Mind Mapping with FreeMind
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- Design, write, add visual aids, link and share your mind maps
- Increase productivity and creativity
Book Details
Language : EnglishPaperback : 146 pages [ 235mm x 191mm ]
Release Date : October 2012
ISBN : 1849517622
ISBN 13 : 9781849517621
Author(s) : Silvina P. Hillar
Topics and Technologies : All Books, Cookbooks, Open Source
Table of Contents
PrefaceChapter 1: Creating a Mind Map: Dos and Don'ts
Chapter 2: Writing a Mind Map: Using the Right Words
Chapter 3: Picturing a Mind Map: Using Visual Thinking
Chapter 4: Adding Hyperlinks and Linking the Mind Map
Chapter 5: Sharing a Mind Map: Using the Best of Mobile and Web Features
Index
- Chapter 1: Creating a Mind Map: Dos and Don'ts
- Introduction
- Ordering a mind map
- Visual attraction
- Adding different types of nodes
- Usage of icons
- Exact text
- Boundaries and branches
- Writing sufficient information
- Adding necessary notes
- Chapter 2: Writing a Mind Map: Using the Right Words
- Introduction
- Keywords
- Representing the subject matter
- Connecting words and lines
- Length of lines and words
- Writing noun phrases after listening to MP3 files
- Uploading the mind map to wikispaces.com
- Developing a radiant hierarchy through word sizes
- Associating ideas through words and icons
- Chapter 3: Picturing a Mind Map: Using Visual Thinking
- Introduction
- Inserting an image
- Developing a graphic technique
- Working with bitmaps
- Designing SVG for mind maps
- Photographic mind map
- Sizing an image
- Inserting an external object from Flickr
- Using time icons
- Chapter 4: Adding Hyperlinks and Linking the Mind Map
- Introduction
- Linking to an e-mail address
- Inserting and removing a hyperlink from a text field
- Adding a graphical link to nodes and changing its color
- Adding a local hyperlink
- Importing folders and subfolders
- Following a link to fold or unfold the tree
- Chapter 5: Sharing a Mind Map: Using the Best of Mobile and Web Features
- Introduction
- Exporting a branch as a new map or HTML
- Exporting the mind map to bitmaps or vector graphics
- Uploading the mind map on Flickr and sharing it
- Exporting the mind map as HTML
- Exporting the mind map as XHTML
- Exporting the mind map as Flash
- Exporting the mind map as an OpenOffice Writer document and uploading to Google Docs
- Viewing an interactive mind map in a web browser
Silvina P. Hillar
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- Design a mind map that’s visually attractive using icons and writing enough text and adding notes where necessary
- Represent the subject matter using key words developing a radiant hierarchy through word sizes
- Associate ideas through words, icons and images
- Develop a graphic technique working with bitmaps, designing SVG for the mind map or inserting external objects
- Link the mind map to an email address, local or external hyperlinks
- Export and share the mind map in different formats
FreeMind is the powerful free mind mapping software used by millions of people worldwide to capture their ideas and communicate them visually.
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.
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.
The book is presented in easy to follow Cookbook recipes covering a wide variety of tasks and applications.
The book is for users of FreeMind and FreePlane or new users who would like to explore the world of free mind mapping software. No previous experience is required.
