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The standard template works for most cases. You have a choice of templates when you create a new mind map. Using FreeplaneĪt its first startup, Freeplane’s main window includes an example mind map with links to documentation about all the different things you can do with Freeplane. Now you can launch Freeplane from your desktop environment. Next, update the desktop file database with update-desktop-database ~/.local/share/applications Keywords=Mindmaps Knowledge management Brainstorming Ĭomment=A free tool to organise your information Open your favorite text editor and save the contents below to ~/.local/share/applications/sktop. You can launch Freeplane by running /opt/freeplane/freeplane.sh from a terminal, but if you want to launch it from the desktop environment you can create a desktop file.

The configuration file is located in: ~/.config/freeplane. Move the extracted contents to the /opt directory: sudo mv freeplane-1.8.5 /opt/freeplane.Open a terminal and extract the file (note that the version you download may be different): unzip freeplane_bin-1.8.5.zip.Go to the project’s Sourceforge site and click Download to download the file.
#Mindmap freeplane install#
Installing Freeplaneįreeplane is not currently packaged in the Fedora repositories, so you will need to install it from the project’s website. Freeplane runs on any operating system that has a current version of Java installed. This article covers another mind mapping app you can use in Fedora: Freeplane.įreeplane is a free and open source software application that supports thinking, sharing information and getting things done. There you learned that mind mapping is a visual technique for structuring and organizing thoughts and ideas. Another introduced some mind mapping tools. A previous Fedora Magazine article covered tracking your time and tasks.
