What is FreeMind?
FreeMind is a mind-map application that is free to download and is written in Java. A Mind-map is a diagram that explicitly, but somewhat informally, records concepts and the associations between them. I say that it is “informal” to distinguish a mind-map from an ontology, which places a greater emphasis on developing a systematic and reusable semantics for the knowledge structures. A mind-map is much more lightweight; you might say a mind-map application is like a simple text editor for knowledge: easy to use and good for recording an idea quickly and moving on to the next task. An ontology editor is more like a word processing system: more powerful and the results are prettier, but it takes longer to understand the tool and it takes more effort to finish the task. According to the authors, here is what FreeMind is commonly used for: • Keeping track of projects, including subtasks, state of subtasks and time recording • Project workplace, including links to necessary files, executable
