] 14:20, 11 Aug 2008 (PDT)

=== Wishes concerning attributes ===
* I love the attribute & filter feature & see great potential ahead. Being able to name & save searches would also be extremely useful.--[[User:Felipe|Felipe]] 07:34, 26 Apr 2007 (PDT)
* Really wish for a feature to only selectively show the attribute of the node in focus. The current options of "show all attributes", "show the selected attributes" all apply to all the nodes visible. With all nodes showing attributes, it occupy too much space. I wish that it only shows all the attributes for the current node being selected, i.e. in focus. This would be often enough for normal use.--[[User:Yubrshen|yushen]] 20:36, 1 Dec 2006 (PST)
* Default attributes of new node: I need to add some attributes to all new nodes. Therefore, I wish that there is mechanism to automatically stuff some default attributes to all the new nodes created after the functionality is enabled. This function may be configured to enable/disable. --[[User:Yubrshen|yushen]] 21:19, 15 Jan 2007 (PST)
* Or there is functionality to add a group of selected attributes to a group of selected nodes through one operation. --[[User:Yubrshen|yushen]] 21:19, 15 Jan 2007 (PST)

*You explained how to create attribute etc... but after spending "only" 30 minutes on it, what is the real interest in practice of such feature ? What is the use of attributes ? not clear what it can be used for ....--[[User:Djerr|Djerr]] 17:49, 20 Jan 2007

*Roll-up: It'd be really nice (and quite natural) to be able to roll-up (summarize or otherwise) the values of certain attributes (eg. money, time, resource requirements, etc) from children to parent nodes. --[[User:azimmer|azimmer]] 16:58, 14 Feb 2007

* See also the [[Talk:FreeMind_0.9.0:_The_New_Features|discussion page]]

* Adding "Attribute" is a great idea (for me ;-) !). There's a long time that I'm thinking of using freemind in an Artificial Intelligence way. Using Attribute, simultaneously with groovy, may help me for creating rules. Thanks ! --[[User:PLANTING|PLANTING]] 12 Aug 2007
* A way to copy and paste all the attributes assigned to a node or one of these attributes would be nice. Perhaps a "Copy Attribute" and "Copy All Attributes" in popup menu when you right-click on the attributes of a node. --[[User:Terkor|Terkor]] 10:06, 30 Aug 2007 (PDT)

* A way to assign different types of data to attributes: AKA Boolean, Integer, Date, Text, etc.
*Refactor/sort nodes by attribute: Dunno if anybody knows the dashboard plugin for mindmanager, but this idea is similar (except better cause it uses custom attributes). basically, any given attribute/group of attributes would be a parent node. And the values of the attribute would be the children. The nodes with those values would branch off from that. Would allow for awesome fluid mindmaps that could show all sorts of relationships between nodes without ruining the linear structure of the map, allowing for scheduling, budgeting, etc. I'm creating some example mindmaps which show how this feature would be incredibly usefull for something like scheduling.
* Sorting function would be great, but I propose it on the node (alphabetical). Having it on the attribute means for me having to update individually each node's attribute, which would take more time than sorting them by hand. I imagine a function sorting alphabetically all subnodes 1st level of the selected node. Franck --[[User:Fb5|Fb5]] 03:55, 6 Dec 2007 (PST)
** I'd agree with 'sort nodes by attribute' above. I'm a mindmanager user and being able to easily and interactively prioritise tasks on a node is very useful. In mm I just use the pre-defined priority icons, and sort accordingly. This is useful, but freemind with multi-attributes could offer more powerful sorts.

* A way to add new attributes using just the keyboard. I use keyboard shortcuts quite often with FreeMind and not having the ability to quickly add/change/delete attributes with the keyboard makes them much less useful. --[[User:Verifex|Verifex]] 15:57, 8 Dec 2007 (PST)
** What about Alt+F9 for selecting the attribute table and F2 for editing, TAB for adding? [[User:DimitriPolivaev|DimitriPolivaev]]
* Some attributes should be single-valued. Right now they all seem to be multi-valued. For example, I want only want attribute named Priority per node. -- [[User:JimK|JimK]]
* Hopefully you're going to add Help to dialog boxes? When I'm in Attribute Manager I don't understand all the choices. I should be able to view help about them from within the app rather than going to a Website/wiki. -- [[User:JimK|JimK]]
* Clicking on the "Icon for Attributes" could show/hide the attributes.
* Ability to have "Optimal Width" applied on all nodes by default.
** Seconded. A preference for the default width would help as well. --[[User:Icekiss|Icekiss]] 08:08, 19 Apr 2008 (PDT)
* It would be great to have the possibillity to group attributes and give these groups names. These names may be treated as node types. One may assign a node type to a node meaning the node gets automatically all the attributes of this type. With this it would be possible to define for instance a node type like ''activity'' with attribute like ''who'', ''start date'', ''percent complete'' and so on. An easy way to assign node types to nodes, for instance something like ''default type for new nodes depending on parent node'' would be the cherry on top.
* I've been using beta 15 seriously for a project. Filtering is wonderful, and what I really need is sub-node sorting by attribute and/or icon priority. (Please!) - johnn

* Don't know if it should be here or not. But actually, it would be nice if we could apply the same kind of filter to the icons:
** it would be faster
** it would be simpler, as some kind of default attribute+values
** it allows also multiple values (i can have multiple icons for one same branch)
* This would probably require to expand the list of icons to have more of the different types of notions that can be represented in a tool as FreeMind:
** relative to decision making: delay (e.g. hourglass), optionality, assumption/hypothesis, problem/inconsistency (e.g. lighting), advantage ("thumb up", "+/-"), inconvenient ("thumb down","+/-"),cause, consequence, risk,
** relative to life in general: user (people), group, time (clock), time interval, machine, etc.--[[User:Patco|Patco]] 19:48, 19 Jun 2008 (PDT)
* Keyboard assigning of attributes is a bit clumsy. Ideally, instead of using the arrow keys to select, the appropriate attribute would be suggested just by typing its first few letters. Then tab could be pressed to select and go to the next attribute.--[[User:Kartunes|kar]] 17:45, 12 Mar 2009 (UTC)
* the attribute icon has not the same meaning than the others. For example, with an ordered list (with icons "1", "2", "3" ...), having a node with attributes will disorganize the position of the icons! -- [[User:Patco|Patco]]

= Filter =
== Create filters to view and print the data more effectively ==
Clicking on the little funnel to the left of the zoom size toggles on and off the Filter Toolbar.
By default (i.e. in absence of any personal filter defined, see below) the values that can be selected in the List box of the Filter Toolbar are:
* No Filtering
* Currently Selected Nodes
To create a filter for one Attribute:
* to the right of the filter status, click "Edit"
* in the drop down menu at the top left, select your attribute
* the expression drop changes to "Exists"
* press "Add", then "OK" at the bottom
* all nodes with the selected Attribute will be shown, and the branches that don't contain these nodes will be hidden.
* To display, on the contrary, all branches that do not contain nodes with the given attribute, click on Edit, then, in panel Filter Composer, click on buttons "Not" then "Apply". This adds, in the List box of the Filter Toolbar, the two additional filters "attribute_XXX Exists" and "Not attribute_XXX Exists" (where attribute_XXX stands for the current attribute).

To create a filter for an Attribute and one of its values:
* after step two above select the second drop down where "exists" is showing
* choose "Is equal to". Your values should now be available in the third drop down
* press "Add", then OK

== use multiple filters at once ==
create two filter sets by the method above
select the filter sets you want
* Shift-click for multiple, continuous sets
* Ctrl-click for non-contiguous selection
press the "and" button on the right => a new set is created which combines your selected sets

'''User feedback'''

Another feature which can be useful: name for the filter. If you combine simple filters, it can be difficult to read what is it doing:
For example:
(Responsable is equal to Erwan and Type is equal to "draw") can be renamed as "Erwan Drawing", and could be more simple to manage.

Another thing: It could be useful to see/mask attributes when clicking on the attribute icon.

== filter on an icon ==
* add an icon to a node by highlighting the node, click on the icon on the left or Rt-click>Icons
* in the filtering "edit" dialog, choose "Icon" in the drop-down list at the top left, the second drop-down grays out, and the third contains the list of currently used icons
* click "Add"

'''User Feedback'''

* '''This is a great feature!''' Honestly, I think in a lot of ways, filtering by icons is a lot more intuitive than filtering by attributes. While the attributes give you a great deal of flexibility, they muck up the display at bit, and they're a lot more keystrokes to add. I really can't think of any examples of an attribute that I wouldn't rather just create an icon for. The icon is a much more succinct way of displaying an attribute about a node and it can be done inline.
** Having said that, I would like to see a little more love put into icons. I already customized my icon library (Thank you!), but it becomes unwieldy when there are more than a small handful of additional items. You can't replace the original icons either.
* I think it would be a good idea to filter icon clock and only those icons with active warning time scheduler

== Persistent Map Filters ==
In Beta 13 persistent filters are added.
And filters can now be saved. --[[User:Terkor|Terkor]] 18:02, 2 Sep 2007 (PDT)

== user feedback ==

* For using semantic strings in addition to numeric and logical ones it would be useful a) to have filters for "contains" (for substrings of text) as in normal content – like "contain" finds attributes with the values "container", "contains", "containment", etc. b) be able to search a string-value across different attributes

* Filtering is great to compact maps for printing, but no usable PDF was created from a filtered map (beta 17) --[[User:JR|JR]] 04:48, 23 May 2008 (PDT)

* When I use filter extensively with very large map of thousands of nodes, I realize that the layout of the filtered map need some improvement. The resulted map's layout should be much compacted for the filtered nodes to be closer to the root node in order to be visible in the freemind window. For such large map, the reason to do filer is to focus so that I can see them easier. Without the improvement, it seems that the layout still follow that without the filter. The map becomes a tree with sparse nodes but stretched apart. It defeats the purpose of the filter somehow. If you need, I can provide a screen capture to show what I meant. Please tell me how. --[[User:Yubrshen|yushen]] 16:16, 5 Apr 2008 (PDT)

* I find that it freezes up a lot when using folding and unfolding while applying filters. It is, however, a really powerful feature. To complete its power would it be possible to have a way to copy only selected or filtered nodes? Sometimes you want to select these nodes and put them in another application, but when I filter, select all and then copy-paste, I get lots of other nodes included.

* Worked well for me. Especially like the filter on icon - no muss, no fuss.

* Great feature. Filtering on an icon: For example if you have "OK" icons on some nodes and want to see all other nodes (= not OK) use filter "contains icon OK" and define filter "Not contains icon OK" using button "Not"

* This great new feature has a little BUG. Situation: I have two maps opened and use the filter "Currently Selected Nodes" on one of them and switch between the maps. When I switch back to the filtered map I don't get the view that I had before I switched away. Instead I get the node filtered that was selected when I switched. (Terkor)

* Filtering and Reminders are a very nice combination. Filtering on icons allows to distinguish between nodes that have a Reminder "whose time has not jet come" and nodes that have a Reminder "whose time has come". But: in the filter composer these two different states are represented with the same icon (a clock). You always have to guess which icon represents which Reminder state. --[[User:Terkor|Terkor]] 19:40, 30 Jul 2007 (PDT)

* It would be helpful to be able to give the composed filters names. --[[User:Terkor|Terkor]] 19:45, 30 Jul 2007 (PDT)

* When filtering is activated there is a drop-down menu left to the "Edit" button. There you can find all the filters that were used that FreeMind session. It would be very effective if I could not only chose one of those filters but chose more than one. And then being able to chose in what order they are applied (for example by moving the filters up and down). Of course I can also get the desired filtering by using the Filter Composer. But with the described option I would be more flexible in quickly combining the filters. And being able to apply some "simple" filters in an order would make things more clear in some situations. --[[User:Terkor|Terkor]] 06:50, 31 Jul 2007 (PDT)

* A refresh view button would be nice. Or even better: auto refresh (maybe as an option) when a node is changed. Explanation: When I mark a node (representing a task) as done and I use a filter that shows me all the undone tasks and hides the done tasks, the node is not filtered as long as I switch filter off and on again. Could be more handy. --[[User:Terkor|Terkor]] 06:09, 3 Dec 2007 (PST)
** I second this notion. Nodes that meet the filter conditions after the filter is set don't get filtered out. So for instance, I want to create a filter to show not checked off items. Once I check them I want them to disappear automagically. --[[User:RazielJaTier|RazielJaTier]] 16:26, 20 May 2008 (PDT)

* If I filter "Currently Selected Nodes", in all the now empty space of the map there appear the ovals of the hidden nodes that allow to move them around, when you move your mouse to that places where they are when filter is not applied. --[[User:Terkor|Terkor]] 06:42, 15 Dec 2007 (PST)

* If "Selection Bubble" is "on" and a filter is applied, also hidden nodes can be "selected" when you for example move the focus using the arrow-keys. --[[User:Terkor|Terkor]] 06:42, 15 Dec 2007 (PST)

* Is there a way to assign attributes when you assign an icon to a node? For example I have lists of phone calls / emails that I have to send. I usually assign a phone or envelope icon to that node. I would like to assign an attribute or ActionType so that I can sort by them later (i.e. see a list of phone calls or emails that I have to make).

* It would be very helpful to have an option to filter out entries without children. This would be very valuable e.g. in situations where in a big map, several nodes have a "Tasks" subnode, and one wants to look at all tasks currently pending.

* Would it be possible to be able to add free text to the map to allow for titles and possibly a Key?

* Filter toolbar should be a standard toolbar. Should be able to show/hide filter toolbar from the View menu. (I am not displaying the main toolbar, but may need the Filter toolbar from time to time)

* Attributes have great potential. However I find editing a bit inconvenient. Would it be possible to add a small handle to existing attribute table (say immediately left of the cells, similar to the handles that are already on top of the table), so that a single attribute could be selected to be copied, cut, or even dragged and dropped to copy/move it to other nodes? Keyboard modifier keys (shift or ctrl) could be used to specify moving/copying in a drag and drop operation. arg0.

* Am loving the attributes. Using beta 20. Am doing a massive project on the muscular system. muscles directly effect eachother. For each muscle there is are muscles directly affecting it, muscles that it directly affects it, and muscles with a mutual two way relation. Each muscle also has a common problem associated with it. Each muscle group is an attribute and each muscle is a value. Filters will be used for self diagnosis, and finding the appropriate stretches. For example hands and shoulders due to using the computer a lot.
**Would be great if graphical links can be attributed, so that they can be filtered. + have the option of making them visible or not.
**Better sorting of attributes would be good. Like an attribute mind map, for sorting and the depth of the filter that is undertaken.
** To have Attributes and Filters integrated on the mind map. Anyone know how to write scripts to run a filter function.
** To filter core structure of mind maps: this would be good for summarising the link to other mind maps.
Thanks for your time. alf
* to encourage the use of attributes and filtering, it would be good to have the search/filter box always visible by default (I have a large screen, and the font/font size take all the extra space on the right, that could be used by this search/filter box (also, there should be a specific menu "search" or "filter" --[[User:Patco|Patco]]

= WYSIWYG-Editing for nodes and notes =

Yet to be documented

I like the WYSIWYG and how it's available when needed. On piece I find lacking is the ability to easily add link <a href=.... and the ability to click on it to pull it up. That feature would be very useful -- [[User:Matthias|Matthias]] 21:57, 18 Feb 2009 (UTC)

== HTML paste tip ==

Paste of HTML content creates one node. Use Edit -> Split to split it in many nodes.

Tools->Split Node is more efficent. --[[User:Phil31753|Phil31753]] 10:06, 9 Apr 2009 (UTC)

==== User Feedback ====
Version beta 0.9.16
I personally hate the WYSIWYG mode but I understand that others might find this feature helpful.
My problem is that I copy and paste very often into and out of mindmaps. Due to the WYSIWYG mode I can not pasten normally into thunderbird. Copying into mindmaps is terrible.
Suggestion: having the possibility to select between plain text modus or html modus or mixed modus. Helpful would be also a shortcut to "paste as plain text and split" and copy as plain text.
--[[User:bebach|bebach]] 2008-04-05

Love this feature, especially the way that the notes export to javascript enabled html. Couple of observations.

* The popup notes in the Javascript export don't seem to work in IE (care factor 0?).

* It would be good to be able to view the note in the main mindmap window, maybe as a popup.

* It would also be helpful if there was some sort of visual indicator of the existence of a popup note in the exported html - at present the note just magically appears as a rollover.

* Don't know if it is due to this feature, but "edit long node" now introduced an extra line feed if the enter key is used (confirm on enter turned off).

--[[User:RichardForster|RichardForster]] 18:04, 19 Sep 2006 (PDT)

I'd like to have the option to collapse the WYSIWYG editing area to free up more screen real-estate.

--[[User:Marko|Marko]] 21:45, 23 Sep 2006 (PDT)

* The WYSIWYG screen estate seems a good place to do all 'richer' content editing: e.g. if freemind would let me edit the multiline text nodes there, and, manage the attributes, i'd find that very usefull.

--[[User:Neanderlander|Neanderlander]] 22:01, 24 Sep 2006 (PDT)

* Some way to change the width of nodes would be great, so free form text can be flowed into thinner columns. Also a way to insert <br> easily without resorting to the html view.

--[[User:pedron|pedron]] 1:02pm, 10 October 2006 (EST)
* In version 0.8 the note attached to a node was very discrete in the sense that it would only show when the mouse is on that node. This new version has many editing features but it's "in your face" (so to speak) until you physically minimize it. I wish there was a way to configure it so that it would act like the previous version while keeping it's editing extras. Or at least have the option of toggling editing toolbar...

--[[User:Cichutki75|Cichutki75]] 8:09pm, 19 October 2006 (GMT)
* In version 0.9 max node width function does not work properly. At least not all nodes for the map created in version 0.8 keep the set width. I did not discover the rule. Some keep some don't.

--[[User:CautiousChaos|CautiousChaos]] 02:22, 12 Nov 2006 (EST)
* The editing panel is intrusive when it is not needed. A hotkey to open/close it would be helpful. Clicking on the note icon resulting in the panel appearing could also be very helpful.
* It seems that word-wrapping does not work in plain-text mode for nodes, making the node to be of single line extending far too long. I had to change the mode of each node to make it word-wrapping. Only using rich-text mode, the wrapping would work. I wish that word-wrapping would still work as in 0.80. --[[User:Yubrshen|yushen]] 15:03, 5 Dec 2006 (PST)
* It seems that in editing long node, the splitting function would only work with word on different line, while in 0.80, the function works even for words on the same line. --[[User:Yubrshen|yushen]] 15:03, 5 Dec 2006 (PST)

--[[User:Djerr|Djerr]] 17:42, 20 Jan 2007

* Using a 0.8 map with notes in 0.9 beta version show all notes as pop up but they can not be modified with the format tool or even edited in the layout page. I have to delete the note and create a new one under the 0.9 version.

I usually write short nodes but very long notes in order to have a "clear" map. 2 special comments on notes :
* For long notes, the time the pop up is shown is too short. Would it be possible to define a time on how long you want this pop up to be shown ? Or even better: to show them as long as the cursor is pointing on the node (or perhaps the note icon).
* I could find very useful (especially for my long notes) to be able in the format menu to change not only italic or bold or font size etc.. but also COLORS, to be able to see very fast the most important points

---
* I don't understand the purpose of freemind's notes feature. It seems to be an incomplete feature. On the one hand, it could be used as popup notes for a node on the freemind map. On the other hand, it could be used to provide the details for a topic expressed by the node. I think both should be possibilities, but currently only the first really seems possible.
* I want to use freemind to develop an outline into a full-blown paper. To do that, I would start using freemind to create an outline of the paper. Each node in the mindmap would be an entry in the outline with the node level equating to the outline level. Then, when I start fleshing out the paper, I would use the notes feature to fill-in paragraphs of information for each node. The problem is that there is no good way of outputting the paper -- the notes become popups rather than entries in the paper.
* Is there a way to export a mindmap from freemind in such a way that it could later be imported?

--[[User:DavidMasterson|DavidMasterson]] 22:00, 23 May 2007

* I don't like this feature in the current implementation. This is because i use this tool to connect IDEAS and usually i use formatting things only in the end. A paragraph, a sentence, a list, a word list this are things that i want to have in a hierarchical structure, not as a rich text. In 0.8.0 the copy/paste feature converted a paragraph/list to an hierarchical tree of nodes. That was a better aproach then to get a simple html node. The split feature doesn't replace this functionality better. I hope and trust that you will find a way to add rich text nodes without so much interference with the old style of working. Maybe a paste option with paste as nodes, paste as html will resolve this issue?

--[[User:Terkor|Terkor]] 16:25, 21 June 2007
* Great Feature, but it could be more handy if the (by far) most often used formating-features like Bold and Italic could be used without opening the editor. Just mark the words or characters you want bold (or italic), click the Bold (or Italic) icon (or use Ctrl-B /Ctrl-I) - and that's it.
* It is not "logical" that you open the editor with "Alt-Enter" and close it with "Ctrl-Enter". It should both be the same.
* "Split" should have a shortcut. Suggestion: Alt-Enter or Ctrl-Enter. (See previous paragraph.)
* When I open the editor whilst I am editing a node, the editor should know the actual position of the cursor and if some text is already marked.
* Double clicking the note icon should open / close the note editor. (Generally icons should be more clickable like the link icon. (Double) clicking on the clock icon of notes with a Reminder should open the calendar. And right-clicking an icon should open the "Select Icon" box.)
* The popups displaying the note content don't match size if a note is very short. Does not look nice. (The same for popups that show the "Created", "Modified", and "Reminder" times - too wide.
* Choosing colors should definitely have an icon in the tool bar of the editors. So it takes six (!) clicks to change the color of a word. (Opening the editor not counted.)
* The editor for notes and the one for nodes behave differently, when it comes to use the Enter-key. The node-editor just enters a new line (as one would expect) when I press Enter. The note editor enters a new line and a blank line. Here I have to use Shift-Enter to get just a new line. Why the difference?
* The note editor by default adds a blank line before the text and after text. I see no reason for that. (The node editor does not do that either.) Just takes away precious space.
* In order to save space, please place the toolbar of the note editor next to the menu of the editor. As it is now, there is much unused space. The editor should look more slim.
* Like the note-editor of FreeMind 0.8, the note-editor of version 0.9 should automatically close when not needed. (Or at least there should be an option to pick this behavior.)
* The little arrows on the splitting line that allow to hide/show the note editor should be wider (not higher), they are very hard to click quickly. Perhaps put each of them in a clickable wider boxlike area.
* "Note" in the menu "Insert" is gone. Should be there, that's where people look for it, and it seams a logical place for it (also for a "Remove Note"-function). And "Add Note" / "Remove Note" should be in the context-menu, when I right-click a node.
* How about a function that turns a node into a note and vice versa?
* The popups of long notes should be scrollable.

--[[User:Pascal|Pascal]] 11:33, 20 Nov 2007
* It would be great to have spell checking in notes editor
* In version 0.9.0 beta 14, bold, italic and underline buttons have no icons (if you click where they should be, it does the job, but you don't see the buttons).

--[[User:puckja|puckja]] 13:51, 3 Jan. 2008
* Great feature! Now I can add formated text/graphics in the note panel (SimpleHTML). Cut & Paste from webpage and even MS Word 2003 with figures and math equations works great.
* More user friendly functions such as FONT property in toolbar or shortcut, HIGHLIGHTING capability, insert HYBERLINK (it can be added with direct HTML coding), configurable property for the inserted graphic(size/alignment, etc.) would be great. (It is already very good! Thanks!)

--[[User:puckja|puckja]] 16:09, 3 Jan. 2008
* It seems that all the figures inserted in the note are not "locally saved." It may a a '''SERIOUS BUG!''' If the figures are cut & paste from Internet, then they will not be available if machine is offline. If the figures are C & P from local file (such as MS Word), then the source files are still at your personal Win TEMP directory, which means that they will be deleted some time in the future while you think it is saved. Other software such as PersonalBrain will save the file and change the HTML src location after you saved the "brain", but Freemind seems to leave it unattended. :(

* HTML Editor won't let you put a table in a node. Well, that's not quite true. The "table" item n the menu bar has all its items disabled, but you can edit the HTML to make the node have a table. Why is the menu bar operation turned of for nodes?
--[[User:Anton|Anton]] 18:16, 20 Jul 2008 (PDT)
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* The HTML Editor seems to have a 'template' which is the same for all nodes. It would be nice to have
## User-definable style sheet, that could set font, size, colour, box width ...
## ... for each level
--[[User:Anton|Anton]] 18:25, 22 Jul 2008 (PDT)

Filter macros on the mind map itself would be good. They could be adjustable. And/or/not etc, could be done by clicking the different parts of the map corresponding to the attributes/icons under question. This would be nice because it would be more natural to drill down the search in this way. Filter by cliking on a node, filter again on what is left within that filter etc.

*The WYSIWYG is a big + for my workflow. However, I often use this program w/ widescreen setups and it would be a great if I could reposition the WYSIWYG window to the left, right of the Map window.
*It would be v.nice if the editor could interpret latex formating for math/equations.
--[[User:Lessfield|Lessfield]] 18:01, 19 Feb 2009 (UTC)

I agree with Lessfield - I want to create extensive notes, instructions etc. and I'd like to be able to move the note editing pane to the right side. To go with this, I'd like to be able to control the node layout so it's a tree expanding from top to bottom or left to right (like Visual Mind's Standard, left-to_right and right-to-left views).

Possible bug:- frequently when I'm typing in the notes pane, the insertion cursor zips back to the beginning of the line and text insertion continues there. I don't think I'm accidentally hitting any hot keys ;-)

--[[User:MikeS]] 13:07, 19 Jun 2009 (GMT)

= Scripting via Groovy =
[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Groovy_programming_language Groovy] scripts may be attached to individual nodes in the map. When "evaluate" is selected via the menu or keypress (Alt-F8), all nodes in the map are searched (depth-first) for one or more attributes named "script". If such an attribute is found, the value of the attached attribute is passed to the Groovy engine to execute.

Only nodes are evaluated, which attribute keys start with "script". However, there is nothing preventing a script on one node from acting on other nodes via normal operations (e.g. node.getChildren or similar) as far as I can tell from the code.

=== Assignment vs. Operation ===

If the value of the script attribute starts with the equals sign ("="), then the node text will be replaced by the RESULT of the script evaluation. Be careful not to overwrite your nodes! See the example for using the "node.getText()" in an assignment script.

If the value of the script attribute does not begin with the equals sign, then the script will run and may affect the map, but the expression result is not assigned to the node text.

=== Available Operations ===

When the Groovy binding is created, two variables are set:

* "c" is set to the MindMapController
* "node" is set to the MindMapNode being evaluated

You will have to examine the FreeMind source code for operations on the interfaces. See the examples for a few operations such as setting the node text, node color and background color.

=== Examples ===
I have only played with the engine for five minutes, and spent about the same amount of time on the Groovy home page. The following examples work for me:

'''Prepend the node text with an integer representing the node depth.''' Note that the script starts with '=' so the result is assigned back to the node text.
<groovy>=node.getNodeLevel() + " " + node.getText()</groovy>

'''Set the text color of a node:'''
<groovy>node.setColor(java.awt.Color.RED)</groovy>

'''Set the background color of a node:'''
<groovy>node.setBackgroundColor(java.awt.Color.BLUE)</groovy>

'''Project Manager: Don't do this; use methods of the controller c instead.''' If you manipulate the node model directly, you'll miss the undo and flow control capabilities of FreeMind. Please, consult methods from the interface MindMapActions only.

=== Advanced Examples===

All advanced examples have been moved to the [[Example scripts]]

== About Groovy ==
For people unfamiliar with Groovy scripting, it's [http://groovy.codehaus.org home page], an [http://www.onjava.com/pub/a/onjava/2004/09/29/groovy.html introduction], a review on [http://ask.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=06/04/18/2223237 slashdot].

== How to get started ==

# Create an attribute for a node. The attribute must be named "script"
# Create the Groovy script and set as the value of the attribute
# Press Alt-F8 or select "Evaluate" from the Tools menu.

== Wish for Groovy script editing ==
* Need good editor for writing such script for the attribute. The current attribute manager is not suitable to write long script. --[[User:Yubrshen|yushen]] 15:41, 15 Jan 2007 (PST)
* I know I could dig through the source code and figure it out, but even a rudimentary object reference would be great. --[[User:RazielJaTier|RazielJaTier]] 15:01, 21 May 2008 (PDT)
** Created a page called [[FreeMindGroovyObjects|FreeMind / Groovy Object Reference]] to start compiling known information into a reference page. If you're familiar with any of the objects and navigation, lets start documenting it here.
* Debug Console while you're running scripts from the map. If you have a typo, the script simply does nothing. It would be nice to get an error or some sort of feedback. --[[User:RazielJaTier|RazielJaTier]] 15:01, 21 May 2008 (PDT)

== Scripting the application, not the documents ==

When I first read about Groovy in Freemind, I was irritated by the fact that the Groovy scripts are part of the Map (as script attribute) and not the application.

To my opinion it would make more sense to allow Groovy scripts to be plugged into the application and work on either Map.

An example of how this could work can be found here: [http://groovy.codehaus.org/Integrating+Groovy+in+an+application+-+a+success+story]

In a similar way each script could be bound to a menu item in a user menu or a button, and be provided with the current 'context', maybe containing a model of an open Map when activated.
This way it would be possible to create complete maps on-the-fly without having to create the Map and the root node with a script attribute first(!).

This is from user's point of view more like scripted plug-ins and filters in Gimp or Steinberg-like music software, and not so much like the VBA thing stored inside office documents.

--[[User:Det|Det]] 07:28, 16 Mar 2007 (PDT)

== Tips of editing script ==
# Before there is good editor for script, I use a template node to define long script then use copy and paste to duplicate the script.

--[[User:Yubrshen|yushen]] 15:41, 15 Jan 2007 (PST)

= TaskJuggler Integration =

[http://taskjuggler.org/ TaskJuggler] is a opensource project management tool for linux. It covers the complete spectrum of project management tasks from the first idea to the completion of the project. It assists you during project scoping, resource assignment, cost and revenue planing, risk and communication management.

=== Idea ===
The idea is to have special task, resource, and account nodes on the mindmap.

====Usage summary====
- Tasks are defined as subnodes of TASKS node.
- Resources are defined as subnodes of RESOURCES node.
- Accounts as subnodes of ACCOUNTS node. (not yet implemented in 0.9.0 beta 18)
- Taskjuggler task/resource/account info contained as node attributes. <br> You can find more info about these attribs in [http://taskjuggler.org/manual-2.3.0/c1376.html TaskJuggler documentation]
- After entering all task/resource/account info in freemind, use File-->Export to <br> export the task/resource/account info that is currently VISIBLE <br> (your freemind filters can be used to limit the info being exported to TaskJuggler).

[[Image:Taskjuggler_example.png]]

=== Project file (TJP) ===
We generate only includes with FreeMind, so we must write simple TaskJuggler main project file:

<pre>project simple "Simple Project" "1.0" 2005-06-06 - 2005-06-26

include "example.accounts.tji"
include "example.resources.tji"
include "example.tasks.tji"

taskreport "Gantt Chart" {
headline "Project Gantt Chart"
columns hierarchindex, name, start, end, effort, duration, cost, revenue, chart
timeformat "%a %Y-%m-%d"
loadunit days
hideresource 1
}

htmlaccountreport "accountsreport.html"{
timeformat "%d-%M-%y"
accumulate
columns index, name, weekly
}</pre>

=== Include Files (TJI) ===
Mindmap with defined TASKS, RESOURCES and ACCOUNTS nodes can look like this:
{| cellpadding="20" cellspacing="0" border="0"
|[http://pliki.rodos.com.pl/freemind/tji_example/example_freemind2.png http://pliki.rodos.com.pl/freemind/tji_example/example_freemind2_maly.png]
|}

We can export include files which we have defined in our project file directly from FreeMind mindmap:<br>
- example.resources.tji - from RESOURCES node (File->Export->Resources from RESOURCES node to TJI file..)<br>
- example.tasks.tji - from TASKS node (File->Export->Task from TASKS node to TJI file..)<br>
- example.accounts.tji - from ACCOUNTS node (File->Export->Accounts from ACCOUNTS node to TJI file..)<br>

In TaskJuggler our project will look like this:
{| cellpadding="20" cellspacing="0" border="0"
|[http://pliki.rodos.com.pl/freemind/tji_example/example_taskjuggler.png http://pliki.rodos.com.pl/freemind/tji_example/example_taskjuggler_maly.png]
|}

=== Download ===
[http://pliki.rodos.com.pl/freemind/tji_example/example.zip Here] you can download full example without accounts feature and [http://pliki.rodos.com.pl/freemind/account/accountexample.zip here] with accounts.

=== Account support ===
Becouse accounts functionality isn't in CVS yet. You need use [http://pliki.rodos.com.pl/freemind/account/Freemind_0_9_0_beta15_koprin_b2.zip this] binary or
get Freemind from CVS (CVS tag: fm_060405_integration) and aply [http://pliki.rodos.com.pl/freemind/account/diff.zip this] patch.

= The rest of the new features =

==Icons==
=== User icons ===

User icons can be added. PNG files of the icons have to be added to the folder '''<user_home>'''/.freemind/icons. All *.png files in '''<user_home>'''/.freemind/icons are handled as user icons. Size is ''not'' limited to 16 px x 16 px.

'''User feedback:'''
* FreeMind adds "icon_" to the user-given name of a user icon. The name should just be the user given name - without ".png" of course.
* When adding user icons, they appear in a random order within the side bar and mixed with the Freemind built-in icons. Is there a way to control this order ?
* My new icons appeared at the end of the standard ones and appeared to be in alphabetical order by filename. GREAT feature. I was able to take screen captures of the icons for Access objects and some of the Office program icons and use them in a mind map documenting a project my computer literacy students do at the end of the semester. This is far superior to having to use a limited set of standard icons which aren't particularly meaningful.
* Q: what is the procedure for adding user icons in Mac OS? Which is the correct destination folder?

* User icons are not included in exported mindmaps (flash at least).
* Including icons does not appear to work (WinXP - Freemind 0.9.0 Beta 19). Have assumed that placing .png files in C:\Program Files\Freemind\Icons should ensure that they are included but have nt been able to get this feature to work. Is this the correct placement for the icons folder in Windows?
::You put the icons in the wrong folder. Look again above. --[[User:Terkor|Terkor]] 03:23, 21 Oct 2008 (UTC)

===Selecting, Substituting and Deleting Icons===
* Using Shift+Click on icon bar substitutes the current icons by the new one.
* Icon bar Icon Selection Dialog: click on icon with control key hold: removes the first matching icon, with alt key removes the last one. Icon Selection Dialog: Shift+Enter or Alt+Enter can be used as well.
* Icon hot keys available in Select Icon Dialog. They can be set in Preferences > Keystrokes. --[[User:Terkor|Terkor]] 13:26, 3 Sep 2007 (PDT)

'''User feedback:'''
* Substituting icons with Shift+Enter in the Icon Selection Dialog (as announced in the changes for Beta 9) does not work. Just inserts the selected icon.
* Can I suggest you add a couple of icons as standard namely '$' and '$$' too? Thanks.

==Latex Plugin==
With the new Latex Plugin (Insert > Latex) you can now add mathematical formulas to your nodes.
Select a node and chose Insert > Latex. Under the node a default text in a box is added. When you click on that box a simple editor opens to enter the Latex code. Close the editor and your formula is displayed underneath the node.

Erase the formula by clicking Latex again when the node is selected. --[[User:Terkor|Terkor]] 06:31, 3 Sep 2007 (PDT)

'''User feedback:'''
* I like this one, but there may be an easier way for access of this functionality (a shortcut or s.th.).
* Great, adds a whole new field of use to FreeMind!
* Tip: Can also be used to just add a text to node instead of a mathematical formula. If you just add text without any commands, you get italic text in the box. Everything put between \mbox{ and } appears as normal text. (The code is contained in the default formula that is added every time you add a new Latex box to a node.)
* Exporting the formulas does not work for at least for some filters (Flash at least).
* LaTeX formulas do not scale with the rest of the map but have always the same size. Please make them scalable if possible.--[[User:Christofb|Christofb]] 12:19, 30 Oct 2007 (PDT)

* Nice feature. It would be nice if the graphical representation of the formula could appear with the higher quality associated with LaTeX. Is it possible to improve via anti aliasing or exporting/printing via postscript?

==Linking to nodes in another mm-file==

You may create a link to a node in another map by appending #node_name to the map path

'''User feedback:'''
*Bug?: This feature does not seem to work for file urls ex: file:\\dfs\folder\file.mm##Freemind_Link_335867258. It also does not seem to work through the website applet.
** The URL is wrong. Must be file:///dfs\folder\file.mm##Freemind_Link_335867258

* Bug: This very useful feature seems to work for the current instance of the target map only. Once the target map is closed and reopened the link points to the root node in the target map, even though the link text is still correct. Closing the source map and reopening it works fine. - Tested based on FM 0.8.0 maps with the Windows version of FM.--[[User:Uli|Uli]] 02:51, 13 Feb 2007 (PST)

(•) Solution:

• create a (temporary) local link to the intended target node from any other node within the target MindMap (MM) (ALT+L)
=> i.e. the target-node must be the 'referred' node in this case meaning that it must be the second of the two nodes composing said (temporary) local link.
-> Digression: A local link is created by first left clicking on the source node and, while holding down the CTRL-button, then
left clicking on the target node, then press Alt-L. The link is created in the source node (a green arrow appears).
• Now highlight the 'referring'/source node, i.e. the other of the two nodes in this (temporary) local link (the one with the green arrow) and press CTRL+k (edit link)
=> the freemind node name of the 'referred' node (i.e. our desired target node) appears (eg. #Freemind_Link_676133257)
• Copy (or better still, cut) this node name [ctrl+c/ctrl+x].

• In the Source MM create an external link to the target MM (eg. c:\mindmaps\TASKS.mm),
=> Digression: An external link is created thus: CTRL+k (manually enter path) or SHIFT+CTRL+k (choose path). A red arrow appears.
• highlight the node with the newly created external link and append the copied/cut freemind node name to it using CTRL+k (edit link).
=> The result could look like this: c:\mindmaps\TASKS#Freemind_Link_676133257

• Finally, delete the local link if you may so wish (this step is only relevant, if you'd only copied and not cut the node name above).

• Being able to link to a specific link should not only possible within freemind but also from other tools. This could be established via adding a command line parameter giving the node ID to select right after startup.

== Edit Styles, Patterns, Automatic Layout Patterns ==

=== Change Format Dialog ===

New "Change Format" dialog box that lets you edit node and edge attributes at once. (Format > Change format...)

'''User feedback:'''
* The very powerful and useful dialog box needs a shortcut, and an entry in the context menu when you right-click on a node.
* A preview-area would be helpful.

=== Manage Patterns ===

There is now a manager for the physical styles. (Format > Physical Styles > Manage Patterns..)

==== User feedback: ====

* It is so helpfull!!!!!
* Would it be possible to also show (and even change) the shortcuts of the patterns in the pattern manager?
* Styles should be renamed Format Macro. They are a great feature.
* Feature Request
** A real Style formating feature with style_registry, where the formating is defined, would be great.
* Bugs
** Style names are not proper UTF-8 encoded e.g. ü in become FC in patterns.xml and not ü
** beta 18 couldn't generate new Style from current node. Pressing Save&Exit didn't save and a Notice pop up without any message.
* All version including RC1 - F11 window does not allow to choose a font size which is not in the list (11 for example) this is not consistent with the tool bar of the main window. I'm using style with 11 pt font size !
* Im experimenting with TONY BUZAN's mind mapping and memroy techniques. Eventaully i wnat to make a mind map of his book's and share, however copywright questions arise?? anyone know about it. Regardless of this question it brings to my attention the powers of formatting and memory enhancement.
**Is there a way of patterning the width/thikness of the links?
**Would be great to have a plugin that does a network analysis of the mind map and formatts acordingly. Hubs/number of links to a node = format value. Format value's to stimmulate as many sensory modalites as possible (NLP/ memory techniqes)
***These formats can then have an icon/ memory hook to filter by.

=== Edit Automatic Layout Patterns ===
It is now possible to edit Automatic Layout Patterns. (Tools > Preferences ... > Automatic layout pat...) Click there on a pattern and the new "Change Format" box appears (here called "Change Pattern").

'''User feedback:'''

* I also really like this feature, BUT I also would badly need to automaticaly layout for more then 4 levels (even if I could not change it by myself)! This is one of the most important things missing yet in this great application. Thanks anyway!

* Great! Could you please make the area "Automatic Layout Styles" a bit wider. There is no reason to keep it so tiny.

* I find the automatic layout a bit limited; after four levels, the layout remains the same, but I oftentimes use five, six or seven levels. Only feature I'd like to see added to the program is to set an auto format for a larger (custom-defined?) amount of levels.

* I love automatic layout, I use it pretty much exclusively. The only thing that sucks is that it completely disables the ability to apply localized formats to nodes with it enabled. Can you put in some sort of cascading functionality. The default would be automatic, but you could override the formats at any time. Also put something like the "reset position" like "remove custom formatting". --[[User:RazielJaTier|RazielJaTier]] 15:27, 20 May 2008 (PDT)

* I second Raziel's motion. I'd love to be able to store code snippets in a map, but automatic layout disrupts my custom formatting. --[[User:Neontapir|Neontapir]] 09:47, 23 Jun 2008 (PDT)

* Wonderfull. Would it be possible choose (at least) color to be applied per branch instead of per level. This is more in tune with Dr. Buzan's suggestions.

== Find And Replace ==
FreeMind has now a Find & Replace dialog. It combines the old "Show Map History..." (which is not there any more) with a classical Find & Replace dialog.

Found nodes can be sorted by Date, Text, Icons, Created, Modified, and Notes.

You can choose: Export Selected Nodes, Replace All, Replace Selected, Goto, and Select.

When no search text is entered all nodes of the map are shown in a sorted list.

'''User Feedback'''

* Characters like äöü" are not displayed correctly (the HTML-versions are displayed).
* Could it be possible to hide columns that I don't need to see?
* Thank You for the "replace" addition. How difficult would it be to have a "find" on all opened maps ?
* Is it possible to extend the "find" in all opened maps ? When searching for a text pattern, it will save to open individually each maps and execute a find. --[[User:Fb5|Fb5]] 02:16, 15 Nov 2007 (PST)
** I second this - extremely needed (at least for me :) ) to be able to search across several maps!! --[[User:Spacevulture|Spacevulture]] 11:59, 21 Jun 2008 (PDT)
* Would very helpful if nodes themselves could not only be sorted alphabetically, but also by Icons. And maybe by Date, Created, Modified, and Notes.
* A drop-down menu with recent search/replace terms would be helpful, to avoid retyping when repeating searches. --[[User:Arg0|arg0]] 08:38, 25 Feb 2009 (UTC)

== Display Selection as Bubble==
In the menu View there is now the option to display the selected nodes inside a bubble: "Display Selection as Rectangle on/off". You can also pick this new option in Preferences > Defaults, where you can also choose the color of the bubble. "Display Selection as Rectangle on/off" is now (Beta 13) by default "on". --[[User:DimitriPolivaev|DimitriPolivaev]] 14:50, 9 Sep 2007 (PDT) --[[User:Terkor|Terkor]] 16:57, 9 Sep 2007 (PDT)

'''User Feedback'''
* Like it very much.

==Tabs==
There are now Tabs (like in Firefox) representing the opened maps. Properties > Appearance > Look And Feel > Use Tabs lets you choose if you want to use tabs. --[[User:Terkor|Terkor]] 10:36, 26 Aug 2007 (PDT)

'''User Feedback'''
* Could it be possible that the tabs only appear (option) when more than one map is opened?
** I'd like this too. Screen space can be important. --[[User:Kenrob|Kenrob]] 04:14, 5 Oct 2007 (PDT)
* Could it be possible to show and hide tabs ''in View''?
* Could it be possible to rearrange the order of the tabs (by dragging and dropping them)?
** drag&drop, automatic hide when only one, close one/all via context menu etc. would be very usefull (i.e. like it is possible in firefox) --[[User:flusi100|flusi100]] 08:00, 24 Feb 2008
* Would be nice to close the maps by using their tabs (context menu with "Close" when right-clicking on tab, or middle-click on tab).
** Agreed - this would be useful. --[[User:Kenrob|Kenrob]] 04:14, 5 Oct 2007 (PDT)
** ++ to that. Seemed unnatural not to have a context menu on the tabs.--[[User:Doubi|Doubi]] 23:08, 18 Apr 2009 (UTC)
* Now with tabs and Save All it would just be the next logical step that (as an option) all the tabs would open when FreeMind starts, that were open when FreeMind was closed.
*Switching tabs takes 15-20 seconds. Especially slow after FreeMind has been minimized and computer has been suspended/hibernated. Version 0.9.0 Beta 18. --[[User:Emkeyen|Emkeyen]]

==Move Back and Move Forward==
There are now Move Back and Move Forward buttons in the Toolbar (also available in the Navigate menu and by using Alt-Left and Alt-Right). FreeMind stores a chronology of the selected nodes. Using Back and Forward you can navigate back and forth to those nodes - even if they are in an other opened map. --[[User:Terkor|Terkor]] 19:31, 26 Aug 2007 (PDT)

'''User Feedback'''
* Very Helpful!
* Could there be a way to get back to the latest selection by one click.
* How about a popup list of the previous and next selected nodes (like in IE or FF)?
* Useful when navigating in large maps--[[User:Fb5|Fb5]] 02:13, 15 Nov 2007 (PST)

==Export Filters==
Open Office Export now for the ODT format.

Besides the two export filters for TaskJuggler there are three new filters for exporting:

* As Java Appelt
* As Flash
* As TWiki --[[User:Terkor|Terkor]] 19:06, 27 Aug 2007 (PDT)

=== User feedback ===
* Embedded links on images and then exported to flash do not work.
** [http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-781058038619276488&q=freemind+dennis Video of Bug]
* HTML links and then exported to flash do not work either. Please see:
** http://www.efectokiwano.net/mm/
--[[User:VincentD|VincentD]] 02:30, 9 Nov 2006 (PST)
* Export to Flash does not support Rich Formatted nodes.
* When a map that contains a hyperlink is exported to HTML there is obviously an error in that exported hyperlink. --[[User:Terkor|Terkor]] 20:34, 2 Sep 2007 (PDT)
* In exporting to Flash, I have to enter URLs as <nowiki>http:www.yahoo.com</nowiki>, instead of <nowiki>http://www.yahoo.com</nowiki>, for the link to work.
* I'm using 0.9.0 beta 19, when exporting to flash, http links fail. I've watched the video and visited efectokiwano, still not working. Does the exported html require a special server build to serve the content?

--[[User:Berti|Berti]] 12:04, 13 Feb 2008 (PST)
* I tried an export to txt tab separated this worked in 0.8 fine if I rename the .mm to xml and try to view it I get an error it seems the html tags are going to break it. I also tested the xsl form this side Tabulator separated text ? FreeMind
http://freemind.sourceforge.net/wiki/index.php/Import_and_export_to_other_applications

=== Wishes concerning Export Filters ===
--[[User:AlexandreDC|AlexandreDC]] 08:47, 13 Mar 2008 (CET)
* It would be useful to indicate some XSLT templates to produce HTML exports: we could thus choose whether and how to display attributes for example.

--[[User:DRBusch]]
* To me, the most useful application of freemind is organizing complex documents (e.g. a thesis or book). To this end, I've modified the [http://sites.google.com/site/freemind2beamer/ freemind2beamer] script into [http://student.physics.upenn.edu/~drbusch/mm2thesis.xsl mm2thesis]. Unfortunately, I can't seem to figure out how to parse in the xsl document such that I can (for example) put a hard line break into the text of a node and use the second line as a label. For example, node=abcd\\labelabcd would be translated into \section{abcd}\label{sec:labelabcd}. Any thoughts? I haven't dug into the java mm to beamer conversion yet.

=General Bugs=
* Generating Output for a printer is almost impossible. On Ubuntu 7.10 printing does not work (nothing happens), PDF export does not work (Error popup with no content), SVG export does not work (Error popup with no content), PNG export does not work (nothing happens), JPG export does not work (nothing happens), (Jave and Flash export thus is working, but it's not printable in a browser). So I am limited to screenshots which are unreadable in larger mind maps. Preview is ok, by the way, but I would need a feature to resize the whole map to paper size.
* If I close the calendar not with "cancel" but by just closing the calendar window, I can't reopen the calendar. I have to restart FM to be able to open the Time Management dialog again. --[[User:Terkor|Terkor]] 06:27, 15 Dec 2007 (PST)
* I updated to java runtime enviroment 1.6 and was not able to save any mindmap any longer. Message was "Map ist write protected" --[[User:bebach|bebach]] 13 Nov 2007
* Sometimes I use freemind just as a simple extended clipbord. In openoffce 2.0 writer I get the message, the clipbord format does not exist. In thunderbird I always have to paste without format to see anything. It is painful. It seems to me that I was not able to switch freemind to the plain text option. I am looking again the documentation. --[[User:bebach|bebach]] 8 Nov 2007
* Using the PDF export feature results in an error message "null compatible with Global antialiasing enable key". That was no problem in Version 0.8
* I can't save a new mind map under MS Vista. Modify and save of an existing mind map works.
* After pasting a node at a new position, keystrokes get stuck. The moviment is possible only changing the focus with mouse. After changing the focus, keystrokes (up,down,left,right) works normally.--[[User:Leslie|Leslie]] 05:16, 17 Apr 2007 (PDT)
* Ok, the new version is very nice... but there is still the Problem with printing. Sometimes the print is to small or to great or a part is cut off. Its difficult to configure the printer for good mindmap printings--[[User:Bkmzde|Bkmzde]] 00:31, 16 Feb 2007 (PST)
* Bug ? : MindManager Import doesn't include "Html Notes" hooked to the nodes. In 0.8, the note is "translate" in a text note.
* The context-menu that appears when you right-click while editing a node does not work. (It only contains "Copy" - which does not work.) Perhaps adding "Cut", "Paste", "Split" (at cursor-position), "Edit Long Node..." (with the editor remembering the cursor position and if some text is already marked). And perhaps some formating: "Bold", "Italic", "Font...", "Paragraph..."
* Display error: Zoom is now (Beta 14) working perfectly, as far as I can see. Good work! --[[User:Terkor|Terkor]] 14:41, 21 Oct 2007 (PDT)
** OK, there is a little bug: use Format > Bubble. You will see that on most zoom levels text in the bubble is not centered correctly. On both sides of the map text is placed too much on the left side. --[[User:Terkor|Terkor]] 11:33, 22 Nov 2007 (PST)
* Display error: Edges don't connect properly to the root. With widths 4 or 8 the effect is very obvious, and if "Bezier" is chosen). --[[User:Terkor|Terkor]] 07:51, 11 May 2008 (PDT)
[[Image:Root.jpg]]
* File Locking appears buggy: When you open a file with File Locking enabled in Preferences, the first open generates the error that 'file locking' failed. Subsequently, all attempts to open a file result in 'File is already being edited by (Username). Opening as Read-Only.' FreeMind does not appear to be willing to release this lock, except by turning off Experimental File Locking and turning it back on, so the entire feature appears to be broken. Specs: Windows XP SP2 machine, .mm file is on local drive which is also shared.--[[User:Perholm|Perholm]] 22:43, 13 Sep 2007 (PDT)
* Auto-Save Confirmed Buggy: '''I WOULD SUGGEST THAT THIS BUG IS AN EMERGENCY, AS DATA-LOSS CAN/WILL HAPPEN IF THE FEATURE IS RELIED UPON'''. Auto-Save at present does not work properly and should not be relied upon. Bug analysis: It appears that the timer used to control auto-save is only activated once at program launch, and when the auto-save interval has passed the timer does not reset for another auto-save interval, but instead NEVER generates an event again. Test: Set auto-save to 20000 milliseconds. Open an existing MindMap, and make a change within 20 seconds. If you check the .freemind directory, a single auto-save will be generated after 20 seconds, and no further auto-saves will EVER happen. If you again open a MindMap, and DO NOT make a change within 20 seconds, no auto-save will ever happen of any changes including the initial change. I would therefore conclude that the timer used for the auto-save interval is being programmed incorrectly, and does not launch another auto-save interval.--[[User:Perholm|Perholm]] 22:56, 13 Sep 2007 (PDT)
* The JRE 1.6 update 2 bug from javaw.exe on using the function of Open/Save File, it will waitting more than 30 sec per times, The JRE 1.5 update 11 will be better. --[[User:Josepchangtw|Josepchangtw]] 16:55, 15 Nov 2007 (PDT)
* Certain actions, foremost among them the ''paste'' action, cause FreeMind (or perhaps just the editing area) to lose focus somehow, so that no further keyboard input has any effect, until you click in the editing area to restore the focus. This severely detracts from the keyboard-only usability of FreeMind.
** Please describe how to reproduce and see this behavior [[User:DimitriPolivaev|DimitriPolivaev]] 14:40, 18 Oct 2007 (PDT)
** After pasting ''a node'' that has been copied from Freemind, the keyboard has absolutely no effect (really! I even tried mashing it randomly) until you click the mouse in the window, or switch to another window and then back, or do something else that focuses the Freemind window. Pasting text or anything else works just fine; only pasting a copied node (or nodes) causes the problem -- to put it as clearly as possible, the problem only occurs when pasting ''from Freemind to Freemind itself''. Also, I should mention that this is not a problem in 0.8, only in 0.9.
** I have a very similar problem, under Ubuntu 7.10. It happens that: 1. whenever I paste something, I lose the ability to use the keyboard (all shortcuts), editing, entering text. 2. I can get keyboard back by switching to another window or virtual desktop, but after I repeat this (paste something) the third time, I lose keyboard for good until I close and re-open Freemind; 3. mouse works and I can save my map. Please note that for me it happens both with 0.8 and 0.9 branches, when running 0.9.x both with jre 5 and 6. [[User:Zecg|Zecg]]
** Same here on openSuSE 10.3, x86_64. It's hard to reproduce when it happens but I also suddenly use the ability to use keyboard. I've found no way to get keyboard back except closing and re-opening Freemind. Mouse input still works. Appears to be introduced in the 0.9.x branch regardless whether I use jre 5 or 6. It's a show stopper. Is there a way to record all keyboard/mouse input to help to track this down ? --[[User:Steve|Steve]]
** The March 3 build seems to have fixed this bug. If others can confirm this, you can probably delete this thread.
** Not confirmed. The problem is still in Beta 16, just re-tested. A few times it happened after pressing INS, type in something, CR, CR, type in something, CR and cut the nodes again with CTRL-X, CTRL-X or a similar sequence. --[[User:Steve|Steve]]
* Node dragging problem: <br> When dragging the small circle in front of a node and moving the node vertically to raise the distance to the upper or lower node, this behavior in FreeMind seems to have changed. <br>In previous versions, the node could only be dragged to the right, up or down, but not more to the left towards the parent node. There was kind of an invisible vertical border. You could not drag the node beyond this border towards the parent node. This border was excellent to keep all child nodes aligned while changing the nodes' distance. <br>Now this doesn't work any more. In the current version, this border seems to be gone unfortunately. When I change the vertical distance of one node to another node, I cannot keep the moved node in it's horizontal position any more. <br> (By the way, pressing <CTRL>-left-mouse-button on a node's drag-handle also changes the distance between nodes, but this functionality is not compareable, because it changes the distance of <u>all</u> child nodes in this column, not only of the selected one.)
** Solution could be double-click on the small circle: it appears to work very well.--[[User:Luciodp|Luciodp]] 05:32, 7 May 2008 (PDT)
* Node dragging problem 2: <br> FM 0.9 B15. I created a map with FM 0.8, then switched to 0.9. If I copy the contents of a MSWord table into a node, MM gets it formatted with HTML and displays the table perfectly. The problem arises when I move the node to another branch of the tree. The html content gets converted to ascii (e.g. <html> becomes &lt;html&gt;) and thus all the formatting is lost. --[[User:ScavType|ScavType]] 14:09, 04 Jan 2008 (PDT)
* Print Preview shows wrong view after selecting Fit to one page. Steps: create map that's more than one page wide with default page setup options. Edit page options to fit to one page. Choose Print Preview. Expect it to show one page. Instead, it showed the first page of two pages as if ignoring the "fit to one page" option. After clicking next page button, print preview then realized it should zoom to fit to one page. --[[User:JimK|JimK]]
* Hover text for Print icon on toolbar says "Print..." implying that a dialog box will open but instead it just starts a print job. Text should say "Print" or it should open dialog box. --[[User:JimK|JimK]]
* Opened a mind map created in 0.8.7. Looks good except that beta 17 put a cloud around the entire map---i.e., main node---that I can't remove, and all the child nodes on the right of the main node have been moved down far enough to be offscreen when view is centered on the main node. (One branch on the left side is fully expanded to four levels, so maybe that had something to do with it, but folding it back up makes no difference.) Tried to toggle off the cloud using the Insert main menu, the Insert shortcut menu, and with shift+ctl+b combo... no luck. This is my first try with 0.9 b17; and already I can't use it for existing maps. --[[User:foxcole|foxcole]] 13 May 2008 UPDATE: Ah... in beta 17 I can't add a cloud to the main node either, so that seems to be a property that's not natively available at the main level. I've no idea what's putting it there in the first place but now understand why I can't remove it.
* Open a mind map that saved on a network share with windows version of freemind, doesn't work. I got the following failure: An error occoured on opening the file: MindMap:\\mondsee\homes\ko\Eigene Dateien\Brainstorming\FTM\WLT-Event.mm. It's only while opening a file on a network-share - at my local desktop it works! --[[User:Osthoffinnovations|Osthoffinnovations]] 09:12, 30 May 2008 (PDT)
** The space in the path name "..\Eigene Dateien\.." plus double back slash "\\" causes this bug.
As a quick fix add to FreeMind.java on line 517 (after “// bug fix by Dan:”)
if (System.getProperty("os.name").startsWith("Windows XP") && url.toString().startsWith("file:////"))
command = "rundll32 shell32.dll,ShellExec_RunDLL \"" + url.toString().replaceAll("%20"," ").replaceAll("%25","%")+"\"";
* If I put a graphics in a node and use the HTML editor to try to scale it down .... "size=50%" or "width=120px" ... that has no effect. [[User:Anton|Anton]]
* Freemind uses .mm as its file extension, but on Ubuntu (and probably other Linux distributions), this is the same as "Troff MM input document," so the file manager misidentifies all Freemind maps as Troff documents. Perhaps use .mim (MInd Map) or .fmm (FreeMindMap) or something else as the extension?
* On 0.9.0 beta 20: If you select "save" for an unsaved document, but you cancel the action, a message box appears saying "Saving Failed", but it's just a cancel. [[User:snookiex|snookiex]] 11:35, 27 Oct 2008 (GMT-5)
* 0.9.0 beta 20: Create child node using keyboard shortcut (eg. Insert) then press same kb shortcut (or if you have a second keystroke generated thru keystroke bounce) the second child-child node is created as closed node, ie not ready for keystroke entry. Basically pressing the "create child node" should not create a new node if the same keystroke is seen before the node has been "closed". (0.9.0 beta 15 did not display this behaviour - not tested intermediate versions yet)
* 0.9.0 beta 20: Note icon sometimes disappears and hint fails to display. Moving node causes note icon to display and hint to become active again.

=General Comments=
* Feature disable request: Would be great to disable scroll with touch pad as on my MacBook Pro if I accidentally touch the touch pad it starts scrolling very slowely and freezes all functions until it has stopped.
* Feature request: Would be nice to have a Latex export for the mindmap. This especially helps structuring a bigger report without having to type everything in latex again. Nice would be if you could say till which level you want to have headlines (after that just enumerations / lists).
* Feature request: I'm thinking to add a "Rotate" node function. When a node is selected followed by a "Rotate" feature, the selected node and its child nodes will be rotated by 90 degree. This will form a flow chart. Thus, we can used FreeMind to build flow chart easily using its friendly interface.
* Feature request: Add a number "0" icon. The addition of numbers "8" and "9" in .9.0 Beta 18 are great, but "0" is all that's left to complete the set. This will allow users to use these icons in many ways other than just setting priority. For example, when using Freemind to take notes, if you have more than 9 items which would benefit from a graphical numerical identification, double (or more) digits could be used with great benefit. I may even suggest that a black icon with white text be used—black being a conceptually appropriate color for the number "0".
* Feature request: Add the possibility to add a description to a graphical link, or even attributes (would be perfect). I use Freemind to create Moore and Mealy state machines in XML. So adding a text or attributes to a graphical link would be a milestone to reduce the complexity of the drawings.
* Feature request: When you move mouse over a node text is displayed in popup cloud, but it dissapears after few seconds. I would like for it to stay. Also, It would be great to be able to focus that popup and edit (ok that's a hard one, but at least copy) the contest there right away. --[[User:Kova|Kova]] 06:49, 19 Jan 2008 (PST)
* Feature request: I would like an option for text view (bottom) and tree view (top) to show (expand) when you move mouse over them. Right now I have tree view maximized when I'm editing the tree, but when I want to write something in the nodes or have a look what is written I have to go down, resize the text view, write text / view the text and resize again. It would be great if it resizes to half for example if I just move my mouse down to bottom where text area is. In short, I need quickly switch between node edit (text) and tree edit (graphics). --[[User:Kova|Kova]] 06:49, 19 Jan 2008 (PST)
* How about a forum for this stuff? Wiki is great for a single document, but not for discussion or suggestions like this. --[[User:Kova|Kova]] 06:49, 19 Jan 2008 (PST)
* In the German translation the use of capitals is just a mess. (Sorry!) For example "Speichern Unter..." Why a capital "U"? --[[User:Terkor|Terkor]] 06:58, 15 Dec 2007 (PST)
* Since some changes in the properties of FM need a restart of the program in order to be seen, there should be a restart option after you changed settings or in the file-menu. --[[User:Terkor|Terkor]] 02:18, 19 Nov 2007 (PST)
* any idea how I can print or give out a mindmap WITH the notes I made to the nodes? I think I tried all export possibilities but could not find a way. --[[User:bebach|bebach]] 17 Nov 2007
* Since I communicate with others using html exports or java/ flash exports, I uploaded to the web, it would be wounderful to have an internal ftp client in freemind and have an export option "upload by FTP". --[[User:bebach|bebach]] 8 Nov 2007
* Missing Export feature: I love the XHTML-Export with includes Image of the mindmap. For many reasons it would be much more comfortable to have just the images with an imagemap, for example a link collection. It will save user one very painful klick an the looking for the right section in the html export. HTML-Export as an image map would be much better for some users since the are not used to the also very nice flash or java web exports. They are very good for experienced users. --[[User:bebach|bebach]] 8 Nov 2007
* Moving a branch from one side of the root to the other - the text and child branches should "flip" to enable this
** Um, they do! Drag the node onto the root node and drop when you can see the gradient appear - then you'll mirror the structure. Otherwise you're just repositioning the node. --[[User:Kenrob|Kenrob]] 04:34, 5 Oct 2007 (PDT)
* I believe the Calendar / Scheduler feature can offer great benefits if improved. I suggest a pop up will should come up when the reminder time arrives. Similar to MS Outlook, you should have options of delaying the reminder or canceling it. --[[User:Felipe|Felipe]] 13:33, 1 May 2007 (PDT)
* I love freemind and work with it a lot some hours a day! I am looking forward to the new version and I start testing from v0.9 beta 12 --[[User:bebach|bebach]] 24 Aug 2007
* Feature Request: Database views are a powerful feature. I wish something like this for freemind. The idea is to store all the data in some ordinary mindmaps whithout redundancy, and on the other side work on them with the help of several '''virtual mindmaps''', like views in database systems. The intention is to benefit from all the advantages of database views in freemind with a similar feature. To build the freemind views could xquery be used.--[[User:maxreeb|maxreeb]] 6 Sep 2007
* Feature Request: Lose Nodes. While FreeMind works great for information that is already relatively structured in your mind, it is VERY difficult to use when your information is very disorganised, like any kind of stream-of-consciousness type note-taking. In that scenario, the fact that FreeMind forces you with an iron hand to structure information before you're allowed to move on to the next idea, forces you to completely stop the creative process maybe 10 times a minute, which is why I tend to AVOID FreeMind and favor even just WordPad any time I'm creative, because FreeMind works against me by forcing me to be so structure right off the bat that it grinds the creative process to a halt. I truly feel that you need the ability to have what I would term 'Lose Nodes', which is notes that are simply floating on the page and detached from the tree. Of course the goal is to get them attached to the tree in an orderly fashion, but for the sake of picking your own brain, you actually need the ability to simply drop them on the page, and then drag-drop organize them later by binding them together into a tree. You would do the exact same on a physical desktop -- you would cut out little pieces of paper, which would initially just be floating around on the table, until they slowly become organized into a tree. The fact that people have done this for hundreds years, I think proves that this is a natural and intuitive workflow, one that FreeMind easily both could and should support. By the same token, if you realize that a tree is poorly structured, you would want to take it apart and re-assemble it in a new way. As part of that process, maybe 20 or 40 nodes would be temporarily lose, and a 'Lose Nodes' feature would allow you to simply drag the nodes lose from the tree, drop them in the white space, and then later attach them somewhere else. I think this would be extremely intuitive. And very lastly, in this mindset of being able to do in FreeMind what you are thinking, I think you need to support more than one root. Although the GOAL is of course a neatly structured tree with a single root, you again don't necessarily arrive there through clean path -- no, the path is messy and disorganized, and then order forms slowly. I feel I would be able to structure large and experimental concepts much more easily if you supported Lose Nodes and multiple roots. With multiple roots, you would be able to detach section of the tree into a new tree, work on them concurrently, until you realize that they're part of the same concept, and glue the trees back together. These two features together are what is preventing me from being truly productive with FreeMind from a discovery perspective. I have no doubt that FreeMind works like a charm for information that is already relatively organized, but for discovering new and original concepts, FreeMind forces a structure on the information that is not mature for. Rather, FreeMind helps your produce a graph of the end result, but doesn't fully help you get there. --[[User:Perholm|Perholm]] 16:23, 12 Sep 2007 (PDT)
** "Lose Nodes" or "Unattached Nodes" or "Additional Roots" are available in [http://www.mindjet.com/ MindJet's] Mindmap. They are a class of "floating" objects that include labels and graphics. I recall the implementation of this came in on of the service packs for X5. [http://www.mindjet.com/resources/tutorials/mindmanagerx5/default.aspx X5] also added things like callouts, markers, map parts, and storing the map as XML. Once again I would recommend looking at Mindjet's MindMap and if you are a Windows users trying the 30-day evaluation to get a feel for what is possible in both capabilities and interface. --[[User:Anton|Anton]] 18:05, 20 Jul 2008 (PDT)

** Understood the issue. What I do is setting "disable key type" off, and "key type adds new" on. So each time I am hitting "return" key and starting to type again, it is a new node automatically created. In fact it works then like "wordPad", a node being equivalent to a line. To keep my map "clean" all those new nodes are created under a node "to be cleaned" or even a new map. Then I do the assembling by moving nodes with the mouse, and this is all the power of freemind. Faster to reorganise information than any other tool I have ever tried. I like your expression "kind of stream-of-consciousness type note-taking". This is exactly my use (several hours/day for years) of Freemind which is my main/only data entry software, and it is the best tool I know for this. --[[User:Fb5|Fb5]] 03:57, 23 Oct 2007 (PDT)
** About the multi root discussion. The same result could be attained easily now with the tabbed windows. For large maps already difficult to see, multiroots would make them really messy. An improvement for your concern could be to have an option to view tabbed windows "side by side" ("arrange all" in Word from Windows).--[[User:Fb5|Fb5]] 04:15, 23 Oct 2007 (PDT)
* Feature Request: Rearranging Nodes. I'm wondering why, when you're rearranging the order of nodes on the same hierarchical level, why you're only allowed to move a node *before* another node by dropping things in the top half of the destination node. All the time, I need to move a node so it comes *after* another node, but you can't simply drop the node in the bottom half of the destination node to move it to come *after*. And by the same token, there's NO way to move a node to be the last one without dropping it in the right-side of the *parent* node. This is frustrating, really frustrating, and there's no real logic to it... who made the decision that you can only move nodes *before* other nodes, but not *after*? Why did you decide to make it like this and not the other way around. And why is the only way you can get a node to the bottom of a list, to drag and drop onto the right side of the *parent* node. I run into this probably 20 or 30 times an hour, and the current design seems arbitrarily selected. You should be able to move nodes both *before* and *after* each other by dragging and dropping them into the top or bottom half of the destination node. I feel that nothing else is consistent and makes sense. Sorry for my rant, I just feel that there are some things that don't follow GUI 101. --[[User:Perholm|Perholm]] 14:00, 13 Sep 2007 (PDT)
** A simple workaround is to drag to the ''second-last'' position, i.e. the top ½ of the lowest node. When you have everything else repositioned, drag the lowest node to it rightful place. --[[User:Kenrob|Kenrob]] 04:25, 5 Oct 2007 (PDT)
*** I think this is unacceptable as a solution. Workaround, yes. Solution, no. --[[User:Perholm|Perholm]] 14:12, 10 Oct 2007 (PDT)
* Feature Request: Copy/Paste Paragraphs. I'm an author trying to use FreeMind to structure a large literary project, and it would be incredibly helpful if FreeMind had the following functionality: If you grab some text from Word (which might consist of for example 10 paragraphs), it would be incredibly helpful to get each of these paragraphs as individual child-nodes. The reason is that we're using FreeMind to organize a book-type project, of which some has already been written, and we need to get each paragraph of a chapter into a separate child-node in FreeMind so we can rearrange the blocks the FreeMind way, which by the way works fantastically. But at the moment, we can't find any other way than to copy/paste each single (friggin) paragraph individually. And the same goes for when you're trying to get something back into Word; it would be great to be able to simply select a branch, and get it copy/pasted into word as a simple top-to-bottom text copy where each child-node is an individual paragraph. That way you can use FreeMind to organize a literary project, knowing that the project ultimately has to end up in Word, but FreeMind is far superior for organizing and structuring the information. Perhaps consider a 'Paste Menu' like Word has, which asks you how exactly you want to paste, i.e. 'Keep Formatting' or 'Text Only' -- a similar menu in FreeMind could ask if you want to turn individual paragraphs into nodes, or if you want to paste the whole text as a single node. This would be REALLY helpful to organize literary projects. This would also allow you to much more easily use FreeMind to edit something that is initially written as stream-of-consciousness, i.e. any brainstorm. Such a brainstorm would likely simply consist of lines upon lines (or paragraphs upon paragraphs) of disorganized ideas written into Word or a text-editor. When you bring this into FreeMind, you ought to be able to turn each 'idea' (i.e. Paragraph) into a separate node. Right now, I can find no other way than to copy/paste each line individually, which is enormously labor-intensive. UPDATE: OK, FreeMind already has this feature, but it doesn't always work, because if you're pasting from Word, the text coming in is interpreted as Rich Text, and put into a single child node. If you want the behavior I describe, you have to first copy the text in Word, paste the text into Notepad (not Wordpad), copy it from Notepad, and paste it into FreeMind. I think there should be the ability to interpret text coming from Word as 'text-only' and not automatically bring in the formatting. In the case of a literary project, the formatting is only interesting in Word... in FreeMind you only want to edit the text, the formatting is irrelevant in a FreeMind context.--[[User:Perholm|Perholm]] 23:11, 13 Sep 2007 (PDT)
** '''You can use Edit->Split Node after inserting a formatted paragraph into the node. It splits the node in single paragraphs.''' [[User:DimitriPolivaev|DimitriPolivaev]] 14:19, 17 Sep 2007 (PDT)
** Using the Edit->Split Node is very time consuming for a large number of branches. <s>Why can't we retain the behaviour of Freemind 0.8.0? It seems that a tool to organise thoughts should work at the lowest level of granularity not create huge "blobs" of text. When I reorganise my ideas by pasting paragraphs from a document in 0.8.0, each paragraph in the document beocomes a separate branch. I can then drag and drop branches to reorganise my ideas. This issue is so important to me that it will be a show-stopper for 0.9.0 as far as I am concerned!</s> --[[User:Phil31753|Phil31753]] 07:35, 9 Apr 2009 (UTC) Tool->Split Node achieves what I (and others in this section) require.--[[User:Phil31753|Phil31753]] 10:05, 9 Apr 2009 (UTC)
** That's interesting discussion. When I copy from word to freemind, each paragraph is copied as an individual node and that is what I expect and what You would like. Maybe your freemind settings are different than mine ?--[[User:Fb5|Fb5]] 04:05, 23 Oct 2007 (PDT)
** It is now I met the issue You described Perholm. This is when copying form WEB BROWSER to FREEMIND. The copy keeps the html formating and keeps it in one node. This is a real annoyance for me too and that would stop me to move from 0.8 Version. Is it possible to have a "Paste Special" or '''"Paste as text"''' menu which also split paragraph as nodes, please Dimitri ? One advantage of the html copy would be for tables, which doesn't work in 0.8. Thank You. Franck --[[User:Fb5|Fb5]] 03:46, 6 Dec 2007 (PST)
* SIMPLICITY , SPEED and RELIABILITY : Those must be the main strengths of Freemind. I am using Freemind as my main computer interface for data entry for three years, ending with large maps (several 10s of thousands nodes). I have tried many other softwares and my conclusion, there is simply no equivalence on the market. It would be a shame to slow the program or the user-interface because adding new features. So, my expectation is to have user-options for enabling or not those features (attributes and Wysiwig). Thank You so much for the great work. Franck --[[User:Fb5|Fb5]] 20:03, 2 Oct 2007 (PDT)
** I want to second that: my maps are not nearly as big as Franck's but for me simplicity and reliability (as already provided by 0.8.0) are most important, too. Please try to keep focus on the simple things instead of adding too many features.--[[User:Christofb|Christofb]] 12:27, 30 Oct 2007 (PDT)
** Absolutely right. It is wonderful that new features are being added, but it is ESSENTIAL that Freemind is able to run QUICKLY on any computer, or it won't be useful. --[[User:Loydog|Loydog]] 2:44, 8 Nov 2007 (PDT)
** I absolutely agree to that. I'm a freemind user for years now and though I'm looking forward to see new features in freemind I always loved the fast and easy way to create maps on every occasion. So maybe if there are resource consuming new features they could be inserted as plugins or sth. like that so users are able to decide wether they will activate a feature or not--lpdubel 02:06, 14 Nov 2007 (PST)
* Attachments (Multiple): It is necessary to be able to add multiple attachments to a single node. For example, one node may have an attached pdf doc, word doc, excel sheet, and other mindmap. [[User:kberardinelli|kberardinelli]] 09:17, 26 Oct 2007 (EDT)
** What I do is to create subnodes (even without any text) and assign an attachement to each of them. --[[User:Fb5|Fb5]] 02:26, 15 Nov 2007 (PST)
* Attachments (Deletion): Currently, there seems to be no way to delete an attachment. This needs to be very easy to do (perhaps by right-clicking and selecting 'Delete Attachment'. [[User:kberardinelli|kberardinelli]] 09:17, 26 Oct 2007 (EDT)
* Feature Request: Especially when using freemind on a beamer I would like to have a fullscreen mode ie without window decorations etc. Just the canvas, even without menu bar or status bar. -- [[User:barney|barney]] 13:52, 29 Oct 2007 (MEZ)
** I would love to see that too. Think about using it in a classroom for a brainstorming on the beamer. --[[User:Christofb|Christofb]] 12:27, 30 Oct 2007 (PDT)
** Agree, for uncluttering and focusing on one task. -- [[User:Vibrog|Vibrog]] 10:43, 17 Nov 2008 (UTC)
** Agree with you at all! I would like to use freemind for presentation on technical presentation. --[[User:Dinny|dinny]]
* Feedback: In Beta 13 (the one before 14), I could remove the note area from the view and use ctrl-< to activate the note area, make it visible again, and type ahead. This still works in Beta 14. When done, I could use ctrl-< again to focus the mind map node again and the note area vanishes again. In Beta 14 the note area stays visible and I need to ctrl-<, ctrl-> to move out and hide the area. The behaviour in Beta 13 was much easier to work with. -- [[User:barney|barney]] 13:52, 29 Oct 2007 (MEZ)
* Feature request: IMO it would be very useful to be able to add some metadata to a freemind map as a whole like titel, description, author, keywords --lpdubel 02:06, 14 Nov 2007 (PST)

* Feature request: I would like very much to have a better method for transclusion. Compendium allows reuse of nodes across multiple views (whether maps or lists) and automatically handles updates from any instance to all appearances across a range of maps. Compendium even places a subscript counting the number of transclusions for a node! Can one hack this up through per node addressing in FreeMind? Would that handle automatic updates? I suspect a database back-end for nodes makes more sense. I want to construct constructing Maps through addition across a collection of nodes (again, like Compendium) instead of filtering maps by subtraction across a single map's nodes. As a first approximation to this, I'd like to save Filters independently of maps. --[[User:Jay Dugger|Jay_Dugger]], 2217 Sunday, 2 December 2007

*Feature request: Ship it! (sorry, but it would be nice to have a released version that works with the lattest java version), and well, it's been 2 and a half years... [[User:Tomh|Tomh]] 05:09, 10 Jan 2008 (PST)

*Feature request: I really miss a strike-through along bold and italic, with a keyboard shortcut. Cheers.

* Feature request: Nothing big, I just wanted to ask weather its possible to bind the structure to too points again (left right) from the rootnode like it was it 0.8 and that change this when you want. Because its much esear to start a structured mindmap using only the keys... Also I liked to have two sides to divide the thoughts when speaking about pro and contra. It Would be Great if it was possible to ad this as an Option to the root-point. (Inculding the move navigation with strg that could move one node all around the root) Thank you! --[[User:X-Site|X-Site]] 16:29, 9 Mar 2008 (PDT)

* Feature lost? In 8.0 version when you copy nodes and paste in MSWord you immediately create a "structure", that is a hyerarchic level: very useful if you want to adjust titles or paragraphs in preliminary notes, or import them in Power Point slides etc. I'm a teacher and use Freemind with students for brainstorming, organize ideas and create texts or presentations from preliminary notes. Now in 9.0 version this feature seems to be lost. Why? Do tou know any solution? Many thanks for your work.--[[User:Luciodp|Luciodp]] 05:24, 7 May 2008 (PDT)

* Try Tools->Split Node --[[User:Phil31753|Phil31753]] 10:05, 9 Apr 2009 (UTC)

*Feature request: I would like to be able to apply a cloud to a parent node but not necessarily its children; or maybe to only some selected children... similar to how a network or gateway is depicted in a flowchart. [[User:foxcole|foxcole]] 13 May 2008 UPDATE: Perhaps a more accurate request is to be able to choose from a limited set basic shapes to apply to a node or set of siblings but not children.

* When I export my map to a text based format (i. e. HTML), FM starts with the right side and then continues the left side. For me it is not intuitive I start my maps on the left side - as I would read a newspaper or magazine. I guess it is not difficult to allow the user to choose if FM should start with the left or the right side. --[[User:Terkor|Terkor]] 16:28, 13 May 2008 (PDT)

* Feedback: Thanks for all your hard work, absolutely amazing product. --[[User:RazielJaTier|RazielJaTier]] 15:23, 20 May 2008 (PDT)

* Changed Functionality: In 0.8 I could hover over a node to select it, hold down ctrl, which would effectively prevent other nodes from being selected. Then move my mouse all the way across the map (again without worry about another node being selected), then click on an icon *with the ctrl key held down*. The icon would be assigned. In 0.9 you have to release ctrl before you click the icon, otherwise it will simply ignore it. This is a simple little detail, and I'm sure I'll get used to it, but if it's not difficult, and you don't have other plans for ctrl clicking icons, I'd love the 0.8 behavior back. --[[User:RazielJaTier|RazielJaTier]] 15:23, 20 May 2008 (PDT)

* Suggestion: Create localized version of linked data. When you use alt+L to create a link to another part of the map, it would be nice if you had an option to actually create "ghost" versions of that data instead of having to click in the link. If you edited the ghost version, or the original, they would stay in sync. --[[User:RazielJaTier|RazielJaTier]] 15:23, 20 May 2008 (PDT)

* Suggestion: It would be neat to be able to with single click generate the framework of a thinking tool. When I say thinking tool I am thinking mostly of the thinking tools created by Edward de Bono such as his Six Hats, CoRT and many others. See http://www.edwdebono.com/ and http://www.edwarddebono.com/ for more info. An example would be right clinking on "Six Hats" and from your current node it would create six child nodes: White Hat, Red Hat, Yellow Hat, Black Hat, Green Hat and Blue Hat. For each of these child nodes an empty blank node would be created as well. Lastly your cursor would move to the blank node under White Hat and then you can start typing. Such functionality might be created with Groovy script but most would not want the difficulty of programming Groovy script. It is also possible to cut and paste a section of a mind map but that is more cumbersome than a single click. --[[User:Mars729|Mars729]] 17:59, 31 May 2008 (EDT)
** A library of templates would be a great contribution. --[[User:Anton|Anton]] 17:52, 20 Jul 2008 (PDT)

* Suggestion: When working with images it would be nice to be able to paste or drop an image to a node. --[[User:trinxie|trinxie]]

* Suggestion: When adding an image link, if it is a file, should it be possible to store the relative path? Would be great if the whole model is distributed to someone else. Maybe this possibility already exists. --[[User:trinxie|trinxie]]

* If I install Freemind using aptitude in Ubuntu 8.10, I have the /usr/share/pixmaps/FreeMindWindowIcon.xpm to use in my panel, but as the available version in Ubuntu is 0.7.1 and I have some MMs created with later versions, I decided to try the 0.9 RC1, and downloaded it (freemind-bin-max-0.9.0_RC_1.zip). For my surprise, there is no icon to use in this zip. Please include one, or maybe more than one (see http://www.menyhart.net/blog/software/freemind-icon/). --[[User:Itamar|Itamar]] 12:33, 9 Feb 2009 (UTC)

* '''''Observation:''''' Many of these suggestions and feature requests are or are similar to ones that exist in [http://www.mindjet.com/ Mindjet's] MindMap. It used to be that this leader had a great advantage in that it supported scripts. Now that FreeMind has Groovy it is catching up. All we need is the library of neat applications that use the scripting language''!'' I was a keen user of MM2002 and looked forward to MM-X5 and its shift to XML, but the real shift was for the benefit of people ho were programmers, not the baseline users. Unless you were a EmbeddedVisualBasic programmer the change was a setback. The library of HTML export templates was lost - Mindjet's response was "its all XML so you can write your own XSLT. Well some of us can't or don't have the time. The other killer for me was that Mindjet tied in too closely with Microsoft Office. It couldn't export to anything else. So in reality one had to spend hundred of dollars more for each upgrade of MindMap since it always needed the latest version of Office. ''However'' I would recommend looking at Mindjet's MindMap and if you are a Windows users trying the 30-day evaluation to get a feel for what is possible in both capabilities and interface. --[[User:Anton|Anton]] 17:52, 20 Jul 2008 (PDT)

* When you enter note-data for quite a number of nodes the map is so full with the note-icon. I would appreciate an option in the preferences as for the attribute icon, that disables showing an icon. (Tools>Preferences>Appearance>Show icon for attributes) --[[User:Kai|Kai]] 21:59, 20 Mar 2009 (CET)

* Feature request: automatically calculating the print zoom factor according to a user-defined number of mosaiced printed pages. E.g., user should be able to specify he wants the map printed on N x M pages (M pages across and N pages high) and the print zoom factor should be calculated automatically. That would reduce the need to compute the best print zoom factor by trial-and-error. --[[User:Arg0|arg0]] 09:29, 24 Apr 2009 (UTC)

* Feature request: settings for customising arrow links (e.g., ability to specify that links start from the root part of a node rather than from the leaf part). Moreover, it can be really tricky to rearrange the shape of an arrow link, especially short ones, since all parameters (starting point, tangency) are changed simultaneously when dragging a link point. Fine editing should be implemented. --[[User:Arg0|arg0]] 09:29, 24 Apr 2009 (UTC)

* GENERAL OPEN SOURCE FEEDBACK LOOPS WITH FREEMIND, would it not be helpful if feedback loops were integrated into the beta versions, so that one can write requests for enhancements as one is using Freemind or other open source proejcts. For example, for each function there could be a questionnaire and comment box next to it. This info could then be uploaded to a wiki. It may help organize the locations of info and spur more user involvement in the feedback process. Could it also be possible that the uses of the porgramme are logged and statistically analyzed by the developers?

FreeMind 0.9.0: The New Features

2009-06-19T12:06:30Z

MikeS: /* User Feedback */

A great release is to come. We have many exciting new features: WYSIWYG-Editing for nodes and notes, scripting, filter, attributes and many more.

But all these new features still need a lot of testing and documentation. To start this, please have a look at the newest version [http://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=7118&package_id=188772 here] and [http://sourceforge.net/forum/forum.php?thread_id=1592095&forum_id=22101 tell us your opinions].

Use this wiki page for documenting the new features.

But: Don't use this version for productive maps. It is not stable enough!
* Further warning: If you create a map with Attributes, it will open as a "New Map" with no data in version 0.8. Your data is not lost, just not readable by 0.8.
* You can try to convert the 0.9.0 - saved map back to 0.8.0 by following steps

# Make the backup copy of the map
# Open it with the 0.9.0 again
# Select all nodes
# Format-> use plain text
# Save
# Open the mind map file in text editor
# Remove all lines starting with <attribute_registry> and ending with <attribute_registry/>
# Save the file and try to open it in 0.8.0

If it does not help you should use the 0.9.0.

= Attributes =
''FIXME: An introduction should be given here explaining what attributes are and what they are good for. Why should the user learn how to fiddle around with attributes if he does not know what they are?''

Attributes provide different perspectives for ordering/viewing your MindMap. Attributes are tuple name/value pairs that are globally available i.e. can be tagged to any node and assigned specific values. For example, you can create shopping lists, add notional weightings, performance metrics, etc. The real power of attribute comes from writing Groovy scripts that can operate on attribute value or change the behavior of a node. For example, you can summarize the info contained within several nodes for a total cost. Attributes are complemented by Filters.

Real world example: I use Attributes and Filters after taking staff meeting notes. Immediately after a meeting, I assign attributes to nodes as applicable: Attribute 1 is "Name", values are the names of my staff; Attribute 2 is "Priority", values are numbers 1-5. The "Assign Attributes..." dialogue allows me to select all comments from a certain staff member and then assign their name to those nodes at once. If there is an action required, I might assign a priority. Filters allow me to quickly see only nodes from a certain staff member, or specific priority levels, or any combination. --[[User:Dnbarg|Dnbarg]] 20:21, 22 Oct 2007 (PDT)

== Quick Attribute creation ==
* Select node.
* Edit Attribute: Alt-F9 or, Rt-click>Edit attributes.
* Type in an Attribute name.
* Then add a value if desired.
* Edit with the Attribute Manager later if necessary.
== Using Attribute Manager ==
* Open the attribute manager with attribute icon on toolbar or, Tools>Attribute Manager.
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=== Working with Attributes ===
* Click the "Edit" button in the "All Attributes" row
* Select attribute names from existing names to Rename/Delete in popup dialog
* Enter new attribute name to Add in popup dialog
* Press "Close" to close the dialog after all changes are done

==== Create Attribute ====
* Type in your Attribute name, then press add
* Repeat to add multiple attributes
==== Create Attribute values====
* type the value, then press "Add"
* It's a good idea to add a blank value to the list. It helps when assigning attributes later
Every Attribute can have multiple values
* eg. I use an Attribute called "Staff" and the values are the staff person's name
* eg. I use an Attribute called "Priority" and the values are #'s 1 to 5

==== Delete Attribute ====
* Select the menu option Tools/Attribute Manager, to open the panel Attribute Manager.
* In the line "All Attributes" of this panel, click on the icon in the last column (Edit). This opens a new panel "All Attributes".
* In this panel, select the attribute name, then press "Delete".

==== Delete Attribute values ====
* Select the value, then press "Delete"
* All attributes with the deleted value are removed from the whole map

All attributes with the deleted name and/or value are removed from the whole map

==== Rename Attribute ====
* Select the attribute name to be renamed, type the new name, then press "Rename"
* All attributes with the renamed value are adjusted

==== Rename Attribute values ====
* Select the value to be renamed, type the new value, then press "Rename"
* All attributes with the renamed value are adjusted

=== Working with Attribute values (in Attribute Mgr) ===
* After adding Attributes, you should see them listed under the "Attributes" column heading
* Click on the "Edit" button in the row of your new Attribute and add the values
* Edit attribute values in popup dialog
* Press "Close" to close the dialog after all changes are done

== Assign Attributes to nodes ==
assigning only a few nodes
* Choose the node, press Alt-F9 or, Rt-Click the node and choose "Edit Attributes"
* To add more attribute per node, use TAB key (if View>Attributes>Show all attributes is selected), or use the following.
* got to: Tools>"Assign attributes..."
* choose "Selected Nodes" or "Visible Nodes"
* from the drop down list, choose the Attribute you want to assign. (Here it helps when there's a blank value. You can assign an Attribute to all nodes needing it, and then set the value later, on a node by node basis)
* press the "Add" button to assign the Attribute to the node/s
* add more than one attribute to a node if necessary
* delete attributes from multiple nodes with this dialog

== Viewing/Hiding Attributes ==
to see an icon on nodes with attributes
* Tools>Preferences>Appearance>Show icon for attributes
show all attributes
* Alt-s or, View>Attributes>Show all attributes
show no attributes
* Alt-h or, View>Attributes>Show no attributes
show selected attributes
* in the Attribute Manager, select desired Attributes in the "Selected Visible" column
* then, View>Attributes>Show selected Attributes
optimize the width of the Attribute/value table
* Rt-click on the Attribute and choose optimal width

== User feedback ==
=== Bugs concerning attributes ===
* Better sorting of the options: Add Attribute > Delete this Attribute > Delete all Attributes. Numerous times I accidentally clicked on the middle button which is now (beta20) "Alle Werte löschen" when I intended to only "Diesen Wert löschen", because it is on the same line where I specify the criteria, which attribute value pair I try to delete [[User:JR|JR]] 13:16, 8 Oct 2008 (UTC)
* The key bindings alt-s and alt-h do not work as expected for showing or hiding attributes.--[[User:Yubrshen|yushen]] 02:23, 25 Nov 2006 (PST)
* When Attributes are visible, scrolling with mouse wheel stops when cursor is over the attribute of a node. --[[User:Terkor|Terkor]] 20:11, 27 Aug 2007 (PDT)
* If I set attributes, I can't export the map in PDF. It's ok in flash, png, xhtml, jpeg. Beta 17 on Ubuntu 8.04 - Sun Java -- freemind@smci.ch 2008-05-23
* If I add a blank character such as space after an attribute name, it is not considered as the same attribute (no trim) --[[User:Patco|Patco]] 19:27, 19 Jun 2008 (PDT)
* If you create attributes for the first time, but not assign them to a node, they won't be saved in your document --[[User:kvantomme|kvantomme]] 17:15, 3 Dec 2008 (GMT+1)
* Selecting an attribute with the arrow keys (from the dropdown) and then pressing tab makes the attributes box disappear.--[[User:Kartunes|kar]] 18:19, 12 Mar 2009 (UTC)

=== Bugs or features? (questions about attributes to the developers) ===

* The context menu key on the keyboard doesn't open the context-menu. --[[User:Jan|Jan]] 01:07, 4 Jul 2008 (PDT)

* When changing the font-size of a node by keyboard-shortcut (ctrl+"+" / crtl+"-") the fontsize-combobox of the toolbar isn't refreshing. --[[User:Jan|Jan]] 01:00, 4 Jul 2008 (PDT)

* When adding an attribute to a node which already has the attribute, the attribute will be shown as many times as added. However, when deleting the attribute from node, all instances of the attribute would be deleted.--[[User:Yubrshen|yushen]] 02:23, 25 Nov 2006 (PST)
:* In version 0.9.0b13, the bug is corrected (i.e. deleting one attribute does not delete all other attributes with the same name). So, the possibility to have several attributes with the same name but different values ought probably to be considered as a feature, not a bug ? For example the attribute "child" could have the values "Peter" and "Mary" attached to a given node "Paul and Jane" to include in the map the information that Paul and Jane have at least 2 children named Peter and Mary (if I understood correctly the notion and usefulness of attributes)? --[[User:Miclav|Miclav]] 01:56, 9 Sep 2007 (PDT)

* It is not possible to delete an attribute from the List of attributes. If one is created, it lives forever .... It seems that using tool/assign attribute by selecting the attribute in question, and select delete all values, it's possible to remove an attribute of a node. --[[User:Yubrshen|yushen]] 21:19, 15 Jan 2007 (PST)

:* You can remove or even rename some attributes and attribute values from the map using the attribute manager. Use Tools->Attribute Manager->All Attributes->[edit]->[click on attribute]->[Delete] --[[User:DimitriPolivaev|DimitriPolivaev]] 05:12, 9 Sep 2007 (PDT)

* It is not intuitive to go to Tools->Assign Attributes to set attributes on several nodes. I expected to be able to select several nodes (or all) and use Edit->Attributes. It didn't occur to me to look on the Tools menu for Editing. -- [[User:JimK|JimK]]
* The workflow in the Assign Attributes dialog is backwards: actions should be from left to right, top to bottom. I suggest moving the buttons to the right side. It's also strange why Add & Delete have one section and Replace has another. From user viewpoint they're all the same. Just need one name/value input box? -- [[User:JimK|JimK]]
* The title of the Assign Attributes dialog box has an extra character in "Assign" that should be removed. -- [[User:JimK|JimK]]
* Attributes are a great idea, but the whole dialog thing is very slow to work with. And it sucks to have a dialog over your workspace. I suggest making attributes work pretty much like a dynamic list of icons in terms of user interface:
** Make a toolbar dedicated to adding attribute values to nodes. Put the toolbar on the right side of the screen, make a button for every value, so that it can be assigned with one click.
*** This is so that, rather than choosing "apply to selected" or "apply to visible", you can use the standard built in selecting mechanisms, and apply attributes the same way that you apply icons.
**** You also have the added bonus of standardizing the interface somewhat.
** Put a selector box, or in the case of a low number of attribute value pairs, section them off, so you never need more than one or two clicks to assign an attribute.
** Have an empty box in the toolbar for new attribute or value definitions.
** Remove the attribute assignment dialog.
** Here's a visual sample. I found it was easier just to illustrate it: [[Media:FreeMindAttributeToolbar.png]] --[[User:RazielJaTier|RazielJaTier]] 22:50, 20 May 2008 (PDT)
* There is a bug in the browser applet of 0.9.0-Beta19 related to notes attached on nodes: if you switch between nodes the text of the note in the bottom window don't get updated, unless you select a node without a note and go back to one with a note. I guess the method onSelectHook(NodeView pNode) in NodeNoteViewer.java isn't called when switch between nodes with notes. --[[User:Jens|Jens]] 14:20, 11 Aug 2008 (PDT)

=== Wishes concerning attributes ===
* I love the attribute & filter feature & see great potential ahead. Being able to name & save searches would also be extremely useful.--[[User:Felipe|Felipe]] 07:34, 26 Apr 2007 (PDT)
* Really wish for a feature to only selectively show the attribute of the node in focus. The current options of "show all attributes", "show the selected attributes" all apply to all the nodes visible. With all nodes showing attributes, it occupy too much space. I wish that it only shows all the attributes for the current node being selected, i.e. in focus. This would be often enough for normal use.--[[User:Yubrshen|yushen]] 20:36, 1 Dec 2006 (PST)
* Default attributes of new node: I need to add some attributes to all new nodes. Therefore, I wish that there is mechanism to automatically stuff some default attributes to all the new nodes created after the functionality is enabled. This function may be configured to enable/disable. --[[User:Yubrshen|yushen]] 21:19, 15 Jan 2007 (PST)
* Or there is functionality to add a group of selected attributes to a group of selected nodes through one operation. --[[User:Yubrshen|yushen]] 21:19, 15 Jan 2007 (PST)

*You explained how to create attribute etc... but after spending "only" 30 minutes on it, what is the real interest in practice of such feature ? What is the use of attributes ? not clear what it can be used for ....--[[User:Djerr|Djerr]] 17:49, 20 Jan 2007

*Roll-up: It'd be really nice (and quite natural) to be able to roll-up (summarize or otherwise) the values of certain attributes (eg. money, time, resource requirements, etc) from children to parent nodes. --[[User:azimmer|azimmer]] 16:58, 14 Feb 2007

* See also the [[Talk:FreeMind_0.9.0:_The_New_Features|discussion page]]

* Adding "Attribute" is a great idea (for me ;-) !). There's a long time that I'm thinking of using freemind in an Artificial Intelligence way. Using Attribute, simultaneously with groovy, may help me for creating rules. Thanks ! --[[User:PLANTING|PLANTING]] 12 Aug 2007
* A way to copy and paste all the attributes assigned to a node or one of these attributes would be nice. Perhaps a "Copy Attribute" and "Copy All Attributes" in popup menu when you right-click on the attributes of a node. --[[User:Terkor|Terkor]] 10:06, 30 Aug 2007 (PDT)

* A way to assign different types of data to attributes: AKA Boolean, Integer, Date, Text, etc.
*Refactor/sort nodes by attribute: Dunno if anybody knows the dashboard plugin for mindmanager, but this idea is similar (except better cause it uses custom attributes). basically, any given attribute/group of attributes would be a parent node. And the values of the attribute would be the children. The nodes with those values would branch off from that. Would allow for awesome fluid mindmaps that could show all sorts of relationships between nodes without ruining the linear structure of the map, allowing for scheduling, budgeting, etc. I'm creating some example mindmaps which show how this feature would be incredibly usefull for something like scheduling.
* Sorting function would be great, but I propose it on the node (alphabetical). Having it on the attribute means for me having to update individually each node's attribute, which would take more time than sorting them by hand. I imagine a function sorting alphabetically all subnodes 1st level of the selected node. Franck --[[User:Fb5|Fb5]] 03:55, 6 Dec 2007 (PST)
** I'd agree with 'sort nodes by attribute' above. I'm a mindmanager user and being able to easily and interactively prioritise tasks on a node is very useful. In mm I just use the pre-defined priority icons, and sort accordingly. This is useful, but freemind with multi-attributes could offer more powerful sorts.

* A way to add new attributes using just the keyboard. I use keyboard shortcuts quite often with FreeMind and not having the ability to quickly add/change/delete attributes with the keyboard makes them much less useful. --[[User:Verifex|Verifex]] 15:57, 8 Dec 2007 (PST)
** What about Alt+F9 for selecting the attribute table and F2 for editing, TAB for adding? [[User:DimitriPolivaev|DimitriPolivaev]]
* Some attributes should be single-valued. Right now they all seem to be multi-valued. For example, I want only want attribute named Priority per node. -- [[User:JimK|JimK]]
* Hopefully you're going to add Help to dialog boxes? When I'm in Attribute Manager I don't understand all the choices. I should be able to view help about them from within the app rather than going to a Website/wiki. -- [[User:JimK|JimK]]
* Clicking on the "Icon for Attributes" could show/hide the attributes.
* Ability to have "Optimal Width" applied on all nodes by default.
** Seconded. A preference for the default width would help as well. --[[User:Icekiss|Icekiss]] 08:08, 19 Apr 2008 (PDT)
* It would be great to have the possibillity to group attributes and give these groups names. These names may be treated as node types. One may assign a node type to a node meaning the node gets automatically all the attributes of this type. With this it would be possible to define for instance a node type like ''activity'' with attribute like ''who'', ''start date'', ''percent complete'' and so on. An easy way to assign node types to nodes, for instance something like ''default type for new nodes depending on parent node'' would be the cherry on top.
* I've been using beta 15 seriously for a project. Filtering is wonderful, and what I really need is sub-node sorting by attribute and/or icon priority. (Please!) - johnn

* Don't know if it should be here or not. But actually, it would be nice if we could apply the same kind of filter to the icons:
** it would be faster
** it would be simpler, as some kind of default attribute+values
** it allows also multiple values (i can have multiple icons for one same branch)
* This would probably require to expand the list of icons to have more of the different types of notions that can be represented in a tool as FreeMind:
** relative to decision making: delay (e.g. hourglass), optionality, assumption/hypothesis, problem/inconsistency (e.g. lighting), advantage ("thumb up", "+/-"), inconvenient ("thumb down","+/-"),cause, consequence, risk,
** relative to life in general: user (people), group, time (clock), time interval, machine, etc.--[[User:Patco|Patco]] 19:48, 19 Jun 2008 (PDT)
* Keyboard assigning of attributes is a bit clumsy. Ideally, instead of using the arrow keys to select, the appropriate attribute would be suggested just by typing its first few letters. Then tab could be pressed to select and go to the next attribute.--[[User:Kartunes|kar]] 17:45, 12 Mar 2009 (UTC)
* the attribute icon has not the same meaning than the others. For example, with an ordered list (with icons "1", "2", "3" ...), having a node with attributes will disorganize the position of the icons! -- [[User:Patco|Patco]]

= Filter =
== Create filters to view and print the data more effectively ==
Clicking on the little funnel to the left of the zoom size toggles on and off the Filter Toolbar.
By default (i.e. in absence of any personal filter defined, see below) the values that can be selected in the List box of the Filter Toolbar are:
* No Filtering
* Currently Selected Nodes
To create a filter for one Attribute:
* to the right of the filter status, click "Edit"
* in the drop down menu at the top left, select your attribute
* the expression drop changes to "Exists"
* press "Add", then "OK" at the bottom
* all nodes with the selected Attribute will be shown, and the branches that don't contain these nodes will be hidden.
* To display, on the contrary, all branches that do not contain nodes with the given attribute, click on Edit, then, in panel Filter Composer, click on buttons "Not" then "Apply". This adds, in the List box of the Filter Toolbar, the two additional filters "attribute_XXX Exists" and "Not attribute_XXX Exists" (where attribute_XXX stands for the current attribute).

To create a filter for an Attribute and one of its values:
* after step two above select the second drop down where "exists" is showing
* choose "Is equal to". Your values should now be available in the third drop down
* press "Add", then OK

== use multiple filters at once ==
create two filter sets by the method above
select the filter sets you want
* Shift-click for multiple, continuous sets
* Ctrl-click for non-contiguous selection
press the "and" button on the right => a new set is created which combines your selected sets

'''User feedback'''

Another feature which can be useful: name for the filter. If you combine simple filters, it can be difficult to read what is it doing:
For example:
(Responsable is equal to Erwan and Type is equal to "draw") can be renamed as "Erwan Drawing", and could be more simple to manage.

Another thing: It could be useful to see/mask attributes when clicking on the attribute icon.

== filter on an icon ==
* add an icon to a node by highlighting the node, click on the icon on the left or Rt-click>Icons
* in the filtering "edit" dialog, choose "Icon" in the drop-down list at the top left, the second drop-down grays out, and the third contains the list of currently used icons
* click "Add"

'''User Feedback'''

* '''This is a great feature!''' Honestly, I think in a lot of ways, filtering by icons is a lot more intuitive than filtering by attributes. While the attributes give you a great deal of flexibility, they muck up the display at bit, and they're a lot more keystrokes to add. I really can't think of any examples of an attribute that I wouldn't rather just create an icon for. The icon is a much more succinct way of displaying an attribute about a node and it can be done inline.
** Having said that, I would like to see a little more love put into icons. I already customized my icon library (Thank you!), but it becomes unwieldy when there are more than a small handful of additional items. You can't replace the original icons either.
* I think it would be a good idea to filter icon clock and only those icons with active warning time scheduler

== Persistent Map Filters ==
In Beta 13 persistent filters are added.
And filters can now be saved. --[[User:Terkor|Terkor]] 18:02, 2 Sep 2007 (PDT)

== user feedback ==

* For using semantic strings in addition to numeric and logical ones it would be useful a) to have filters for "contains" (for substrings of text) as in normal content – like "contain" finds attributes with the values "container", "contains", "containment", etc. b) be able to search a string-value across different attributes

* Filtering is great to compact maps for printing, but no usable PDF was created from a filtered map (beta 17) --[[User:JR|JR]] 04:48, 23 May 2008 (PDT)

* When I use filter extensively with very large map of thousands of nodes, I realize that the layout of the filtered map need some improvement. The resulted map's layout should be much compacted for the filtered nodes to be closer to the root node in order to be visible in the freemind window. For such large map, the reason to do filer is to focus so that I can see them easier. Without the improvement, it seems that the layout still follow that without the filter. The map becomes a tree with sparse nodes but stretched apart. It defeats the purpose of the filter somehow. If you need, I can provide a screen capture to show what I meant. Please tell me how. --[[User:Yubrshen|yushen]] 16:16, 5 Apr 2008 (PDT)

* I find that it freezes up a lot when using folding and unfolding while applying filters. It is, however, a really powerful feature. To complete its power would it be possible to have a way to copy only selected or filtered nodes? Sometimes you want to select these nodes and put them in another application, but when I filter, select all and then copy-paste, I get lots of other nodes included.

* Worked well for me. Especially like the filter on icon - no muss, no fuss.

* Great feature. Filtering on an icon: For example if you have "OK" icons on some nodes and want to see all other nodes (= not OK) use filter "contains icon OK" and define filter "Not contains icon OK" using button "Not"

* This great new feature has a little BUG. Situation: I have two maps opened and use the filter "Currently Selected Nodes" on one of them and switch between the maps. When I switch back to the filtered map I don't get the view that I had before I switched away. Instead I get the node filtered that was selected when I switched. (Terkor)

* Filtering and Reminders are a very nice combination. Filtering on icons allows to distinguish between nodes that have a Reminder "whose time has not jet come" and nodes that have a Reminder "whose time has come". But: in the filter composer these two different states are represented with the same icon (a clock). You always have to guess which icon represents which Reminder state. --[[User:Terkor|Terkor]] 19:40, 30 Jul 2007 (PDT)

* It would be helpful to be able to give the composed filters names. --[[User:Terkor|Terkor]] 19:45, 30 Jul 2007 (PDT)

* When filtering is activated there is a drop-down menu left to the "Edit" button. There you can find all the filters that were used that FreeMind session. It would be very effective if I could not only chose one of those filters but chose more than one. And then being able to chose in what order they are applied (for example by moving the filters up and down). Of course I can also get the desired filtering by using the Filter Composer. But with the described option I would be more flexible in quickly combining the filters. And being able to apply some "simple" filters in an order would make things more clear in some situations. --[[User:Terkor|Terkor]] 06:50, 31 Jul 2007 (PDT)

* A refresh view button would be nice. Or even better: auto refresh (maybe as an option) when a node is changed. Explanation: When I mark a node (representing a task) as done and I use a filter that shows me all the undone tasks and hides the done tasks, the node is not filtered as long as I switch filter off and on again. Could be more handy. --[[User:Terkor|Terkor]] 06:09, 3 Dec 2007 (PST)
** I second this notion. Nodes that meet the filter conditions after the filter is set don't get filtered out. So for instance, I want to create a filter to show not checked off items. Once I check them I want them to disappear automagically. --[[User:RazielJaTier|RazielJaTier]] 16:26, 20 May 2008 (PDT)

* If I filter "Currently Selected Nodes", in all the now empty space of the map there appear the ovals of the hidden nodes that allow to move them around, when you move your mouse to that places where they are when filter is not applied. --[[User:Terkor|Terkor]] 06:42, 15 Dec 2007 (PST)

* If "Selection Bubble" is "on" and a filter is applied, also hidden nodes can be "selected" when you for example move the focus using the arrow-keys. --[[User:Terkor|Terkor]] 06:42, 15 Dec 2007 (PST)

* Is there a way to assign attributes when you assign an icon to a node? For example I have lists of phone calls / emails that I have to send. I usually assign a phone or envelope icon to that node. I would like to assign an attribute or ActionType so that I can sort by them later (i.e. see a list of phone calls or emails that I have to make).

* It would be very helpful to have an option to filter out entries without children. This would be very valuable e.g. in situations where in a big map, several nodes have a "Tasks" subnode, and one wants to look at all tasks currently pending.

* Would it be possible to be able to add free text to the map to allow for titles and possibly a Key?

* Filter toolbar should be a standard toolbar. Should be able to show/hide filter toolbar from the View menu. (I am not displaying the main toolbar, but may need the Filter toolbar from time to time)

* Attributes have great potential. However I find editing a bit inconvenient. Would it be possible to add a small handle to existing attribute table (say immediately left of the cells, similar to the handles that are already on top of the table), so that a single attribute could be selected to be copied, cut, or even dragged and dropped to copy/move it to other nodes? Keyboard modifier keys (shift or ctrl) could be used to specify moving/copying in a drag and drop operation. arg0.

* Am loving the attributes. Using beta 20. Am doing a massive project on the muscular system. muscles directly effect eachother. For each muscle there is are muscles directly affecting it, muscles that it directly affects it, and muscles with a mutual two way relation. Each muscle also has a common problem associated with it. Each muscle group is an attribute and each muscle is a value. Filters will be used for self diagnosis, and finding the appropriate stretches. For example hands and shoulders due to using the computer a lot.
**Would be great if graphical links can be attributed, so that they can be filtered. + have the option of making them visible or not.
**Better sorting of attributes would be good. Like an attribute mind map, for sorting and the depth of the filter that is undertaken.
** To have Attributes and Filters integrated on the mind map. Anyone know how to write scripts to run a filter function.
** To filter core structure of mind maps: this would be good for summarising the link to other mind maps.
Thanks for your time. alf
* to encourage the use of attributes and filtering, it would be good to have the search/filter box always visible by default (I have a large screen, and the font/font size take all the extra space on the right, that could be used by this search/filter box (also, there should be a specific menu "search" or "filter" --[[User:Patco|Patco]]

= WYSIWYG-Editing for nodes and notes =

Yet to be documented

I like the WYSIWYG and how it's available when needed. On piece I find lacking is the ability to easily add link <a href=.... and the ability to click on it to pull it up. That feature would be very useful -- [[User:Matthias|Matthias]] 21:57, 18 Feb 2009 (UTC)

== HTML paste tip ==

Paste of HTML content creates one node. Use Edit -> Split to split it in many nodes.

Tools->Split Node is more efficent. --[[User:Phil31753|Phil31753]] 10:06, 9 Apr 2009 (UTC)

==== User Feedback ====
Version beta 0.9.16
I personally hate the WYSIWYG mode but I understand that others might find this feature helpful.
My problem is that I copy and paste very often into and out of mindmaps. Due to the WYSIWYG mode I can not pasten normally into thunderbird. Copying into mindmaps is terrible.
Suggestion: having the possibility to select between plain text modus or html modus or mixed modus. Helpful would be also a shortcut to "paste as plain text and split" and copy as plain text.
--[[User:bebach|bebach]] 2008-04-05

Love this feature, especially the way that the notes export to javascript enabled html. Couple of observations.

* The popup notes in the Javascript export don't seem to work in IE (care factor 0?).

* It would be good to be able to view the note in the main mindmap window, maybe as a popup.

* It would also be helpful if there was some sort of visual indicator of the existence of a popup note in the exported html - at present the note just magically appears as a rollover.

* Don't know if it is due to this feature, but "edit long node" now introduced an extra line feed if the enter key is used (confirm on enter turned off).

--[[User:RichardForster|RichardForster]] 18:04, 19 Sep 2006 (PDT)

I'd like to have the option to collapse the WYSIWYG editing area to free up more screen real-estate.

--[[User:Marko|Marko]] 21:45, 23 Sep 2006 (PDT)

* The WYSIWYG screen estate seems a good place to do all 'richer' content editing: e.g. if freemind would let me edit the multiline text nodes there, and, manage the attributes, i'd find that very usefull.

--[[User:Neanderlander|Neanderlander]] 22:01, 24 Sep 2006 (PDT)

* Some way to change the width of nodes would be great, so free form text can be flowed into thinner columns. Also a way to insert <br> easily without resorting to the html view.

--[[User:pedron|pedron]] 1:02pm, 10 October 2006 (EST)
* In version 0.8 the note attached to a node was very discrete in the sense that it would only show when the mouse is on that node. This new version has many editing features but it's "in your face" (so to speak) until you physically minimize it. I wish there was a way to configure it so that it would act like the previous version while keeping it's editing extras. Or at least have the option of toggling editing toolbar...

--[[User:Cichutki75|Cichutki75]] 8:09pm, 19 October 2006 (GMT)
* In version 0.9 max node width function does not work properly. At least not all nodes for the map created in version 0.8 keep the set width. I did not discover the rule. Some keep some don't.

--[[User:CautiousChaos|CautiousChaos]] 02:22, 12 Nov 2006 (EST)
* The editing panel is intrusive when it is not needed. A hotkey to open/close it would be helpful. Clicking on the note icon resulting in the panel appearing could also be very helpful.
* It seems that word-wrapping does not work in plain-text mode for nodes, making the node to be of single line extending far too long. I had to change the mode of each node to make it word-wrapping. Only using rich-text mode, the wrapping would work. I wish that word-wrapping would still work as in 0.80. --[[User:Yubrshen|yushen]] 15:03, 5 Dec 2006 (PST)
* It seems that in editing long node, the splitting function would only work with word on different line, while in 0.80, the function works even for words on the same line. --[[User:Yubrshen|yushen]] 15:03, 5 Dec 2006 (PST)

--[[User:Djerr|Djerr]] 17:42, 20 Jan 2007

* Using a 0.8 map with notes in 0.9 beta version show all notes as pop up but they can not be modified with the format tool or even edited in the layout page. I have to delete the note and create a new one under the 0.9 version.

I usually write short nodes but very long notes in order to have a "clear" map. 2 special comments on notes :
* For long notes, the time the pop up is shown is too short. Would it be possible to define a time on how long you want this pop up to be shown ? Or even better: to show them as long as the cursor is pointing on the node (or perhaps the note icon).
* I could find very useful (especially for my long notes) to be able in the format menu to change not only italic or bold or font size etc.. but also COLORS, to be able to see very fast the most important points

---
* I don't understand the purpose of freemind's notes feature. It seems to be an incomplete feature. On the one hand, it could be used as popup notes for a node on the freemind map. On the other hand, it could be used to provide the details for a topic expressed by the node. I think both should be possibilities, but currently only the first really seems possible.
* I want to use freemind to develop an outline into a full-blown paper. To do that, I would start using freemind to create an outline of the paper. Each node in the mindmap would be an entry in the outline with the node level equating to the outline level. Then, when I start fleshing out the paper, I would use the notes feature to fill-in paragraphs of information for each node. The problem is that there is no good way of outputting the paper -- the notes become popups rather than entries in the paper.
* Is there a way to export a mindmap from freemind in such a way that it could later be imported?

--[[User:DavidMasterson|DavidMasterson]] 22:00, 23 May 2007

* I don't like this feature in the current implementation. This is because i use this tool to connect IDEAS and usually i use formatting things only in the end. A paragraph, a sentence, a list, a word list this are things that i want to have in a hierarchical structure, not as a rich text. In 0.8.0 the copy/paste feature converted a paragraph/list to an hierarchical tree of nodes. That was a better aproach then to get a simple html node. The split feature doesn't replace this functionality better. I hope and trust that you will find a way to add rich text nodes without so much interference with the old style of working. Maybe a paste option with paste as nodes, paste as html will resolve this issue?

--[[User:Terkor|Terkor]] 16:25, 21 June 2007
* Great Feature, but it could be more handy if the (by far) most often used formating-features like Bold and Italic could be used without opening the editor. Just mark the words or characters you want bold (or italic), click the Bold (or Italic) icon (or use Ctrl-B /Ctrl-I) - and that's it.
* It is not "logical" that you open the editor with "Alt-Enter" and close it with "Ctrl-Enter". It should both be the same.
* "Split" should have a shortcut. Suggestion: Alt-Enter or Ctrl-Enter. (See previous paragraph.)
* When I open the editor whilst I am editing a node, the editor should know the actual position of the cursor and if some text is already marked.
* Double clicking the note icon should open / close the note editor. (Generally icons should be more clickable like the link icon. (Double) clicking on the clock icon of notes with a Reminder should open the calendar. And right-clicking an icon should open the "Select Icon" box.)
* The popups displaying the note content don't match size if a note is very short. Does not look nice. (The same for popups that show the "Created", "Modified", and "Reminder" times - too wide.
* Choosing colors should definitely have an icon in the tool bar of the editors. So it takes six (!) clicks to change the color of a word. (Opening the editor not counted.)
* The editor for notes and the one for nodes behave differently, when it comes to use the Enter-key. The node-editor just enters a new line (as one would expect) when I press Enter. The note editor enters a new line and a blank line. Here I have to use Shift-Enter to get just a new line. Why the difference?
* The note editor by default adds a blank line before the text and after text. I see no reason for that. (The node editor does not do that either.) Just takes away precious space.
* In order to save space, please place the toolbar of the note editor next to the menu of the editor. As it is now, there is much unused space. The editor should look more slim.
* Like the note-editor of FreeMind 0.8, the note-editor of version 0.9 should automatically close when not needed. (Or at least there should be an option to pick this behavior.)
* The little arrows on the splitting line that allow to hide/show the note editor should be wider (not higher), they are very hard to click quickly. Perhaps put each of them in a clickable wider boxlike area.
* "Note" in the menu "Insert" is gone. Should be there, that's where people look for it, and it seams a logical place for it (also for a "Remove Note"-function). And "Add Note" / "Remove Note" should be in the context-menu, when I right-click a node.
* How about a function that turns a node into a note and vice versa?
* The popups of long notes should be scrollable.

--[[User:Pascal|Pascal]] 11:33, 20 Nov 2007
* It would be great to have spell checking in notes editor
* In version 0.9.0 beta 14, bold, italic and underline buttons have no icons (if you click where they should be, it does the job, but you don't see the buttons).

--[[User:puckja|puckja]] 13:51, 3 Jan. 2008
* Great feature! Now I can add formated text/graphics in the note panel (SimpleHTML). Cut & Paste from webpage and even MS Word 2003 with figures and math equations works great.
* More user friendly functions such as FONT property in toolbar or shortcut, HIGHLIGHTING capability, insert HYBERLINK (it can be added with direct HTML coding), configurable property for the inserted graphic(size/alignment, etc.) would be great. (It is already very good! Thanks!)

--[[User:puckja|puckja]] 16:09, 3 Jan. 2008
* It seems that all the figures inserted in the note are not "locally saved." It may a a '''SERIOUS BUG!''' If the figures are cut & paste from Internet, then they will not be available if machine is offline. If the figures are C & P from local file (such as MS Word), then the source files are still at your personal Win TEMP directory, which means that they will be deleted some time in the future while you think it is saved. Other software such as PersonalBrain will save the file and change the HTML src location after you saved the "brain", but Freemind seems to leave it unattended. :(

* HTML Editor won't let you put a table in a node. Well, that's not quite true. The "table" item n the menu bar has all its items disabled, but you can edit the HTML to make the node have a table. Why is the menu bar operation turned of for nodes?
--[[User:Anton|Anton]] 18:16, 20 Jul 2008 (PDT)
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* The HTML Editor seems to have a 'template' which is the same for all nodes. It would be nice to have
## User-definable style sheet, that could set font, size, colour, box width ...
## ... for each level
--[[User:Anton|Anton]] 18:25, 22 Jul 2008 (PDT)

Filter macros on the mind map itself would be good. They could be adjustable. And/or/not etc, could be done by clicking the different parts of the map corresponding to the attributes/icons under question. This would be nice because it would be more natural to drill down the search in this way. Filter by cliking on a node, filter again on what is left within that filter etc.

*The WYSIWYG is a big + for my workflow. However, I often use this program w/ widescreen setups and it would be a great if I could reposition the WYSIWYG window to the left, right of the Map window.
*It would be v.nice if the editor could interpret latex formating for math/equations.
--[[User:Lessfield|Lessfield]] 18:01, 19 Feb 2009 (UTC)

I agree with Lessfield - I want to create extensive notes, instructions etc. and I'd like to be able to move the note editing pane to the right side. To go with this, I'd like to be able to control the node layout so it's a tree expanding from top to bottom or left to right (like Visual Mind's Standard, left-to_right and right-to-left views).

Possible bug:- frequently when I'm typing in the notes pane, the insertion cursor zips back to the beginning of the line and text insertion continues there. I don't think I'm accidentally hitting any hot keys ;-)

= Scripting via Groovy =
[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Groovy_programming_language Groovy] scripts may be attached to individual nodes in the map. When "evaluate" is selected via the menu or keypress (Alt-F8), all nodes in the map are searched (depth-first) for one or more attributes named "script". If such an attribute is found, the value of the attached attribute is passed to the Groovy engine to execute.

Only nodes are evaluated, which attribute keys start with "script". However, there is nothing preventing a script on one node from acting on other nodes via normal operations (e.g. node.getChildren or similar) as far as I can tell from the code.

=== Assignment vs. Operation ===

If the value of the script attribute starts with the equals sign ("="), then the node text will be replaced by the RESULT of the script evaluation. Be careful not to overwrite your nodes! See the example for using the "node.getText()" in an assignment script.

If the value of the script attribute does not begin with the equals sign, then the script will run and may affect the map, but the expression result is not assigned to the node text.

=== Available Operations ===

When the Groovy binding is created, two variables are set:

* "c" is set to the MindMapController
* "node" is set to the MindMapNode being evaluated

You will have to examine the FreeMind source code for operations on the interfaces. See the examples for a few operations such as setting the node text, node color and background color.

=== Examples ===
I have only played with the engine for five minutes, and spent about the same amount of time on the Groovy home page. The following examples work for me:

'''Prepend the node text with an integer representing the node depth.''' Note that the script starts with '=' so the result is assigned back to the node text.
<groovy>=node.getNodeLevel() + " " + node.getText()</groovy>

'''Set the text color of a node:'''
<groovy>node.setColor(java.awt.Color.RED)</groovy>

'''Set the background color of a node:'''
<groovy>node.setBackgroundColor(java.awt.Color.BLUE)</groovy>

'''Project Manager: Don't do this; use methods of the controller c instead.''' If you manipulate the node model directly, you'll miss the undo and flow control capabilities of FreeMind. Please, consult methods from the interface MindMapActions only.

=== Advanced Examples===

All advanced examples have been moved to the [[Example scripts]]

== About Groovy ==
For people unfamiliar with Groovy scripting, it's [http://groovy.codehaus.org home page], an [http://www.onjava.com/pub/a/onjava/2004/09/29/groovy.html introduction], a review on [http://ask.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=06/04/18/2223237 slashdot].

== How to get started ==

# Create an attribute for a node. The attribute must be named "script"
# Create the Groovy script and set as the value of the attribute
# Press Alt-F8 or select "Evaluate" from the Tools menu.

== Wish for Groovy script editing ==
* Need good editor for writing such script for the attribute. The current attribute manager is not suitable to write long script. --[[User:Yubrshen|yushen]] 15:41, 15 Jan 2007 (PST)
* I know I could dig through the source code and figure it out, but even a rudimentary object reference would be great. --[[User:RazielJaTier|RazielJaTier]] 15:01, 21 May 2008 (PDT)
** Created a page called [[FreeMindGroovyObjects|FreeMind / Groovy Object Reference]] to start compiling known information into a reference page. If you're familiar with any of the objects and navigation, lets start documenting it here.
* Debug Console while you're running scripts from the map. If you have a typo, the script simply does nothing. It would be nice to get an error or some sort of feedback. --[[User:RazielJaTier|RazielJaTier]] 15:01, 21 May 2008 (PDT)

== Scripting the application, not the documents ==

When I first read about Groovy in Freemind, I was irritated by the fact that the Groovy scripts are part of the Map (as script attribute) and not the application.

To my opinion it would make more sense to allow Groovy scripts to be plugged into the application and work on either Map.

An example of how this could work can be found here: [http://groovy.codehaus.org/Integrating+Groovy+in+an+application+-+a+success+story]

In a similar way each script could be bound to a menu item in a user menu or a button, and be provided with the current 'context', maybe containing a model of an open Map when activated.
This way it would be possible to create complete maps on-the-fly without having to create the Map and the root node with a script attribute first(!).

This is from user's point of view more like scripted plug-ins and filters in Gimp or Steinberg-like music software, and not so much like the VBA thing stored inside office documents.

--[[User:Det|Det]] 07:28, 16 Mar 2007 (PDT)

== Tips of editing script ==
# Before there is good editor for script, I use a template node to define long script then use copy and paste to duplicate the script.

--[[User:Yubrshen|yushen]] 15:41, 15 Jan 2007 (PST)

= TaskJuggler Integration =

[http://taskjuggler.org/ TaskJuggler] is a opensource project management tool for linux. It covers the complete spectrum of project management tasks from the first idea to the completion of the project. It assists you during project scoping, resource assignment, cost and revenue planing, risk and communication management.

=== Idea ===
The idea is to have special task, resource, and account nodes on the mindmap.

====Usage summary====
- Tasks are defined as subnodes of TASKS node.
- Resources are defined as subnodes of RESOURCES node.
- Accounts as subnodes of ACCOUNTS node. (not yet implemented in 0.9.0 beta 18)
- Taskjuggler task/resource/account info contained as node attributes. <br> You can find more info about these attribs in [http://taskjuggler.org/manual-2.3.0/c1376.html TaskJuggler documentation]
- After entering all task/resource/account info in freemind, use File-->Export to <br> export the task/resource/account info that is currently VISIBLE <br> (your freemind filters can be used to limit the info being exported to TaskJuggler).

[[Image:Taskjuggler_example.png]]

=== Project file (TJP) ===
We generate only includes with FreeMind, so we must write simple TaskJuggler main project file:

<pre>project simple "Simple Project" "1.0" 2005-06-06 - 2005-06-26

include "example.accounts.tji"
include "example.resources.tji"
include "example.tasks.tji"

taskreport "Gantt Chart" {
headline "Project Gantt Chart"
columns hierarchindex, name, start, end, effort, duration, cost, revenue, chart
timeformat "%a %Y-%m-%d"
loadunit days
hideresource 1
}

htmlaccountreport "accountsreport.html"{
timeformat "%d-%M-%y"
accumulate
columns index, name, weekly
}</pre>

=== Include Files (TJI) ===
Mindmap with defined TASKS, RESOURCES and ACCOUNTS nodes can look like this:
{| cellpadding="20" cellspacing="0" border="0"
|[http://pliki.rodos.com.pl/freemind/tji_example/example_freemind2.png http://pliki.rodos.com.pl/freemind/tji_example/example_freemind2_maly.png]
|}

We can export include files which we have defined in our project file directly from FreeMind mindmap:<br>
- example.resources.tji - from RESOURCES node (File->Export->Resources from RESOURCES node to TJI file..)<br>
- example.tasks.tji - from TASKS node (File->Export->Task from TASKS node to TJI file..)<br>
- example.accounts.tji - from ACCOUNTS node (File->Export->Accounts from ACCOUNTS node to TJI file..)<br>

In TaskJuggler our project will look like this:
{| cellpadding="20" cellspacing="0" border="0"
|[http://pliki.rodos.com.pl/freemind/tji_example/example_taskjuggler.png http://pliki.rodos.com.pl/freemind/tji_example/example_taskjuggler_maly.png]
|}

=== Download ===
[http://pliki.rodos.com.pl/freemind/tji_example/example.zip Here] you can download full example without accounts feature and [http://pliki.rodos.com.pl/freemind/account/accountexample.zip here] with accounts.

=== Account support ===
Becouse accounts functionality isn't in CVS yet. You need use [http://pliki.rodos.com.pl/freemind/account/Freemind_0_9_0_beta15_koprin_b2.zip this] binary or
get Freemind from CVS (CVS tag: fm_060405_integration) and aply [http://pliki.rodos.com.pl/freemind/account/diff.zip this] patch.

= The rest of the new features =

==Icons==
=== User icons ===

User icons can be added. PNG files of the icons have to be added to the folder '''<user_home>'''/.freemind/icons. All *.png files in '''<user_home>'''/.freemind/icons are handled as user icons. Size is ''not'' limited to 16 px x 16 px.

'''User feedback:'''
* FreeMind adds "icon_" to the user-given name of a user icon. The name should just be the user given name - without ".png" of course.
* When adding user icons, they appear in a random order within the side bar and mixed with the Freemind built-in icons. Is there a way to control this order ?
* My new icons appeared at the end of the standard ones and appeared to be in alphabetical order by filename. GREAT feature. I was able to take screen captures of the icons for Access objects and some of the Office program icons and use them in a mind map documenting a project my computer literacy students do at the end of the semester. This is far superior to having to use a limited set of standard icons which aren't particularly meaningful.
* Q: what is the procedure for adding user icons in Mac OS? Which is the correct destination folder?

* User icons are not included in exported mindmaps (flash at least).
* Including icons does not appear to work (WinXP - Freemind 0.9.0 Beta 19). Have assumed that placing .png files in C:\Program Files\Freemind\Icons should ensure that they are included but have nt been able to get this feature to work. Is this the correct placement for the icons folder in Windows?
::You put the icons in the wrong folder. Look again above. --[[User:Terkor|Terkor]] 03:23, 21 Oct 2008 (UTC)

===Selecting, Substituting and Deleting Icons===
* Using Shift+Click on icon bar substitutes the current icons by the new one.
* Icon bar Icon Selection Dialog: click on icon with control key hold: removes the first matching icon, with alt key removes the last one. Icon Selection Dialog: Shift+Enter or Alt+Enter can be used as well.
* Icon hot keys available in Select Icon Dialog. They can be set in Preferences > Keystrokes. --[[User:Terkor|Terkor]] 13:26, 3 Sep 2007 (PDT)

'''User feedback:'''
* Substituting icons with Shift+Enter in the Icon Selection Dialog (as announced in the changes for Beta 9) does not work. Just inserts the selected icon.
* Can I suggest you add a couple of icons as standard namely '$' and '$$' too? Thanks.

==Latex Plugin==
With the new Latex Plugin (Insert > Latex) you can now add mathematical formulas to your nodes.
Select a node and chose Insert > Latex. Under the node a default text in a box is added. When you click on that box a simple editor opens to enter the Latex code. Close the editor and your formula is displayed underneath the node.

Erase the formula by clicking Latex again when the node is selected. --[[User:Terkor|Terkor]] 06:31, 3 Sep 2007 (PDT)

'''User feedback:'''
* I like this one, but there may be an easier way for access of this functionality (a shortcut or s.th.).
* Great, adds a whole new field of use to FreeMind!
* Tip: Can also be used to just add a text to node instead of a mathematical formula. If you just add text without any commands, you get italic text in the box. Everything put between \mbox{ and } appears as normal text. (The code is contained in the default formula that is added every time you add a new Latex box to a node.)
* Exporting the formulas does not work for at least for some filters (Flash at least).
* LaTeX formulas do not scale with the rest of the map but have always the same size. Please make them scalable if possible.--[[User:Christofb|Christofb]] 12:19, 30 Oct 2007 (PDT)

* Nice feature. It would be nice if the graphical representation of the formula could appear with the higher quality associated with LaTeX. Is it possible to improve via anti aliasing or exporting/printing via postscript?

==Linking to nodes in another mm-file==

You may create a link to a node in another map by appending #node_name to the map path

'''User feedback:'''
*Bug?: This feature does not seem to work for file urls ex: file:\\dfs\folder\file.mm##Freemind_Link_335867258. It also does not seem to work through the website applet.
** The URL is wrong. Must be file:///dfs\folder\file.mm##Freemind_Link_335867258

* Bug: This very useful feature seems to work for the current instance of the target map only. Once the target map is closed and reopened the link points to the root node in the target map, even though the link text is still correct. Closing the source map and reopening it works fine. - Tested based on FM 0.8.0 maps with the Windows version of FM.--[[User:Uli|Uli]] 02:51, 13 Feb 2007 (PST)

(•) Solution:

• create a (temporary) local link to the intended target node from any other node within the target MindMap (MM) (ALT+L)
=> i.e. the target-node must be the 'referred' node in this case meaning that it must be the second of the two nodes composing said (temporary) local link.
-> Digression: A local link is created by first left clicking on the source node and, while holding down the CTRL-button, then
left clicking on the target node, then press Alt-L. The link is created in the source node (a green arrow appears).
• Now highlight the 'referring'/source node, i.e. the other of the two nodes in this (temporary) local link (the one with the green arrow) and press CTRL+k (edit link)
=> the freemind node name of the 'referred' node (i.e. our desired target node) appears (eg. #Freemind_Link_676133257)
• Copy (or better still, cut) this node name [ctrl+c/ctrl+x].

• In the Source MM create an external link to the target MM (eg. c:\mindmaps\TASKS.mm),
=> Digression: An external link is created thus: CTRL+k (manually enter path) or SHIFT+CTRL+k (choose path). A red arrow appears.
• highlight the node with the newly created external link and append the copied/cut freemind node name to it using CTRL+k (edit link).
=> The result could look like this: c:\mindmaps\TASKS#Freemind_Link_676133257

• Finally, delete the local link if you may so wish (this step is only relevant, if you'd only copied and not cut the node name above).

• Being able to link to a specific link should not only possible within freemind but also from other tools. This could be established via adding a command line parameter giving the node ID to select right after startup.

== Edit Styles, Patterns, Automatic Layout Patterns ==

=== Change Format Dialog ===

New "Change Format" dialog box that lets you edit node and edge attributes at once. (Format > Change format...)

'''User feedback:'''
* The very powerful and useful dialog box needs a shortcut, and an entry in the context menu when you right-click on a node.
* A preview-area would be helpful.

=== Manage Patterns ===

There is now a manager for the physical styles. (Format > Physical Styles > Manage Patterns..)

==== User feedback: ====

* It is so helpfull!!!!!
* Would it be possible to also show (and even change) the shortcuts of the patterns in the pattern manager?
* Styles should be renamed Format Macro. They are a great feature.
* Feature Request
** A real Style formating feature with style_registry, where the formating is defined, would be great.
* Bugs
** Style names are not proper UTF-8 encoded e.g. ü in become FC in patterns.xml and not ü
** beta 18 couldn't generate new Style from current node. Pressing Save&Exit didn't save and a Notice pop up without any message.
* All version including RC1 - F11 window does not allow to choose a font size which is not in the list (11 for example) this is not consistent with the tool bar of the main window. I'm using style with 11 pt font size !
* Im experimenting with TONY BUZAN's mind mapping and memroy techniques. Eventaully i wnat to make a mind map of his book's and share, however copywright questions arise?? anyone know about it. Regardless of this question it brings to my attention the powers of formatting and memory enhancement.
**Is there a way of patterning the width/thikness of the links?
**Would be great to have a plugin that does a network analysis of the mind map and formatts acordingly. Hubs/number of links to a node = format value. Format value's to stimmulate as many sensory modalites as possible (NLP/ memory techniqes)
***These formats can then have an icon/ memory hook to filter by.

=== Edit Automatic Layout Patterns ===
It is now possible to edit Automatic Layout Patterns. (Tools > Preferences ... > Automatic layout pat...) Click there on a pattern and the new "Change Format" box appears (here called "Change Pattern").

'''User feedback:'''

* I also really like this feature, BUT I also would badly need to automaticaly layout for more then 4 levels (even if I could not change it by myself)! This is one of the most important things missing yet in this great application. Thanks anyway!

* Great! Could you please make the area "Automatic Layout Styles" a bit wider. There is no reason to keep it so tiny.

* I find the automatic layout a bit limited; after four levels, the layout remains the same, but I oftentimes use five, six or seven levels. Only feature I'd like to see added to the program is to set an auto format for a larger (custom-defined?) amount of levels.

* I love automatic layout, I use it pretty much exclusively. The only thing that sucks is that it completely disables the ability to apply localized formats to nodes with it enabled. Can you put in some sort of cascading functionality. The default would be automatic, but you could override the formats at any time. Also put something like the "reset position" like "remove custom formatting". --[[User:RazielJaTier|RazielJaTier]] 15:27, 20 May 2008 (PDT)

* I second Raziel's motion. I'd love to be able to store code snippets in a map, but automatic layout disrupts my custom formatting. --[[User:Neontapir|Neontapir]] 09:47, 23 Jun 2008 (PDT)

* Wonderfull. Would it be possible choose (at least) color to be applied per branch instead of per level. This is more in tune with Dr. Buzan's suggestions.

== Find And Replace ==
FreeMind has now a Find & Replace dialog. It combines the old "Show Map History..." (which is not there any more) with a classical Find & Replace dialog.

Found nodes can be sorted by Date, Text, Icons, Created, Modified, and Notes.

You can choose: Export Selected Nodes, Replace All, Replace Selected, Goto, and Select.

When no search text is entered all nodes of the map are shown in a sorted list.

'''User Feedback'''

* Characters like äöü" are not displayed correctly (the HTML-versions are displayed).
* Could it be possible to hide columns that I don't need to see?
* Thank You for the "replace" addition. How difficult would it be to have a "find" on all opened maps ?
* Is it possible to extend the "find" in all opened maps ? When searching for a text pattern, it will save to open individually each maps and execute a find. --[[User:Fb5|Fb5]] 02:16, 15 Nov 2007 (PST)
** I second this - extremely needed (at least for me :) ) to be able to search across several maps!! --[[User:Spacevulture|Spacevulture]] 11:59, 21 Jun 2008 (PDT)
* Would very helpful if nodes themselves could not only be sorted alphabetically, but also by Icons. And maybe by Date, Created, Modified, and Notes.
* A drop-down menu with recent search/replace terms would be helpful, to avoid retyping when repeating searches. --[[User:Arg0|arg0]] 08:38, 25 Feb 2009 (UTC)

== Display Selection as Bubble==
In the menu View there is now the option to display the selected nodes inside a bubble: "Display Selection as Rectangle on/off". You can also pick this new option in Preferences > Defaults, where you can also choose the color of the bubble. "Display Selection as Rectangle on/off" is now (Beta 13) by default "on". --[[User:DimitriPolivaev|DimitriPolivaev]] 14:50, 9 Sep 2007 (PDT) --[[User:Terkor|Terkor]] 16:57, 9 Sep 2007 (PDT)

'''User Feedback'''
* Like it very much.

==Tabs==
There are now Tabs (like in Firefox) representing the opened maps. Properties > Appearance > Look And Feel > Use Tabs lets you choose if you want to use tabs. --[[User:Terkor|Terkor]] 10:36, 26 Aug 2007 (PDT)

'''User Feedback'''
* Could it be possible that the tabs only appear (option) when more than one map is opened?
** I'd like this too. Screen space can be important. --[[User:Kenrob|Kenrob]] 04:14, 5 Oct 2007 (PDT)
* Could it be possible to show and hide tabs ''in View''?
* Could it be possible to rearrange the order of the tabs (by dragging and dropping them)?
** drag&drop, automatic hide when only one, close one/all via context menu etc. would be very usefull (i.e. like it is possible in firefox) --[[User:flusi100|flusi100]] 08:00, 24 Feb 2008
* Would be nice to close the maps by using their tabs (context menu with "Close" when right-clicking on tab, or middle-click on tab).
** Agreed - this would be useful. --[[User:Kenrob|Kenrob]] 04:14, 5 Oct 2007 (PDT)
** ++ to that. Seemed unnatural not to have a context menu on the tabs.--[[User:Doubi|Doubi]] 23:08, 18 Apr 2009 (UTC)
* Now with tabs and Save All it would just be the next logical step that (as an option) all the tabs would open when FreeMind starts, that were open when FreeMind was closed.
*Switching tabs takes 15-20 seconds. Especially slow after FreeMind has been minimized and computer has been suspended/hibernated. Version 0.9.0 Beta 18. --[[User:Emkeyen|Emkeyen]]

==Move Back and Move Forward==
There are now Move Back and Move Forward buttons in the Toolbar (also available in the Navigate menu and by using Alt-Left and Alt-Right). FreeMind stores a chronology of the selected nodes. Using Back and Forward you can navigate back and forth to those nodes - even if they are in an other opened map. --[[User:Terkor|Terkor]] 19:31, 26 Aug 2007 (PDT)

'''User Feedback'''
* Very Helpful!
* Could there be a way to get back to the latest selection by one click.
* How about a popup list of the previous and next selected nodes (like in IE or FF)?
* Useful when navigating in large maps--[[User:Fb5|Fb5]] 02:13, 15 Nov 2007 (PST)

==Export Filters==
Open Office Export now for the ODT format.

Besides the two export filters for TaskJuggler there are three new filters for exporting:

* As Java Appelt
* As Flash
* As TWiki --[[User:Terkor|Terkor]] 19:06, 27 Aug 2007 (PDT)

=== User feedback ===
* Embedded links on images and then exported to flash do not work.
** [http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-781058038619276488&q=freemind+dennis Video of Bug]
* HTML links and then exported to flash do not work either. Please see:
** http://www.efectokiwano.net/mm/
--[[User:VincentD|VincentD]] 02:30, 9 Nov 2006 (PST)
* Export to Flash does not support Rich Formatted nodes.
* When a map that contains a hyperlink is exported to HTML there is obviously an error in that exported hyperlink. --[[User:Terkor|Terkor]] 20:34, 2 Sep 2007 (PDT)
* In exporting to Flash, I have to enter URLs as <nowiki>http:www.yahoo.com</nowiki>, instead of <nowiki>http://www.yahoo.com</nowiki>, for the link to work.
* I'm using 0.9.0 beta 19, when exporting to flash, http links fail. I've watched the video and visited efectokiwano, still not working. Does the exported html require a special server build to serve the content?

--[[User:Berti|Berti]] 12:04, 13 Feb 2008 (PST)
* I tried an export to txt tab separated this worked in 0.8 fine if I rename the .mm to xml and try to view it I get an error it seems the html tags are going to break it. I also tested the xsl form this side Tabulator separated text ? FreeMind
http://freemind.sourceforge.net/wiki/index.php/Import_and_export_to_other_applications

=== Wishes concerning Export Filters ===
--[[User:AlexandreDC|AlexandreDC]] 08:47, 13 Mar 2008 (CET)
* It would be useful to indicate some XSLT templates to produce HTML exports: we could thus choose whether and how to display attributes for example.

--[[User:DRBusch]]
* To me, the most useful application of freemind is organizing complex documents (e.g. a thesis or book). To this end, I've modified the [http://sites.google.com/site/freemind2beamer/ freemind2beamer] script into [http://student.physics.upenn.edu/~drbusch/mm2thesis.xsl mm2thesis]. Unfortunately, I can't seem to figure out how to parse in the xsl document such that I can (for example) put a hard line break into the text of a node and use the second line as a label. For example, node=abcd\\labelabcd would be translated into \section{abcd}\label{sec:labelabcd}. Any thoughts? I haven't dug into the java mm to beamer conversion yet.

=General Bugs=
* Generating Output for a printer is almost impossible. On Ubuntu 7.10 printing does not work (nothing happens), PDF export does not work (Error popup with no content), SVG export does not work (Error popup with no content), PNG export does not work (nothing happens), JPG export does not work (nothing happens), (Jave and Flash export thus is working, but it's not printable in a browser). So I am limited to screenshots which are unreadable in larger mind maps. Preview is ok, by the way, but I would need a feature to resize the whole map to paper size.
* If I close the calendar not with "cancel" but by just closing the calendar window, I can't reopen the calendar. I have to restart FM to be able to open the Time Management dialog again. --[[User:Terkor|Terkor]] 06:27, 15 Dec 2007 (PST)
* I updated to java runtime enviroment 1.6 and was not able to save any mindmap any longer. Message was "Map ist write protected" --[[User:bebach|bebach]] 13 Nov 2007
* Sometimes I use freemind just as a simple extended clipbord. In openoffce 2.0 writer I get the message, the clipbord format does not exist. In thunderbird I always have to paste without format to see anything. It is painful. It seems to me that I was not able to switch freemind to the plain text option. I am looking again the documentation. --[[User:bebach|bebach]] 8 Nov 2007
* Using the PDF export feature results in an error message "null compatible with Global antialiasing enable key". That was no problem in Version 0.8
* I can't save a new mind map under MS Vista. Modify and save of an existing mind map works.
* After pasting a node at a new position, keystrokes get stuck. The moviment is possible only changing the focus with mouse. After changing the focus, keystrokes (up,down,left,right) works normally.--[[User:Leslie|Leslie]] 05:16, 17 Apr 2007 (PDT)
* Ok, the new version is very nice... but there is still the Problem with printing. Sometimes the print is to small or to great or a part is cut off. Its difficult to configure the printer for good mindmap printings--[[User:Bkmzde|Bkmzde]] 00:31, 16 Feb 2007 (PST)
* Bug ? : MindManager Import doesn't include "Html Notes" hooked to the nodes. In 0.8, the note is "translate" in a text note.
* The context-menu that appears when you right-click while editing a node does not work. (It only contains "Copy" - which does not work.) Perhaps adding "Cut", "Paste", "Split" (at cursor-position), "Edit Long Node..." (with the editor remembering the cursor position and if some text is already marked). And perhaps some formating: "Bold", "Italic", "Font...", "Paragraph..."
* Display error: Zoom is now (Beta 14) working perfectly, as far as I can see. Good work! --[[User:Terkor|Terkor]] 14:41, 21 Oct 2007 (PDT)
** OK, there is a little bug: use Format > Bubble. You will see that on most zoom levels text in the bubble is not centered correctly. On both sides of the map text is placed too much on the left side. --[[User:Terkor|Terkor]] 11:33, 22 Nov 2007 (PST)
* Display error: Edges don't connect properly to the root. With widths 4 or 8 the effect is very obvious, and if "Bezier" is chosen). --[[User:Terkor|Terkor]] 07:51, 11 May 2008 (PDT)
[[Image:Root.jpg]]
* File Locking appears buggy: When you open a file with File Locking enabled in Preferences, the first open generates the error that 'file locking' failed. Subsequently, all attempts to open a file result in 'File is already being edited by (Username). Opening as Read-Only.' FreeMind does not appear to be willing to release this lock, except by turning off Experimental File Locking and turning it back on, so the entire feature appears to be broken. Specs: Windows XP SP2 machine, .mm file is on local drive which is also shared.--[[User:Perholm|Perholm]] 22:43, 13 Sep 2007 (PDT)
* Auto-Save Confirmed Buggy: '''I WOULD SUGGEST THAT THIS BUG IS AN EMERGENCY, AS DATA-LOSS CAN/WILL HAPPEN IF THE FEATURE IS RELIED UPON'''. Auto-Save at present does not work properly and should not be relied upon. Bug analysis: It appears that the timer used to control auto-save is only activated once at program launch, and when the auto-save interval has passed the timer does not reset for another auto-save interval, but instead NEVER generates an event again. Test: Set auto-save to 20000 milliseconds. Open an existing MindMap, and make a change within 20 seconds. If you check the .freemind directory, a single auto-save will be generated after 20 seconds, and no further auto-saves will EVER happen. If you again open a MindMap, and DO NOT make a change within 20 seconds, no auto-save will ever happen of any changes including the initial change. I would therefore conclude that the timer used for the auto-save interval is being programmed incorrectly, and does not launch another auto-save interval.--[[User:Perholm|Perholm]] 22:56, 13 Sep 2007 (PDT)
* The JRE 1.6 update 2 bug from javaw.exe on using the function of Open/Save File, it will waitting more than 30 sec per times, The JRE 1.5 update 11 will be better. --[[User:Josepchangtw|Josepchangtw]] 16:55, 15 Nov 2007 (PDT)
* Certain actions, foremost among them the ''paste'' action, cause FreeMind (or perhaps just the editing area) to lose focus somehow, so that no further keyboard input has any effect, until you click in the editing area to restore the focus. This severely detracts from the keyboard-only usability of FreeMind.
** Please describe how to reproduce and see this behavior [[User:DimitriPolivaev|DimitriPolivaev]] 14:40, 18 Oct 2007 (PDT)
** After pasting ''a node'' that has been copied from Freemind, the keyboard has absolutely no effect (really! I even tried mashing it randomly) until you click the mouse in the window, or switch to another window and then back, or do something else that focuses the Freemind window. Pasting text or anything else works just fine; only pasting a copied node (or nodes) causes the problem -- to put it as clearly as possible, the problem only occurs when pasting ''from Freemind to Freemind itself''. Also, I should mention that this is not a problem in 0.8, only in 0.9.
** I have a very similar problem, under Ubuntu 7.10. It happens that: 1. whenever I paste something, I lose the ability to use the keyboard (all shortcuts), editing, entering text. 2. I can get keyboard back by switching to another window or virtual desktop, but after I repeat this (paste something) the third time, I lose keyboard for good until I close and re-open Freemind; 3. mouse works and I can save my map. Please note that for me it happens both with 0.8 and 0.9 branches, when running 0.9.x both with jre 5 and 6. [[User:Zecg|Zecg]]
** Same here on openSuSE 10.3, x86_64. It's hard to reproduce when it happens but I also suddenly use the ability to use keyboard. I've found no way to get keyboard back except closing and re-opening Freemind. Mouse input still works. Appears to be introduced in the 0.9.x branch regardless whether I use jre 5 or 6. It's a show stopper. Is there a way to record all keyboard/mouse input to help to track this down ? --[[User:Steve|Steve]]
** The March 3 build seems to have fixed this bug. If others can confirm this, you can probably delete this thread.
** Not confirmed. The problem is still in Beta 16, just re-tested. A few times it happened after pressing INS, type in something, CR, CR, type in something, CR and cut the nodes again with CTRL-X, CTRL-X or a similar sequence. --[[User:Steve|Steve]]
* Node dragging problem: <br> When dragging the small circle in front of a node and moving the node vertically to raise the distance to the upper or lower node, this behavior in FreeMind seems to have changed. <br>In previous versions, the node could only be dragged to the right, up or down, but not more to the left towards the parent node. There was kind of an invisible vertical border. You could not drag the node beyond this border towards the parent node. This border was excellent to keep all child nodes aligned while changing the nodes' distance. <br>Now this doesn't work any more. In the current version, this border seems to be gone unfortunately. When I change the vertical distance of one node to another node, I cannot keep the moved node in it's horizontal position any more. <br> (By the way, pressing <CTRL>-left-mouse-button on a node's drag-handle also changes the distance between nodes, but this functionality is not compareable, because it changes the distance of <u>all</u> child nodes in this column, not only of the selected one.)
** Solution could be double-click on the small circle: it appears to work very well.--[[User:Luciodp|Luciodp]] 05:32, 7 May 2008 (PDT)
* Node dragging problem 2: <br> FM 0.9 B15. I created a map with FM 0.8, then switched to 0.9. If I copy the contents of a MSWord table into a node, MM gets it formatted with HTML and displays the table perfectly. The problem arises when I move the node to another branch of the tree. The html content gets converted to ascii (e.g. <html> becomes &lt;html&gt;) and thus all the formatting is lost. --[[User:ScavType|ScavType]] 14:09, 04 Jan 2008 (PDT)
* Print Preview shows wrong view after selecting Fit to one page. Steps: create map that's more than one page wide with default page setup options. Edit page options to fit to one page. Choose Print Preview. Expect it to show one page. Instead, it showed the first page of two pages as if ignoring the "fit to one page" option. After clicking next page button, print preview then realized it should zoom to fit to one page. --[[User:JimK|JimK]]
* Hover text for Print icon on toolbar says "Print..." implying that a dialog box will open but instead it just starts a print job. Text should say "Print" or it should open dialog box. --[[User:JimK|JimK]]
* Opened a mind map created in 0.8.7. Looks good except that beta 17 put a cloud around the entire map---i.e., main node---that I can't remove, and all the child nodes on the right of the main node have been moved down far enough to be offscreen when view is centered on the main node. (One branch on the left side is fully expanded to four levels, so maybe that had something to do with it, but folding it back up makes no difference.) Tried to toggle off the cloud using the Insert main menu, the Insert shortcut menu, and with shift+ctl+b combo... no luck. This is my first try with 0.9 b17; and already I can't use it for existing maps. --[[User:foxcole|foxcole]] 13 May 2008 UPDATE: Ah... in beta 17 I can't add a cloud to the main node either, so that seems to be a property that's not natively available at the main level. I've no idea what's putting it there in the first place but now understand why I can't remove it.
* Open a mind map that saved on a network share with windows version of freemind, doesn't work. I got the following failure: An error occoured on opening the file: MindMap:\\mondsee\homes\ko\Eigene Dateien\Brainstorming\FTM\WLT-Event.mm. It's only while opening a file on a network-share - at my local desktop it works! --[[User:Osthoffinnovations|Osthoffinnovations]] 09:12, 30 May 2008 (PDT)
** The space in the path name "..\Eigene Dateien\.." plus double back slash "\\" causes this bug.
As a quick fix add to FreeMind.java on line 517 (after “// bug fix by Dan:”)
if (System.getProperty("os.name").startsWith("Windows XP") && url.toString().startsWith("file:////"))
command = "rundll32 shell32.dll,ShellExec_RunDLL \"" + url.toString().replaceAll("%20"," ").replaceAll("%25","%")+"\"";
* If I put a graphics in a node and use the HTML editor to try to scale it down .... "size=50%" or "width=120px" ... that has no effect. [[User:Anton|Anton]]
* Freemind uses .mm as its file extension, but on Ubuntu (and probably other Linux distributions), this is the same as "Troff MM input document," so the file manager misidentifies all Freemind maps as Troff documents. Perhaps use .mim (MInd Map) or .fmm (FreeMindMap) or something else as the extension?
* On 0.9.0 beta 20: If you select "save" for an unsaved document, but you cancel the action, a message box appears saying "Saving Failed", but it's just a cancel. [[User:snookiex|snookiex]] 11:35, 27 Oct 2008 (GMT-5)
* 0.9.0 beta 20: Create child node using keyboard shortcut (eg. Insert) then press same kb shortcut (or if you have a second keystroke generated thru keystroke bounce) the second child-child node is created as closed node, ie not ready for keystroke entry. Basically pressing the "create child node" should not create a new node if the same keystroke is seen before the node has been "closed". (0.9.0 beta 15 did not display this behaviour - not tested intermediate versions yet)
* 0.9.0 beta 20: Note icon sometimes disappears and hint fails to display. Moving node causes note icon to display and hint to become active again.

=General Comments=
* Feature disable request: Would be great to disable scroll with touch pad as on my MacBook Pro if I accidentally touch the touch pad it starts scrolling very slowely and freezes all functions until it has stopped.
* Feature request: Would be nice to have a Latex export for the mindmap. This especially helps structuring a bigger report without having to type everything in latex again. Nice would be if you could say till which level you want to have headlines (after that just enumerations / lists).
* Feature request: I'm thinking to add a "Rotate" node function. When a node is selected followed by a "Rotate" feature, the selected node and its child nodes will be rotated by 90 degree. This will form a flow chart. Thus, we can used FreeMind to build flow chart easily using its friendly interface.
* Feature request: Add a number "0" icon. The addition of numbers "8" and "9" in .9.0 Beta 18 are great, but "0" is all that's left to complete the set. This will allow users to use these icons in many ways other than just setting priority. For example, when using Freemind to take notes, if you have more than 9 items which would benefit from a graphical numerical identification, double (or more) digits could be used with great benefit. I may even suggest that a black icon with white text be used—black being a conceptually appropriate color for the number "0".
* Feature request: Add the possibility to add a description to a graphical link, or even attributes (would be perfect). I use Freemind to create Moore and Mealy state machines in XML. So adding a text or attributes to a graphical link would be a milestone to reduce the complexity of the drawings.
* Feature request: When you move mouse over a node text is displayed in popup cloud, but it dissapears after few seconds. I would like for it to stay. Also, It would be great to be able to focus that popup and edit (ok that's a hard one, but at least copy) the contest there right away. --[[User:Kova|Kova]] 06:49, 19 Jan 2008 (PST)
* Feature request: I would like an option for text view (bottom) and tree view (top) to show (expand) when you move mouse over them. Right now I have tree view maximized when I'm editing the tree, but when I want to write something in the nodes or have a look what is written I have to go down, resize the text view, write text / view the text and resize again. It would be great if it resizes to half for example if I just move my mouse down to bottom where text area is. In short, I need quickly switch between node edit (text) and tree edit (graphics). --[[User:Kova|Kova]] 06:49, 19 Jan 2008 (PST)
* How about a forum for this stuff? Wiki is great for a single document, but not for discussion or suggestions like this. --[[User:Kova|Kova]] 06:49, 19 Jan 2008 (PST)
* In the German translation the use of capitals is just a mess. (Sorry!) For example "Speichern Unter..." Why a capital "U"? --[[User:Terkor|Terkor]] 06:58, 15 Dec 2007 (PST)
* Since some changes in the properties of FM need a restart of the program in order to be seen, there should be a restart option after you changed settings or in the file-menu. --[[User:Terkor|Terkor]] 02:18, 19 Nov 2007 (PST)
* any idea how I can print or give out a mindmap WITH the notes I made to the nodes? I think I tried all export possibilities but could not find a way. --[[User:bebach|bebach]] 17 Nov 2007
* Since I communicate with others using html exports or java/ flash exports, I uploaded to the web, it would be wounderful to have an internal ftp client in freemind and have an export option "upload by FTP". --[[User:bebach|bebach]] 8 Nov 2007
* Missing Export feature: I love the XHTML-Export with includes Image of the mindmap. For many reasons it would be much more comfortable to have just the images with an imagemap, for example a link collection. It will save user one very painful klick an the looking for the right section in the html export. HTML-Export as an image map would be much better for some users since the are not used to the also very nice flash or java web exports. They are very good for experienced users. --[[User:bebach|bebach]] 8 Nov 2007
* Moving a branch from one side of the root to the other - the text and child branches should "flip" to enable this
** Um, they do! Drag the node onto the root node and drop when you can see the gradient appear - then you'll mirror the structure. Otherwise you're just repositioning the node. --[[User:Kenrob|Kenrob]] 04:34, 5 Oct 2007 (PDT)
* I believe the Calendar / Scheduler feature can offer great benefits if improved. I suggest a pop up will should come up when the reminder time arrives. Similar to MS Outlook, you should have options of delaying the reminder or canceling it. --[[User:Felipe|Felipe]] 13:33, 1 May 2007 (PDT)
* I love freemind and work with it a lot some hours a day! I am looking forward to the new version and I start testing from v0.9 beta 12 --[[User:bebach|bebach]] 24 Aug 2007
* Feature Request: Database views are a powerful feature. I wish something like this for freemind. The idea is to store all the data in some ordinary mindmaps whithout redundancy, and on the other side work on them with the help of several '''virtual mindmaps''', like views in database systems. The intention is to benefit from all the advantages of database views in freemind with a similar feature. To build the freemind views could xquery be used.--[[User:maxreeb|maxreeb]] 6 Sep 2007
* Feature Request: Lose Nodes. While FreeMind works great for information that is already relatively structured in your mind, it is VERY difficult to use when your information is very disorganised, like any kind of stream-of-consciousness type note-taking. In that scenario, the fact that FreeMind forces you with an iron hand to structure information before you're allowed to move on to the next idea, forces you to completely stop the creative process maybe 10 times a minute, which is why I tend to AVOID FreeMind and favor even just WordPad any time I'm creative, because FreeMind works against me by forcing me to be so structure right off the bat that it grinds the creative process to a halt. I truly feel that you need the ability to have what I would term 'Lose Nodes', which is notes that are simply floating on the page and detached from the tree. Of course the goal is to get them attached to the tree in an orderly fashion, but for the sake of picking your own brain, you actually need the ability to simply drop them on the page, and then drag-drop organize them later by binding them together into a tree. You would do the exact same on a physical desktop -- you would cut out little pieces of paper, which would initially just be floating around on the table, until they slowly become organized into a tree. The fact that people have done this for hundreds years, I think proves that this is a natural and intuitive workflow, one that FreeMind easily both could and should support. By the same token, if you realize that a tree is poorly structured, you would want to take it apart and re-assemble it in a new way. As part of that process, maybe 20 or 40 nodes would be temporarily lose, and a 'Lose Nodes' feature would allow you to simply drag the nodes lose from the tree, drop them in the white space, and then later attach them somewhere else. I think this would be extremely intuitive. And very lastly, in this mindset of being able to do in FreeMind what you are thinking, I think you need to support more than one root. Although the GOAL is of course a neatly structured tree with a single root, you again don't necessarily arrive there through clean path -- no, the path is messy and disorganized, and then order forms slowly. I feel I would be able to structure large and experimental concepts much more easily if you supported Lose Nodes and multiple roots. With multiple roots, you would be able to detach section of the tree into a new tree, work on them concurrently, until you realize that they're part of the same concept, and glue the trees back together. These two features together are what is preventing me from being truly productive with FreeMind from a discovery perspective. I have no doubt that FreeMind works like a charm for information that is already relatively organized, but for discovering new and original concepts, FreeMind forces a structure on the information that is not mature for. Rather, FreeMind helps your produce a graph of the end result, but doesn't fully help you get there. --[[User:Perholm|Perholm]] 16:23, 12 Sep 2007 (PDT)
** "Lose Nodes" or "Unattached Nodes" or "Additional Roots" are available in [http://www.mindjet.com/ MindJet's] Mindmap. They are a class of "floating" objects that include labels and graphics. I recall the implementation of this came in on of the service packs for X5. [http://www.mindjet.com/resources/tutorials/mindmanagerx5/default.aspx X5] also added things like callouts, markers, map parts, and storing the map as XML. Once again I would recommend looking at Mindjet's MindMap and if you are a Windows users trying the 30-day evaluation to get a feel for what is possible in both capabilities and interface. --[[User:Anton|Anton]] 18:05, 20 Jul 2008 (PDT)

** Understood the issue. What I do is setting "disable key type" off, and "key type adds new" on. So each time I am hitting "return" key and starting to type again, it is a new node automatically created. In fact it works then like "wordPad", a node being equivalent to a line. To keep my map "clean" all those new nodes are created under a node "to be cleaned" or even a new map. Then I do the assembling by moving nodes with the mouse, and this is all the power of freemind. Faster to reorganise information than any other tool I have ever tried. I like your expression "kind of stream-of-consciousness type note-taking". This is exactly my use (several hours/day for years) of Freemind which is my main/only data entry software, and it is the best tool I know for this. --[[User:Fb5|Fb5]] 03:57, 23 Oct 2007 (PDT)
** About the multi root discussion. The same result could be attained easily now with the tabbed windows. For large maps already difficult to see, multiroots would make them really messy. An improvement for your concern could be to have an option to view tabbed windows "side by side" ("arrange all" in Word from Windows).--[[User:Fb5|Fb5]] 04:15, 23 Oct 2007 (PDT)
* Feature Request: Rearranging Nodes. I'm wondering why, when you're rearranging the order of nodes on the same hierarchical level, why you're only allowed to move a node *before* another node by dropping things in the top half of the destination node. All the time, I need to move a node so it comes *after* another node, but you can't simply drop the node in the bottom half of the destination node to move it to come *after*. And by the same token, there's NO way to move a node to be the last one without dropping it in the right-side of the *parent* node. This is frustrating, really frustrating, and there's no real logic to it... who made the decision that you can only move nodes *before* other nodes, but not *after*? Why did you decide to make it like this and not the other way around. And why is the only way you can get a node to the bottom of a list, to drag and drop onto the right side of the *parent* node. I run into this probably 20 or 30 times an hour, and the current design seems arbitrarily selected. You should be able to move nodes both *before* and *after* each other by dragging and dropping them into the top or bottom half of the destination node. I feel that nothing else is consistent and makes sense. Sorry for my rant, I just feel that there are some things that don't follow GUI 101. --[[User:Perholm|Perholm]] 14:00, 13 Sep 2007 (PDT)
** A simple workaround is to drag to the ''second-last'' position, i.e. the top ½ of the lowest node. When you have everything else repositioned, drag the lowest node to it rightful place. --[[User:Kenrob|Kenrob]] 04:25, 5 Oct 2007 (PDT)
*** I think this is unacceptable as a solution. Workaround, yes. Solution, no. --[[User:Perholm|Perholm]] 14:12, 10 Oct 2007 (PDT)
* Feature Request: Copy/Paste Paragraphs. I'm an author trying to use FreeMind to structure a large literary project, and it would be incredibly helpful if FreeMind had the following functionality: If you grab some text from Word (which might consist of for example 10 paragraphs), it would be incredibly helpful to get each of these paragraphs as individual child-nodes. The reason is that we're using FreeMind to organize a book-type project, of which some has already been written, and we need to get each paragraph of a chapter into a separate child-node in FreeMind so we can rearrange the blocks the FreeMind way, which by the way works fantastically. But at the moment, we can't find any other way than to copy/paste each single (friggin) paragraph individually. And the same goes for when you're trying to get something back into Word; it would be great to be able to simply select a branch, and get it copy/pasted into word as a simple top-to-bottom text copy where each child-node is an individual paragraph. That way you can use FreeMind to organize a literary project, knowing that the project ultimately has to end up in Word, but FreeMind is far superior for organizing and structuring the information. Perhaps consider a 'Paste Menu' like Word has, which asks you how exactly you want to paste, i.e. 'Keep Formatting' or 'Text Only' -- a similar menu in FreeMind could ask if you want to turn individual paragraphs into nodes, or if you want to paste the whole text as a single node. This would be REALLY helpful to organize literary projects. This would also allow you to much more easily use FreeMind to edit something that is initially written as stream-of-consciousness, i.e. any brainstorm. Such a brainstorm would likely simply consist of lines upon lines (or paragraphs upon paragraphs) of disorganized ideas written into Word or a text-editor. When you bring this into FreeMind, you ought to be able to turn each 'idea' (i.e. Paragraph) into a separate node. Right now, I can find no other way than to copy/paste each line individually, which is enormously labor-intensive. UPDATE: OK, FreeMind already has this feature, but it doesn't always work, because if you're pasting from Word, the text coming in is interpreted as Rich Text, and put into a single child node. If you want the behavior I describe, you have to first copy the text in Word, paste the text into Notepad (not Wordpad), copy it from Notepad, and paste it into FreeMind. I think there should be the ability to interpret text coming from Word as 'text-only' and not automatically bring in the formatting. In the case of a literary project, the formatting is only interesting in Word... in FreeMind you only want to edit the text, the formatting is irrelevant in a FreeMind context.--[[User:Perholm|Perholm]] 23:11, 13 Sep 2007 (PDT)
** '''You can use Edit->Split Node after inserting a formatted paragraph into the node. It splits the node in single paragraphs.''' [[User:DimitriPolivaev|DimitriPolivaev]] 14:19, 17 Sep 2007 (PDT)
** Using the Edit->Split Node is very time consuming for a large number of branches. <s>Why can't we retain the behaviour of Freemind 0.8.0? It seems that a tool to organise thoughts should work at the lowest level of granularity not create huge "blobs" of text. When I reorganise my ideas by pasting paragraphs from a document in 0.8.0, each paragraph in the document beocomes a separate branch. I can then drag and drop branches to reorganise my ideas. This issue is so important to me that it will be a show-stopper for 0.9.0 as far as I am concerned!</s> --[[User:Phil31753|Phil31753]] 07:35, 9 Apr 2009 (UTC) Tool->Split Node achieves what I (and others in this section) require.--[[User:Phil31753|Phil31753]] 10:05, 9 Apr 2009 (UTC)
** That's interesting discussion. When I copy from word to freemind, each paragraph is copied as an individual node and that is what I expect and what You would like. Maybe your freemind settings are different than mine ?--[[User:Fb5|Fb5]] 04:05, 23 Oct 2007 (PDT)
** It is now I met the issue You described Perholm. This is when copying form WEB BROWSER to FREEMIND. The copy keeps the html formating and keeps it in one node. This is a real annoyance for me too and that would stop me to move from 0.8 Version. Is it possible to have a "Paste Special" or '''"Paste as text"''' menu which also split paragraph as nodes, please Dimitri ? One advantage of the html copy would be for tables, which doesn't work in 0.8. Thank You. Franck --[[User:Fb5|Fb5]] 03:46, 6 Dec 2007 (PST)
* SIMPLICITY , SPEED and RELIABILITY : Those must be the main strengths of Freemind. I am using Freemind as my main computer interface for data entry for three years, ending with large maps (several 10s of thousands nodes). I have tried many other softwares and my conclusion, there is simply no equivalence on the market. It would be a shame to slow the program or the user-interface because adding new features. So, my expectation is to have user-options for enabling or not those features (attributes and Wysiwig). Thank You so much for the great work. Franck --[[User:Fb5|Fb5]] 20:03, 2 Oct 2007 (PDT)
** I want to second that: my maps are not nearly as big as Franck's but for me simplicity and reliability (as already provided by 0.8.0) are most important, too. Please try to keep focus on the simple things instead of adding too many features.--[[User:Christofb|Christofb]] 12:27, 30 Oct 2007 (PDT)
** Absolutely right. It is wonderful that new features are being added, but it is ESSENTIAL that Freemind is able to run QUICKLY on any computer, or it won't be useful. --[[User:Loydog|Loydog]] 2:44, 8 Nov 2007 (PDT)
** I absolutely agree to that. I'm a freemind user for years now and though I'm looking forward to see new features in freemind I always loved the fast and easy way to create maps on every occasion. So maybe if there are resource consuming new features they could be inserted as plugins or sth. like that so users are able to decide wether they will activate a feature or not--lpdubel 02:06, 14 Nov 2007 (PST)
* Attachments (Multiple): It is necessary to be able to add multiple attachments to a single node. For example, one node may have an attached pdf doc, word doc, excel sheet, and other mindmap. [[User:kberardinelli|kberardinelli]] 09:17, 26 Oct 2007 (EDT)
** What I do is to create subnodes (even without any text) and assign an attachement to each of them. --[[User:Fb5|Fb5]] 02:26, 15 Nov 2007 (PST)
* Attachments (Deletion): Currently, there seems to be no way to delete an attachment. This needs to be very easy to do (perhaps by right-clicking and selecting 'Delete Attachment'. [[User:kberardinelli|kberardinelli]] 09:17, 26 Oct 2007 (EDT)
* Feature Request: Especially when using freemind on a beamer I would like to have a fullscreen mode ie without window decorations etc. Just the canvas, even without menu bar or status bar. -- [[User:barney|barney]] 13:52, 29 Oct 2007 (MEZ)
** I would love to see that too. Think about using it in a classroom for a brainstorming on the beamer. --[[User:Christofb|Christofb]] 12:27, 30 Oct 2007 (PDT)
** Agree, for uncluttering and focusing on one task. -- [[User:Vibrog|Vibrog]] 10:43, 17 Nov 2008 (UTC)
** Agree with you at all! I would like to use freemind for presentation on technical presentation. --[[User:Dinny|dinny]]
* Feedback: In Beta 13 (the one before 14), I could remove the note area from the view and use ctrl-< to activate the note area, make it visible again, and type ahead. This still works in Beta 14. When done, I could use ctrl-< again to focus the mind map node again and the note area vanishes again. In Beta 14 the note area stays visible and I need to ctrl-<, ctrl-> to move out and hide the area. The behaviour in Beta 13 was much easier to work with. -- [[User:barney|barney]] 13:52, 29 Oct 2007 (MEZ)
* Feature request: IMO it would be very useful to be able to add some metadata to a freemind map as a whole like titel, description, author, keywords --lpdubel 02:06, 14 Nov 2007 (PST)

* Feature request: I would like very much to have a better method for transclusion. Compendium allows reuse of nodes across multiple views (whether maps or lists) and automatically handles updates from any instance to all appearances across a range of maps. Compendium even places a subscript counting the number of transclusions for a node! Can one hack this up through per node addressing in FreeMind? Would that handle automatic updates? I suspect a database back-end for nodes makes more sense. I want to construct constructing Maps through addition across a collection of nodes (again, like Compendium) instead of filtering maps by subtraction across a single map's nodes. As a first approximation to this, I'd like to save Filters independently of maps. --[[User:Jay Dugger|Jay_Dugger]], 2217 Sunday, 2 December 2007

*Feature request: Ship it! (sorry, but it would be nice to have a released version that works with the lattest java version), and well, it's been 2 and a half years... [[User:Tomh|Tomh]] 05:09, 10 Jan 2008 (PST)

*Feature request: I really miss a strike-through along bold and italic, with a keyboard shortcut. Cheers.

* Feature request: Nothing big, I just wanted to ask weather its possible to bind the structure to too points again (left right) from the rootnode like it was it 0.8 and that change this when you want. Because its much esear to start a structured mindmap using only the keys... Also I liked to have two sides to divide the thoughts when speaking about pro and contra. It Would be Great if it was possible to ad this as an Option to the root-point. (Inculding the move navigation with strg that could move one node all around the root) Thank you! --[[User:X-Site|X-Site]] 16:29, 9 Mar 2008 (PDT)

* Feature lost? In 8.0 version when you copy nodes and paste in MSWord you immediately create a "structure", that is a hyerarchic level: very useful if you want to adjust titles or paragraphs in preliminary notes, or import them in Power Point slides etc. I'm a teacher and use Freemind with students for brainstorming, organize ideas and create texts or presentations from preliminary notes. Now in 9.0 version this feature seems to be lost. Why? Do tou know any solution? Many thanks for your work.--[[User:Luciodp|Luciodp]] 05:24, 7 May 2008 (PDT)

* Try Tools->Split Node --[[User:Phil31753|Phil31753]] 10:05, 9 Apr 2009 (UTC)

*Feature request: I would like to be able to apply a cloud to a parent node but not necessarily its children; or maybe to only some selected children... similar to how a network or gateway is depicted in a flowchart. [[User:foxcole|foxcole]] 13 May 2008 UPDATE: Perhaps a more accurate request is to be able to choose from a limited set basic shapes to apply to a node or set of siblings but not children.

* When I export my map to a text based format (i. e. HTML), FM starts with the right side and then continues the left side. For me it is not intuitive I start my maps on the left side - as I would read a newspaper or magazine. I guess it is not difficult to allow the user to choose if FM should start with the left or the right side. --[[User:Terkor|Terkor]] 16:28, 13 May 2008 (PDT)

* Feedback: Thanks for all your hard work, absolutely amazing product. --[[User:RazielJaTier|RazielJaTier]] 15:23, 20 May 2008 (PDT)

* Changed Functionality: In 0.8 I could hover over a node to select it, hold down ctrl, which would effectively prevent other nodes from being selected. Then move my mouse all the way across the map (again without worry about another node being selected), then click on an icon *with the ctrl key held down*. The icon would be assigned. In 0.9 you have to release ctrl before you click the icon, otherwise it will simply ignore it. This is a simple little detail, and I'm sure I'll get used to it, but if it's not difficult, and you don't have other plans for ctrl clicking icons, I'd love the 0.8 behavior back. --[[User:RazielJaTier|RazielJaTier]] 15:23, 20 May 2008 (PDT)

* Suggestion: Create localized version of linked data. When you use alt+L to create a link to another part of the map, it would be nice if you had an option to actually create "ghost" versions of that data instead of having to click in the link. If you edited the ghost version, or the original, they would stay in sync. --[[User:RazielJaTier|RazielJaTier]] 15:23, 20 May 2008 (PDT)

* Suggestion: It would be neat to be able to with single click generate the framework of a thinking tool. When I say thinking tool I am thinking mostly of the thinking tools created by Edward de Bono such as his Six Hats, CoRT and many others. See http://www.edwdebono.com/ and http://www.edwarddebono.com/ for more info. An example would be right clinking on "Six Hats" and from your current node it would create six child nodes: White Hat, Red Hat, Yellow Hat, Black Hat, Green Hat and Blue Hat. For each of these child nodes an empty blank node would be created as well. Lastly your cursor would move to the blank node under White Hat and then you can start typing. Such functionality might be created with Groovy script but most would not want the difficulty of programming Groovy script. It is also possible to cut and paste a section of a mind map but that is more cumbersome than a single click. --[[User:Mars729|Mars729]] 17:59, 31 May 2008 (EDT)
** A library of templates would be a great contribution. --[[User:Anton|Anton]] 17:52, 20 Jul 2008 (PDT)

* Suggestion: When working with images it would be nice to be able to paste or drop an image to a node. --[[User:trinxie|trinxie]]

* Suggestion: When adding an image link, if it is a file, should it be possible to store the relative path? Would be great if the whole model is distributed to someone else. Maybe this possibility already exists. --[[User:trinxie|trinxie]]

* If I install Freemind using aptitude in Ubuntu 8.10, I have the /usr/share/pixmaps/FreeMindWindowIcon.xpm to use in my panel, but as the available version in Ubuntu is 0.7.1 and I have some MMs created with later versions, I decided to try the 0.9 RC1, and downloaded it (freemind-bin-max-0.9.0_RC_1.zip). For my surprise, there is no icon to use in this zip. Please include one, or maybe more than one (see http://www.menyhart.net/blog/software/freemind-icon/). --[[User:Itamar|Itamar]] 12:33, 9 Feb 2009 (UTC)

* '''''Observation:''''' Many of these suggestions and feature requests are or are similar to ones that exist in [http://www.mindjet.com/ Mindjet's] MindMap. It used to be that this leader had a great advantage in that it supported scripts. Now that FreeMind has Groovy it is catching up. All we need is the library of neat applications that use the scripting language''!'' I was a keen user of MM2002 and looked forward to MM-X5 and its shift to XML, but the real shift was for the benefit of people ho were programmers, not the baseline users. Unless you were a EmbeddedVisualBasic programmer the change was a setback. The library of HTML export templates was lost - Mindjet's response was "its all XML so you can write your own XSLT. Well some of us can't or don't have the time. The other killer for me was that Mindjet tied in too closely with Microsoft Office. It couldn't export to anything else. So in reality one had to spend hundred of dollars more for each upgrade of MindMap since it always needed the latest version of Office. ''However'' I would recommend looking at Mindjet's MindMap and if you are a Windows users trying the 30-day evaluation to get a feel for what is possible in both capabilities and interface. --[[User:Anton|Anton]] 17:52, 20 Jul 2008 (PDT)

* When you enter note-data for quite a number of nodes the map is so full with the note-icon. I would appreciate an option in the preferences as for the attribute icon, that disables showing an icon. (Tools>Preferences>Appearance>Show icon for attributes) --[[User:Kai|Kai]] 21:59, 20 Mar 2009 (CET)

* Feature request: automatically calculating the print zoom factor according to a user-defined number of mosaiced printed pages. E.g., user should be able to specify he wants the map printed on N x M pages (M pages across and N pages high) and the print zoom factor should be calculated automatically. That would reduce the need to compute the best print zoom factor by trial-and-error. --[[User:Arg0|arg0]] 09:29, 24 Apr 2009 (UTC)

* Feature request: settings for customising arrow links (e.g., ability to specify that links start from the root part of a node rather than from the leaf part). Moreover, it can be really tricky to rearrange the shape of an arrow link, especially short ones, since all parameters (starting point, tangency) are changed simultaneously when dragging a link point. Fine editing should be implemented. --[[User:Arg0|arg0]] 09:29, 24 Apr 2009 (UTC)

* GENERAL OPEN SOURCE FEEDBACK LOOPS WITH FREEMIND, would it not be helpful if feedback loops were integrated into the beta versions, so that one can write requests for enhancements as one is using Freemind or other open source proejcts. For example, for each function there could be a questionnaire and comment box next to it. This info could then be uploaded to a wiki. It may help organize the locations of info and spur more user involvement in the feedback process. Could it also be possible that the uses of the porgramme are logged and statistically analyzed by the developers?