FreeMind Changelog

What's new in FreeMind 1.1.0 Beta 2

Feb 15, 2016

Big New features:
new feature: HiDPI support (for windows and linux, mac was already there)
Look into the properties under Appearance -> Scale.
New method to create graphical and local links: copy nodes and then paste them as graphical or local links.
Paste of structured (HTML) data recognizes the structure and reconstructs it as hierarchical nodes.
Format dialog has example nodes that demonstrate the changes.
Smaller Features:
New feature: font color combo box
Re-developed lots of the attribute functionality.
Search dialog on geographical maps accepts coordinates in the form "lat lon" or "lat lon;lat2 lon2;..."
A reverse lookup is then performed unless you set do_reverse_lookup_on_lat_lon_search to false.
New search&replace dialog shows tooltips of the node and note text.
Enhanced the calendar widget to show 12 month at once.
New feature: standalone map server created.
new feature: icon toolbar can have multiple columns (see properties->appearance).
New feature: on save, thumbnails are created and displayed as tooltip on mindmap links to other mm-files
Added node statistics to the status bar (inclusive sums of node contents).
New Export as html page with a single clickable image containing only the links (URLs) or the map.
Clones can be deactivated by menu
Strikethrough
Sorting in both directions by repeating the command
Markings in calendars

New in FreeMind 1.0.0 (Oct 17, 2013)

WOW Features:
Clones: nodes and its sub-nodes can be cloned. The two copies will then be synchronized
Collaboration: two or more people can work simultaneously on the same map
Restore complete session
Location based mind mapping
Spell checking on input
Clones:
Copy a node via Edit -> Copy
Paste a clone of this node (and its children) via Edit -> Paste as Clone
Both source and destination nodes get a (CLONE) symbol (you can disable this in the file freemind.properties).
Every change to the source or the destination node will be synchronized on the other one.
This works after saving and loading later on, too.
It is possible to have clones inside of other clones.
It is impossible to move a clone into another clone of the same node.
To disable a clone, move to the source node and choose "Clone node" again (The UI must be tweaked, IMHO)
Collaboration:
You can share a map in your network.
To do this, you need to specify a port and a password. Then you are the master.
Others that reach your master-host and the port can connect with the password.
They will get exactly the same map as a local copy.
Each change from any participants is distributed among all participants.
To end the collaboration, just choose "Share map" again. Then, some seconds later, all clients see, that the collaboration has ended.
The title of the window shows the hostname, port and the participants of the collaboration.
Observe, that there is little security around. Only the password is present, but the communication is in plain.
Restore session:
FreeMind loads each map opened in the last session,
restores the zoom and
the last selected nodes.
This feature can be switched off in the preferences.
Location Based Mind Mapping:
Now, you can associate nodes of a mindmap with geographical locations. Each node can have at most one location.
Use cases:
Store interesting places (eg. restaurants or business partner addresses)
Organize a geographical search. Examples:
house hunting
holiday location
With the integrated map viewer using maps from openstreetmaps you can visualize them inside of FreeMind (in the "Tools" menu under "Show Map" or Ctrl+Alt+M). To add a node with a location, just open the map viewer, search for it (using the geographical find Ctrl+F) and double click the location. At this location, the usual node edit window appears to enter its description. Finally, a new child with this location has been created.
The position, the map center, the zoom factor and the map source (the map provider, e.g. Mapnik) are stored. Moreover, a tooltip image is created and stored in the same directory as the map itself.
The positions of folded nodes are not displayed in the map viewer. Thus, the mind map structure is represented in the geographical map as well.
To change a node's position, just drag&drop it.
The node's context menu contains more actions. Each can be applied to multiple selected nodes as well.
More location-based features:
You can add a little map as a picture to the node.
You can jump to a node (restoring its position, zoom, etc.).
You can remove its geographical position.
You can export the map view as an image.
In the viewer, you can use the mouse wheel to zoom, cursor to move and Shift + cursor to move page wise.
You can set a home position and use the "Pos1" key to navigate to it immediately.
You can select nodes and if you press shift with the right click, you can select rectangular areas as well.
You can search for places locally. This means, that the search takes only visible points into account. Try Control-L to activate the local search.
Other features:
Moreover it contains a feature from Eclipse: Jump to the last edit locations (control-q):
If you press Control-Q, you'll get to the node ultimately changed.
Pressing Control-Q again moves to the last but second and so on.
Ten places are stored.
Headless export of maps to graphics
QuickLook Plugin for Mac: Drop (FreeMind to the applications folder and) the FreemindQL.qlgenerator into the QuickLook folder.
Now, open FreeMind and close it again
Wait some time, or run 'qlmanage -r' on the command line
After that, select a mindmap in the finder and press the SPACE bar. You get a picture of this map without opening FreeMind itself:

FreeMind Changelog

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