Freemind website, and Linux outliners

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Outliners.com Message ID: 3129

Posted by jlarue
2005-04-11 22:32:05

I spent an interesting weekend mucking about with Freemind as a foundation for a website design. While Freemind itself isn’t a terrific writing tool (although it wasn’t as bad as I feared, because you can use an “edit long node” text window), it exports to HTML that has “folding.” In short, it produces a web outline. I had to combine it with Nvu to get it all to work to my liking.

But I think it’s a reasonably clean result. I also posted, today, some summaries of outlining in the Linux world.

To get to it:

1. Go to http://www.jlarue.com

2. Select Blog

3. Expand April 11, 2005

4. Expand “Outliners and Linux”

Using Freemind, I have not yet figured out a way to give an URL to just that link. http://www.jlarue.com/Blog.mm.html will get you to the Blog, though.

Updating the blog, which is a separate Freemind file, isn’t too bad. You edit the Freemind file, save, export (Ctrl-E, which seems instantaneous), then use a file transfer utility to copy it onto the website. Not quite as easy as “publish,” but doable.

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