A quick tutorial on Freemind: Mindmapping software

Hey Guys,

I got a great video here done by a blogger you all know and love!

Yes, it is I, the great video blogger, Dan Kolansky! Ok, I’ll stop being conceited now, it is just so darn cool making your own videos.

Here is the video. It gives a quick introduction to the mindmapping software: Freemind.

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You can grab Freemind here.

God Bless,
-Daniel Kolansky

5 comments ↓

#1 David on 12.25.08 at 1:05 pm

Thanks.

Nice and simple.

Good job.

The other one I tried to view on a teachers website was so quite I could not understand the person.

#2 Dave on 01.19.09 at 9:00 am

Thanks for making the tutorial. I was feeling a little bit confused by the oh-so-technical descriptions on the wiki and the other advice out there. Your video gave me the basics I needed to get me started.

#3 John J Fink on 02.22.09 at 1:36 pm

Thanks great job.

#4 Rachel Goddard on 02.28.09 at 2:40 pm

Hi Daniel – I am very grateful that I found your first video tutorial on mind mapping with FreeMind. Thank you :)

I could not hear exactly (and crucially!) what you are saying about how to move children over from one side to another! I hear you say Ctrl, and arrows but I also hear you say Enter and I have tried all combinations of these words and only succeeded in moving from one MM to another and not the new children to the place I really want them.

Please could you help a little to just let me know exactly the sequence of steps to place them where I want them?

Thank you for your thoughtfulness in making this available.

Rachel

#5 Christin on 07.19.09 at 7:59 am

Hey -

Great beginner tutorial. I’m trying to create maps of autonomous systems for networking research. I’ve opted to use freemind since it seemed like one of the more common free mapping tools. I have a few quick questions. One, can freemind create a map from a text file, or any file for that matter? Two, can you set freemind to put shapes around nodes other than the center node? Three, can you change the color/surrounding shape of multiple nodes at one time?

Thanks!
Christin

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