![]() This is a uniformly designed manager and is sleek. Unfortunately, for me, cross-platform compatibility is something I hereon more or less require from such software.Īt 09:33 wonder how your Linux experiment is going.This Linux window manager works with the client-side decoration of Gtk. like Semantik which is a mind mapper of sorts developed for working on long texts. ![]() There are some interesting outliners and information managers in Linux that don’t exist in Windows, e.g. >might want to check out the very pleasant CherryTree, which is a >And just to keep this topic very vaguely relevant to the forum, you >SkyDrive clients (although there are workarounds for both).Ĭan you share a tip or two on the workarounds? I have found the following, which I’ve used in Windows in the past: >There are some interesting shortcomings: there’s no Google Drive or It would take one ages to find all those programs. What a little gem!Īnyone interested in trying out a lightweight Linux might want to take a look at Voyager Linux It is a customisation of Xubuntu with a great choice of software. >links very nicely to my local WebDAV servers. >libraries), Google Chrome, Thunderbird very fast, runs Dropbox, and LibreOffice, Basket NotePads (despite the latter’s KDE It boots in around 40 seconds, runs very quickly, >little netbook with an operating system that is actually pretty much ![]() >version of Xubuntu (12.10) on a rather nice Asus 1101 netbook I’ve had >So it was with great pleasure that I recently installed the latest However, since the program is free, anyone I want to share with can install it. The only issue is that, like B-liner, it will probably not export to Excel. Worth learning the Freeplane formula markup. It seems quite powerful though.įor me this is great news, because it means that I can take this activity to Linux too and for free. )Īpparently, the feature is available in Freeplane as well though it’s not so user-friendly. If it weren’t for the price of the Business edition. I don’t know if the functionality ever made it to the stable release, nor whether it was ported to Freeplane, which I use for simple mind maps. At the time I lost interest in Freemind because betas where taking forever and I found the custom field functionality quite awkward. custom metadata per node, including numerical fields. I remember that, years ago, Freemind was developing ‘attributes’, i.e. I have included it in the features of my ideal outliner In fact, I can only think of Natara Bonsai (but it only allows one custom numeric field) don’t know about MyInfo. I find it quite intriguing that the vast majority of outliners that we discuss here have no such customisable fields and, of those that do, very few can actually do calculations on them. Note that I am still using MindView v.3 (it has recently reached version 5) which works fine in Windows 7 and I see no reason to upgrade. MindView exports to nicely formatted Excel. But B-liner couldn’t export the calculation structure, which meant that I then had to re-do the budgets in Excel to share it with others. The first time I encountered this feature was in B-liner and at the time I loved it. Of course, the complexity of formulas you can create in a ‘real’ spreadsheet is far greater, but I don’t need that. In a tree/mindmap structure, the formulas are visible-they are represented by the tree structure itself. In a spreadsheet, the formulas are hidden and you have to check them one by one. I am sure it can all be done with a classic spreadsheet, but I find this far more convenient and less error-prone. If I am not interested in that detail, I just hide that level with one click. Along the way I have added detail, and now the finances are calculated directly from nodes that represent individual invoices-with the actual invoices as linked PDFs. My starting point was the project mind map which I created two years ago. I recently finished the financial reporting of a project. ![]() if a task needs to be broken down into sub-tasks, all I need to do is add the subtask nodes and set the task resources as the sum of its subsidiaries. The advantage of this approach over any spreadsheet is that I can start with the info I have, and add detail along the way i.e. So when I plan a project, I can simply make the work breakdown and add budget and resources on the actual tasks/deliverables. However, it allows one to add custom fields to nodes, and then perform calculations on those fields along the hierarchy. Strictly speaking, MindView is a ‘classic’ mind mapping program. >you use it as a spreadsheet? And why Mindview and not LibreOffice Calc? >Mindview as a hierarchical spreadsheet? I used it a few years ago as a More on Linux (so okay, not strictly relevant to outlining - perhaps)
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