VYM

VYM (View Your Mind) is an open source, multiplatform and free graphical utility that lets users to effortlessly generate and manipulate maps that contain thoughts, your thoughts. With VYM, users will be able to improve their effectivity and creativity, as the app allows them to generate mind maps that can be used for sorting ideas, organizing tasks, manage time, as well as to analyze intricate contexts.

Keep in mind that VYM is not a drawing application, as it allows you to store and manipulate information in a unique and intuitive way. Although, in order to be able to structure your thoughts, you can draw maps by hand on paper or by using a flip chart.

Intuitive interface with tons of options

Its graphical user interface (GUI) in easy to use and intuitive, allowing the user to create a new map from the get-to. You will be able to create center maps or branches as childs. A wide range of buttons spread across two toolbars, will help you to quickly create maps or edit existing ones.

It is possible to sort children forward or backwards, scroll branches, hide maps in exports, toggle tasks, set colors for branches and subtrees, as well as to add various symbols, such as important, work in progress, not started, good, bad, time critical, important, very important, unimportant, very unimportant, dangerous, etc.

Under the hood, availability and supported OSes

Looking under the hood of the VYM application, we can immediately notice that the C++ and Ruby programming languages have been used to write the code, and the cross-platform Qt GUI toolkit has been used to design the graphical user interface.

The application officially supports Linux, FreeBSD, Microsoft Windows and Mac OS X operating systems, and has been successfully installed on computers supporting either of the 32-bit or 64-bit instruction set architectures.

For GNU/Linux, is it available for download as native installers for operating system that use either of the DEB or RPM package managers, as well as a universal source tarball for all other distributions.

What is new in this release:

• General:
• File handling
• Autosave
• Automatic backups
• vym now checks regulary if map has changed on disk and
• Multiple files can be selected while loading maps and images
• Restore last session
• Ubuntu builds available directly from openSUSE build service
• Multiple mapcenters in one map
• Manpage added
• New translations
• sverige
• russian
• traditional chinese
• spanish
• Code
• Completely ported to Qt4 now.
• HTML export now native code without XSLT transformation
• DBUS support (partly)
• Import/Export:
• Last export can be repeated
• Simple export to CSV spreadsheet
• Most important exports can be scripted now
• ASCII exports show URLs
• Import of FreeMind maps
• Handling:
• Quick sorting and moving using "targets"
• Targets can be defined by singlekeystroke
• "Goto" selects target
• "Move to" moves selection to target without moving view. Very useful for quickly sorting things
• Brainstorm mode
• add/delete
• insert branch and make selection its child
• removing childs of a branch
• removing a branch and keeping its childs
• xLinks
• can now be comfortably selected by clicking
• very easy to follow a xlink by clicking into the corner of the branch, where it begins
• also "F" key can be used to follow
• References/URLs
• Opening of all vymLinks in a subtree
• Opening of all URLs in a subtree
• Bugzilla integration
• vym can fetch data directly from Bugzilla (extra package required, see manual)
• Quick checks of bugs status: All bugs in a subtree can be updated by single keystroke
• Support for Bugzilla queries
• Copy from past steps in history to current one
• Adding timestamp to branch
• Sort lexically (forward/backward)
• create new map with current selection as MapCenter
• Detach a branch to make it a new mapcenter
• Go forward/backward in selection history
• Widgets:
• Editors
• Tree editor added
• Heading editor added
• New find window
• shows all hits clearly, both branches and notes
• Makes it easy to select the hits in editors
• More filedialogs now can remember to switch off warnings
• Progressbar shows filename of currently loading map
• Dock Widgets
• can be positioned freely
• Floating next to mainwindow
• Integrated (top/left/right/bottom) into mainwindow
• Note editor
• Find window
• Graphics:
• Animation
• Panning
• Snap back
• Images
• Basic SVG support
• Images can be resized
• New standard flags
• Frames
• Include subtree in frame
• New frametype: cloud
• Zoom
• Zoom with scroll wheel (press CTRL)
• zoom factor is saved and restored on load
• Center on selection with "." or reset zoom with ","
• Autolayout (collision detection)
• Fonts
• Set default font
• Branch headings may be RichText now

What is new in version 2.2.4 / 2.4.3 Beta:

• General:
• File handling
• Autosave
• Automatic backups
• vym now checks regulary if map has changed on disk and
• Multiple files can be selected while loading maps and images
• Restore last session
• Ubuntu builds available directly from openSUSE build service
• Multiple mapcenters in one map
• Manpage added
• New translations
• sverige
• russian
• traditional chinese
• spanish
• Code
• Completely ported to Qt4 now.
• HTML export now native code without XSLT transformation
• DBUS support (partly)
• Import/Export:
• Last export can be repeated
• Simple export to CSV spreadsheet
• Most important exports can be scripted now
• ASCII exports show URLs
• Import of FreeMind maps
• Handling:
• Quick sorting and moving using "targets"
• Targets can be defined by singlekeystroke
• "Goto" selects target
• "Move to" moves selection to target without moving view. Very useful for quickly sorting things
• Brainstorm mode
• add/delete
• insert branch and make selection its child
• removing childs of a branch
• removing a branch and keeping its childs
• xLinks
• can now be comfortably selected by clicking
• very easy to follow a xlink by clicking into the corner of the branch, where it begins
• also "F" key can be used to follow
• References/URLs
• Opening of all vymLinks in a subtree
• Opening of all URLs in a subtree
• Bugzilla integration
• vym can fetch data directly from Bugzilla (extra package required, see manual)
• Quick checks of bugs status: All bugs in a subtree can be updated by single keystroke
• Support for Bugzilla queries
• Copy from past steps in history to current one
• Adding timestamp to branch
• Sort lexically (forward/backward)
• create new map with current selection as MapCenter
• Detach a branch to make it a new mapcenter
• Go forward/backward in selection history
• Widgets:
• Editors
• Tree editor added
• Heading editor added
• New find window
• shows all hits clearly, both branches and notes
• Makes it easy to select the hits in editors
• More filedialogs now can remember to switch off warnings
• Progressbar shows filename of currently loading map
• Dock Widgets
• can be positioned freely
• Floating next to mainwindow
• Integrated (top/left/right/bottom) into mainwindow
• Note editor
• Find window
• Graphics:
• Animation
• Panning
• Snap back
• Images
• Basic SVG support
• Images can be resized
• New standard flags
• Frames
• Include subtree in frame
• New frametype: cloud
• Zoom
• Zoom with scroll wheel (press CTRL)
• zoom factor is saved and restored on load
• Center on selection with "." or reset zoom with ","
• Autolayout (collision detection)
• Fonts
• Set default font
• Branch headings may be RichText now

What is new in version 2.2.4:

• General:
• File handling
• Autosave
• Automatic backups
• vym now checks regulary if map has changed on disk and
• Multiple files can be selected while loading maps and images
• Restore last session
• Ubuntu builds available directly from openSUSE build service
• Multiple mapcenters in one map
• Manpage added
• New translations
• sverige
• russian
• traditional chinese
• spanish
• Code
• Completely ported to Qt4 now.
• HTML export now native code without XSLT transformation
• DBUS support (partly)
• Import/Export:
• Last export can be repeated
• Simple export to CSV spreadsheet
• Most important exports can be scripted now
• ASCII exports show URLs
• Import of FreeMind maps
• Handling:
• Quick sorting and moving using "targets"
• Targets can be defined by singlekeystroke
• "Goto" selects target
• "Move to" moves selection to target without moving view. Very useful for quickly sorting things
• Brainstorm mode
• add/delete
• insert branch and make selection its child
• removing childs of a branch
• removing a branch and keeping its childs
• xLinks
• can now be comfortably selected by clicking
• very easy to follow a xlink by clicking into the corner of the branch, where it begins
• also "F" key can be used to follow
• References/URLs
• Opening of all vymLinks in a subtree
• Opening of all URLs in a subtree
• Bugzilla integration
• vym can fetch data directly from Bugzilla (extra package required, see manual)
• Quick checks of bugs status: All bugs in a subtree can be updated by single keystroke
• Support for Bugzilla queries
• Copy from past steps in history to current one
• Adding timestamp to branch
• Sort lexically (forward/backward)
• create new map with current selection as MapCenter
• Detach a branch to make it a new mapcenter
• Go forward/backward in selection history
• Widgets:
• Editors
• Tree editor added
• Heading editor added
• New find window
• shows all hits clearly, both branches and notes
• Makes it easy to select the hits in editors
• More filedialogs now can remember to switch off warnings
• Progressbar shows filename of currently loading map
• Dock Widgets
• can be positioned freely
• Floating next to mainwindow
• Integrated (top/left/right/bottom) into mainwindow
• Note editor
• Find window
• Graphics:
• Animation
• Panning
• Snap back
• Images
• Basic SVG support
• Images can be resized
• New standard flags
• Frames
• Include subtree in frame
• New frametype: cloud
• Zoom
• Zoom with scroll wheel (press CTRL)
• zoom factor is saved and restored on load
• Center on selection with "." or reset zoom with ","
• Autolayout (collision detection)
• Fonts
• Set default font
• Branch headings may be RichText now