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Mind Mapping with FreeMind

By : Silvina Paola Hillar
Book Image

Mind Mapping with FreeMind

By: Silvina Paola Hillar

Overview of this book

<p>FreeMind is the powerful free mind mapping software used by millions of people worldwide to capture their ideas and communicate them visually.<br /><br />Mind mapping with FreeMind will teach you how to develop different kinds of mind maps to capture and arrange your ideas. You will learn how to combine FreeMind or FreePlane with other free software in order to enhance the mind maps. You will learn to link and share them for use with mobile devices.<br /><br />Mind mapping with FreeMind provides easy to follow instructions to design different types of mind maps according to the needs of teachers and students. The book includes visual aids and example charts. Mind maps can be created in a simple way and throughout the book they can be enhanced using all the features that FreeMind offers. Visually attractive mind maps are displayed in the book as examples for you to build on.</p>
Table of Contents (13 chapters)
Mind Mapping with FreeMind
Credits
About the Author
Acknowledgement
About the Reviewer
www.PacktPub.com
Preface
Index

Connecting words and lines


The mind maps that we create are the visualization of our thoughts. Through this process, we have to consider to either remember things or make the necessary notes in order to remember them when we see the mind map; we do this by connecting words and lines, not only using nodes but also with other types of lines. Those lines can also have some extra words, which are used to connect ideas. Thus, this recipe shows resources that are used to create the connection between words and lines.

Getting ready

It is the time to explore another interesting software to create mind maps—Freeplane. We are going to use the same mind map, because FreeMind and Freeplane are compatible; no matter which one we use, we can open the files in both of them. You can download Freeplane from the following website:

http://freeplane.sourceforge.net/wiki/index.php/Main_Page

How to do it...

After installing Freeplane, we are going to run the software to open the file that we have been working with...