Mind mapping software, was Re: Is KDE 4 Stable?

[Lennart Sorensen]

On Tue, Dec 06, 2011 at 02:57:44PM -0500, Giles Orr wrote:
> I understand your discomfort with Java-based software, but have for
> several years been using FreeMind very happily despite it being
> Java-based.  I think it's the only Java-based software I use at home
> (not so at work, where we use Eclipse).  I've found FreeMind to be the
> most flexible of the several mind-mapping softwares I've tried, and
> two other reasons I settled on it were A) entirely cross-platform
> (behaves identically under Windows and Linux), and B) it stores its
> files in a non-proprietary format ... XML.  And my respect for it was
> sealed when I fired up Thinking Space (mind-mapping software for
> Android, also highly recommended) and found that it uses the same file
> format and opens FreeMind files flawlessly.

XML is no cure for proprietary formats.  Sure you can see some of the
structure of the file, but that doesn't mean you have a clue what the
contents mean.

> I don't think I've ever tried to print a mind map, but on several
> occasions I've used FreeMind's export-to-HTML, which has worked quite
> well.  It builds a nicely structured page of indented lists -
> obviously a different appearance, but quite functional.  You'll have
> to investigate that aspect of its behaviour yourself to see if it
> serves your purposes.

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