

Low costs of risk of switching away to another mind mapping tool, because FreeMind stores maps in XML format.Possibility to decorate nodes with built-in icons, colors and different fonts.Possibility to use and edit long multiline nodes even with newlines.Find facility, where found items are shown one by one as you do "find next", and the map is unfolded only for the current item.Smart copying and pasting from, including plain text and RTF (MS Wordpad, MS Word, MS Outlook messages).Smart copying and pasting into, including pasting of links from HTML or structuring the pasted content on the basis of the number of leading spaces in a line pasting of lists of selected files.

Smart Drag'n Drop, including the possibility to copy nodes or copy style of nodes dragging and dropping of multiple selected nodes dropping of texts or list of files from outside.Fast one-click navigation, including folding / unfolding on one click and following links on one click at the same time.These two are not really two different things, just two different descriptions of a single application. A mind mapper, and at the same time an easy-to-operate hierarchical editor with strong emphasis on folding. From very early versions, Freemind supports folding which is its essential property. A premier mind-mapping software written in Java.Fully functional following of HTML links stored in the nodes, be it www links or links to local files.
