VYM - View Your Mind (c) 2004-2026 by Uwe Drechsel

About

VYM is a mind mapping application. You can use it to visualize your
thoughts in tree-like structures. It is also useful for time management,
self-organization and sorting through new ideas and complex contexts.

VYM includes a powerful personal task manager, which allows to adjust
priorities or reminds you after easily defined time spans.

You can use the scripting capabilities for interesting presentations.
VYM can also retrieve data from the Jira issue tracking system and
talk to the Confluence documentation system.

VYM runs on Apple and Windows and of course most Linux platforms.

Documentation

PDF

The complete documentation of vym is available as PDF document in
English, French and Spanish. (Only the English version is really up
to date, translators are welcome). PDFs can be accessed directly from
vym via the help section. They also can be downloaded from github at

https://github.com/insilmaril/vym/tree/develop/doc
Release notes and changelog

Can either be downloaded directly in vym via
"Help - Download and show release notes" or can be accessed in
https://github.com/insilmaril/vym/blob/release/release-notes-2.9.md
Screencasts

There are several screencasts available on YouTube, which show some
features of vym and how to use them:

http://www.youtube.com/user/ViewYourMind

Download

The official downloads for all platforms are available at the project
site:

https://sourceforge.net/projects/vym/

The latest development drops for all platforms can be found there in the
folder Files->Development.

The latest binaries for Linux, Debian and Ubuntu are built and available
in the authors Open Build Service project:

https://software.opensuse.org/download.html?project=home%3Ainsilmaril&package=vym

Source code

The source code was hosted on Sourceforge for 16 years, but in
2021 the development moved to github:

https://github.com/insilmaril/vym

Installation

Binaries

Binaries for all major platforms can be found on:

https://sourceforge.net/projects/vym/

Packages there are: openSUSE rpm, Ubuntu deb, Apple dmg, Windows exe

More Linux like packages and developer versions are built in
Open Build Service:

https://build.opensuse.org/package/show/home:insilmaril/vym
Compiling

Compiling vym from scratch is pretty easy, if you have the
development packages of the Qt6 toolkit installed. (Check also the
homepage above for details):

On the command line you can
```
cmake .
make
make install
```
or using Qt Creator (recommended on Mac and Windows):

In "File" do "Open file or project" and select the
"CMakeLists.txt". This will setup the project.

For testing you probably need to tell vym where to find various
files like macros, demos, etc. On the commandline you can do this
with the "-l" option. Using Qt Creator you can add a variable
VYMHOME to the execution environment pointing to your path to vym
sources.