kdissert is a mind-mapping tool to help students write texts such as dissertations, theses, and reports. It features both a mindmap view and a linear view, and several document generators (LaTeX text and slides, OpenOffice.org writer, HTML, and plain text).
| Tags | Text Processing Scientific/Engineering Visualization education |
|---|---|
| Licenses | GPL |
| Operating Systems | POSIX Linux |
| Implementation | C++ |
| Translations | Italian French German Dutch Polish |
Recent releases


Release Notes: Several new tools have been added: a color toolbar, a zoom selector, undo and redo actions, and drag and drop actions. The most important document generators have been improved: LaTeX article, LaTeX book, and OpenOffice.org writer (rich text conversion). An applet generator was added. Compilation fixes have been added for FreeBSD systems and 64bit Linux platforms.


Release Notes: Two new connection styles have been added (thick and thin splines). The default reorganization scheme has been improved. The link handler has been rewritten, and links can be loaded automatically. New documents created are automatically opened in Konqueror. Several new shortcuts have been added, and the HTML and OpenOffice.org generators have been improved.


Release Notes: Several shortcuts have been added. Several parts of the GUI (settings and dialogs) have been changed. Many crashes and installation issues have been resolved.


Release Notes: A spell checker, and two new panels for editing the mindmap item properties (text, pictures, attached documents) have been added. Three new cleaning modes have been introduced to reorganize the mindmap trees automatically.


Release Notes: Several panels have been added: a konsole and a linear view. The configuration panel and the shortcut editor have been fixed. The plain text and HTML export templates have been improved.
Recent comments
13 Feb 2008 15:17
Re: next release
Would be absolutely great to add something like graphviz's ability to auto-arrange objects, especially with hints like "this is toplevel, this tree grows down there with nodes on the same horizontal levels"...
Thanks for both KDissert and Semantik anyways!
26 Apr 2004 02:43
next release
Kdissert is being rewritten. The nex version is not
usable yet, but some development snapshots are
available to see how the application evolves
A usable release is expected for may/june.