Freeplane began as a fork of the Freemind project. While maintaining comparability with Freemind file format, it has far outpaced in features and development. As of 3/5/2022, the latest Freeplane update (1.9.3) is 3/5/2022 vs Freemind was last updated (1.0.1) 2/5/2016. Active, helpful community.
Based on our record, MarkdownPad seems to be more popular. It has been mentiond 2 times since March 2021. We are tracking product recommendations and mentions on various public social media platforms and blogs. They can help you identify which product is more popular and what people think of it.
(Opened article in Reader mode in browser, copied it, pasted into Markdownpad, cleaned up article (removed image captions, MORE: lines), made the whole article a quote, and pasted here in the comments.). Source: about 2 years ago
(I used http://markdownpad.com/ to quickly format the quoted article for posting here on Reddit). Source: over 2 years ago
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