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View Your Mind

VYM - View Your Mind (c) 2004-2024 by Uwe Drechsel

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 can be found in the Files/Development folder there.

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 Qt5 toolkit installed.

    On the command line you can

    cmake .
    make
    make install
    

    or using Qt Creator:

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

Questions and feedback

Bugs and feature requests will be taken care of in

https://github.com/insilmaril/vym/issues

Please direct support questions to the mailinglist first:

[email protected]