Freeplane features you were missing in FreeMind
This page lists important features of Freeplane that are not available in FreeMind.
- Simple script invocation
- Simple hotkey assignment
- add-ons (packaged scripts, see below)
- Format panel
- Formulas
- Node formats
- Attributes panel
- Integration with Docear
- 1.3.x: Inline LaTeX ("LaTeX in core") with LaTeX syntax highlighting editor
- Node details,
- Freely positionable nodes,
- Summary nodes
- (conditional) Styles
- Different export features, including scripted ones
- Approximate search
- (slightly) better printing support
- Hyperlinks available in nodes and in attributes
Add-ons
- Several add-ons are available, including:
- Pack and Go (ability to pull all FP dependencies into a single zip file for sharing with others)
- Study planner (tool for assisting with the efficient use of study time, including pomodoro timers
- Getting Things Done (task management application)
- Wikdnode (comprehensive set of node text editing tools)
- Wikdshell (test platform for building and testing groovy scripts)
- Developer Tools
- Additional icon libraries
- Insert InLine Image (an alternative way of bringing images into FP and attaching them to nodes via details or node core)
Migrating from FreeMind to Freeplane
- don't try to copy+paste from a FreeMind instance to Freeplane; instead open the FreeMind map in Freeplane (in another tab) and then copy+paste from inside Freeplane!
- Freeplane has Excel-like features and formulas:
- numbers are recognized, i.e. "001"->"1" => avoid this by putting a quote (') at the beginning of the node text
- same thing for dates
- Formulas start with a '=': to avoid treating a node as a formula, (again) put a quote (') before the '='
Features available only in FreeMind
- Collaboration mode