Freeplane/C2/Introduction-to-Freeplane/English
Visual Cue | Narration |
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Title Slide |
Welcome to the spoken tutorial on Introduction to Freeplane. |
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Learning Objectives |
In this tutorial, we will
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Learning Objectives |
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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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Code files |
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Download link https://sourceforge.net/projects/freeplane/ |
The download link for Freeplane is shown here. |
Open web browser. | Open your default web browser to download the latest version of Freeplane. |
Go to the web address sourceforge.net/projects/freeplane . | Go to the web address, as seen on the screen. |
Click on the Files tab. | Click on the Files tab seen on the bottom left side. |
Hover mouse next to Freeplane stable.
Click on the Freeplane stable link. |
Locate the Freeplane stable link and click on it. |
Cursor on the page. | It contains files for the latest stable release and previous versions. |
Hover mouse next to .dmg and .exe extension files. | Notice the installable files for various operating systems. |
Hover mouse next to 1.7.10. | When you practice this tutorial, the version number may likely be different. |
Point to the archive folder, click on it. | The archive folder contain files from the previous releases. |
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Download and install Freeplane on Windows 10 OS |
Let’s download and install Freeplane on Windows 10 OS. |
Click on Freeplane-Setup-1.7.10.exe . | Windows users, can click on this file link to download the exe file. |
Cursor on the page. | A save dialog box prompting to save the file appears on the bottom. |
Click on the Save button. | Click on the Save button to download the installable file. |
Open the file manager and go to the Downloads folder. | Wait for the download to complete.
Open the file manager and go to the Downloads folder. |
Open the downloaded file, Freeplane-Setup-1.7.10.exe. | Double click to open the downloaded exe file. |
Click on Yes. | Click on Yes, in the dialog box. |
Click on OK. | In the Select Setup Language dialog box I will retain English and Click on OK. |
Select, I accept the agreement in the setup dialog box to highlight Next. | Select, I accept the agreement in the setup dialog box to highlight Next. |
Click on Next. | Click on Next. |
Click on Next. | I will retain the defaults in the next step and click on Next. |
Click on Install. | Click on Install to install Freeplane. |
Uncheck the Launch Freeplane checkbox. | Uncheck the Launch Freeplane checkbox. |
Click on Finish. | Click on Finish to complete the installation.
Let’s open the installed Freeplane software. |
Press the Windows key. | Press the Windows key. |
Type freeplane in the search form. | Type freeplane in the search form. |
Double click on the freeplane icon. | Double click on the freeplane icon.
Now we have opened the installed freeplane software.
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Download and install Freeplane on Ubuntu Linux 16.04 OS |
Now, let’s download and install Freeplane on Ubuntu Linux 16.04 OS.
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Hover mouse over [https://sourceforge.net.
freeplane-1.7.10~upstream-1_all.deb |
The required file for Linux operating system is the .deb file. |
Click on [https://sourceforge.net/projectsfreeplane
freeplane-1.7.10~upstream-1_all.deb |
Click on the file link. |
Cursor on the page. | A save dialog box prompting to save the file appears as seen here. |
Choose Save file and click Ok. | Choose the File save option and click on Ok button to download the file. |
Cursor on the page. | Wait for the file download to complete.
Let's install the software using terminal commands. |
Press Ctrl+Alt+T . | Open a terminal by pressing Control, Alt and T keys together.
A terminal opens. |
Type cd Downloads and press Enter. | Let’s change the directory to Downloads folder. |
In command line, type sudo dpkg -i freeplane-1.7.10~upstream-1_all.deb and press Enter. | Type the command as seen here to install freeplane.
Press Enter to execute the command. |
Type sudo password at prompt and press Enter. | If prompted, type the sudo password to continue.
Wait for the installation to complete. |
Cursor on the terminal. | Let's open the installed Freeplane software. |
Press the Windows key. | Press the Windows key on the keyboard. |
In the search bar type Freeplane. | In the search form, type Freeplane. |
Open Freeplane by double-clicking on the icon. | Double click on the Freeplane icon. |
Point to the preloaded map. | For the very first time, a preloaded map may appear on the canvas. |
Point to the map. | It may be different for you. |
Editor's note: Text on the screen is required. | Let's open the example map provided with this tutorial. |
Show screenshot of desktop with file map1.mm. | I have saved this file on the Desktop. |
Click on File, Open saved map. | To open a map, click on File and choose Open saved map.
A dialog box opens. |
Navigate to Desktop directory.
Select map1.mm. |
Navigate to Desktop and select the map1.mm file. |
Click on Open. | Click on Open to open the map. |
Added text Let's familiarize ourselves with a few features of the opened map during video editing. | Let's familiarize ourselves with a few features of the opened map. |
Move cursor to white background. | The white background is the canvas where we type our ideas. |
Left click, hold down and drag map slightly to left and down. | To move the map in the canvas, first left click and hold on the canvas.
Depending on the OS, the cursor shows a palm sign or direction arrows. |
Release the mouse button. | Then move the cursor on the canvas and position the map where you want it.
Then, release the left mouse button. |
Click on View, Zoom. | To zoom the map, go to View, Zoom in the menu. |
House mouse next to zoom in, zoom out, zoom to fit to page. | Three options are available here.
They are zoom in, zoom out and zoom to fit to page. |
Hold Ctrl key- turn scroll wheel and show zoom in-out on map. | Alternately, hold down the Control key and use the mouse scroll wheel. |
Hover mouse next to Water and Air. | Each node in the map represent an idea or concept. |
Hover mouse to Water and Air. | To select a node, click on it or hover the cursor on it.
Then, the node color gets highlighted to light cyan or blue. |
Click on Natural Resources. | I will select Natural Resources, by clicking on it. |
Cursor next to parent node. | Our root concept or parent node for this map is Natural Resources. |
Move cursor to water, wind, soil, energy, wind. | We know water, wind, air, soil, and energy are natural resources. |
Hover cursor next to child nodes. | They branch as child nodes, from the parent node.
These 5 concepts are sibling nodes. |
Hover mouse over Water-Natural Resources connector line. | They are connected by a line to their parent node. |
Hover mouse next to circle on water node. | There is a small circle next to the water node.
This indicates that there are child nodes to water. |
Cursor on the canvas. | Child nodes are folded, and not seen for clarity. |
Hover mouse on water node, show + sign and click on it. | Hover the mouse on the water node and notice a plus sign that appears.
Click on this plus sign. |
Hover mouse next to Water and it's 5 child nodes. | 5 child nodes for water appear on the screen. |
Indicate with mouse. | The plus sign changes to minus sign.
This indicates fold or hide option on the node. |
Moved mouse over 5 child nodes of water. | These 5 sibling nodes are grandchildren of Natural Resources. |
Right Click on + / - sign. | Right click on the circles with plus or minus signs. |
Show the fold options. | Then more options to fold or unfold the nodes appear on the screen. |
Cursor on the map. | This is similar to show or hide a node. |
Select parent node and select Navigate, fold, Fold all. | Select the natural resources node.
Click on Navigate, Fold and Fold all. |
Cursor on the canvas. | We notice that only parent, child and the floating nodes remain on the canvas. |
Click on Navigate, fold, unfold all. | We now click on Navigate, Fold and Unfold all to show all nodes again. |
Hover mouse next to parent, child, grand child, colors. | We notice, nodes are color coded and formatted to stand out visually. |
Hover mouse next to child nodes. | They are classified & grouped according to characteristics or level. |
Hover mouse next to Air pollution node and then to Energy node. | The concepts in Air pollution are connected to the ones in Energy. |
Cursor on the linking line. | A link can be made between the contents of 2 nodes with a linking line. |
Hover mouse next to contributing factors. | Text on the connecting line specifies the linking concept and brings rigor. |
Click on the pdf file. | We can attach learning resources to any node. |
Hover mouse on the image and the Water node. | Learning resources can be of many different kinds.
Examples are plain or formatted text, notes, hyperlinks or images. |
Hover mouse to red arrow. | Hyperlink can appear as a red arrow next to the node. |
Cursor on the red arrow. | This feature is useful for teaching and learning purpose. |
Hover mouse next to attributes of sustenance. | Multiple features can be added as attributes to any single node. |
Hover mouse next to attribute. | An attribute is a name-value pair of data that can be associated with a node. |
Hover mouse over, Edit, Node properties, to show the options. | Use the options under Edit and Node properties tab to add node attributes. |
Added text, Let’s learn about node formatting options’. | Now let’s learn about node formatting options. |
Click on View, controls. | Click on View and then on Controls. |
Hover mouse over the box tick marks. | Check the box to show formatting panels as per your requirements.
Click again to deselect and hide it from the screen |
Click on the arrows on the extreme end of window to show the panels. | Click on the arrows at the extreme end of the window to show the panels. |
Cursor on the Tool panel. | A large formatting palette appears on the screen. |
Cursor on icon and tool panel. | The icon toolbar is on the left and the tool panel is on the right.
Icons can be added to the nodes to improve the visual presentation. |
Click on the background canvas, hold and drag the map. | To view the nodes that are out of view, zoom out and move the map. |
Hover mouse over Line color, style and width in Edge section. | Edges, line color, style and width can also be formatted using the Tool panel. |
Cursor on the map. | Having many toolbars open on the screen occupies space on the screen. |
Click on arrow left button on Tool panel and hide it. | Click on the arrow again to hide the panel. |
Click on File, Save. | Click on File, Save map to save the map. |
Click on File, Exit. | Click on File, Quit Freeplane to exit Freeplane. |
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Summary |
To summarize, in this tutorial we,
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Summary |
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Assignment |
For assignment activity, please do the following.
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Acknowledgement |
Spoken Tutorial Project is funded by MHRD, Government of India. |
This is Rani from IIT, Bombay. Thank you for joining. |