From the webpage:
FreeMind is a premier free mind-mapping software written in Java. The recent development has hopefully turned it into high productivity tool. We are proud that the operation and navigation of FreeMind is faster than that of MindManager because of one-click "fold / unfold" and "follow link" operations.
So you want to write a completely new metaphysics? Why don’t you use FreeMind? You have a tool at hand that remarkably resembles the tray slips of Robert Pirsig, described in his sequel to Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance called Lila. Do you want to refactor your essays in a similar way you would refactor software? Or do you want to keep personal knowledge base, which is easy to manage? Why don’t you try FreeMind? Do you want to prioritize, know where you are, where you’ve been and where you are heading, as Stephen Covey would advise you? Have you tried FreeMind to keep track of all the things that are needed for that?
While looking at the export options I remembered (from Neo4j):
If you can sketch, you can use a graph database.
So, shouldn’t I be able to export a FreeMind map into a graph format for Neo4j?
An easy introduction to graph databases and FreeMind as well.
A win-win situation.
Patrick,
Slightly offtopic:
I’d like to mention Docear (pronounced “dog-ear”; http://www.docear.org ), based on FreePlane (http://freeplane.sourceforge.net/wiki/index.php/Main_Page), itself a fork of FreeMind.
Docear handles bibliography (a la JabRef) and PDFs in an integrated manner. As a researcher and academic, I find it very useful.
Comment by CapnKirk — February 23, 2013 @ 2:31 pm
Kirk, thanks! I had to edit your comment to move the closing paren. For some reason WordPress made it part of the URL and would not connect to the site. ?
The only import/export that I see in the user manual is for LibreOffice. Can you confirm that reading?
Comment by Patrick Durusau — February 26, 2013 @ 2:40 pm