FreePlane/FreeMind XSLT exporter(s)

Objective

Exporting content from FreePlane/FreeMind mindmapping tool format (XML-based, .mm) to different output formats.

mm2revealjs

An XSLT transformation tool for creating slideshow presentations for the web with ease:

1. Create a presentation in FreePlane/FreeMind mindmap program
2. Export as a Reveal.js presentation

mm2markdown

Export FreePlane/FreeMind documents to Markdown

• Known bugs: exporting numbered lists in notes of a node does not work

Requirements

• FreePlane program (Windows/Linux/OSX)
• Transformation files from this repository

Installation

Windows

Installing transformation(s)

1. Install FreePlane and run it at least once if you didn't already
2. Download the files from this repository (zip)
3. Extract the files from the zip archive into C:\Users\<username>\AppData\Roaming\FreePlane\<version>\xslt

• Create the xslt directory if it doesn't exist already

4. Restart FreePlane if you had it running
5. You'll now see the added exporters in the 'Files of Type' dropdown in File => Export map

Macintosh

Freeplane is available for Macintosh. I haven't tested the Mac version, but I'm guessing it'll work pretty much the same as the Linux version. Check the Linux instructions.

Ubuntu Linux

Installing transformation(s)

1. git clone https://github.com/jannecederberg/freeplane-xslt.git
2. Copy the .xsl files into your ~/.config/freeplane/<version>/xslt

• create the xslt folder if it doesn't exist

3. Restart FreePlane if you had it running
4. You'll now see the added exporters in the 'Files of Type' dropdown in File => Export map

Creating a Reveal.js presentation from FreePlane

1. Create your mindmap using FreePlane and save it (as .mm) into the directory you extracted the reveal.js zip package
2. Export your mindmap from FreePlane

• File => Export map
• From the Files of Type dropdown choose Reveal.js presentation
• Click on Save

3. Open HTML file created in step 2 in your browser

TODO

• mm2markdown
  • Parse img tags in notes into Markdown
• mm2revealjs
  • Parse FreePlane root node into h1, h2 and h3 tags by lines

Version history

• 2014-11-12
  • Removed need to download Reveal.js separately
  • Level 3 and lower map nodes are shown as list items in Reveal.js
• 2014-10-05
  • Added Reveal.js exporter as well as instructions for using with FreePlane
• 2014-09-02
  • First public release