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Hm... I've been quite happy using an Open Source tool called FreeMind. It seems to be a "tree editor", although I'm not sure it quite satisfies what this author is looking for.

Screenshot: http://freemind.sourceforge.net/wiki/index.php/File:FreeMind...

Website: http://freemind.sourceforge.net/wiki/index.php/Main_Page

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Yeah, outliners and mindmappers provide a lot of this functionality although, alas, not all, which would certainly be nice.

Are any of them scriptable to the point where we could add our own desired functionality? Python preferred for me, but I'd learn another language if the app was compelling.

This is certainly an important point. There seems to be more potential in mind mapping software than I thought, but extensibility is key.

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