FreeMind
SourceForge Project of the Month - February 2006
Description:
FreeMind is mind-mapping software, or a tree editor. With it, you can create foldable trees of plain text notes, enriched with colors, icons, cloud-shapes, and other graphics. Folding and breadth-width search make it valuable as a knowledge base tool. It can be almost fully controlled by keyboard.
What is the software's intended audience?
FreeMind, and mind-mapping in general, is useful to organize your mind. It helps to bring structure to a huge variety of problems, such as planning documents, presentations, projects, discussing with people, and keeping track of to-dos. Classified by occupation, FreeMind may be valuable for information workers such as software engineers, managers, and entrepreneurs, and authors of books. But regardless of occupation, it may be valuable for all people who want to manage themselves systematically and take advantage of the scientific method and write-everything-down approach in their daily lives.
What are a couple of notable examples of how people are using your software?
People use FreeMind for note taking, knowledge base creation, brainstorming, collecting information on a given topic, and project management. Once, I received a funny example of a map that described the Metro of Paris. But normally, people organize their own things and thus have very private maps.
• Current Version: FreeMind 0.8.0
• Development Status: 5 - Production/Stable
• Intended Audience: End users/desktop
• License: GNU General Public License (GPL)
• Operating System: OS-independent (written in an interpreted language)
• Programming Language: Java
• Topic: Graphics, to-do lists, visualization
• Translations: English, French, German
• User Interface: Win32 (Microsoft Windows), X Window System (X11)
• Date founded/started: 2000-06-18
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