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For our December βStaff Pickβ Project of the Month, we selected Freeplane, an application for Mind Mapping, plus Knowledge and Project Management.
Freeplane helps to organize and communicate your ideas in the most effective way, through useful functions such as hierarchical ordering of ideas, classifying, connecting and grouping nodes, note-taking and more.
Freeplane was previously elected βCommunity Choiceβ Project of the Month in November 2016, as well as βCommunity Choiceβ Project of the Month in June 2014. We caught up with lead coder Dimitry Polivaev to find out how the project has been doing since then.
SourceForge (SF): What significant changes have occurred with your project since you were voted Project of the Month in November 2016?
Dimitry Polivaev (DP): Usability improvements: We changed the menu structure as suggested by the student usability research group of the University of Oulu. We implemented Command search dialog, a new way to access all menu commands, preferences and icons⦠and plenty of other usability improvements.
New documentation was/is being created by our collaborators (Many Thanks!): Freeplane Tutorial Channel on Youtube, https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCh5L_Fyyymhf6X6TnzAMbsg; and a series of documentation articles in online Full Circle Magazine https://fullcirclemagazine.org/tag/freeplane/ . We collected it in a pdf file available at https://www.freeplane.org/handbook
Other improvements include:
- Dark mode and dark template.
- SVG icons which allowed to use Freeplane on HD monitors.
- Switch to UTF8 encoding (enables easier processing of Freeplane files by third party tools).
- Emoji icons for all icon symbols defined by unicode.
- Script API improvements.
SF: What can we look forward to with Freeplane?
DP: Video support at YouTube as a mainstream communication platform. It can help new users and also support current users. This Channel shows people how easy Freeplane can be used to manage knowledge.
Also quick reaction to questions and reports from the SourceForge Freeplane user community. We want to keep up the user support and quality of our project.
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