When I asked him about it Ryan agreed, and said “In terms of the real difference, this does need to be clarified – inside and outside of the team. In fairness, they do say “already we have some long asked for features such as labelling graphical links, spell checker and improved filtering functionality” but I think it will take more to move FreeMind users. I think it would be positive to have a strong statement of where they are going, based not so much on what Freeplane is not, but more on areas that will be different – a vision that will tell potential users why they should consider Freeplane. There is no policy identification of feature differences yet – and these are what I believe a user will want to know before making a commitment to Freeplane. The Sourceforge wiki for Freeplane says “Our main goals for Freeplane are: Better Mind Map editor than FreeMind”. It is still in alpha so it should only be used for testing for now. Since then they have been refactoring the code so that they can be more reponsive to requests from the user community. Freeplane has a 6-member team and registered at Sourceforge in November 2007. FreeMind developers had different ideas about how that software should develop, and the result was a split. It is an open source and free mind-mapping program that resulted from the forking of the FreeMind code base 18 months ago. They are putting out a call for more contributors and more users, so let’s look at Freeplane: Now I’ve heard from Ryan Wesley, Freeplane’s project manager, that overall it is pretty stable. If you like the addon, don’t forget to honor the work put into it by donating to the author.I’ve been meaning to add Freeplane to for a while, but its alpha status was holding me back. In about a day I rolled out the first version of the addon and I hope it will come handy to someone. The built-in styles also make the implementation of dotted reference numbering easy. For setting a WBS structure up, all you have to do is add Cost and Duration properties to your nodes, add aggregated properties SubCost and SubDuration that sums the properties of costs and durations.īy adjusting styles, the whole image can be modified to display the web of tasks like a proper WBS. After the initial planning, the tasks can be exported for future use in Excel or imported to actual project management tools like the all-time favorite MS Project.įreeplane is exceptionally versatile, when it comes to handling task properties and scripting. The tasks have names, definitions, resource costs and duration properties.Īs long as it is not used for keeping track of the dependencies of the tasks, it can be easily created using a mindmap tool. It is a great tool for planning and budgeting a project. WBS is a project management technique for representing a project and it’s subtasks in a multi-level tree, where each new level refines the top-level tasks. Nevertheless I decided to see how this could be implemented in Freeplane. I’ve been contacted about my FreeplaneGTD addon, if it could be used for creating and maintaining work-breakdown-structures (WBS).Īs there is a huge difference between what WBS and GTD is used for, I have to turn down the idea of integrating any kind of WBS support into the already quite bloated GTD add-on.
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