On Tue, Feb 17, 2009 at 7:36 PM, sameer shinde <[email protected]> wrote:
> On Tue, Feb 17, 2009 at 6:42 PM, Parthan SR <[email protected]> > wrote: > > xmind is much better option than org-mode as he's already familiar > with freemind and just being lazy :) > As freemind is slower (due to javabase) xmind should be another good > option. > > I tried xmind on ubuntu 8.04 (i386) but found that it caused problems with open office as its deb file is not OFFICIALLY supported thru synaptic (xmind is not part of the synaptic repositories). Also it must be using a java JRE/libraries which are more advanced or incompatible with the one available for ubuntu 8.04. SO i had to COMPLETELY remove xmind from my system and the problem went away--may have been due to some conflicting java file. xmind looks nice but freemind has MANY more features (including export to various other formats including html). The unique features of xmind which I found good were 1- horizontal layout of the nodes/sub nodes with less gap between them vertically so that more space can be utilised as compared to freemind's use of space. One is able to see more in the same space. 2 I didn't try the spreadsheet mode but read about it. Things which xmind did not do well as compared to freemind are 1 It exports a very rudimentary form of html which is not even in any structured/indented mode. The generated html provides no intuitiveness for the data. There is no pdf or xhtml or other basic export modes. 2 Formatting features for nodes/subnodes such as changing text color/font/background etc are much less compared to freemind This is my EXTREMELY BRIEF review of xmind and I am no expert but a layman. In case of orgmode, maybe emacs will have to be learnt and thats another project-- unless somebody has already made a module for emacs which can allow a user to switch from emacs keyboard mode to the more familiar windows keyboard mode (where cut is done by ctrl and x, paste is done by ctrl-v etc etc) Thanks for your replies. Kussh -- http://www.whylinuxisbetter.net/ http://www.fsf.org/campaigns/priority.html -- http://mm.glug-bom.org/mailman/listinfo/linuxers
