Freeplane/C2/Nodes-and-basic-commands/English
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Title Slide |
Welcome to the tutorial on Nodes and Basic commands . |
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Learning Objectives |
In this tutorial, we will learn to,
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System and Software Requirement |
To record this tutorial, I am using
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Pre-requisites |
To follow this tutorial,
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Chapter link http://epathshala.nic.in/wp-content/doc/book/flipbook/Class_IX/0964-Science/CHAP 14/index.html |
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Press the Windows key. |
Press the windows key on the keyboard. |
Type freeplane in the search form. | In the search form, type Freeplane. |
Open Freeplane. | Double click on the Freeplane icon to open the program. |
Cursor on the map. | The program may open with a previously loaded map. |
Click on File, Newmap. | Press Ctrl and N keys together or click on File, Newmap.
A select template dialogue box opens. |
Hover mouse next to remember my decision. | I will leave the Remember my decision check-box, un-checked for now. |
Click on the pulldown, select standard-1.6.mm and click on OK button button. | Click on the dropdown.
Select standard-1.6.mm. Click on the OK button. |
Hover mouse next to the New Mindmap node. | A new map opens with the root node.
The node has New Mindmap written in it for node text. |
Hover mouse over the node. | It is the only node present in the map and is automatically selected. |
Double click on the “New Mindmap” node. | Double click on the root node to edit it. |
Type Natural Resources and press enter. | Type Natural Resources in it and press Enter.
This is called in-line editing. |
Right click to open the context menu. | For rich text formatting, right click on the node to open the context menu. |
Choose, Edit Node core in dialogue. | Choose, Edit Node core in dialogue from the menu. |
Cursor on the dialogue box. | Edit node core in dialog box opens. |
Hover mouse over font, size, color formatting options. | Notice the font, size, Text color & alignment formatting options. |
Select and highlight the text in the form. | Select and highlight the text in the form. |
Set size to 18 and bold font. | In font size drop down , set font size to 18, and click on bold font. |
Click mouse on font style, show style can also be changed. | You may choose to change the font style if desired. |
Hover mouse next to text alignment option. | Text can be aligned to left, right or center. |
click on the OK button. | Click on the OK button.
It is seen on the lower end of the screen for me. |
Cursor on the map. | Let's add the concepts about natural resources to the map. |
Click on Edit, New Node, New Child Node. | To add a child node, click on the Edit menu.
Select New Node, then New Child Node. |
In the child node, type Water and press enter. | Type Water as the node text and press Enter.
Alternately, press the insert key on the keyboard to insert the child node. |
Select root node, Click on Edit, New Node, New Sibling Node | Click on Edit, New Node , New Sibling Node to add a sibling node.
Now we have a sibling node to Water. |
Type Air in new node. | Type Air for the node text.
Keyboard shortcut to add sibling nodes is to press Enter. |
Press enter thrice, and type soil, energy, wind in the three nodes. | Now, add 3 more sibling nodes to the Air node.
I will assign them to Soil, Energy, and Wind which are Natural resources. I will use the keyboard shortcut to add the siblings. |
Cursor on the canvas. | Let's format the map using the tool panel. |
Select root node. | I will select the root node. |
Open Tool panel. | To open the Tool panel, click on the arrow seen on the right middle side of the window. |
Click on the Format tab. | In the tools panel, click on the Format tab. |
Adjust zoom level as desired. (zoom in or zoom out using Ctrl+mouse scroll wheel). | Zoom and reposition the map to suit your convenience. |
Click on the colored rectangle next to text. | In Color of whole core section, click on the rectangle next to Background. |
Cursor on the dialogue box. | Background dialogue box appears with many tab choices. |
Show Swatches tab and RGB panel. | In the swatches tab, notice the color choices available in the RGB panel. |
Position wheel to yellow and click on OK button. | I will select the yellow color and click on the OK button in the box. |
Move cursor from root to water and back to highlight yellow color. | The color change is visible, only when another node gets selected. |
Scroll down the tool panel. | Scroll down the tool panel. |
Hover mouse next to Font for whole core section. | Font for whole core section can also be used to format fonts. |
Hover mouse over Line color, style and width in Edges section. | Scroll down the Tool panel.
Node shape, node border, edges and edge color can also be formatted here. |
Click on Format, Automatic layout. | Click Format on the top menu and select Automatic layout.
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Hover mouse next to the disabled tick mark. | The Automatic layout is disabled for me. |
Click on for all nodes option. | I will change the layout to For all nodes option. |
Cursor on the map. | Now, color, font and node styles change across the map. |
Click on Format, Apply style to view the options. | You can also set styles using the Apply style option in the Format menu. |
Cursor on Apply style levels. | Depending on the operating system, the option may be called Apply style levels. |
Cursor on Apply style levels. | To choose an option in the menu, click and select the check box on it. |
Hover mouse over topic, subtopic, subsubtopic option. | One can choose from Topic, Subtopic or Subsubtopic option. |
Hover mouse over the Levels. | The different Levels arrange hierarchy of nodes into preset styles. |
Hover mouse over Level 1 and Level 2. | Level 1 may be chosen for all child nodes from the Root node.
Level 2 may be chosen for grandchildren and so on. |
Cursor on the canvas. | You may pause the video, and familiarize with the options under Apply style. |
Hide the Tool panel. | Click on the right arrow in the Tool panel, to hide it. |
Cursor on the canvas. | Now let's add concepts to the Water node. |
Click on Water node. | Click and select the Water node. |
Show the selected water node. | It becomes cyan in color when selected. |
Type Rain & Snow, Harvesting methods, Sustenance, Acid rain and Water Pollution. | Add 5 water related concepts as child nodes of Water as seen on the screen.
They are, Rain & Snow, Harvesting, Sustenance, Acid rain & Water Pollution. |
Video will show the automatic repositioning of the nodes on the canvas. | Notice the dynamic positioning of nodes in the canvas when children are added.
This prevents the node texts from overlapping with each other. |
Add 3 child nodes to Air pollution. | Next, add 3 child nodes for the Air concept. |
Type Particulate matter, Ozone layer depletion & greenhouse gases in them. | Enter the three child concepts of air as seen on the screen. |
Cursor on Water node. | You may want to arrange the positions of the nodes at this point. |
Select Water. | The entire diagram gone up for me.To shift the Water node upwards, first select it. |
Move cursor slightly to the right, till an ellipse is seen. | Move the cursor slightly towards the connecting line, till an ellipse is seen. |
Highlight the hand sign. | The cursor also shows a hand sign.
For some operating systems, the cursor may change to a four direction arrow. |
Click and drag the node upwards. | Click and drag the node upwards, where you want it to be. |
Cursor on the node. | I will place it a bit upward for clarity. |
Select Energy node and press insert twice. | Next, add Coal and Petroleum products as two concepts in energy. |
Type Coal and Petroleum products in them. | Type Coal and Petroleum products in the child nodes.
Both of these contribute to air pollution. |
Add a summary node, for children of Energy. | Add a summary node, for this concept. |
Hold down shift key and click on both child nodes under Energy to select them. | Hold down the shift key.
Click on both child nodes under Energy to select them. |
Click on Edit, New Node, New Summary Node | Go to Edit menu, New Node, New Summary Node and click on it. |
Type Burning fossil fuels and press Enter. | Type Burning fossil fuels for node text. |
Cursor on child nodes of Air. | Similarly, child nodes of Air represent 3 facets of air pollution. |
Select the 3 child nodes. Click on Edit, New Node, New Summary Node | Add a Summary Node for these three child node concepts. |
Type Air pollution. | Label it Air pollution. |
Add a sibling node to Wind and label it Clean Energy. | Next, add a child node to Wind and label it Clean Energy. |
Select Clean energy node. | Let’s select it.
Clean energy is different from fossil fuel energy. |
Press the Insert key.
Type Windmills for node text. |
Let’s Type Windmills as a child node to the Clean Energy node. |
Click on File, Save map. | Click on File, Save map to save the map. |
Choose Desktop folder. | I will save the file in the Desktop directory. |
Type filename as Natural-resources and click Save. | For file name type Natural-resources dot mm and click on Save. |
Cursor on the map. | You may pause the video and explore more formatting options. |
Click on File, Quit Freeplane. | Click on File, Quit Freeplane to quit Freeplane. |
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Summary |
Now let’s summarize. In this tutorial, we
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Summary |
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Assignment |
For assignment activity, please do the following.
Add more concepts to the map as seen in the image here. |
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Acknowledgement |
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