The following are the missing features:
Floating Topics/Floating Central Topic
This allows you to create multiple central centers. As shown below:
Different Structures
Xmind allows you to shape your mind map into different structures (in addition to the standard map available in Freemind) such as:
- Fishbone.
- Spreadsheet
- Org Chart
- Logic Chart
This is great except, the nodes below will inherit the structure of the node below. So I was not able to mix the different structures.
Different Shapes
It is nice to be able to change the different shapes of the nodes. In additional to the standard Elipse, you can have:
- Rounded Rectangle
- Rectangle
- Diamond
- Call out
- Fish head
- Underline
Here are some examples:
Workbook
In Freemind, you can only have one worksheet while in Xmind, you are able to save multiple worksheet as a workbook.
This is useful if you want to separate multiple ideas in a file.
Outline View
There is an outline view that will allow you to view which nodes are at the same level.
Negatives
There are a few complaints that I have of Xmind. They are:
- Due to the additional features, the installer is substantially bigger. Freemind is 7 Mbyte, Xmind is 50 Mbyte.
- It is also compared to Freemind.
