Freemind 0.9.0 RC7

Freemind is a mindmapping program that helps organise thoughts and plans. Topics spread out from a central theme with as many smaller branches as required. This offers a very visual way of organising ideas, which can be very helpful for planning essays and other longer projects.

Like many open-source projects there are two versions, the stable for day-to-day use and the unstable work in progress version. The latter is not suitable for important work but is a great way to experiment and see what is coming up in the next version. The latest official version of Freemind is 0.8.1. You can find it on our site here.

Make sure the Java Runtime Environment is installed on the computer before running this setup program.

Freemind documents starts like any other mind map with a central theme or idea. Related ideas are represented as branches from this central idea with as many sub topics as required.

Branches and topics can be marked with icons and surrounded with lines to show they are grouped. The topics in branches can be collapsed to stop the map from getting too crowded.

Finished maps can be exported in a variety of formats, including HTML, PDF, JPEG and Open Office Writer. A full list of new features can be found on the Freemind Wiki.

This latest version of Freemind 0.9 has fixed several bugs including broken file associations and improved the HTML editor.

Freemind 0.9 has a new file format so maps created with this version cannot be opened with the stable Freemind 0.8.