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+Kdissert is a mindmapping-like tool to help students to produce complicated
+documents very quickly and efficiently : presentations, dissertations,
+thesis, reports. While targetted mostly at students, Kdissert can also help
+teachers, decision maker, engineers and businessmen.
+
+Though this application shares some similarities with general-purpose
+mindmapping tools like Freemind or Vym, the very first goal of Kdissert is
+to create general-purpose documents, not mind-maps.
+
+The goal of Kdissert is to help to structure ideas and concepts. Ideas are
+first layed down on a canvas and then associated into a tree. The tree is there
+to help to see how the ideas interact, and then to develop them further (by
+adding ramifications).
+
+An idea is represented by a shape which contains several a summary (visible
+part), several text fields, and optional pictures and url links.
+
+A kdissert mind-map can be used to generate documents, or to create pictures.
+The current generators are pdf documents (based on LaTeX : article, book),
+pdf presentations (based on LaTeX : Beamer, Prosper), text processing
+files (OpenOffice.org Writer), plain text and internet documents (html).
+