Random musings in IT

Understanding the way a business works, then giving advice on how it could be improved is the lifebread of consultants. This however needs time, preparation, experience and knowledge, int that exact order. Still there are times, when you just have to improvise all of those. If all goes well, I…

New version of the Freeplane GTD is released, this version features French translation by Marian Llabrés. The add-on is available here.

As I detailed in the last article about my little side-project, for creating a web-based mindmap/task management application, I have gone through several architecture design stages. What that article doesn't mention, is the amount of refactoring it took in the modules themselves, to reach a working…

I've created an issue tracker to allow users to report issues, add feature requests about the Mindweb web based, freeplane compatible collaboration tool! The issue tracker is available here. Please share your ideas for development!

This is the eleventh article in the attempt to form a blogging habit   This is the initial announcement of the availability of the first working version of a HTML 5 based freeplane viewer/editor. I've been using Freeplane quite heavily, and it always caused a headache, that there is no way…

Basic GTD template added to add-on. More about using the template here. As usual the add-on is available on the release site, or on GitHub. You can use this direct link to download the add-on.

This is the seventh post in my attempt to start a blogging habit. Starting up your GTD system in Freeplane is quite easy, all you need is an inbox, a place to put your projects to,  a place to put the items for review, and optionally a place to place your archive tasks. It only takes a few…

After digging deep inside the bowels of Freeplane OSGI resource loading and the flyingsaucer resource loading I've pieced together a solution to actually be able to display the built-in Freeplane items in the "browser" The action list is redesigned, the priorities are displayed as icons, the done…

The new version 1.5.0 has been released, with a quick succession of bug fixes and add-ons in 1.5.1 and 1.5.2. Download As usual the downloads are available from the release page or from the github releases. Changes v1.5.0 #36 : The formulas are evaluated before display. If you use a formula…

Just a few days after the previous release a new one is released, with several enhancements for day-to-day use. In my daily work it's customary to use this plugin to aid note taking on a meeting. Action items are noted on the map, and are followed through after the meeting. The produced task lists…