Excellent, Peter! As a long-term user of Freeplane, I've actively looked for ways to help the new user understand why FP is something they should investigate. Those of us that use it KNOW its value, but how to help the uniformed discover its power and flexibility. Opening the program can be daunting, especially when one doesn't have any reason to climb the learning curve. Your presentation is one of the best I've seen in this regard! Shoot! I've been using FP for years and your engaging presentation style renews my own thinking about how to further incorporate FP in my daily work. Thanks for the well-done and straightforward presentation.

This is of the most informed videos I’ve ever watched on Mind Mapping! Thank you so much “Peter Carruthers” for sharing your insights and motivating others to use this power technique.

Peter, many thanks for your presentation from Freeplane developer team. We enjoyed it very much.

I used to roll my eyes at the concept of mind-mapping because I didn't relate to it. This presentation, however, made me see that this is exactly how I like to work (but didn't have have the software to do so efficiently). I downloaded Freeplane before the end of the video ...

one minute in, and your story has got me hooked - thank you for the video !

Beautiful presentation, content and explanation. Am in my 4th unit of a 6 part Arabic Grammar course and am lost! Could not find the right software to do a mind map, my paper version was becoming really messy. This seems just right. It does not seem like something I could use to learn a language, but believe me Arabic grammar is like learning mathematical equations. Its full of rules and exceptions and almost every alphabet has a meaning and needs notes and memorizing. Referring back to videos and course material was impossible! Your demonstration has really inspired me....I might just get there eventually. Thank you!

Luckily i read your presentation of Freeplane. Most people i believe have their own mind map in their mind. You taught us how to make better use of mind map tool. It's impressive the conclusion of this video - "the most important tool in my arsenal". Thank you, Peter.

This is good Peter, a nice product for people to use to sell courses and to run an affiliate system.

Great presentation! You gave me a lot of fantastic information. Gathering information with Google Seach in one window and the Freeplane map in the other window is a gem! Thanks!

Thank you Peter. This is incredibly powerful and empowering information. I will be passing this on to my daughter who is in her final year of Law, I'm convinced that used as a study and summarisation method, it will make a huge difference in her results.

key of hierarchy recognition in freeplane when copying/pasting from a text file seems to be 4 spaces. tab or special characters to denote hierarchy didnt seem to work, but 4 spaces did.

I know I'm a bit late to this party, but I just caught this video while downloading Freeplane...again. New laptop, renewed desire to write the Great American Novel. (How that compares with the Great European Novel, I haven't a clue, but go, Old-Worlders, go!) I want to thank you Peter for this breakdown on mind mapping and the little bit of personal bio you gave me. It clarified many ideas I've vaguely understood but never implemented properly. I've had Freeplane (as a graduation from years of Freemind) and many, many other mapping programs on several different computer systems over the years because I always knew that mind mapping is the way to move forward...I just couldn't seem to wrap my brain around it and step on the gas with it. Now, smack in the middle of middle-age and with the youngsters grown and (almost) all out of the house, I'm finally finding opportunities to put the 35 years of my scribblings into good order. Thank you. On a "why did I choose Freeplane" note, I've been looking into Scapple as a mapping solution since I'm using Scrivener as my writing headquarters, but in comparison I find that Freeplane has much more broad functionality for my purposes. Bonus: it's free. Thank you for that kindness, developers. :) Subscribed and looking forward to your videos.

Great Presentation, Thank you. I was unsure how Freeplane would work bc it was too minimalistic at first glance, but you have shown its pluses.

Beautiful Peter...thanks for sharing. I look forward to more of your teachings on this medium.

Damn, I learned a lot from this video that was posted 7 years ago. Thank you. I would love to more from you with latest Freeplane release.

This is so wonderful Peter! Thank you for sharing your ideas.

What a great Video! - Brilliant overview and introduction to Mind Maps. Thank you Peter

Thank you very much for the detailed presentation and most importantly to be very realistic. It was really valuable.

An eye opener, really. Thanks a lot for this video!

Awesome, thank you, I would really like to see your sedona map, excellent explanation!

Excelente!!!, gracias desde Chile!!

Thank You so much for sharing this fantastic presentation of your life, experiences and the usefulness of mind mappings. Great of a video!

Thanks for the info, just starting to get into mind mapping have massive amounts of data I have to process and work through and this is a tool I will definitely use.

Thanks for the video, Peter. I agree with Robert - would love a "how to" session.

Ta for the video Peter. I found it to be rather useful, especially with the idea of how you 'read' books, as I hadn't thought of using mind map software to do that before.

Look really Good Mind Map Software, Thanks!

pretty cool thanks

Thanks alot sir, I'm very grateful , Greetings from Turkey! yes rtfm :)

Thank you for the insightful video! I always used mindmaps for brainstorming purposes, and I was asking to myself if I could use them to store huge amount of research and academic papers. My fear was the mindmap would have been too messy and unreadable. After your video I see I can do it.

Wow, I install Freeplane and is Wonderfull, I love the Automatic appears "notes" , amazing soft.

Thank you indeed!

Tony Buzan - that's the guy I was thinking off when we spoke. I sold lots of the book when I was in the educational book business. Yep.... amazingly sophisticated tool. What about doing a how-to webinar on it - what buttons to push?

Hi Peter, i think your the only one who telle about pdf, i dont have pdf reader, my question is: do we have to use power point to do that or another one can do the job like acrobat reader ?

thank you! sir

Excellent presentation. How did you drop the companies act into mind map. Copy pasting loses all the levels which doesn't help at all. Do you have a tutorial on how to do that?

How do i use the project management section in this area?

Hi Peter I liked your video a lot. Personally I also use Freeplane and are eager to learn about new ways of using it. In your video it looks like you copy the pdf document completely with one action into Freeplane. I'm a little puzzled on how you did this. drag and drop does not work for typical pdf files (at least if I give it a try). did you import and structure document manual or do you use a script/addon to do this ? Thanks.

How to you get the root element to the center? My root element in freeplane is always on the left and I can't find any action to change this :-(

hi, how to get root node vertical as shown in video, I tried lot of things but didn't get it, could me help me with it and what are format of ur map shown in video..

When I export to markdown how do i make nodes that export to "text" and not markdown headers?

Hi, I don't understand how did you drag an dop the PDF?

Hi Peter have been following you for years you have not had a huge presence on KZfaq will this change from now? Look forward to your videos or possible podcasts ?

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Hi Peter, thanks for the vid. A quick question , how do you drop the pdf file to make the chapters become the node? i tried it on my side, and it just become a link to my pdf file. Thanks in advance.