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Mind mapping with Freeplane

Mind mapping with Freeplane

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Mind mapping with Freeplane

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- [Malcolm] Freeplane is a Java-based, open-source mind-mapping tool enabling both text and images to be composed into a mind map. It can be downloaded from SourceForge at the site shown here. I've downloaded the Freeplane zip file, so let's extract it. Unzip Downloads/freeplane_bin-1.12.6.zip and we'll mv freeplane* freeplane, just for convenience, and cd freeplane. Before we start Freeplane, we need to set an environment variable so that we can use the latest version of Java. So we'll export FREEPLANE_USE_UNSUPPORTED_JAVA_VERSION=1. Correct that spelling mistake. And we can now start up Freeplane with ./freeplane.sh. Okay, we're now running, and we can start up a new mind map using the standard template. Let's take a moment to get familiar with the basics of creating a mind map. On the top ribbon, we can set the font and point size for the screen items we'll be using, as well as the text alignment and emphasis. We won't be using a cloud graphic, but there's one there if we need it…

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