VYM (short from View Your Mind) is a tool to generate and manipulate maps which show your thoughts. Such maps can help you to improve your creativity and effectivity. You can use them for time management, to organize tasks, to get an overview over complex contexts, to sort your ideas etc.
Maps can be drawn by hand on paper or a flip chart and help to structure your thoughs. While a tree like structure like shown on this page can be drawn by hand or any drawing software vym offers much more features to work with such maps.
VYM is not another drawing software, but a tool to store and modify information in an intuitive way. For example you can reorder parts of the map by pressing a key or add various information like a complete email by a simple mouse click.
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What's New in This Release: [ read full changelog ]
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
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