Free and open source mind mapping application for your Mac

Freemind is mind mapping software. You can use it for writing essays or conducting experiments.

Freemind is also useful for projects, finances, and just organizing your thoughts and plans.

Here are some key features of "Freemind":

· Keeping track of projects, including subtasks, state of subtasks and time recording
· Project workplace, including links to necessary files, executables, source of information and of course information
· Workplace for internet research using Google and other sources
· Keeping a collection of small or middle sized notes with links on some area which expands as needed. Such a collection of notes is sometimes called knowledge base.
· Essay writing and brainstorming, using colors to show which essays are open, completed, not yet started etc, using size of nodes to indicate size of essays. I don't have one map for one essay, I have one map for all essays. I move parts of some essays to other when it seems appropriate.
· Keeping a small database of something with structure that is either very dynamic or not known in advance. The main disadvantage of such approach when compared to traditional database applications are poor query possibilities, but I use it that way anyway - contacts, recipes, medical records etc. You learn about the structure from the additional data items you enter. For example, different medical records use different structure and you do not have to analyze all the possible structures before you enter the first medical record.
· Commented internet favorites or bookmarks, with colors and fonts having the meaning you want.

Requirements:

· Java 1.4.2 or later

What's New in This Release: [ read full changelog ]

· Fixed some documentation bugs reported by Edmund Laugasson. Thanks.
· Bug fix: Untranslatable strings and places
· Documentation fixes.
· Mac: Spaces in files names corrected.
· Bug fix: B19 startup fails with Mode not available: Mindmap ;Open hyperlink; works for multiple selected nodes.
· FreeMindStarter uses reflection. Thus, it can detect java < 1.4.
· Icons revised. Thanks to Predrag.
· Fixed: copying to clipboard for Linux.
· Fixed: saving of xhtml - tag .
· Application type of freemind.exe changed to Win32 GUI to prevent DOS box.
· Fixed: images in notes.
· Added translations (thanks to all authors):
· French - 0.9.0 Beta 19 - FM_Key_Mappings_Quick_Guide_fr.pdf by dberthereau
· French - 0.9.0 Beta 19 - FM_Key_Mappings_Quick_Guide by dberthereau
· Russian 0.9.0 - beta 19 - full
· Integrated MS Project export with dependencies + example
· Integrated Word export with notes - Thanks to Eric.
· Fixed: Node move looses timestamp
· Fixed: Fail to detect invalid preference setting
· Fixed: 0.9B19 ODT exports as German