MobileMind

Introduction

MobileMind is a jotter application and Freemind editor and viewer for the Nokia 9500 and 9300 handsets. The application has been designed to facilitate rapid entry and grouping of data for anything from shopping list to planning an university essay.
There are two prime use cases for mobile mind

1. A mobile partner for Freemind. 
2. A jotter replacement (similar to the Psion Series5 jotter). Even if you are not a Freemind user, Mobile mind makes an ideal note taking application, storing notes hierarchically for easy navigation and categorisation.

Since most ideas come to you away from a PC, perhaps on the toilet or the bus, mobile mind mapper is ideal format for brainstorming and adhock note taking on the move. The benefit of MobileMind is that you can simply drag the document over to the PC when you are at home or work and continue working on it on the large screen. 

Freemind will always be better for dragging items around, printing and exporting to different format and so great care has been put into the development of MobileMind to ensure accurate round tripping - i.e that documents can be edited on both the mobile device and PC without loss of data. Freemind features which are not supported by MobileMind are preserved in tact.

Another key advantage of saving in the XML based .MM format is that your data is still accessible if you lose, or upgrade phone handsets.

Main features

• Opens and saves in Freemind .mm format
• Rich text editing of nodes. (better than Freemind!)
• Quick entry mode for brainstorming.
  
• Link entries to URLs and launches browser.
• Links tor local files to keep your bookmarks and local documents in order.

Screen shots

	Rapid Data entry Keeping a dynamic bunch of useful information on your mobile
	HTML editing Structured editing of a complex Freemind document. The unrecognized HTML tags are preserved and the text can be edited around them.
	Integrated URLs, email addresses and phone numbers found in text show an extra CBA when the cursor hovers over them. Pressing the CBA will follow a link, send and email or make a phone call.

Project information

MobileMind is currently in alpha, and continues to be developed and maintained. with the aim of releasing a stable version 1.0 by the end of 2006.

• MobileMind is a free download at present but is not currently open source. Only the binary sis file is available.
• MobileMind is written from scratch in C++ and the Freemind code was not consulted once while developing the software. Freemind parsing and writing was derived from public information about the fileformat on the web site, and a lot of trial and error.
• MobileMind makes use of Expat XML parser and the Symbian wrapper SyExpat from ToddSoftware.

The following generic items came out of this development.  Please contact me if you are interested in the code.

• HTML to Symbian CRichText format and vice versa.
• 'The Epoch' to Symbian time conversion
• Reusable Rationalisation wrapper classes for the hierarchical list box classes (they are hella horrible classes)
• A lovely DOM style programming interface to the mind map. It feels like a scripting language. 

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