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Anyone else enjoying Freeplane?
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Posted by JJSlote
Sep 6, 2010 at 05:26 PM
Freeplane is an offshoot of FreeMind after some disagreement among the developers about the direction of that mindmap project. The Freeplane group modularized the codebase to ease development; they’re now at stable release 1.12 with a 1.2.x preview while FreeMind has been at 0.8.1 since 2/27/08, with an 0.9 RC.
Improvements include a spell-checker and an efficient single-pane outliner view. And many others, with new production releases each month since June.
http://sourceforge.net/projects/freeplane/
http://www.freeplane.org
Jerome S.
Posted by Alexander Deliyannis
Sep 6, 2010 at 07:50 PM
I started trying it out recently, within the frame of a critical evaluation of mind mapping software, which I am using more and more in my work. I would recommend it to anyone who wants to try their hand in mindmapping.
Among others, the fact that it can import Mind Manager files (as Freemind can) means that one can play around with countless ready made files available from http://mindmappingsoftwareblog.com and elsewhere.
Freeplane seems indeed as excellent an alternative to commercial mind mapping applications, as Open Office is for Microsoft Office.
Posted by Stephen Zeoli
Sep 6, 2010 at 10:31 PM
I have Freeplane loaded on my Mac, but when I’ve tried to install and run it on my PC at work, nothing happens. That is, it seems to install okay. There is an icon on the desktop, but when I double click this nothing happens. I suspect it has something to do with Java—although I run PersonalBrain on my PC just fine. Anyone have any thoughts about why that might be happening, and how I might correct it? BTW, I run Windows XP.
Thanks.
Steve
Posted by JJSlote
Sep 6, 2010 at 10:58 PM
Stephen Zeoli wrote:
> I suspect it has something to do
>with Java—although I run PersonalBrain on my PC just fine. Anyone have any thoughts about why that might be >happening, and how I might correct it?
First thing is to check your Java install in the XP Control Panel, where you can see if it’s up-to-date; presently Version 6 Update 21. Or obtain the same information in your browser at Java.com .
Jerome S.
Posted by Stephen Zeoli
Sep 7, 2010 at 01:02 PM
JJSlote wrote:
>First thing is to check your Java install in
>the XP Control Panel, where you can see if it’s up-to-date; presently Version 6 Update
>21. Or obtain the same information in your browser at Java.com .
Jerome,
No luck. According to the Java control panel, I’m running the latest version. I tried re-installing Freeplane, but get the same result—it seems to install fine, but nothing happens when I try to run it. Clearly there is some issue with Java, but—as I mentioned above—PersonalBrain works fine. Any other suggestions?
Thank you.
Steve