This documentation is unlike a linear text.
Hover over nodes to reveal its content.
Click nodes to unfold.
Click the link to open a mind map with the main functions of Freeplane. Hover the text to reveal hidden links to the descriptions of the functions you see in this Quick reference and in Help > Documentation.
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Click the link to open a mind map with the main applications of Freeplane. An Internet connection is needed to follow the links in the index.
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This User guide contains basic information
to understanding and using Freeplane. If
node Quick start is displayed, continue
there. Otherwise click me to unfold.
The goal of this documentation is:
This documentation is not a tutorial.
This documentation is not a course in mind mapping.
This documentation is additional to the Quick reference of Freeplane, see Freeplane's main menu Help > Getting started. Click the red arrow for an introduction to mind mapping and a tutorial Freeplane on Internet.
This documentation is unlike a classical linear presentation of information. It is set up as a source of information which can be used in a way wich is most appropriate for a particular user and situation.
The right hand side of this mind map (node Reference) describes the Freeplane menu's and functionality. You could navigate the Reference to find your information by clicking and hovering nodes. This is easy, you are doing this right now. You can also use finding or filtering to get information. This is more powerful but supposes some experience.
If you are prepared to use filtering, node Chapter contains a number of node collections which may help you to digest the huge amount of information of the Reference. You can go through the information displayed by each chapter in your own way and order. The chapters are numbered and organized from simple to more advanced.
Node Install describes loading and installing Freeplane and tuning it to your wishes. Node Macintosh describes how to use FP on a Macinitosh, because Macintosh uses a slightly different user interface. Node This documentation describes the principles and techniques underlying this mind map , it gives you an example of how to design and build a complex mind map like this one. It may also help you to still better find information. Node FAQ contains some frequently asked questions. More answers are to be found in the reference. It also contains some known bugs which may bother you.
To help you orient in this documentation and find information
more easily, different types of content are displayed by
different styles. Click me to see these styles.
All definitions can be regognised by this style.
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A method is a Freeplane action as in a menu item.
An optional value is a value that can be selected in a menu dialog.
A procedure is a description of how methods can be used to realize a particular effect.
An exception is behaviour which may be unexpected.
Information to note attracts attention to relevant related behaviour.
Information with this style gives more background or more details.
Information with this style describes an example.
To indicate that a node has been modified.
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Information with this style represents a menu in the Main toolbar.
Information with this style summarizes a group of related methods.
Basically, a mind map consists of nodes
and relations between nodes. A node
has features and properties.
Click me to read more.
A node is the point in the map which carries the information.
It is the basic unit information and usually includes text and
images. The text you are currently reading has been entered
into this node.
The root node is the central node in the hierarchy from which all others flow. It.is the oval that is present by default at the centre of Freeplane workspace. It cannot be deleted, nor can there be more than one root.
Parent node is the name of a node that precedes another node in the hierarchy.
A child node is a node that proceeds another node (its parent) in the hierarchy.
A sibling is a node at the same hierarchical level as a particular other node. Thus if you insert a node, and then another one underneath, you have created a sibling.
These family terms can be extended to represent the respective relationship, such as grandparent, grandchild, uncle and so on. Note that the designated terms are relative, thus a node is a child to its parent and a parent to its child and so on.
Freeplane can represent several kinds of relations. Edges are logical relations representing a hierarchy. Connectors are user defined conceptual relations. Other types of relations are summary nodes and clouds. These are described later.
An edge is the visual representation of the tree structure. It is the line you see underneath and between the nodes, This line can be hidden.
Characteristics of an egde are:
A branch isa group of nodes consisting of a node and all its descendents. A main branch is a branch which starts at the child of the root node.
To branch means to tear off the nodes of a branch and export it to another map.
A connector is a graphical link that allows for connections outside of the main tree hierarchy. It is an arrow or line between two arbitrary nodes expressing an implicit, user defined meaning. This meaning may be made explicit with a label
A cloud is a visual wrapper for a group of nodes which are part of a branch. The group is an attribute of a node and contains this node and all of its descendants.
A summary node is a graphical structure representing a user defined group of siblings. The first and last element of the group are indicated by the end point of an accollade. The central point of the group points to a node, the actual summary node, which contains information about the group.
Node features are additional features that can be added to a basic node.
Examples are notes, attributes, hyperlinks and images.
Node properties are (mostly visible) aspects of nodes, relations and node features. Examples are the color and size of text.
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Guide for learning the Freeplane menu´s
To view the following chapters, apply filter rule
When filtering, check filer conditions:
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Use filtering to show all nodes for getting started. For this, define and filter (Chapter,Contains,1):
1. In the first thee fields of the filter menu bar select/enter:
2. Check filter conditions:
3. Press Esc followed by Alt + Enter to make visible all nodes
4. Select short cut icon Quick filter to make appear all nodes of Chapter 1
5 Move the cursor in turn over every node to make it show its content. Read the content.
When finished:
6. Select short cut icon No Filtering
See the nodes to the left for the complete procedure and the icon-buttons that can be used.
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Use filtering to show all nodes. For this, define and filter (Chapter,Contains,2):
1. In the first thee fields of the filter menu bar select/enter:
2. See the procedure of Chapter 1. My first mind map
To see the nodes of this chapter, filter (Chapter,Contains,3).
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To see the nodes of this chapter, filter (Chapter,Contains,4).
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To see the nodes of this chapter, filter (Chapter,Contains,5).
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Example
To show all and only all definitions:
Check if the icon-buttons shown to the left are all unpressed, or Press to unpress.
Example
To view all nodes concerning filtering, define and apply a filter in the following way:
1 Set the filter rule by selecting in the Filter Tool bar:
2. Select Esc followed by Alt + End and press Quick filter.
Now all nodes are showing which are related to filtering. Also No Filter is unset.
3. When you are finished reading the nodes
Check if the icon-buttons shown to the left are all unpressed, or Press to unpress.
On the Freeplane wiki separe support pages exist for different operating systems.
To install Freeplane on Microsoft Windows, install Java from Sun and install Freeplane using the Freeplane installer.
Most of the times this is done automatically when downloading Freeplane form the Freeplane home page.
Most of the times this is done automatically when downloading Freeplane form the Freeplane home page.
To install Freeplane on Linux, download the Java Runtime Environment and the Freeplane application itself. First install Java, then unpack Freeplane. To run Freeplane, execute freeplane.sh.
To install Freeplane on Mac OS X first use the built in Software Update feature to ensure that you have all the latest available updates, especially Java. Software Update is located under the Apple logo menu in the top left-hand corner of the screen. Then download a Mac-specific version of Freeplane. The .dmg version is easiest to install, though a .zip version may also be available. When the download is complete, the file may be automatically mounted (or un-zipped) depending on your Web browser settings. Otherwise either double-click on the downloaded .dmg file to "mount" it, or double-click on the downloaded .zip file to un-zip it. Now you should see a Freeplane application icon, which you can drag to your Applications folder. Then you may optionally create an alias (short-cut) on the Desktop, and/or on the Dock. To run Freeplane, either double-click on its application icon (in the Applications folder) or on its Desktop short-cut, or click once on its icon in the Dock. The Freeplane Wiki has Macintosh page with more information.
Wiki Download help
To set preferences
To change the language used in Freeplane menu's:
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Spell check is pre-installed for English. For other languages, click the hyperlink. Download language_XX.ortho, in which XX is a two lettercode fo the language. Save this file in Tools > Open user directory > recources/ortho
Particular preferences of Freeplane are installable and kept in the Freeplane user directory (see Tools->Open user directory). An add-on is a package of some or all of these features, which can be installed at once.Read more...
Freeplane creates a subfolder named .backup in each folder which contains edited maps. Old map versions are saved there, along with automatically-saved copies of edited maps. These copies are named with the file extension ".autosave".
By default, an automatic save happens every minute, and the last 10 autosave files are kept as protection against accidental termination of Freeplane, e.g. on computer shutdown.
To restore an automatically-saved file, you must manually rename it to remove the ".autosave" extension and the preceding sequence number. By default, sequence numbers range from 1 to 10. For instance, to restore "freeplane.mm" from the most recent autosave file, rename (or copy) ".backup\freeplane.mm.10.autosave" to "freeplane.mm".
Automatic save and backup can be adjusted to your needs via Tools > Preferences > Environment > Automatic Save.
To add the content of mind maps to the Windows 7 filtering mechanism:
Note
All system icons can be replaced by personalized items.
In de freeplane directory,
Now open in Freeplane menu Tools > Open user directory
Resart Freeplane. The new system icon should be shown in stead of the old.
Freeplane recently added full support for Apple's Mac OS X operating system. Some of the documentation is still oriented toward PC users running Windows or Linux. Mac users will be able to follow along by keeping some differences in mind, listed below.
When Freeplane runs under Mac OS X, you generally will use the Apple Command key rather than the "control" key, which is labelled Ctrl on a PC. The Command key is marked with a cloverleaf ⌘ symbol, and may also be captioned as "command" or "cmd", or be marked with an Apple logo.
When you see the Ctrl key mentioned in Freeplane's documentation, in most cases you should use the Command key instead.
In a very few cases, even on your Mac, Freeplane actually requires using the "control" key rather than the Command key. In these cases, this document refers to the key explicitly as Control, for emphasis. In other cases, if the documentation refers to the Ctrl key, yet the Command key fails to work as a substitute on your Mac, try the "control" key instead.
Many Apple-branded mice and trackpads have only one click-able "button." To bring up a context-sensitive menu (or "context menu"), Mac users can hold down the Control key while clicking the mouse (abbreviated as "Control + click"). Yes, use the Control key here, rather than the Command key, because this function is built into Mac OS X so Freeplane cannot change it. Apple makes Control + click equivalent to the "right click" which is available on mice with two buttons.
Mac OS X provides a means to zoom in on (magnify) part of the screen, by holding down the Control key while turning the mouse wheel forward. This facility is built into the Mac operating system, so the function is unavailable for Freeplane to use for control of its own Zoom function. So Mac users must use one of the alternate means which Freeplane provides to adjust its zoom level.
If you are unfamiliar with OS X's Control + mouse wheel function, be aware that some mouse functions become awkward to use, or even unusable, while zoomed in. To return the screen to normal, hold down the Conrol key and turn the mouse wheel backward to zoom back out all the way.
Making This Documentation 1.2
Task related
Freeplane offers two mechanisms to implement this behavior.
In this documentation is chosen for the second soluttion becaus it seems most logical an practical.
Menu item
Series of actions
A possible value of a method
Special condition
More detailed explanation
This filter shows the procedure how to set the filter rule and filter conditions for displaying only the nodes of Scope=GS1.
Mastering Chapter 1 means you know:
You mastered GS2 when you are able to handle nodes more easily:
You have mastered GS3 if you can handle Node Features:
In translating Freeplane the following points have to be noted:
To make sure that in the translation process these components keep present and consistent:
The next problem is to keep your translation synchronized with modification of the English documentation. To know what has been changed:
To make the change, the most certain procedure is to:
An alternative is to check all components (basic text and optional icons, formula's, hyperlinks, Details, Attributes, Images, formulas AND Groovy scripts) and make the changes necessary.
Note
To see which nodes have been revised in a version:
Note
Frequently asked questions.
Note
A new node gets style Default, new Details get style Details and a new note gets style Note. Style Default can be edited to have a larger font, different edge, bubble, different width, etc, see. Style Note and style Details can be edited to have a different font, font size color etc.; but not edge, bubble etc. that are connected to the node core.
Note
See Edit > Paste as
Use Maps > Mind map editor in stead of Maps > Mind map browser
If the menu bars are invisible, click-right on a free background area and select Toolbars.
If this happens after filtering:
In Properties Panel: remove all checks. These overrule style settings.
This error occurs if the path name contains a directory with space, such as in "Drop box".
Solution: Replace the space by an underscore.
See forum for limitatons.
Change the font size of system style Default for node core or style "Note" for notes. This will overrule the font number shown in the dialog - until you press the font number.
See
Conditional formatting supports scripts as filter condition. link
All functions in Freeplane are open for use as batch job, in a command line interface. With this you can for example:
,Read how to at http://freeplane.sourceforge.net/wiki/index.php/Freeplane_Batch_Jobs
To increase readability the viewing % may be increased. However, the text size in the tool tip is not affected by this. A solution is to change the size of the core text: the text size in the tool tip is linked to that of the core text. An easy way is to change this in the (default) style.
Online doc .
Most recent information
Freeplane has a main menu bar which gives access to most of its functionality. It has menu's with entries to methods (actions) and to dialog boxes or panels which are sets of related methods. To create oversight, related entries are connected with an accolade and group label. The items (nodes) below are the main menu's. This menu structure is taken as the framework for describing methods and dialog boxes. To enforce a particular result, methods are called upon in a particular order, a so-called a procedure. Essential procedures are described and connected to the actions they rely on. In this way they are easy to find. Methods and procedures have a different appearance (style), hence they are easily to be discriminated. In applying methods and procedures, there may be exceptions. In order to understand the procedures examples may be helpful. Exceptions, examples and other information to note are shown in the vicinity of the methods and procedures they apply to. They are discriminated by their different appearances (styles) and icons.
Click on the green arrow to see the different styles being applied for
To handle mind maps.
Creates a new Freeplane map. This map resides only in memory until it is saved.
Opens dialog to choose a map style from which a new map is created. This map resides only in memory until it is saved.
Prompts to enter a password required to open the map and creates a new map. This funcion is similar to password protecting a node.
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Standard this option is disabled. To enable it, check:
Save a map that has alrerady been created. If you are saving the map for the first time, you will be presented with the Save dialog box. If the map has already been saved once, it is automatically overwritten with the most recent Save.
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Opens a dialog to save an existing map, which has previously been saved, using a new file name.
Saves all open maps. Same as Save, but is applied to all open maps.
Allows you to reverts the map to a previously saved state.
Note
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Note
Open a dialog to select and open a map that has already been saved.
Opens dialog to enter URL
Opens a list of maps that you have opened recently.
Opens a dialog to select a destination and type of export.
This exports the entire map as a HTML document. The map is exported "as is"; the HTML document appears just as the map appears in Freeplane. If a node is expanded, it appears expanded in the HTML document. If a node is collapsed at the time of export, it appears collapsed in the HTML document. The HTML document contains JavaScript that allows the collapsed nodes to be unfolded.
Exports only the branch of the map defined by the node selected and all of its children. In all other respects it is identical to the "As HTML" export.
Exports entire map as an Open Office Writer document.
Exports entire map in the PNG image format.
Exports entire map in the JPEG/JPG image format.
Exports the entire map with full JavaScript functionality.
Exports the entire map. The map portion of the page will appear exactly as the map appears in Freeplane. If some nodes are collapsed and others expanded, that's how it will appear in the document. The detail part of the page will contain all of the nodes in outline format.
Creates a version of the map embedded in an HTML file, suitable for publishing as a Web page. Appears very similar to the actual map: nodes expand and collapse the same as they do in the Freeplane program.
To publish or share a mind map without images, but with standard icons:
Now you can move the file myFile.html and the subdirectory myFile.html_files to the location (directory) where you want to it be it accessible. You may rename myFile.html to a name you want, e.g. myName.mm. The subdirectory should not be renamed. You van then open the mind map with myName.mm.
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Exports a Flash map that appears very similar to the actual map. Nodes expand and collapse the same as they do in the Freeplane map.
Exports to a file that can be loaded from TaskJuggler, an open source project management tool.
Exports to a file that can be loaded from TaskJuggler, an open source project management tool.
Exports the entire map to a TWiki formatted file.
Exports entire map in Adobe Acrobat PDF format.
Exports entire map in Scalable Vector Graphics format.
Images are not part of Freeplane, except system icons. Hence images are not exported automatically.
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If a branch is copied to a regular text editor, its hierarchical structure appears a levels of indentation. Hyperlinks are shown between brackets. Examples of editors which can handle RTF are OpenOffice/Write, MSWord, Wordpad and Outlook.
Saves selected node and descendants as new map. Selected node becomes root of new map with hyperlink to its original location. Selected node gets hyperlink to new map and descendants are deleted.
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Presents a dialog box from which you can select formatting for printing a map.
The entire map is condensed to one page. Depending on the size of the map, this may render the typeface too small to be readable.
The map is forced to fit the width of the page, but may take up multiple pages depending on the size of the map. Results may vary based on choosing Portrait or Landscape orientation for printing.
The map is forced to fit the height of the page, but may take up multiple pages depnding on the size of the map. Results may vary based on choosing Portrait or Landscape orientation for printing.
Allows access to Print Zoom Factor where a magnification factor of 0.0 to 2.0 may be entered. This applies to width and height proportionally.
Presents a view of how the printed map will appear based on the Page Setup settings.
See also
Opens the dialog box associated with the printer on which the map will print.
Closes the map that has focus. If multiple maps are open, focus refers to the tab that you are currently editing.
Close all open maps and exit Freeplane.
To find frequently used edit functions.
Creates a new node as a child of the currently-selected node.
Same effect:
Creates a new node below the currently selected node, at the same hierarchical level.
Same effect:
Creates a new node above the node that is currently selected, at the same hierarchical level.
Same effect:
Creates a new node between the current node and its parent node. The new node is a child of the original parent node.
Same effect:
Creates a free node which is virtually connected to the root node.
Creates a new Summary node which connects the range of selected siblings by an accolade.
Note
See also
Note
Error
Sometimes an error message appears that it is not possible to create a Summary node for a particular group. It may be that one of the nodes in the group has a check for Node > Begin node group. If so, select Node > Begin node group to uncheck and try again.
Technically the summary node is a sibling of the node group, below the bottom node of the group. This position becomes apparent if you choose Nodes > Sum node for a particular summary node Selecting Nodes > Summary node again will restore its original position.
Note
Shows if the selected node is marked as first node of a Summary node group. Toggles the selected node as first node of a Summary node group.
Note
If all three conditions are true, the selected node will be marked as the (new) first node of the Summary node group and the upper range of the Summary node will be decreased to the selected node.
A node group is a group of neighboring siblings (same hierarchical level, same parent) which are within the range of a defined Summary node.
Note
Converts the selected node into a (active) summary node or turns a Summary node back into a sibling node (inactive Summary node).
Note
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If set, prevents the node from folding. Especially used with clouds.
Places a cloud around all of the selected nodes.
This is useful for highlighting certain nodes. The cloud covers the node selected and all of its child nodes. Multiple clouds can be created at the same time by holding the Ctrl key (for selecting discreet nodes), or the Shift key for selecting all the nodes between the first node selected and the last. SEE ALSO: Format > Cloud Color...
Creates a connector between two selected nodes.
The connector can be formatted by opening its context window (right-click on the connector). A label can be attached at the binning, middle end the end of the connector.
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Note
A link can be:
Each node core can have exactly one arrow-link and/or multiple underlined links. Node details only can have (multiple) underlined links. Underlined links are created in the edit text dialog (in menu Edit). The arrow-links are created with the items of the current menu.
Drag and drop of an image which exists as a file on your computer results in a scalable image. If the image is dropped on the upper part of the node the image is added to this node. If it is dropped at the child side of the node a new child is made with the image. If a copied image is pasted, then a hyperlink is pasted in its child node.
The easiest way to enter a hyperlink to an external object is by drag and drop. The
In that case the hyperlink will we pasted to a newly created child of the selected node. It is possible to drop more than one address at once.
Opens a dialog to navigate to a directory or file. A hyperlink to the selected directory or file is put into the selected node. The hyperlink appears as a red arrow and can be clicked to open the file or directory.
To remove the hyperlink:
Opens a dialog to enter a hyperlink as text, or enter an e-mail address.
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Use Ctrl-C and Ctrl-V to copy and paste in the text field.
Converts a text address (URL as http://www.google.com/) in the basic text of the selected node to a click-able hyperlink.
Creates a link between two nodes in the current map. The two nodes must be selected before this command is invoked: The first selected node is the target of the link, which is added to the second node, and represented there as a small green arrow.
Opens a dialog to choose a menu option to which a hyperlink will be added in the selected node.
Press red arrow to see an example in which this link is used to start a script.
Remembers the currently selected node. Only one node can be remembered. If a new node is set to be the anchor node, the previous anchor node is forgotten.
Creates a link in the anchor node to the currently selected node. The anchor node will show a red or geen arrow.
Note
The nodes linked may be in different maps.
Makes a link in the currently selected node to the the anchor node. The current node will display a red or green arrow link.
Note
The nodes linked may be in different maps.
If an anchor is set, it is forgotten.
A hyperlink is an electronic connection from a source node to a destination object. The destination can be a directory, file, web page, application, e-mail etc. The connection is click-able and appears as a red arrow (external hyperlink) or green arrow (internal hyperlink).
A hyperlink can be contained in
A hyperlink can be added by drag and drop or menu selection.
The easiest way to add a hyperlink or group of hyperlinks to external objects is by drag and drop.
Dropping a copy of a directory, file, file address or webaddress will generate a child node of the selected node which contains a hyperlink to the address of it.
Dropping a group of hyperlinks will genareate a group of child nodes, each containing one of the hyperlinks.
The text of the respective nodes will initially be the address of the hyperlink. This text may be removed, edited or replaced. This will not change the hyperlink itself (red arrow). To edit the hyperlink itself, select Node features > Links > Hyperlink (Text Field)... and edit the address.
The simplest way to make an e-mail link is to copy and paste its address into a selected node. This will generate a child node of the selected node with the link. The text of the child node will consist of the e-mail address. You may replace this by e.g. only the name.
If you want to add the e-mail link to a particular node (and not to its newly generated child), select Node features > Links > Hyperlink (Text Field)... and enter:
To remove a hyperlink or e-mail address:
For the following procedure there exists a script. Clik the hyperlink for this.
To link a source node SN in a map SM to a target node TN in map TM:
1. First, link the source node SN to to the target map TM. For this, go to SN in SM, and execute: Node Features ---> Add hyperlin (choose) ... [here you choose thus the target map TM] - This can also be done with the context menu (right mouse click, etc.) - You can also make this link from the value field of an attribute of the source node SN. For this, you have to create the attribute with the option Edit Attribute (not Add Attribute, because this option, unfortunately, does not allow to make the link in the value field). Then select (or simply hover on) the value field of the attribute. Right click and, in the context menu, select Add hyperlink (choose) ... etc.
2. Second, get the identifier of the target node TN. For this, go to TN in TM, and - through Edit (main menu or context menu) click Copy Node ID. You get thus TN's ID in the clipboard.
3. Third, add the node identifier of TN to the link made in the first step (in other words, convert the link to a map into a link to a node). For this, go back to SN (in SM), and execute (through main or context menu): Node features ---> Links ---> Add or modify hyperlink (type). In the pop up menu Input that appears, write (without space) immediately after the .mm the symbol # and paste (without space) the TN's ID that you copied in step 2. Exm.: ...../mytargetmap.mm#ID_123456 Procede similarly in case the hyperlink is in the value field of an attribute.
It is possible to have multiple in-line links in Node core, Node details, or Note. First open the text dialog for Node core, Node details or Note. Then type and select the piece of text to which the link applies. And finally select in the Edit menu of the dialog window Add hyperlink (choose)... or Add or modify hyperlink (type). In the latter case you can type the address of the hyperlink or you can paste a copied address by pressing Ctr + V. Example: Press Ctrl-click this link to go to the Freeplane Open Forum.
The hyperlink is not displayed by a green or red arrow, but by an underlining.
Note
Deletes the node and all of its children.
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Puts a node in Edit Mode. Opens an inline editor for fast entering and modifying text. Standard modus when making a new node (Ins) or when double-clicking on the node.
Context menu. To open the context menu, right-click on the text which is being edited. This menu contains:
See also
Note
Open basic node text in a separate dialog for advanced editing±
Context menu. To open the context menu, click-right in the text area of the dialog.
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Note
Joins two nodes (the basic text only) into one. Only works on nodes that do not have children.
Splits and distributes the basic text of a node over two or more nodes. Split inserts a new node for the splitted text. The split will take place at all line breaks or HTML components.
The Split Node command may be used on any plain node which contains one or more line breaks, which can be inserted using Shift Enter. Split Node also works on any Rich Formatted (Long or HTML) node which contains multiple paragraphs. In either case the node gets split at the line and/or paragraph breaks. For HTML nodes you can apply the split repeatedly if there are nested elements. A plain node may be split at any point by first converting it using Format > Use Rich Formatting. Then click on the node to open the Edit Long Node window. In that window, place the cursor where you want to split the node, then click the "Split" button at the bottom of the dialog. The part of the node to the right of the cursor will appear below the node from which it was split.
Note
Toggles between visibility marking of revisions.
Note
See also:
View > Show modification times
To remove a revision, for each node uncheck the checkbox for background color.
Note
To display a revision:
Attach a fixed image to the inner area of the selected node, within the bubble area and replacing the basic node text. If the node already contains a hyperlink to an image, the image will replace the hyperlink. Otherwise the file chooser can be used to select an image file.
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Note
Opens a table from which an icon can be chosen by clicking it.
Note
Contrary to the other icons lists, this table also contains system icons.
Select node through one of the submenus with icons
Progress is an indicator in which a percentage can be visualized in steps of 10% or 25%.
Note
Adds progress indicator in selected node resp. moves it up in steps of 25% until 100% and OK.
Decreases progress indicator in selected node in steps of 25% and as a last step removes it.
Adds a progress indication with extended size that is:
Adds a progress indicator with extended size that is:
The big indicator is an .svg image. This will not appear in a Java Applet.
Toggles that the icons present in descendants of a node, are replicated in the node.
Remove firstly added icon in the selected node.
Removes last icon in selected node
Remove all icons from selected node
An icon is a mini image.
To add ones own icon to the list of selectable icons, put the file myicon.png to in sub directory icons of the user directory which opens by selecting Tools > Open user directory.
Opens in line editor for editing Details. This editor is similar to the inline editor for basic node text. The text can be hidden, unless selected.
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Opens editor for node details in a separate dialog. Similar to the dialog for basic node text.
See also
To copy into the selected node the Details and Attributes of the styles connected to the node.
Note
See also
Removes the details text from the selected node.
Content text (details) is an optional text field directly under the basic node text, outside the node area (bubble area). It is the text you are currently reading. It is generally used to extend and describe in detail the basic node text of Title.
Content can be hidden in two ways:
Hidden content is shown when the cursor is above the node.
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Add sizeable image to the selected node, below the basic node text, outside the bubble area.
Note
See also
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To add an image drag and drop:
To add a hyperlink, copy and paste (also from Internet);
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Shows the handle of the external image of the selected node by which the size of the image can be changed.
Remove the external images from the selected node.
An image in Freeplane is a picture with format png, jpeg, gif, or svg . An image can be attached to the internal area of a node (inside the bubble) or to the external area (outside the bubble).
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Best practice
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To publish a mind map with images:
Now you can move the file myFile.html and the subdirectory myFile.html_files to the location (directory) where you want to it be it accessible. Call myFile.html to open the mind map. If publishing on internet, you may rename myFile.html in e.g. index.html. The subdirectory should not be renamed.
Opens dialog to edit names and values of attributes of selected nodes.
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Opens a table structure below the basic node text with two columns in which a name and value can be entered or selected.
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It is possible to add the same attribute and value at once to all selected nodes.
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Opens a dialog to manage all attributes of all nodes.
Copies attributes from the selected node.
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Pastes attributes in the selected node that before have been copied form another node.
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Copies (imports) attributes from the style of a selected node to the node.
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To hide an attribute, check its name in the list.
To hide only a restricted set of values of an attribute, check and define the set.
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text in field notes
This node contains 2 attributes, a1 and a2 (may be more)
Open Attribute manager to see that attribute a2 is checked visible and a1 is not, hence is hidden.
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Show/Hide attribute "hover text" set
text in field notes
This node contains 2 attributes, a1 and a2 AND Node > Shortened node content is ON.
Result: text of Details is hidden, and checked attributes stay visible.
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An attribute is an entity with a name and a value, meaning name = value. Attributes are shown in a table with two columns, which appears in the external area of the node, under Details.
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Opent het bewerkingsvenster voor de LaTeX opmaak.
LaTeX is a method to define the layout of scientific formulas..
A note is a special text field preceded with a note icon. A note can appear in different ways:
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Opens a dialog for editing the note field of the selected note.
Opens a dialog to remove the note field of the selected nodes.
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A note is a special text field, generally preceded with a note icon.
Reverse previous changes or edits.
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Reverses an Undo. It is limited to the most recent Undo.
Cuts the node currently selected and all of its children.
Copies the node selected and all of its children.
Copies only the node selected, even if it has children.
Gets the internal Node ID of the currently selected node and stores it in the system Clipboard. This advanced feature has, for most purposes, been replaced by the menu command Insert > Add Local Hyperlink.
It is useful for linking to an node in a different mindmap. In that case the nodeID must be preceded by the (path to) the mindmap and the character "#", e.g. mymap.mm#particularId. To get the full absolute path and nodeID, see Copi node URI.
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Not every program passes #nodeId to the mindmap. Of course a freeplane mindmap does so. If nodeId is not passed, the mindmap opens but the node is not selected.
Copy the full, absolute address (pathname/filename.mm#nodeID) of the node. This address can be pasted in a hyperlink in a (different) mindmap or other program to open the mindmap and select the node. To make the address relative in stead of absolute, remove the first part of the pathname, leaving at least the #nodeID (internal node) or mindmapName.mm#nodeID external node in different map in same directory.
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Not every program passes #nodeId to the mindmap. Of course a freeplane mindmap does so. If nodeId is not passed, the mindmap opens but the node is not selected.
Pastes copied text. If the selected node is in edit mode, the text will be added to the contents of the node. If the selected node is not in edit mode, the text will be added as a child node.
Changes the position of the node by moving it down through the sibling hierarchy. If already at the bottom, the node is moved to the top.
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Changes the position of the node by moving it up through the sibling hierarchy. If already at the top, the node is moved to the bottom.
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Sorts all children of the selected node recursively, in descending alphanumeric order. The node hierarchy is preserved
Changes the position of the node by making it a sibling of its parent. It is placed below the parent to which it was originally a child.
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Changes the position of the node by making it a child of the node directly above it. If there are other child nodes it becomes the sibling of those children, and is placed last among them.
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If set, the movement of a node (and its children) are independent of the movements of all other nodes. The node can be recognized by a full blue oval handle for moving the node.
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A free node is a node which is freely positionable, independently of the position of the other nodes of the mind map. A free node can be recognized by this behaviour and because the oval handle for moving the node is blue and filled in stead of red and open.
A new, free node can be generated by double-clicking a free place of the mind map. The newly generated free node will have the default properties rectangular cloud and hidden edge. These properties can be changed in the usual way to e.g. no-cloud and visible edge.
An existing node can be turned into a free node by selecting it and choosing Edit->Free positioned node (set/reset). In this case the properties of the node (edge, cloud) stay as they are. You can set the properties for cloud and hidden edge in the usual way . The freed node initially appears near the root node and can be moved from there to any desired position by dragging its (blue) oval handle. Moving a free positioned node onto another parent / sibling by usual drag and drop cancels its free positioned status.
A free node made by clicking a free space of the mind map is connected to the root node, also if the connecting edge is invisible. This explains why a child node of this free node, if moved onto the upper half of its parent free node, shifts towards the root node.
1. The floating nodes with hidden edges are intended for adding meta information to maps like legends, titles, summaries, authors etc. If such informations relates to a whole map, such nodes should have a root node as their parent so that are always visible and their position does not depend on anything else. Sometimes such information is relevant only for a part of a map. In this case a floating node with hidden edge can be attached to a non root node. For understanding of the context (which I find important) its parent edge is usually displayed as a dashed line if a node is selected unless its color was set to the map background color.
2. The free nodes do not require that you hide their edges. The second use case for them is a better use of map space. The automatic layout algorithm does not allow any map branches to overlap. If you want to create more compact maps you can convert some nodes to free nodes. This way they can be placed flexible. And their logical position relative to other sibling nodes now depends on their coordinates. You can see it too if you change to outline view which always reflect logical node positions.
Returns the node to the position it had when it was first created. If you have moved nodes around and want to reformat your map, this command will do so. Esc followed by Ctrl + A will select all the nodes in a map.
Opens the Find dialog box.
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Searches for the next instance of the string entered in the Find dialog box. (A string is any combination of letters and numbers.)
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Opens a dialog box that lists all of the nodes in a map. When matches are found for the string entered in the Find field, you have the option to apply the value of the Replace field or skip to the next instance of the Find string.
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To find the list of nodes last modified, click on top of the table Modified to sort the rows top down or bottom up. Next you can see which nodes have been last modified.
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Same as Find and Replace... but applied to all open maps.
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To change the way the mind map appears to you.
Opens a copy of the current map with an index number.
Methods are accessible through the main menu-bar as menu-items, the Toolbar and Filter toolbar as icon-buttons, as short-cut keys (F-keys and key combinations) and as context menu's which are connected to objects such as nodes and connectors. It is your own choice which of these possibilities you want to use.
A menu-bar which is not needed, can be hidden to save screen space. If all bars are hidden, right-click on the screen to display the context menu with which cou can make them visible again.
Toggles the main toolbar on and off. This is the bar with the menu's for File, Edit, View, Nodes, etc.
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The main menu-bar is the bar with the main textual menu's of Freeplane at the top of the screen.
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Toggles visibility of toolbar on and off.
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The main toolbar is the bar with icon-buttons for most used map handling, e.g.Previous map, Following map, etc.
Toggles the visibility of the toolbar with filter methods.
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The filter toolbar is the bar containing entry fields for filter rules and icon-buttons for most used filter methods like Undo, Redo, etc.
Toggles the Function Key (F-Key) toolbar on and off. This is the bar with F1, F2, F3, etc.
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Toggles the visibility of the Secondary Toolbar [Icon bar] on and off. This is the bar containing all kinds of icons the user can add to a node and located vertically at the left of the screen (most of the time).
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Toggles the visibility of a status line at the bottom of the window.
Context menus are powerful alternative to using menu-bars.
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A context menu is a menu associated with a particular object which only contains menu items most relevant for this object. A context menu is opened by right-clicking the object.
Toggles the visibility of the properties panel.
The properties panel is a dialog to change the basic properties of a node. Properties are distinguihed in format-properties and properties of Calendar & attributes.
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To change a property of a selected node in the Properties Panel:
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To see a list of predefined system and user defined styles
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To add or modify,
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To add or modify,
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Disables execution of formula
Node shape is: the appearance of the node: without surrounding box (Fork), with surrounding box (Bubble), as parent or combined.
Changes to bubble if folded
Minimum node width in pixels.
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Maximum width of the node in pixels.
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Node Font is the Font family, size, bold and italic.
If an arrow-link is defined and no underlined link is defined, sets the whole node core to an underlined hyperlink. So the used does not have to click the arrow ican, but can click on the whole core to follow the link
Edge width is the thickness of the edge.
Edge style is the way an edge bends.
Edge color is the color of the edge connecting nodes.
Cloud color is the background color of cloud.
Cloud Shape is its the form of the cloud, e.g. Star, Rectangle or Round rectangle form.
When a property is checked, its change overrides the value set by Style. To return to the value of the style, uncheck Change.
Not all properties can be set in Properties Panel.
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Blinking node is a node which cycles through a number of colors.
Map background is the color of background.
Hidden edge is an edge style when the edge is invisible.
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Set the calendar to the current time and date.
To add a date text according to standard date format
Opens dialog to enter a script which will be executed at the time of the reminder, if the mind map is open at this time.
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This example contains a script that will add the ok-icon to the present node.
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node.getIcons().addIcon("button_ok")
To set a reminder at the date and time set.
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The reminder wil also trigger the script, if defined AND the mindmap is open. It is not necessary that the map is visible.
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Remind later a number of minutes to years.
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To format the attribute value, select and modify on of the format templates.
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An attribute has a name and value/data, meaning name=value.
The list of attributes consists of two columns. The left column can contain the attribute's name and the right column its value.
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It is possible to add or edit the attribute of one node at the time.
URL's aure automatically recognised.
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Makes the font size and the distance between nodes larger; fits less of the map on the screen.
Makes the font size and the distance between nodes smaller; fits more of the map on the screen.
Adjusts the font size and distance between nodes to fit the entire map on the screen. If many nodes are visible (unfolded), the font may be rendered too small to be readable.
Brings the selected node to the centre of the screen, moving the surrounding nodes with it.
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To move the whole map, click in an empty part of the screen and drag the map, ore use the scrollbars at the sides of the screen.
Toggles the display of the map between default (radial view) or list (outline view).
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Node spacing may be fine-tuned using Preferences.
Some aspects of visual appearance are simplified while in Outline view, and more information may be visible on-screen at one time than in the normal Mind Map view. This view may be handy in printing a large maps.
Hide or show all menu/tool bars.
Once in full screen mode, the only way to change back to normal screen mode is to right click on the screen and UNCHECK Full Screen mode.
Greys all nodes except the selected nodes.
Toggles the appearance of selecting a node. When in Rectangular selection mode, the selected node has a solid line around it, with rounded corners. When not in Rectangular mode, the selected node has a grey background color.
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Toggle between not marking or marking the visibility of formula's by a rectangular, colored surrounding. defaultt is a surrounding.
Press to (un)hide node features like node details, image, hyperlink (underlined). Also the node core is shortened and formatting is removed.
The hidden text and hyperlinks are shown when hovering with the cursor above the node core (tool tip). Images are not shown when hovering.
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If you need a hyperlink in the node core, use the arrow-link.
Toggles the visibility of the Details field under the basic node text.
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Toggles the visibility of Tool Tips.
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Tool Tip is a window that opens when the mouse cursor is over a node and View > Display Tootips is set. You are reading the current text in a Tool Tip window.
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Toggles visibility of the list of styles which apply to the selected node.
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Toggles visibility of modification times when the cursor hovers over the node.
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Toggles the visibility of attributes as set by Node features > Attribute manger.
Options are:
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Node features > Attribute manger
Displays icon if the node contains attributes
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Toggles the Note panel visible or hidden.
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Note panel is a window which is independently placed of the selected node, in which the Note content of the selected node is shown and can be edited.
Determines the placement of the Note panel. Options are Top, Left, Right, and Bottom.
Toggles the visibility of a node's note text below its basic node text.
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Displays a note-icon if the node has a note
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To change the appearance of a node. Select View > Properties Panel to display most of the properties that can be changed. Check the property you want to change and enter a new value to change it. Select View > Properties Panel again to close the panel. Alternatively properties can be changed through menu Format. For example, to change the text colour of the node, choose Format > Change node color or press Alt+Shift+F.
Properties that can be changed in the Properties panel are:
You can also have properties automatically set. Check in Properties Panel:
In addition you can set also the following properties in Menu Format:
Opens a list of node styles. The selected style will be appied to the selected node(s).
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This style is applied to each new node core. The style includes aspects like buble, edge style etc.
So if you want each new node to have a bubble, set it in style Default.
A speciasl style which is automatically applied to each new Details of a node. It will set the font type, size color, but not e.g. bubble and edge. So if you want each Details to have a specific color, set it here.
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A speciasl style which is automatically applied to each new note of a node. It will set the font type, size color, but not e.g. bubble and edge. So if you want each note to have a specific color, set it here.
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A special style which is automatically applied if you press Control and click a free space of the map. The style is then automatically combined with the Edit > Free posinoned node status.
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Opens a list of user defined node styles. The selected style will be appied to the selected node(s).
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Use or don't use level styles. The nodes automatically get the predefined styles related to their node level.
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The predifined number of level styles is 5. It is possible to increase or decrease this number by adding or removing styles in the window that opens after Format > Manage styles > Edit styles....
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Styles (classes) are a means to quickly apply or change a group of visual properties or content for all related nodes at once. Styles (classes) can be used to find, select or filter nodes which are associated with a particular type of content or structure. You can attach one or more styles to a node by selecting the style name(s) from a list. With filter rules you can automatically decide if a particular style should be applied to a particular node or not.. There is a predefined set of styles for 5 different hierarchical node levels which can be applied right away.
Example. The Freeplane Documentation you are reading, contains visually discriminating styles for classes of information indicating respectively methods, exceptions, examples etc. Each node is attached to all the styles (classes) it belongs to. As a result you can see form the appearance of the node which type of information it contains. Also you can display only nodes containing one particular type of information, by filtering for for style (class) Definition. For example you can display only (all) definitions.
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Opens a dialog to enter the name under which the selected node will be saved as a user style.
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Change the standard node style to the one of the selected node.
Opens a dialog to define the rules for automatically applying a particular style for each node. A particular node may trigger different rules at once. In that case the different styles will be applied to the same node.
If the conditions of the rule are true, the style is applied to the node. Multiple rules may fire at once, hence a node can display multiple styles. The list of rules is evaluated from top rule to bottom rule. If a rule triggers and Stop is set for that rule, the rules below will not be evaluated and not fire. The style rule itself is similar to a filter rule.
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Initially the table is empty.
Press to add a new rule.
To edit the selected rule.
To remove the selected rule(s).
Move the selected rule one place up. Hence it will be evaluated earlier.
To move the position of the selected rule one place down. Hence it will be evaluated later.
If is Checked, the rule behind it will be evaluated. Otherwise not.
The condition, set with a filter rule, when the rule will fire. If the rule fires, the style will be applied. Otherwise the style will not be applied.
Default filter rule: it will fire any time.
The style Default. Double-click to open a drop down list of possible styles.
If is checked and this rule fires, the rules below this rule are not evaluated.
This map contains conditional map styles for displaying revisions of this map.
Click the green arrow to read more.
Only works with newly created mind maps (= Freeplane 1.2, not 1.3) or if the mapstyle is copied from a Freeplane 1.2 map with copy mapstyle.
The same nodes on the style map are used as templates and as styles. They are used as styles either if style is explicitly assigned by user or if style condition is met . Only formatting including colors, shapes clouds and icons are relevant for styles and conditional styles. All these features have in common that they can not be edited, they can be only attached or removed, and style basically means that they are virtually attached to relevant nodes. Actually style conditions build a chain so that many styles are applied to the same node if many conditions are satisfied. For instance if you have conditional styles Node text contains "Important" => styleOne, Node text contains "error" => styleTwo, the both styles are applied to node with the both words in the node text, and all formatting features not addressed by styleOne but addressed by styleTwo are applied to the node. For instance if styleOne means bold text and styleTwo means red background, the node becomes bold on the red background. Other node features like attributes or details are editable. Therefore they are interpreted as a part of template. It is possible to include other features like notes or even child nodes in the future. The templates are applied as follows: There are many ways to insert new nodes: before, after, as a child, as a parent, as summary node. After the new node is inserted you can apply a template for it just assigning the corresponding style. In this case its content is copied into the new created node. And if you want to copy the template elements later you can do it using only one action (which currently copies only the attributes but it could be improved to copy the details and everything else too). Assign this action to a short cut and you can do it by hitting only one hot key. I can change this action so that it works with the conditional styles too so that the first or even all elements from the styles activated by conditions are copied.
Opens a dialog to define and connect multiple style rules to the selected node. If the conditions of the rule are true, the style is applied to the node. Multiple rules may fire at once, hence a node can display multiple styles.
The list of rules is evaluated from top rule to bottom rule. If a rule triggers and Stop is set for that rule, the rules below will not be evaluated and not fire. The style rule itself is similar to a filter rule.
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Initially the table is empty.
Press to add a new rule.
To edit the selected rule.
To remove the selected rule(s).
Move the selected rule one place up. Hence it will be evaluated earlier.
To move the position of the selected rule one place down. Hence it will be evaluated later.
If is Checked, the rule behind it will be evaluated. Otherwise not.
The condition, set with a filter rule, when the rule will fire. If the rule fires, the style will be applied. Otherwise the style will not be applied.
Default filter rule: it will fire any time.
The style Default. Double-click to open a drop down list of possible styles.
If is checked and this rule fires, the rules below this rule are not evaluated.
This node you are reading is made using Conditional Node styles. The styles applied are shown at the top of the Tool Tip.
Open the window Styles > Manage Conditional Node Styles to see the two rules, one for applying style Example and one for style ToNote. Both rules are of type: always apply this style. This is the most simple use of conditional node styles: to apply more than one style to the same node at once.
Opens a dialog for choosing a map style. These styles are in fact mind maps.
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Opens a dialog to edit all styles, add and remove styles.
To define a new user style in this mode:
A style for a node is a set of node properties and a basic content structure that can be applied to the node by calling the name of the style.
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Styles are stored in the configuration file "patterns.xml" (note : this file name can be customized by the user under Tools > Preferences > Environment).
Copies the formatting of a node, but not the content of the node. SEE ALSO: Paste Format.
Pastes the formatting of a node, but not the contents of the node. SEE ALSO: Copy Format.
Sets the background color of the entire map using a color chooser dialog.
This option is not available in View > Properties Panel
Changes font to Bold in whole basic node and Details.
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Changes font to Italic in whole basic node and Details.
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Increases font size in whole basic node and Details.
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Decreases font size in whole basic node and Details.
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Font whole basic node text
These actions effect the whole basic node text. and overrule WYSIWYG formatting in the edit windows and in the context menu of the inline editor. The action initially affects Details, but can be refined/undone by formatting in the edit dialog.
It was originally meant for easy, fast formatting. However, the formatting with the inline editor context menu makes these functions more or less obsolete.
To undo, select Format > Remove Format.
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Sets the foreground color of the selected node(s) using a color chooser dialog. The color is applied to all text in the node..
Cause the node to blink. The node cycles through different colors while blinking.
This property is not available in View > Properties Panel
Changes the foreground color of the selected node(s) to be closer to its background color. May be applied multiple times. Can be reset by choosing Format > Node Color... > Use default.
This property is not available in View > Properties Panel
Color whole basic node text
These actions effect the whole basic node text. and overrule WYSIWYG formatting in the edit windows and in the context menu of the inline editor.
It was meant for easy, fast formatting. However, the formatting with the inline editor context menu makes these functions more or less obsolete.
To undo, select Format > Remove Format.
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Sets the background color of the selected node(s) using a color chooser dialog. Formatting will apply to the entire node.
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Undo set Bubble and show a horizontal line below the node's content. This is the default format, and it is used for this node and for most of the other nodes in this document. The alternative is Bubble format.
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Surround the inner area of the node with a round-cornered Bubble. The Bubble format has been applied to this node. The alternative is Fork format.
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Restores format to standar style
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Changes the color of the cloud.
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Opens dialog to select an edge style. Options are:
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Opens dialog to select the style to be applied to the selected node(s).
Options are:
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Sets the color of the fork (or bubble) of the selected node(s) using a color chooser dialog. Also sets the color of the connectors between parent and child nodes.
See Forma > Automatic edge color
An edge is a lineage between parent and child. The flow of the edge can be altered by clicking on it and drawing it to a different location. Technically an edge belongs to the child and edge properties like color can be changed in the child node. See View > Properties panel. An edge can be hidden, see Egde style.
Change the width of the node
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To move between maps and nodes and to fold nodes.
Moves to the previous map listed under the Maps menu. This only works if multiple maps are open.
Moves to the next map listed under the Maps menu. This only works if multiple maps are open.
Toggles the nodes that are children of the selected node between being visible/hidden.
Short cut
This command toggles folding and unfolding nodes that are one child level removed from the node that is selected. As an example, below this node (that you are reading) is "(Un)fold Children 2", and below "Unfold Children 2" are four nodes, "Child 1", Child 2", Child 3", Child 4". From this node, using the "Toggle Folded" command, the node "(Un)fold Children 2" will toggle visible/hidden. Using the "(Un)fold Children" command, the nodes that are children of "(Un)fold Children 2" will toggle visible/hidden.
Progressively unfolds the descendants of the selected node. Clicking once unfolds the children, clicking again unfolds the grandchildren, etc.
Progressively folds the descendants of the selected node, starting at the deepest level in the hierarchy. If four levels exist, clicking once folds the great grandchildren, clicking again folds the grandchildren, clicking again folds the children, etc.
Unfolds (makes visible) all nodes that are descendants of the selected node, including all children, grandchildren, etc.
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Folds (hides) all nodes that are descendants of the selected node, including all children, grandchildren, etc.
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Folding is hiding the descendants of a node. A small circle appears as an indicator of hidden descendants. Unfolding is making the descendants reappear.
Selects all nodes visible on the map.
Selects all the currently-visible (unfolded) children of the node which is already selected.
Moves the selection focus to the root node (the parent of all other nodes).
Short cut
Opens a dialog to enter the ID of a node and moves the selection focus to this node.
Moves the selection focus to the previous node in the map's hierarchy. If the previous node is currently hidden, the map will be unfolded to display the node.
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Moves the selection focus to the next node in the map's hierarchy. If the next node is currently hidden, the map will be unfolded to display the node.
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Moves the selection focus to the previous node in the map's hierarchy and, if possible, hide the current node by folding.
Move the selection focus to the next node in the map's hierarchy and, if possible, hide the current node by folding.
Moves the selection focus to the node that was selected prior to the node that is currently selected. Each time this is used, the selection will continue to move through the history of previously-selected nodes.
Retraces the nodes selected by using the Back command.
To select a node is to bring it into focus and to un-select a node is to remove the focus. The node in focus is can be acted upon by menu functions.
The currently selected node is highlighted by either a selection rectangle or a shaded node. The rectangle is the default. This can be changed in View > Rectangular selection.
To un-select a selected node(s), click outside the node, in an empty place of the background; or
click on an other node, which wil be selected next.
The node under the cursor is automatically selected. To keep this selection when moving around the mouse cursor, keep Shift pressed. If you dislike this behaviour, you can turn automatic selection off in menu Tools > Preferences.
Alternative ways of selecting a node or group of nodes are by pressing a special key or key combination.
To keep a selection when moving the cursor around, keep Shift pressed.
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To select the first or last sibling of the currently selected node press PgUp respectively PgDown.
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To select all descendants of a selected node:
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To select all nodes of a mind map:
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To select all filtered nodes, see
To select a group of siblings, click the first and last node while keeping Shift pressed.
To select two or more arbitrary nodes, keep Ctrl pressed while clicking the nodes.
Use the arrow keys to move the selection focus from one node to another node. The focus moves in the direction of the arrows.
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Hidden text shown in a Tool Tip may hide a sibling under the current node. To move to the node below and show its tool tip, use the down arrow key.
To finish the appearance of the Too Tip, move the cursor up, above the node.
If the node is hyperlinked, this command will execute the link.
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To display only a subset of nodes. Build and use filters with the Filter Toolbar or the Filter Menu.
Method Quick filter does the major filtering (other options are available).
Filter rules are build from thee elements:
Filter options to set before applying Quick filter are:
Filter options that can be set before or after applying Quick filter are:
To return to the condition before filtering
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Reverses the effect of the previously-used filtering command.
Re-applies the previously-used filtering command, after Filter > Undo has been used.
Updates the effect of filtering after changes have been made to the map.
Hides all visible nodes which do not fit the filter rules and options. Icon keeps unset..
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To filter for all nodes modified after a certain date, ser a filterrrule (Date filter, Modified after, date, xxx) and Quick filter for all modified nodes.
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Display only the currently-selected node(s) and, optionally, their ancestors and/or descendants.
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Filter and select all matching descendants (visible and invisible) of the node in focus and show and select also the nodes in between.
Removes the effect of any filters which were applied; this is the default. Un-sets icon.
Opens the Filter Composer dialog to create and edit filter rules / manage filters.
The first row contains three entries to define a filter rule, filled with (Node text, Contains, empty filed). and a check box for indicating if the Case of letters is relevant (Match case). The box below these editable fields contains the list of predefined rules. Initially it is empty. Two or more of these rules can be combined to form a more complex rule with AND and OR operators using the buttons to the right. A rule can be named with buttond Set Name.
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To split a filter rule which was composed with AND and OR.
Click green arrow to move to an example.
Toggle Apply to filtered (visible) nodes, i.e. add an additional filter condition, to further narrow the results.
Toggles Display all ancestor nodes of nodes which match the filter when filtering is in effect (Applies to Filtered Nodes is set)
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Togles Display all descendant nodes of nodes which match the filter when filtering is in effect (Applies to Filtered Nodes is set)
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Expand all nodes in a map that match the filter. This is not a toggle switch: once the nodes are expanded, they can only be collapsed using other commands (such as Filter > Undo, which may be used immediately after this command).
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Find text or other criteria in the selected node. The searching direction is opposite to Find Next.
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Find text or other criteria in the selected node and all its descendant nodes. And if not found, search further in other branches. This is called depth first search.
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To fit your Freeplane to your wishes and advanced features.
The Time manager allows you to set dates, times (reminders) and tasks (reminder texts) in selected nodes. The date appears as basic node text. A clock icon signals that a reminder is set. This icon appears in the note and its predecessors, except nodes which are within a Sum node group. A flasing clock icon signals that a reminder time has been reached.
There are two locations where these functions can be set of edited.
Opens a dialog to set ar change a date (text) or a reminder which has been attached to the selected node. The node and its predecessors show a clock icon. This icon flases at the reminder time. Also a red exclamation mark flashes in the root node.
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Opens a window which displays the reminders of all nodes. For each reminder are displayed:
The entries can be searched, and changed with search and replace.
Remove the reminder of the selected node. For alternatives:
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Encryption is a method to protect (only) the descendants of a node from viewing and editing. unless the right encryption key has been entered.
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Opens a dialog to add and use a password to protect the descendants of the selected node form being displayed and edited.
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This node is protected: my children are visible only after entering a password.
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Opens a dialog to enter a password and remove the protection from the selected node. Next time it is not necessary to enter a password to display the descendants of the node.
Freeplane is extensible via add-ons, packages that can be downloaded from a central locations and that provide some non-standard functionality. See wiki.
Allows assigning a hotkey combination to most menu commands, or reassigning the current hotkeys.
Opens a dialog to:
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Opens a list of previously saved hot key sets to choose from.
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Opens a dialog to save all the currently-defined hot key short-cuts to a dedicated file, which may be used to share the keystroke sets among multiple computers.The dialog prompts for the name of the file, which is automatically given the ".properties" extension.
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Select Tools > Open User directory and delete the set name in directory accelerators.
A hot key is a special key or key combination which can be used to trigger a menu item without having to navigate to the menu item.
F-keys (F1 - F-12) are hot keys. See above for assigning, selecting and deleting.
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Unassigned F-Key are passed through if the focused component is a JTextComponent. (1.2.8_05
https://sourceforge.net/projects/freeplane/forums/forum/758437/topic/4652076
Displays a hierarchical menu of Groovy scripts which have been added to the user's scripts directory.
Runs all scripts which are attached to the currently selected node(s).
Runs all the scripts which are local to the current map, having been created using the Script Editor.
Displays a window for creating scripts which become attached to individual nodes, and are saved local to the current map file.
In Freeplane there are 3 types of formulas:
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To load an image in Details you can execute the script defined in this node.
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You can also copy the script contained in this node to your node.
To make available the example script to insert an image to Details from any node, you should install it in directory scrips.
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Now you can select a node and start the script with:
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To execute an external command, save the script:
// @ExecutionModes(on_single_node)
'C:\path\to\my\command'.execute()
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You can bind the command to a hotkey.
automatic backups
If you lost your map, look here.
Contains all styles, .mm format.
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user defined scripts
Contains user defined icons.
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Optional, to be added by the user.
Used to store user defined menu structure.
Contains hot key sets.
These can be exchanged between users.
You can exchange icons, styles, short key sets with other users here.
The present node is used in Finding and Filtering only. Descriptions are lacking.
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Provides control over various aspects of the user interface.
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Controls interaction with a Web browser, plus options for HTML Import and Export.
To select and handle mind maps.
The mode in which mind maps are created and edited.
This is a read-only mode for browsing maps rather than editing them. It is has two main uses: First, when using Export > As Java Applet..., the applet opens the map only for reading, because editing maps is not supported via the Web. Second, Freeplane's Help file, when accessed via Help > Documentation or F1, is opened in read-only mode in order to preserve its contents while users learn various Freeplane features. Otherwise this Map Browser mode is generally unused.
To publish or share a mind map:
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In the Freeplane applet, you can only use the Browse mode; you cannot edit remote maps. Click a node to toggle folding or to follow a link. Drag the background to move the map. To search the map, use the node context menu.
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To embed a mind map in a web site or wiki, see Inernet
Methods to help you to solve problems in using Freeplane.
Manually check whether a newer version of Freeplane has been released. This check will be done automatically if the corresponding checkbox is enabled at the bottom of the dialog which opens.
Opens a web browser containing the home page of the Freeplane web site.
Opens a Web browser window to Freeplane's Open Discussion Forum. A confirmation dialog alerts you to the fact that this function requires that you log in to SourceForge.net where you can easily create a free account. After logging in, you may check for information related to your question by using the Search function, located under the Forums menu heading. If you then want to ask your own question, scroll down toward the bottom of the page to find the Add a Topic heading, type a short title in the line labelled "Enter topic title", then enter your message in the larger text box below.
Opens een web browser containing the page of Mantis Bug tracker. You can report a bug here.
Opens een web browser containing Freeplane's Feature Request page in Mantis Tracker. You can leave your request here.
Opens a window displaying a short summary of Freeplane's copyright and licensing information, including information about where to find full copies of the GNU General Public License.
Opens a dialog with copyright, version, and technical information.
Opens mind map with Freeplane tutorial
Opens the main help file in read-only modus.
Opens documentation from Internet. This gives the most recent information.
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It is possible to link to this documentation through URL: http://freeplane.sourceforge.net/doc/1.2.x/freeplane.mm.
To link to the FAQ node: http://freeplane.sourceforge.net/doc/1.2.x/freeplane.mm# ID_1040911735
In the same way it is possible to link to the online tutorial: http://freeplane.sourceforge.net/doc/1.2.x/freeplaneTutorial.mm
Overview of hot keys / short cuts