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Whenever possible in my tutorials, I give you the keyboard shortcuts for the commands. I do this because I'm lazy, and if a hotkey is available, I'm not going to follow the menus (frankly, it's a lot of typing too). You probably noticed most commands don't have a shortcut. My second choice is the right-click context menu. If there are no shortcut or context-menu options, you have to use the menus. Well, maybe not. Freeplane lets you create shortcuts. Freeplane includes a special toolbar for managing the shortcuts assigned to the Function keys (F keys), and gives you a reference and buttons to click. The function keys sit across the top of your QWERTY keyboard, F1-F12. Hotkeys are key combinations, and they can include the F keys.
Default Function Keys The function keys let you activate a command quickly. By default, Freeplane assigns five of the twelve keys to frequently used commands: • F1 opens the Freeplane tutorial map. The map is read-only but contains a guide to most of the software's features. I have used it as a jump-off spot for many of my articles. • F2 edits the node core inline. I use this key almost exclusively when creating a map. I like to keep my hands on the keyboard as much as possible without having to reach for the mouse. Reaching for the mouse could break my concentration just enough for me to forget what I was going to type. Yeah, I know, I'm old-school weird. • F3 edits the node details inline. Again, my hands on the keyboard, broken concentration, old brain losing stuff faster than I can type it. Stop laughing. It's a severe problem. • F5 runs a presentation. We haven't discussed presentations yet. I hope to write about this someday. I managed to get it on my to-do list before it floated off into the ether. • F11 switches to full-screen mode. It's a way to avoid the distraction of the GUI. With all those buttons to push and menus to click and explore, one might forget what it was they wanted to type. F11 is especially great for brainstorming when you aren't worried about formatting but just getting ideas down.
The F-Bar Freeplane has a special toolbar called the F-Bar. To open the F-Bar, follow the menus View > Controls > F-Bar. The taskbar shows you what commands are assigned to the function keys, F1-F12. If you want to run the command, you can press the associated function key, or you can click the button. You can press the SHIFT key to see the hotkeys set for the SHIFT + F? combination. The same is true for the ALT, CTRL, and other command key combinations. In each case, you can click on the button or press the key combination. Freeplane labels unassigned buttons as <no action>. Clicking any of these <no action> buttons gives you with a window asking you to select the menu you want to assign to the shortcut. Click through the menus to the item you want to attach to the hotkey. The text from the menu item becomes the text for the F-key button.
Create New Hotkeys You can create other hotkeys than those related to function keys. To assign a new combination, use the menus Tools > Assign hot key. You are prompted to select the menu for the hotkey, or you can click Cancel to stop the process. Once you choose the menu item, Freeplane prompts you to enter the key combination. Enter the keystroke using the keyboard and click OK. If the hotkey is assigned to another command, the program asks you to confirm replacement of the current assignment. Click Yes to change the shortcut, or click the No to leave the hotkey as previously assigned.
To remove a hotkey, select Tools > Assign hot key and use the Clear button to remove the shortcut assignment. Clicking OK will remove the hotkey, and clicking Cancel will leave things unchanged. Once you have your shortcuts the way you want them, you should save them. Use the menus Tools > Hot key presets > Save hot key set. Freeplane prompts you for a name. To save the current hotkeys, enter a name and click OK, or click Cancel to stop the process. To load a saved preset, use the menus Tools > Hot key presets > Load, and select the name of the preset set you want to use. Saving the presets allows you to have different sets of shortcuts for a variety of map types.
Icon Hotkeys You can assign shortcuts to icons. They work only in the Icon Table dialog. By default, the hotkey for the icon table is CTRL + F2. Once the table is open, pressing the key(s) for the icon adds the icon to the selected node(s). To assign keys to the icons, press the CTRL + (comma) to open the Preferences dialog. You find the icon settings on the Keystrokes tab. You see many hotkeys already assigned. Assign the shortcut by clicking the box beside the icon. Enter the key combination and click OK. Be careful in here as the program will let you assign the same key to more than one image.
Key Reference In creating so many shortcuts, you might forget what you assigned to what. Help > Key reference displays a list of the menu items and the hotkeys associated with them. The list includes any shortcuts you have created. But What Should I Create Hotkeys for? Well, it depends on you. If you find yourself using a menu item often and no hotkey is assigned, you should attach a hotkey to it. I like using the function keys for my most used commands. After that, use key combinations that make some sense to you. For example, if I were assigning a shortcut to Assign hot key, I would use the CTRL + H key combo. The choice is up to you. Like everything in mind mapping, make the program work for you and the way you do things.