Importing the SRD into Freemind

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This was topic was originally published in Roleplaying-Tips as a Reader Tip (Use FreeMind For SRD Import) but I thought it was worth walking through it one more time, with a few more screen captures to help show the whole process.

Please be aware that while the “official” release of Freemind is at 0.8.0 I’m using the 0.9.0 beta 13 version and the screens do look a little different depending on the version so keep that in mind as you follow along.

First, download a copy of the SRD – I prefer the one located at DM Reference. For importing you’ll want to download the HTML Zip file. After downloading unzip it and note where you placed the files (in my case it is Q:GamingDungeons&DragonsSRD)

Now, open up Freemind and create a new mind map.
new-mindmap.PNG
import-folder-structure.PNG Next we’ll import the SRD. To do this we’re going to import the folder structure by clicking
File -> Import -> Folder Structure.
What you should see at this point is the standard file selection dialog box. You’ll want to navigate to where you unzipped the SRD but don’t select that directory – open it and select the SRD directory you’ll see at that point. select-srd-srd-directory.PNG
The reason for selecting the second SRD directory is because we don’t need all the “extra baggage” that comes with this version of the SRD, we only need the HTML files – everything else is used if you want to view the SRD in your browser.Once you’ve selected the directory and hit the OK button Freemind will display a mind map of the SRD which should look similar to this:

For those that do import and use the SRD from Freemind I’d love to hear back from you on your experience.

May your dice roll well.

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I know it’s been quite awhile since my last posting, sorry about that. I went through a job change in the offline world over the last month (has it been that long?) which unfortunately resulted in shorter deadlines for my former position and a stack of catch-up work to do at my new employer.

Things should start to get back on track now and I’m busily at work on a number of posts as well as looking at the site layout. The site will be seeing some changes in the coming weeks/months as I try to streamline things a bit and put some sense of order to everything.

Thanks for reading and if you have any comments or suggestions please feel free to send them along!

~Scot
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2 Comments

  1. Welcome back, Scot. You’ll want to post or reference this again when they publish 4th edition’s SRD, I’m sure.

    – Brian

    1. It’s good to be back Brian and you make a good point Brian but I’m not sure I’ll need to post the whole procedure again as the process won’t change, just the material in the SRD.

      I will post a reminder to folks that are moving up to 4th (something my group most likely won’t do any time soon) that then should build themselves a new mind map in Freemind for the updated SRD when it becomes available.

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