Mindolph – personal knowledge management software

Mindolph is a personal knowledge management software with Gen-AI support for all desktop platforms.

This is free and open source software.

Key Features

• Create and manage your own files in separate workspaces with saving in your local storage, which means you have full control of your knowledge compared to cloud solutions.
• Organize your files as a tree in your workspaces.
• GenAI support for Mind Map, Markdown, PlantUML and plain text editors, you can generate or summarize text content by API of LLM. supported LLM providers:
  • OpenAI
  • Ali Qwen
  • Ollama
  • Google Gemini API
  • Hugging Face API
  • ChatGLM
  • DeepSeek
• Multiple tabs for opening files instead of a single file window, making it easy to switch back and forth between files.
• Supports Mind Map(*.mmd), Markdown(*.md), PlantUML(*.puml), CSV sheet(*.csv) and plain text(*.txt) file formats, more formats will be supported in the future.
• Save opened files as a named Collection to manage related files even from different workspaces.
• Outline view for active opened file.
• Snippet feature to quickly insert pre-defined or user-defined snippets to Mind Map, PlantUML and Markdown files.
• Quickly navigate to any file and search text in files under any specific folder.
• Mind Map:
  • Edit mind map easily and quickly with key shortcuts.
  • Supports themes and provides some pre-defined themes(Classic, Light and Dark), customizing themes by duplicating existing themes and setup the style of any element freely.
  • Supports note, file link, URI link, image and emoticon for topic node.
  • Import from other mind map formats like Freemind, Mindmup, XMind, Coggle, Novamind.
  • Export to other file formats like Freemind, Markdown, image files(png/svg), AsciiDoc, etc.
  • Compatible with mind map files created by netbeans-mmd-plugin.
• PlantUML:
  • Syntax highlighting.
  • Preview results instantly while editing.
  • Export to image file and ASCII image.
• Markdown:
  • Syntax highlighting.
  • Preview results instantly while editing.
  • Export to PDF and HTML files.
• CSV Sheet.
  • Show and edit CSV file visually.
• Cross-platform support – runs under Linux, macOS, and Windows.

Website: github.com/markmap/markmap
Support:
Developer: Mindolph
License: GNU General Public License v3.0

Mindolph is written in Java. Learn Java with our recommended free books and free tutorials.

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