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

[Jamon Camisso]

On 12/06/2011 03:24 PM, Lennart Sorensen wrote:
> 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.

In this case Freemind takes advantage of the extensibility of the format
- it works very well across platforms and can be transformed into
multiple outputs (pdf, svg, png, html).

http://freemind.sourceforge.net/wiki/index.php/Import_and_export

Jamon
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