Freeplane - Mind Mapper to Replace FreeMind

I use Freeplane every day!
Freeplane exist as portable application, is possible to add to this site lists ?

I've used Freemind for a long time, but I'm despairing about them ever (and I mean EVER) releasing another stable version.

It has literally been YEARS that 0.9.0 has been stalled in betaland.

If Freeplane is going to actually advance this project, then I'm on board.

Thanks. Does look promising...

I'm actually becoming a fan of XMind. I haven't used FreePlane but I find the FreeMind interface to be a little clumsy, and somehow I just don't gel with it quite as well as I do with XMind.

I can agree on one thing though; mind-mapping software is great, I'm just sorry I didn't discover it sooner, and PortableApps.com surely need a candidate for the office category.

Here is the portable mod by me of the Linux launcher script.

#!/bin/bash

#
#	* This is a portable version by me.
#&2
		shift
		for text in "$@"
		do
			echo "         ${text}" >&2
		done
	fi
}

_error() {
	echo "ERROR:   $1" >&2
	shift
	for text in "$@"
	do
		echo "         ${text}" >&2
	done
}

findjava() {
	# We try hard to find the proper 'java' command
	if [ -n "${JAVACMD}" ] && [ -x "${JAVACMD}" ]
	then
		_debug "Using \$JAVACMD to find java virtual machine."
	elif [ -n "${JAVA_BINDIR}" ] && [ -x "${JAVA_BINDIR}/java" ]
	then
		JAVACMD="${JAVA_BINDIR}/java"
		_debug "Using \$JAVA_BINDIR to find java virtual machine."
	elif [ -n "${JAVA_HOME}" ] && [ -x "${JAVA_HOME}/bin/java" ]
	then
		JAVACMD="${JAVA_HOME}/bin/java"
		_debug "Using \$JAVA_HOME to find java virtual machine."
	else
		JAVACMD=$(which java)
		if [ -n "${JAVACMD}" ] && [ -x "${JAVACMD}" ]
		then
			_debug "Using \$PATH to find java virtual machine."
		elif [ -x /usr/bin/java ]
		then
			_debug "Using /usr/bin/java to find java virtual machine."
			JAVACMD=/usr/bin/java
		fi
	fi

	# if we were successful, we return 0 else we complain and return 1
	if [ -n "${JAVACMD}" ] && [ -x "${JAVACMD}" ]
	then
		_debug "Using '$JAVACMD' as java virtual machine..."
		if [ -n "${DEBUG}" ]
		then
			"$JAVACMD" -version >&2
		fi
		if (! "${JAVACMD}" -version 2>&1 | grep -qe 'Java(TM)' -e OpenJDK)
		then
			_error "Your Java is not a derivative from Sun's code," \
			       "=======================================" \
			       "FREEMIND WILL MOST PROBABLY *NOT* WORK," \
			       "=======================================" \
			       "define JAVACMD, JAVA_BINDIR, JAVA_HOME or PATH" \
			       "in order to point to such a VM." \
			       "See the manpage of freeplane(1) for details."
			JAVA_TYPE=other
		else
			JAVA_TYPE=sun
		fi
		return 0
	else
		_error "Couldn't find a java virtual machine," \
		       "define JAVACMD, JAVA_BINDIR, JAVA_HOME or PATH."
		return 1
	fi
}

_source() {
	if [ -f "$1" ]
	then
		_debug "Sourcing '$1'."
		. "$1"
	fi
}

output_debug_info() {
	if [ -z "${DEBUG}" ]
	then
		return 0
	fi
	_debug "Freeplane parameters are '${@}'."
	_debug "$(uname -a)"
	if [ -x "$(which lsb_release 2>/dev/null)" ]
	then
		_debug "$(lsb_release -a)"
	else
		_debug "System is not LSB conform, 'lsb_release' does not exist."
	fi
	if [ -x "$(which dpkg 2>/dev/null)" ]
	then
		_debug "The following DEB packages are installed:"
		COLUMNS=132 dpkg -l | grep -i -e freeplane >&2
	elif [ -x "$(which rpm 2>/dev/null)" ]
	then
		_debug "The following RPM packages are installed:"
		rpm -qa | grep -i -e freeplane >&2
	else
		_debug "Neither dpkg nor rpm is installed."
	fi
}

########## START MAIN PART #############################################

#--------- Put the environment together --------------------------------

userfpdir="${FREEPLANE_BASE_DIR}/.freeplane"
_source /etc/freeplane/freeplanerc
_source "${userfpdir}/freeplanerc"

findjava
if [ $? -ne 0 ]
then
	exit 1
fi

output_debug_info

if [ -x $(which readlink) ] && [ "`echo $OSTYPE | cut -b1-6`" != "darwin" ]
then # if we have 'readlink' we can use it to get an absolute path
	# -m should be faster and link does always resolve, else this script
	# wouldn't be called, would it?
	freefile=$(readlink -mn "$0")
	_debug "Link '$0' resolved to '${freefile}'."
else
	freefile="$0"
fi
freepath="$(dirname "${freefile}")"

# we try different possibilities to find framework.jar
for jar in "${FREEPLANE_BASE_DIR}" \
	"${freepath}" "${freepath}/share/freeplane" "${freepath}/freeplane"
do
	if [ -f "${jar}/framework.jar" ]
	then
		freedir="${jar}"
		_debug "Freeplane Directory is '${jar}'."
		break
	fi
done

if [ -z "${freedir}" ]
then
	_error "Couldn't find Freeplane under '${freepath}'."
	exit 1
fi

if [ ! -f "${userfpdir}/patterns.xml" ] && [ -f /etc/freeplane/patterns.xml ]
then
	if [ ! -d "${userfpdir}" ]
	then
		_debug "Creating directory ${userfpdir}."
		mkdir -p "${userfpdir}"
	fi
	_debug "Copying patterns.xml to ${userfpdir}."
	cp /etc/freeplane/patterns.xml "${userfpdir}/patterns.xml"
fi

#--------- Call (at last) Freeplane -------------------------------------
fwdir="${freedir}/fwdir"

if [ "${JAVA_TYPE}" != "sun" ]
then # non-Sun environments don't work currently but we try anyway, who knows.
	defines=-Dgnu.java.awt.peer.gtk.Graphics=Graphics2D
fi
_debug "Calling: "\
"${JAVACMD}" -Duser.home="${FREEPLANE_BASE_DIR}"\
-Xmx512m\
 "-Dorg.freeplane.param1=$1"\
 "-Dorg.freeplane.param2=$2"\
 "-Dorg.freeplane.param3=$3"\
 "-Dorg.freeplane.param4=$4"\
 "-Dorg.knopflerfish.framework.bundlestorage=memory"\
 "-Dorg.freeplane.globalresourcedir=${freedir}/resources"\
 "-Dorg.knopflerfish.gosg.jars=reference:file:${freedir}/core/"\
 $defines\
 -jar "${freedir}/framework.jar"\
 -xargs "${freedir}/props.xargs"\
 -xargs "${freedir}/init.xargs"
( echo "${DEBUG}" | grep -qe "exit" ) && exit 0 # do not start Freeplane
"${JAVACMD}" -Duser.home="${FREEPLANE_BASE_DIR}"\
-Xmx512m\
 "-Dorg.freeplane.param1=$1"\
 "-Dorg.freeplane.param2=$2"\
 "-Dorg.freeplane.param3=$3"\
 "-Dorg.freeplane.param4=$4"\
 "-Dorg.knopflerfish.framework.bundlestorage=memory"\
 "-Dorg.freeplane.globalresourcedir=${freedir}/resources"\
 "-Dorg.knopflerfish.gosg.jars=reference:file:${freedir}/core/"\
 $defines\
 -jar "${freedir}/framework.jar"\
 -xargs "${freedir}/props.xargs"\
 -xargs "${freedir}/init.xargs"

[Use <pre>, not <code>, for blocks of code - mod Chris]

Freeplane is reliable and working extremely well, answering the needs of those who have been desperately wanting FreeMind to be ported as a portable application.

Besides continuing the familiar FreeMind interface, the excellent development team continuously work to improve its features, and they have already managed to add a spell-checker function, ability to open the notes pane anywhere (not only bottom but also on top, left, and right) and it is completely free and open source. They have already ported Freeplane as a portable application, and I use the portable version daily, have not yet encountered any issues whatsoever. And as JayPel puts it very rightly, it works interoperable with FreeMind (some of the issues have been resolved with the latest non-beta releases -1.1.2 as of current).

So why not include Freeplane portable in the PortableApps.com list and put an end to the sufferings to all mindmappers around desperately looking for a portable mind-mapping application, and thus enhance the applications categories with "Mind-Mapping"

Please, please include Freeplane into the PortableApps.com list

Best wishes

the one i use is called personal brain.

there is no portable version but it seems to run just fine when installed directly to a usb drive. (its java based though, but then, who DOESN'T have java these days...)

You can download Freeplane Beta 1.2.11 as a portable app in *.paf.exe format from: https://sourceforge.net/projects/freeplane/files/freeplane%20beta/

This beta brings numerous new features and improvements to Freeplane Mindmapping application, including floating nodes, node details, scripts support, Add-Ons Framework and many more.

For more information, please also see the improved Freeplane wiki at http://freeplane.sourceforge.net/wiki/index.php/Main_Page

Note that this is beta software, and discuss any bugs, requests at the new Freeplane Forum https://sourceforge.net/apps/phpbb/freeplane/viewforum.php?f=1

Best Wishes

Are there any plans to add Freeplane to the official portableapps.com store?

On their webpage at (sourceforge https://sourceforge.net/projects/freeplane/files/freeplane%20stable/) one can download the FreeplanePortable-1.11.2.paf.exe. Will the portableapps.com platform autoupdate it on my system or will I have to always manually download the latest?