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Re:Ask HN: Do you keep a personal knowledge repository? by Alex3917 on Saturday May 25, 2019 @12:59AM (#20007181)
> The other thing with FreeMind is that the UX for navigating mind-maps can get unwieldy when they get big.

In what way? I have some pretty enormous ones and they seem fine so far. I'd like it if FreeMind were more actively maintained, but at least it still works basically fine on the latest version of Java.

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Re:Ask HN: Do you keep a personal knowledge repository? by danboarder on Saturday May 25, 2019 @01:34AM (#20007307)
I just remember expanding and collapsing things a lot to keep what I wanted in view. Clicking and scrolling -- perhaps I never got proficient in the keybindings so that could explain it.
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Re:Ask HN: Do you keep a personal knowledge repository? by Alex3917 on Saturday May 25, 2019 @01:37AM (#20007315)
Spacebar expands and collapses nodes. I think part of the problem is just that the default settings are bad. Changing these couple things makes FreeMind 10x better:

Preferences -> appearance

  1. Check "edges start from 1 point at root node"
  2. Uncheck "enter confirms by default"
Preferences -> behavior

  1. Set "use formatting for all nodes" to no
Control-rightclick -> hide note window
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