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Quickie: Convert FreeMind to MindManager
I’ve been playing around with MindManager lately, and have been pretty impressed (though, unfortunately, not by its price tag).
I have a few maps in FreeMind that I wanted to convert over as I continue to evaluate MindManager. I did a lot of searching the web and found some stuff on MindJet’s site about converters, but they don’t work in MindManager 8, or whatever..
Turns out the solution is really easy:
- Open FreeMind and select the root of whatever you want to transfer.
- Copy to clipboard.
- Open Notepad and paste from the clipboard. You should see your tree as a tabbed hierarchy.
- Select all and copy to clipboard.
- Go to MindManager and paste. Easy!
You can’t copy direct from FreeMind because it (apparently) supports multiple clipboard formats, one of which looks like XML or HTML. Pasting into MindManager gets some crazy stuff. I didn’t notice a “Paste As…” feature like Excel etc. have so you have to go through a basic text editor. No big deal.
This obviously won’t bring over any formatting, probably no icons, attributes, large notes, etc. But it was good enough for me.
