This page was exported directly from vym. It shows some of the features vym offers to collect and present ideas and data. Editing the content of the page in vym is really easy and intuitive, just grab something with the mouse and move it to another place. Usually you will work with two windows:
vym is not another drawing tool, it is a thinking tool. It is also a planning tool. Maybe some kind of database, too. The idea is to use it dynamically, just change the map when your thoughts change. The possibility to export the content e.g. to a website as seen here, was added recently. Another new export filter allows to easily create a presentation in Open Office. Enjoy vym! Uwe Drechsel <vym at insilmaril dot de> |
VYM (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. |
A map can concentrate a very complex content on little space e.g. a piece of paper. It helps to use both sides of your brain: the logical side and also your creative side (e.g. by using pictures, colors and keywords in a map, so called anchors). It is a technique to organize the way you think: It can help you by developing, sorting and memorizing your thoughts. Because you just use keywords and drawings, it is much faster than good old fashioned notes. Your brain memorizes things by associating them to other things -- a map makes use of those connections and stimulates new asccociations. vym is designed to make changes in the map very easy: e.g. if you use it for time management, just move a task to another place or recolor it by a simple mouse click in order to assign it to another day in the week or to give it a new priority. There are lots of webpages (see e.g. the Wikepedia links below) and also books out there, providing lots of information on working with maps. |
New in 1.10.0 ------------------- - Feature: Restructured internal handling of XML based maps - Feature: Switched from QSimpleTextItem to QTextItem for Freemind support - Feature: Import of Freemind maps - Bugfix: xLinks were not loaded from previously saved maps - Bugfix: Find manual in /usr/share/doc/packages/vym - Bugfix: Updated README.txt - Bugfix: Added missing standard flag (one of the smileys got lost) - Bugfix: Wrong parsing of relative positions after load of previously zoomed map - Bugfix: Smother parabel links (Alexander Rettig) - Bugfix: Workaround for wrong XML generated by QT with in QRichText list items - Bugfix: No output from <span> tags in ASCII export any longer - Bugfix: Don't ask for directory in XML-based exports like KDE-bookmarks New in 1.9.0 ------------------ - Feature: Extended fileformat with object IDs to ease export from tomboy to vym - Feature: Completed german translation - Feature: Center on selection with "." - Feature: Most important exports can be scripted now - Feature: Creating new map with selection as MapCenter - Feature: Simple export to CSV spreadsheet - Feature: Copy from past steps in history to current one - Feature: Editing of frame attributes in branch property window - Feature: autosave - Feature: number of undo/redo levels can be changed in settings - Feature: branch property window settings are saved - Feature: Added basic macros and documentation - Feature: Color of selection can be changed now - Feature: Pen and brush for frames can be set - Feature: Simple Editor for scripts - Feature: Added syntax highlighting for editor - Feature: Unscroll all now only affects selected subtree - Feature: Modifier Modes now change cursor when CTRL is pressed - Feature: vym opens spanish documentation, if locale is es* - Feature: New Frame format - Feature: Properties dialog for branches instead of context menu entries - Feature: Only one history window for all editors. State is saved. - Feature: Canvas ported to QT 4.2 GraphicsView - Feature: Options to use AntiaAliasing and smooth pixmap transformations - Feature: Thick links use polygons now, less objects in scene - Feature: More undo commands (and fixes there) - Feature: Note Editor completly based on QT4 now. - Feature: Opening of all URLs in a subtree - Feature: Opening of all vymLinks in a subtree - Feature: Changed format of configuration file a bit (new file anyway with introduction of QT4) - Feature: Toolbar Layout is saved now - Feature: Moved floats in XML Export, e.g. XHTML shows floatimages at - Bugfix: auto-select/auto-edit new branches - Bugfix: Visibility of BranchProperty window is saved now - Bugfix: Undo/Redo dropping images into map - Bugfix: Undo/Redo of copy/paste steps - Bugfix: NoteEditor now appears on first click (not 2nd) - Bugfix: Disable autosave while there are redos available - Bugfix: After changing link color, that color is applied to all links now - Bugfix: Pasting of FIOs - Bugfix: No selection of branches while editing heading - Bugfix: geometry of selection box gets updated while setting scroll or hide flag - Bugfix: Possible segfault when redoing deleteChilds() - Bugfix: autosave timeout now read from settings file - Bugfix: Settings for historywindow correclty read now - Bugfix: Closing property window toggle corresponding button - Bugfix: Unscroll all childs has saveState now - Bugfix: Invisible selection after switching mapeditor - Bugfix: For frames the links always were drawn at bottom of heading - Bugfix: BranchPropertyWindow updates when selection is changed - Bugfix: Crash when trying to temporary link to floatimage - Bugfix: Drawing error when temporary linking subtrees - Bugfix: Import of KDE Bookmarks - Bugfix: Export to KDE Bookmarks - Bugfix: Export to XHTML - Bugfix: Drag and Drop of URLs now only creates one branch - Bugfix: Remember last directory before ASCII/LaTeX export - Bugfix: Editing in NoteEditor now updates actions (save) again - Bugfix: Deleting last branch automatically unscrolls parent now - Bugfix: Scroll/Unscroll has undo/redo now - Bugfix: xml-parsing code simplified - Bugfix: Fixed pretty annoying repositioning of view after editing a heading. (don't call show() before positioning in heading...) - Bugfix: Wrong Cursors after pressing CTRL and inserting/relinking - Bugfix: Save PNG images with quality 100 to workaround image problems - Bugfix: Remember last directory before XML export - Bugfix: move branch up/down calls scene()->update() now => much faster - Bugfix: Relinking of floatimages undo/redo - Bugfix: printing scales correctly again - Bugfix: Drag & Drop (basically) works again - Bugfix: Crash caused by BranchObj::getLastSelected - Bugfix: Signal handling by changes in TextEditor: Much faster now - Bugfix: printing is working again - Bugfix: move up/down to next subtree is working again - Bugfix: Flags are working again - Bugfix: Floatimages have correct select box again - Bugfix: Image format is saved with floatimage - Bugfix: New recent file handling, fixes crash on Mac OS X - Bugfix: Position of floatimages is saved again - Bugfix: Position of floatimages survives adjustCanvasSize() - Bugfix: Adding branch to scrolled branch unscroll the former - Bugfix: More undo commands (removed saveStateComplete) - Bugfix: No more hopping around of floats, when canvas is resized (by using relative positions for mainbranches. This might confuse parsing 1.8.56 documents with vym <= 1.8.1 - Bugfix: Mac - XSL stylesheets are found - Bugfix: Mac - fonts are scaling - Bugfix: Mac - hand cursor is shown correctly - Bugfix: Undo/Redo moving floatimages - Bugfix: Shortcuts for scrolling branches/removing branch - Bugfix: update-bookmarks script is not only executed, but also found now... - Bugfix: More undo/redo (move of floatimages, relinking of branches) - Bugfix: More undo/redo commands - Bugfix: Actions updated after moving a branch now - Bugfix: vym refuses to start if vymTmpDir can't be created - Bugfix: Editing headings now works both on Mac and Linux beginning of export now - Bugfix: Floatimages internally are saved as png, preserving the alpha channel - Bugfix: Fixed broken check for non-existent OO-export configuration |
Hi Uwe, we started to use VYM in Trolltech and are very happy with it. Great application indeed. |
Recently someone visited my site and pointed out "View Your Mind" to me. I must say that I am very impressed. Granted it lacks many of the features of [..] and I need to get used to how it does things. However, I personally don't use most of these features and I think that VYM has the potential to replace [..] on my desktop. |
You done a terrific job!!! Marco Costanzo |
I'm a teacher from germany and im using vym. It rocks. Gratualtions to this very nice Programm. I changed from MS Windows to SuSE Linux. With Windows ive used the [..] from [..]. A very powerfull Programm with many things nobody needs. How do we say in Germany: Viele Gruesse Ron Hoffmann |
Very nice, indeed. Makes me wish I had a Linux distro on my machine to use it; fits my thought exactly to what I need. I've got more thoughts than todo-lists. :) Greetings from Australia, Alexander |
Glueckwunsch, gelungene Sache :) |
Hi Uwe, benutze Dein Programm fuer S/390 Konfigurationen, ist wirklich sehr |
Respekt! Dein vym ist ein sehr schönes Tool!! |
Hi Uwe, gerade habe ich begeistert vym zum Gedankensammeln und -ordnen in einem Brainstroming genutzt. Feine Sache das --- danke!! |
Echt nett, ein schoenes Tool :-) Danke, |
Hallo Uwe, ich bin begeistert. Vor allem dass du eine xml-struktur verwendest. Klasse. Ich habe immer den [..] unter Windows verwendet. Seit ich ausschließlich unter Linux arbeite, habe ich 'mal in [..] reingeschaut. Aber das mit Java gefällt mir nicht so recht. Jochen |
Sourceforge project siteMailing listsAs I get more and more feature requests I want to say a few words on what's coming next.The points listed here show he upcoming bigger changes I'd like to make. Much more things I have got on my mind can be found in the file todo.vym distributed together with vym. Feel free to contact me, if you want to help here. -Uwe |
This is technically possible, I just changed the vym license a bit to allow linking against the windows version of QT. As I don't have access to QT for Windows, I depend on users to compile a Windows version. Please also have a look at the vym FAQ. |
This works since version 1.5.0 |
since 1.6.0 |
since 1.7.2 |
Qt from Trolltechvym is released under the GPL. In 1.5.0 an exception to the GPL was added to admit linking against non-GPL libraries. This is needed to make vym available on Windows systems. |
There are some free software projects, but not many I could recommend one at the moment for using maps. Of course there are also commercial applications, but hey, I make my living with open source software ;-) |
DownloadFrom now on (May 2005) new versions will be available on the vym project site at SourceForge. I am going to build binary packages for the latest versions of SuSE Linux and Mac OS X; apart from those there will be of course the sources and the documentation. -Uwe |
openSUSEYou can find the latest downloads and even betas for future versions at the download section of opensuse.org |
Users told that the SUSE rpm can also be installed on Mandriva. This can be done with "urpmi vym" |
The SuSE rpms can also be installed on Fedora Core. |
KubuntuIt can be installed from http://packages.debian.org/unstable/kde/vym |
Debian packages can be created with "alien" from the rpms. (apt-get install alien) Use alien -d vym-<version>.rpm to generate vym_<version>.deb During convertsion the pdf file gets compressed with gzip. To read the documentation it is needed to gunzip /usr/share/doc/packages/vym/doc/vym.pdf.gz Now it can be read with Help ->Open VYM Documentation (pdf). |
In Ubuntu 6.10 vym can be installed by apt-get install vym |
FreeBSDGerrit Beine ported vym to FreeBSD in November 2004. Thanks, Gerrit! |
I got feedback that vym also runs on Gentoo, it meanwhile is in Gentoo official repository, so anyone can install it with: emerge vym |
Bernhard Rosenkraenzer added vym to Ark Linux, it can be installed with apt-get install vym |
Arch LinuxThe command to install the package is: pacman -Sy vym Package details can be found here: http://www.archlinux.org/packages/?q=vym |
To compile and install vym from the sources:
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Any sponsoring with Mac hardware which I can also use for Logic Pro (see my music page) is welcome ;-) |
WindowsThomas Kriener started to port vym to windows, have a look at his homepage. Sandia Labs did a complete port to windows, but didn't release their sources so far. A clear GPL infringement :-( |
Documentation (pdf)The documantion is available at the download area hosted on Sourceforge: https://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=127802 There's also a spanish version at http://www.aclibre.org/archives/Vym/vym.pdf |
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