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Christoph Rissner describes in his article () at IICM site () his implementation () of data exchange between FreeMind and MindManager. If you have a lot of maps created by FreeMind and you want to switch to another program, writing a conversion program should be easy, especially if that program features Visual Basic scripting facility.
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Low costs of risk of switching away to another mind mapping tool, because FreeMind stores maps in XML format.Possibility to decorate nodes with built-in icons, colors and different fonts.Possibility to use and edit long multiline nodes even with newlines.Find facility, where found items are shown one by one as you do "find next", and the map is unfolded only for the current item.Export of map to HTML, with folding (see example ()).
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I am also using it to organize all of the. Earlier this fall, I used Freemind to create a handy chart mapping the emotional response in readers to plot points. Written in Java, it runs on multiple platforms and is extremely useful for brainstorming and organizing information.