Information for Mac Maverick (10.9) and Mountain Lion (10.8) Users: After the download, the operating system reports the application to be broken. Choose a FreeMind installation file by operating system.Ĭhoose among the following binaries of the current FreeMind 1.0.1, depending on your operating system:Ī smaller version without SVG export and PDF export.Īll-inclusive version.Install Java Runtime Environment if you do not have it.You can find a FreeMind installer including java here or download Sun's Java from here. System requirements Java Runtime Environment 1.6 or later. You may choose a minimum install that gives you only the basic FreeMind package or a maximum install, which includes plugins for Scalable Vector Graphics (SVG), Portable Document Format (PDF), reminders and help files. In order to make things easier for you, we've prepared installers for the most common desktop environments: Windows, Linux and Macintosh OS X. To be able to use this program, we must have installed a Java version higher than 1.6, if not, the program will not be able to function.FreeMind is written in Java, so it will run on almost any system with a Java runtime environment. The software is free and cross-platform and can be run on Windows, Linux and Mac. This manual is perfect, because we can edit, and view different kinds of nodes, and in this way, we can see the many possibilities offered by the program. The program supports import of files created with MindManager X5.Ī curious thing about the program, is that its help manual is created as a mental map, so that if we click on the help menu, it will open a mental map that contains all the information needed to use the program. We can save the mental maps and protect them with a password using the option “ Create Encrypted Map”. mm), or can be exported it to other formats such as HTML, Open Office Writer (.odt), PDF, PNG, JPG, and SVG. We can consult these shortcuts in the help section of the program.Ĭreated mind maps can be saved to the program's own format (. It is convenient to learn these keyboard shortcuts, because that speed up and streamline the process of creating mind maps. The program allows us to use keyboard shortcuts to access all its functions. We can also add password encrypted nodes, which can only be deployed if the user knows the pass to unlock them.

This is very useful for further information and to explain more extensively the meaning of the node. We can also add annotations to nodes that will be visible when we click on the node. This allows to highlight the important parts of the map. We can apply styles to nodes: bold, italic, font size, color, etc. To add nodes we can use the specific icon on the main menu, or use the available keyboard shortcuts. The nodes can be added as a child, sibling or parent.

To do this, we must add nodes to the central node. In window's central part is where we will create the mental map.

Download freemind file