Freeplane gtd install#
Freeplane gtd update#
Freeplane gtd archive#

Starting up your GTD system in Freeplane is quite easy, all you need is an inbox, a place to put your projects to, a place to put the items for review, and optionally a place to place your archive tasks. Share how you use it in the comments.This is the seventh post in my attempt to start a blogging habit. Freeplane gives you all the tools you’ll need to create great, vibrant, and useful mind maps. Now you have a start on how you can use Freeplane. The image below shows a mind map I am creating as I go through the systemd materials. Personally I’m earning a few Linux Professional Institute certifications. Whatever the objective this will always help to keep the ideas together and organized. Mind mapping is a very powerful method that can be of great assistance in many aspects of life. Integrating mind mapping in your everyday life Restart Freeplane to use the new add-on.

Depending on the add-on, you may have additional questions to answer.Find and select the file you just downloaded.

Freeplane gtd install#

To install a new add-on to Freeplane, find the add-on you want on the Freemind add-ons directory.

Freeplane GTD+: A generic task management add-on, with a special focus in supporting the Getting Things Done (GTD) methodology.

Plug-ins can be used to extend and customize the use of the app. Press Enter on a node to add a node parallel to that one.Īll keyboard shortcuts are in the Freeplane documentation.

Press Insert again to add another node connected to the first one. Press the Insert key to add a branch (or node) off the center with a blank field where you can fill in something associated with the idea. Start typing the idea and your text will replace the center text. The standard template works for most cases. You have a choice of templates when you create a new mind map. Using FreeplaneĪt its first startup, Freeplane’s main window includes an example mind map with links to documentation about all the different things you can do with Freeplane.

Now you can launch Freeplane from your desktop environment.

Freeplane gtd update#

Next, update the desktop file database with update-desktop-database ~/.local/share/applications Keywords=Mindmaps Knowledge management Brainstorming Ĭomment=A free tool to organise your information Open your favorite text editor and save the contents below to ~/.local/share/applications/sktop. You can launch Freeplane by running /opt/freeplane/freeplane.sh from a terminal, but if you want to launch it from the desktop environment you can create a desktop file. The configuration file is located in: ~/.config/freeplane.

Move the extracted contents to the /opt directory: sudo mv freeplane-1.8.5 /opt/freeplane.

Open a terminal and extract the file (note that the version you download may be different): unzip freeplane_bin-1.8.5.zip.

Go to the project’s Sourceforge site and click Download to download the file.

Installing Freeplaneįreeplane is not currently packaged in the Fedora repositories, so you will need to install it from the project’s website. Freeplane runs on any operating system that has a current version of Java installed. This article covers another mind mapping app you can use in Fedora: Freeplane.įreeplane is a free and open source software application that supports thinking, sharing information and getting things done. There you learned that mind mapping is a visual technique for structuring and organizing thoughts and ideas. Another introduced some mind mapping tools. A previous Fedora Magazine article covered tracking your time and tasks.