PhoroLinux

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:

1. Installing python-plastex and numpy:
   sudo apt-get install python-plastex python-numpy
2. Download the latest version of CharTr. Save the .tar.gz file to your desktop.
3. Running CharTr:
   cd ~/Desktop
tar zxvf CharTr_016_20080723.tar.gz
cd CharTr_016
python chartr.py