CharTr is a lightweight mind-mapping tool. It is based on Labyrinth 0.3 and inspired by VYM and VIM.
Currently, CharTr has the following features (from website):
- basic mind map with curved links.
- folding of links.
- colors.
- outline box of several selected nodes.
- audio/text/images embedded as notes.
- automatic saving.
- svg,png,pdf,ps export.
- numerous keyboard shortcuts (with an eased keyboard navigation, vim like).
- bookmarking of ideas
- search for a text in nodes
- math equations.
Installation
To install CharTr on Ubuntu 8.04 (Hardy Heron), you can execute the following steps:
- Installing python-plastex and numpy:
sudo apt-get install python-plastex python-numpy - Download the latest version of CharTr. Save the .tar.gz file to your desktop.
- Running CharTr:
cd ~/Desktop
tar zxvf CharTr_016_20080723.tar.gz
cd CharTr_016
python chartr.py
4 responses so far ↓
1 erichansa // Jul 25, 2008 at 8:45 am
I like this. How can I get this?
2 FoeL // Nov 11, 2008 at 2:31 pm
CharTr is an artistic piece of software made for fun to give mind mappers good usability. For those unfamiliar with mind mapping, Wikipedia says the following:
You can find the relevant article about it here
http://it-panel.blogspot.com/2008/11/chartrmind-mapping-tool.html
3 Kevin Kelly // Nov 25, 2008 at 6:12 am
I got stuck on the depackaging. I used g-debi and downlowned the deb filr. Exactly, I clicked on the deb file, and chose open with gdebi.I had to browse to it in usr/bin/gdebi-gtk
4 Mira // Jan 4, 2010 at 9:18 am
I too downloaded the deb file. Had it unpacked and now have it saved here
/tmp/chartr_0.24_i386.deb
Do I have to change folders and where to move it?
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