FREEPLANE(1)

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version 1.7.10 · 2 versions
, in debian bookworm, ubuntu jammy, ubuntu noble

💖 FREEPLANE(1) 💖

okay bestie, sit down, grab a strawberry, because we're talking about freeplane, and she's literally the main character of the User Commands section of your manual 💅

✨ NAME ✨

freeplane — the program for working with Mind Maps. that's it, that's the whole vibe 🧠💫

🎀 SYNOPSIS 🎀

freeplane [-X menukey] [-S] [-N] [-h] [-U] [--help] [file1] [file2]
          [...]

yes she takes files, yes she takes flags, yes she's flexible, we love that for her 🫶

🌸 DESCRIPTION 🌸

freeplane is a free and open source software application that supports thinking, sharing information and getting things done at work, in school and at home. no cap, it does all three. the core of the software is tools for mind mapping (also known as concept mapping or information mapping) and using mapped information. 🗺️

she's literally occupying the middle ground between an editor and a diagramming tool — like, Freeplane lets you add content as quickly and naturally as you would in a text editor, yet producing structured content that can be manipulated as easily as a diagram. it's giving best of both worlds. iconic behavior honestly. 😭✨

features include ordering ideas in nodes and freely positionable nodes, connecting nodes, automatic/conditional styles, scripting, add-ons, LaTeX, search/filtering, different export features, printing, password protection of nodes/maps and more. like she really said "I contain multitudes" and meant it 👑

full list of applications and features lives at http://freeplane.sourceforge.net/wiki/index.php/Main_Page — go look, i'll wait 🦋

🌈 fun fact bestie: this manual page was written for the Debian(TM) distribution because the original program does not have a manual page. instead, it has documentation in the Help menu and the Freeplane wiki (http://freeplane.sourceforge.net/wiki/index.php/Main_Page). so yeah, we hand-crafted this for you 💖

💅 OPTIONS 💅

  • -X menukey — execute menu item with key menukey. use the devtools add-on to find the menu keys 🔍
  • -S — stop after executing menu items. she does her thing and then she leaves, periodt 🚪
  • -N — set the 'nonInteractive' system property to 'true' 🤖
  • -U userdir — set the freeplane user config directory 📁
  • -h --help — Show summary of options. the classic. the icon. the "help me help you" 💫

you can find more detailed descriptions of all command line options and environment variables as well as help for batch execution commands (-X/-S/-N) in the Wiki page: http://freeplane.sourceforge.net/wiki/index.php/Command-line_options 📚

🌈 ENVIRONMENT VARIABLES 🌈

  • JAVA_OPTS — Set Java Properties, e.g. set the freeplane user config directory:
JAVA_OPTS=-Dorg.freeplane.userfpdir=$HOME/.myfp freeplane
  • DEBUG — Start Freeplane in debug mode (if you have problems starting):
DEBUG=true freeplane
  • FREEPLANE_JAVA_HOME — Prefix of Java(>=8) installation to use (Freeplane only) ☕
  • JAVA_HOME — Prefix of Java(>=8) installation to use (many Java applications) ☕☕

⭐ NEW FEATURES IN 1.7.X ⭐

  • Full Java11 support, requires Java8 🔥
  • Freeplane API — There is a comprehensive API layer for manipulation of Freeplane files (supports headless mode) 🤖
  • References to other mind maps from formulas and scripts 🔗
  • Node aliases, global nodes, export for selected branches only, URLs like #at(:~someNodeAlias), ... 👑

🦋 NEW FEATURES IN 1.6.X 🦋

  • SVG Icons — All icons are SVGs, the size can be changed per node via the Tools panel. 🎨
  • Presentations — Very powerful presentations can be created via the Tools panel. If you have questions about the usage, post in the discussion forum. 📊

🎀 NEW FEATURES IN 1.5.X 🎀

Please open the what's new map: Help->Whats new in Freeplane 1.5.x. 🗺️

💜 NEW FEATURES IN 1.3.X 💜

😭 KNOWN ISSUES 😭

ok bestie this is the part where we're honest. these are real, don't skip them 💀

🔍 SEE ALSO 🔍

Much documentation is available from the Freeplane wiki under http://www.freeplane.org/. 📖

There is an open discussion forum at http://www.freeplane.org/discussion, which is the place to ask questions. 💬

Report bugs here: http://www.freeplane.org/bugs and feature requests here: http://www.freeplane.org/requests 🐛

If you want to contribute to the Freeplane project, join us at http://freeplane-developer.996969.n3.nabble.com/ ! 🫶✨

👑 AUTHOR 👑

This manual page was written by Eric Lavarde <deb@zorglub.s.bawue.de> for the Debian(TM) system (and may be used by others). Permission is granted to copy, distribute and/or modify this document under the terms of the GNU General Public License, Version 2 or any later version published by the Free Software Foundation. 📜

On Debian systems, the complete text of the GNU General Public License, Version 2 can be found in /usr/share/common-licenses/GPL-2.

🌟 AUTHORS 🌟

  • Eric Lavarde <deb@zorglub.s.bawue.de> — Author. 💖
  • Felix Natter <fnatter@gmx.net> — Author. 💖

Copyright © 2016 Eric Lavarde and Felix Natter

📝 NOTES 📝

  1. most applets won't run — http://www.duckware.com/tech/java-security-clusterfuck.html

and that's the whole page bestie, you ate it, you read the whole thing, i'm so proud 😭🫶

this was Freeplane 1.7.10, dated September, 15th, 2017 — and that's the manual page era we're living in, periodt. now go make a mind map, you've earned it 💅✨🌸

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