Description

'Map Saving Options' is a Freeplane AddOn that gives you the possibility to add saving preferences to each of your maps.

Mindmaps can be used for different purposes and saving information like node's modification times depends most of the times on the map itself, its content and use case.

With this AddOn you can define if a map have to save the information of any of these:

• folded and unfolded nodes
• selected node when saving
• Creation and Modification times of each node

This way, you can define for each map if it will use the central Freeplane preferences, its own or a mix of both.

Do I need this AddOn?

I don't know if you do, but I do! That's why I created it. Let me explain.

I use Freeplane for multiple pourposes and work with different types of maps.

For example, I use maps for projects I work in and use Freeplane to anotate all meetings agreements, pending tasks, relevant information, received data and files, etc. In these types of maps to have the creation and modification times of nodes can be very useful when searching for anotations done in a specific day or week for example.

I also use maps as workbooks, where the modification time information has no use. But sometimes I have to compare different versions of the same map and this extra information only makes things harder (for example when using GIT versioning and commiting changes)

Installing the AddOn

Installing a new AddOn is very straight forward in Freeplane.

You only need to follow these simple steps:

1. Download the latest release of the addOn
2. Open it in Freeplane
3. A first dialog will open.
   
4. Click Yes and follow the instructions.
5. Close and reopen Freeplane to complete the installation.

More information about Add Ons and how to install them in Freeplane can be found in the oficial Freeplane wiki: Add-ons_(install).

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How to use it

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1. Menu commands

After installing the Addon and restarting Freeplane, a new menu will appear in the Freeplane's Menu Bar

You can get to the new commands by selecting the menu Edo Tools / Map Saving Options

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2. Assigning map preferences

When selecting the "change saving options for this map" command, a new dialog opens:

Here you can define if the current map will have its own saving preferences or if it should use the ones defined in the Freeplane Preferences Dialog.

If you decide that it should have its own preferences, then a second dialog opens. There you can define the saving options for the map:

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3. Saving map

When using the saving command in the menu, the AddOn uses the defined preferences for the map.

After saving the status bar shows a message indicating the preferences used for saving the map:

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4. Preferences

In Freeplane Preferences you can also choose if when saving a map for the first time, you should be asked for the saving preferences of the map or not.

This AddOn is still beta

So it may have a lot of bugs. Use it at your own risk. (Freeplane has an excelent "Undo" implementation, so the risk is in fact very limited)

Please report any bug in this addOn in its GitHub page

Your Help needed

I'm not very good at writing in english, so if you find any error please tell me (and please explain me how to write it correctly)

I tried also to translate some of the texts to German. Please help me correct them.

About Freeplane

Freeplane is a free and open source software application that supports thinking, sharing information and getting things done at work, in school and at home. The software can be used for mind mapping and analyzing the information contained in mind maps. Freeplane runs on any operating system that has a current version of Java installed. It can be run locally or portably from removable storage like an USB drive.