FreeMind

FreeMind is a simple, elegant productivity tool - it basically allows you to quickly generate a "mind map" document. This is essentially a pleasantly laid out tree structure that packs a lot of information into a little bit of space. You can decorate the nodes with icons that have meaning for you, and also add a hyperlink to the node. Keyboard shortcuts are excellent, and clearly these folks went to a lot of trouble to keep the tool simple and easy to use. Really pleasant to work with. I'm starting to organize my task lists and so on with it, and that's going well.

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FreeMind with XML?

Xoltar,

I like the tool as a brainstorming tool, but find that the resulting map is too convoluted to make sense from when I go back later to assess, organize, or extricate data (for separate development of an idea or segment of ideas).

Do you think it would be possible (or worthwhile) to tie this to an XML generator that could use the invented tags to help structure the free flow ideas into something more searchable or (traditionally) organized?

Thanks,

Heilong

XML

Hi Heilong,

I'm not sure I completely understand your question, but FreeMind does save its data in an XML format, so you could certainly extract the data into whatever format would be most useful.