vym - view your mind

vym, view your mind, it one of the few mind mapping programs that works wonderfully on the RaspBerry Pi. I use it on all versions of my Pi's; however, it find that I use it most on the my original Pi Zero. Why do I run it on this version of the Pi? I'm glad you asked! It runs extremely well on the Pi Zero, while allowing me to use the limited resources that I have available to the best of my ability. You should give this program a try as I think you will very much enjoy using it. NOTE: The current version for from the Pi Foundation is 2.6.11 as I write this, and someone needs to update their repositories.

I installed this in Win7 and it said it couldn't find 7zip to unpack some files and indicated my Windows is older than Windows 10. It let me browse to the 7Zip exe but it didn't like my version. I pointed it to Winrar. Indicator at right says it is not happy. I checked the temp dirs for things to install manually but it was not clear what I was looking for. So with much of the program not yet installed I uninst it. I have never had such a problem before with any application of thousands, going back to Win95, 98, XP, Win7. Program installers should not rely on local system utilities to unpack themselves. So I inst Z-zip and reinst vym to the default path it gives, Program Files (x86)\vym. On launch I get 5 error dialogs. The docs, demos and plugins are installed but on launch it wants tar or it can't open default.vym (or any .vym file). Status on browse to 7zip.exe "not happy" so I set the path to 7zip.exe in the program. The main error is in the 7zip.exe args. It says about -x....too short option. Happens if I inst in Program Files path or another drive.

Appearance is everything. Using KDE3 icons dates this wonderful App. Please point icons to use system defaults. Most Users changes their system icon theme to one they like which a number of Apps now follow. If this is too hard to implement or not possible please at least update your icon set to use Plasma 5 seeing VYM is QT based. I used to develop Legacy OS and included VYM in my Distro. In my Distro I changed your icons to improve the appearance of your App. This small change makes all the different. If you would like me to go through all your VYM icons and change them to Plasma 5 please leave a message here.

Finally one that's intuitive and and doesn't need a mouse for everything.

This software is a GEM. I've already recommended it on Slant and alternativeto.net . I really liked it and have fun using it for my study. I just wish that when I export the map to PDF, it exports the notes too as notes inside the pdf. Currently afaik, it only exports the image of the mind map without any notes. This would be a great addition to the export feature and will make it more beneficial in sharing the mind-map as a pdf with others.