Free Mind Scholar allows you to assign BibTeX keys to the
mind map's entries. This way you can structure ideas and results of academic
articles in a mind map and directly reference to their origins. The allocation
of BibTex keys to the mind map entries may happen even automatically:
If you
have linked an entry in your mind map to a PDF file and you link to this PDF
file in your reference management tool, too, Free Mind Scholar automatically
assigns the BibTeX key from your reference management software to the mind map
entry. Currently Free Mind Scholar supports only the BibTeX format (we use
JabRef) but the support of other reference management tools such as Endnote and
Zotero are on the top of our priority list.
Free Mind Scholar enables the import of PDF bookmarks via
drag & drop. The standard Free Mind only allows dragging & dropping
complete PDFs into the mind map. However, when we read a book or a paper in PDF
format, we usually highlight all important passages and create a bookmark
within the PDF (we use Foxit Reader 3).
Up to now, we typed the same
information into our mind map which means twice the work: Creating a bookmark
within the PDF and typing the same (or similar) text of the bookmark into the
mind map. Now, we just import the PDF bookmarks into the mind map and save
almost half the time.
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