you should probably press ctrl-g the next time you press ctrl-f to search for something in Freemind, to see what happens. The search is better than I thought,

you should probably press ctrl-g the next time you press ctrl-f to search for something in Freemind, to see what happens. The search is better than I thought, as it will treat whitespace in between terms as the equivalent of ".*" in grep/vim search. So ctrl-f "C++ class" will return the first match if it is "C++ will resume after class", and ctrl-g will find the next deepest match. My only problem with Freemind is that it's java based, so it takes 10 seconds to start up and it craps out with too many nodes. This makes it irritating to take notes after you reach a certain point. I don't like xmind at all either.